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International Conferences Nuclear Weapons: The Final Pandemic
Preventing
Proliferation and Achieving Abolition
October 3-4, 2007
London, England
CONFERENCE
OVERVIEW
With the collapse of the 2005 NPT Review and subsequent calls
for a renewed civil society campaign to achieve a Nuclear Weapons Convention,
IPPNW's medical message about nuclear war has taken on renewed urgency as the
central organizing principle of the global movement to abolish nuclear weapons.
As a first step toward refocusing the attention of the larger medical community,
the media, nuclear policy makers, and the public on the medical and moral imperative
of preventing nuclear war and eliminating nuclear weapons once and for all, IPPNW
will hold an international conference on the health and environmental implications
of the nuclear threat in a post-Cold-War world.
"Nuclear Weapons: The
Final Pandemic-Preventing Proliferation and Achieving Abolition" will take place
in London on October 3-4, 2007, and will be organized in partnership with the
Catastrophes and Conflict Forum of the Royal Society of Medicine and with IPPNW's
UK affiliate, Medact. The two-day conference will provide a scientific foundation
for the federation's new International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
The program will include plenary sessions on the climate effects of low-yield,
regional nuclear wars; radiation and health; the human impacts of nuclear weapons
development in existing and new nuclear weapon states; and prescriptions for ending
the nuclear threat. Expert working groups will be convened to develop recommendations
for new research, education, and advocacy programs to advance the goal of a nuclear-weapons-free
world.
Information about registration and program details will be published
on this site as they become available; or contact John
Loretz by e-mail or at 617-868-5050, ext. 280.
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