By Gunnar Westberg | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | June 23, 2018 The North Korea – USA nuclear crisis should teach us several lessons regarding nuclear weapons: Nuclear weapons do not prevent nuclear proliferation. The nuclear weapon states accepted in 1970 in the Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty, NPT. In this treaty these […]
An unidentified man stands next to a tiled fireplace where a house once stood in Hiroshima, Japan, on Sept. 7, 1945. The vast ruin is a result of “Little Boy,” the uranium atomic bomb detonated on Aug. 6 by the U.S.
The United States has joined a small group of global outliers on Friday after a historic United Nations treaty to ban nuclear weapons was adopted by a majority of the world’s nations.
By John Loretz | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | April 22, 2015 When the 2015 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) opens in New York next week, the 190 member states will have to come to terms with some hard facts. The NPT is 45 years […]
Although a conservative estimate, physicians’ groups say the figure ‘is approximately 10 times greater’ than typically reported By Sarah Lazare | Common Dreams | March 26, 2015 How do you calculate the human costs of the U.S.-led War on Terror? On the 12th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, groups of physicians attempted to arrive […]
By John Loretz | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | March 13, 2015 President François Hollande of France has explained to the world why nuclear weapons must be banned and eliminated. Not intentionally, of course. Not because he made the fallacious argument that nuclear weapons make France more secure in a dangerous […]
By Bjorn Hilt | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | November 6, 2014 They always tell us that nuclear weapons will never be used. The fact is that nuclear weapons are used every day by the nuclear-armed states to threaten the rest of the world with total annihilation, while threatening themselves with the […]
By Bjorn Hilt | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | September 8, 2014 A complete halt to all nuclear weapons testing is within reach. The testing of nuclear weapons is already prohibited under the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) of 1996. The problem is that not enough countries have yet ratified the […]
The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War’s co-presidents have sent the following letter to the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzō Abe, urging him to halt plans for nuclear fuel reprocessing, calling the program “unnecessary and hazardous” and “not consistent with Japan’s stated support for achieving a world freed from nuclear weapons.”
September 23, 2013
Your Excellency,
Israeli and Turkish parliamentarians learn about nuclear famine
