The sea of death
Japanese film maker Hideaki Ito has produced a documentary called “Exposure to Radiation—Post X Years,” which explores how the extensive tuna fishing ground came to be known as “the sea of death.”
View ArticleA journalist came to Helsinki to ask about nuclear weapons
Sam Husseini, a journalist with The Nation, was forcibly ejected from the press conference held at the conclusion of the US-Russia summit in Helsinki. He has published an article in The Nation...
View ArticleGlobal arms trade unleashed under Trump
William D. Hartung, the director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy, has written an important and disturbing article about the global export of weapons—both...
View ArticleThinking in terms of the lifetime of humanity
A new article in an American Heart Association journal draws a compelling analogy between preventing sudden cardiac death and preventing nuclear war.
View ArticleFarewell to a friend and mentor: H. Jack Geiger, 1925-2020
He perfected what came to be known at PSR and IPPNW as the “bombing run,” a roughly 30-minute presentation (the time it would take for Soviet missiles to arrive in the US after launch, or vice versa)...
View ArticleNuclear weapons abolition milestone is reached as ban treaty enters into force
The multinational Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force today, meaning that its prohibitions against developing, testing, producing, acquiring, possessing, stockpiling, and...
View ArticleHersey helped Hiroshima survivors tell and preserve their stories
[This book review was originally published in IPPNW’s designated journal, Medicine, Conflict and Survival.] In 1946, John Hersey wrote a magazine article that changed the world. On the 75th anniversary...
View ArticleIPPNW medical students bike for the ban
Joint Statement by IPPNW Student Chapters in Germany, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Russia, and Zambia The weekend of 18 February, dozens of medical students in six countries — Germany, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria,...
View ArticleThe back story of the ban treaty
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons—and the process that produced it—placed the catastrophic consequences of nuclear weapons at center stage, giving voice to largely ignored groups of...
View ArticleA conversation with filmmaker Robert Frye
[Robert E. Frye is an Emmy Award-winning producer and director of news and documentaries. His most recent film, “In Search of Resolution,” is the third in a series on the continuing challenge of...
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