📢1/ Following Nihon Hidankyo’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance ceremony today, ICAN's ED Melissa Parke reminded world leaders they have to go beyond congratulating the hibakusha and honour them by urgently getting rid of nuclear weapons. Read more ⬇️🔗 icanw.org/nihon_hindanky…

Congratulations Nihon Hidankyo!🏆 As hibakusha, you have turned unimaginable pain into a mission for peace. Without you, your stories and advocacy, the UN treaty banning nuclear weapons wouldn't be a reality. Thank you and we will carry your legacy forward by championing the

"[M]ore countries must ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Political action is crucial." – Norwegian Nobel Committee nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2… The Nobel Prize #TPNW

The wonderful Shigeko Sasamori died this week in Los Angeles at the age of 92. She was 13 years old when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on her city, Hiroshima. She suffered such severe burns that her parents struggled to recognise her in the aftermath.

I am writing in New York Times Opinion today about why nuclear deterrence is such a vulnerable security strategy and how nuclear weapons are uniquely sensitive to public opinion, meaning regular people have extraordinary power of their future. nytimes.com/2024/12/26/opi…

“But nuclear weapons are not an inevitable fact of human life. They are not impossible to get rid of, and pushing for that can be done by ordinary people like you and me.” Thank you Beatrice Fihn for this powerful reminder of our collective power: nytimes.com/2024/12/26/opi… 👏🔥

Sweden joined NATO and hasn’t ruled out hosting nuclear weapons, despite previously supporting disarmament efforts such as a Nordic nuclear weapons-free zone. "The rise and fall of Sweden’s nuclear disarmament advocacy," by Naman Karl-Thomas Habtom. thebulletin.org/2024/12/the-ri…

The mind-numbingness of the language of #nuclear deterrence, what it obscures and who benefits from it… always so refreshing to hear Van Jackson break down nuclear weapons policy m.youtube.com/watch?v=b72Un5…

#被爆80年 #核兵器をなくす国際市民フォーラム 初日は大盛況でした👏👏 本日もよろしくお願いします🙇 2025forum.nuclearabolitionjpn.com

Nuclear history is rife with near-misses, with disaster averted by a human who chose to trust their own judgment over machines. Applying AI to nuclear weapons increases the chances that, next time, nobody will stop the launch. Learn more: project-syndicate.org/commentary/dan… #NuclearBan

US & Europe are losing influence around the world. But 5 of 10 largest states, close allies to all nuclear armed states, & countries that have had nuclear weapons but gave them up are part of the TPNW. We should not underestimate the importance of these countries over next decade

For sanity, please see:

Remember when ICAN and anyone supporting the TPNW was accused of undermining the NPT?

What sounds like a NATO freak-out from Macron to Tusk (to a random major in Norway and ex Canada FM) seems to actually be a concerted effort to entrench popular support for the notion of nuclear deterrence than any serious proposal for an alternative “umbrella” arrangement.

Independent European nuclear deterrence isn't just a geopolitical miscalculation; it's a strategic dead end. Recent proposals founder on arithmetic and strategic grounds. My thoughts below: Al Jazeera English aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/…

To circumvent or abandon the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention challenges fundamental precepts of IHL and threatens life-saving protections. Anti-personnel mines do not distinguish between civilians and soldiers. About 85% of victims of APM are civilians, many of them children.

AP mines have little military utility today. They don’t stop armies, but they kill&maim civilians during conflict & for decades after. This is a cheap populist move that doesn’t provide real defence. SPs should engage asap to protect Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention as a cornerstone of IHL!

5/ Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the UN raised concerns about Israel’s systematic use of sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinian women and girls. This follows a report by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry that