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The elimination of all nuclear weapons is an urgent medical, humanitarian, and public health imperative.

Peace and Health Blog

  • Einstein’s postwar campaign to save the world from nuclear destruction
    by Lawrence Wittner on March 1, 2024 at 4:46 pm

    Although the popular new Netflix film, Einstein and the Bomb, purports to tell the story of the great physicist’s relationship to nuclear weapons, it ignores his vital role in rallying the world against nuclear catastrophe. Aghast at the use of nuclear weapons in August 1945 to obliterate the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Einstein threw himself

  • Ode to Gaza
    by Xanthe Hall on February 23, 2024 at 5:22 pm

    I have never been to Palestine, nor Israel for that matter, for fear my heart would break. Now it breaks anyway. I cannot see those lovely brown-eyed children playing, laughing, bleeding, dying, dead. So quickly: here today, gone tomorrow. Or those who lost their parents and wait patiently in groups of other orphans for a

  • It’s getting late
    by Lawrence Wittner on February 19, 2024 at 4:40 pm

    For some time, it’s been apparent that the world’s nations are not meeting the growing challenges to human survival. A key challenge comes from modern war. Over the centuries, as military weapons have grown ever more destructive, war-related devastation has grown accordingly.  World War II was the deadliest military conflict in human history, with an estimated 70-85

  • Soka University of America Students Meet with IPPNW for Disarmament Seminar
    by IPPNW on February 15, 2024 at 7:33 pm

    by Mitch Bogen, originally published on IkedaCenter.org On January 22, the Center furthered its commitment by hosting a seminar that brought together students from Soka University of America (SUA) with representatives from Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility (GBPSR) and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), which won the 1985 Nobel Peace

  • Remembering Boris Bondarenko
    by IPPNW on February 1, 2024 at 2:51 pm

    by Prof. Igor Korneev, St. Petersburg, and Dr. Lars Pohlmeier, Bremen If peace had a face and if kindness, mutual cultural understanding and respect had a name it might well be the face and name of of our Russian colleague Boris Bondarenko. Born on January 7th in 1938 in Magadan to a family of doctors,

From 30 November to 12 December, the 28th UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) will take place in the United Arab Emirates. For the first time, IPPNW is sending an official international delegation to COP to ensure human and environmental health is at the center of decision-making.

As physicians and health workers we warn that the climate crisis, militarisation and nuclear weapons pose an acute threat to global health. At the same time, enormous health benefits can be realised from overcoming our “fossil-fuel addiction” and destructive need for militarised power plays.

Learn more about IPPNW’s COP Campaigning and the intersections of health, climate, and militarism now.

IPPNW Policy Director Chuck Johnson presents at University of Geneva’s Institute for Global Health

In March, IPPNW established a new office in Geneva, the “Peace Capital” of the world. IPPNW’s Policy Director, Chuck Johnson, is overseeing Geneva operations to ramp up our efforts to collaborate with the United Nations and our international health organizations.

The time is ripe for our message to be heard and understood. Eliminating all nuclear weapons is an urgent humanitarian and environmental imperative. Setting up a liaison office in Geneva is a logical next step in strengthening IPPNW’s global network of 55 national affiliates and our partners in the health community worldwide.