Research and Publications

Securing Our Survival - The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention, by IPPNW, IALANA, and INESAP; 2007

"Securing Our Survival (SOS)" outlines the rationale for the comprehensive prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons. The book contains an updated text of the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention, which demonstrates that nuclear disarmament is practical, verifiable, enforceable, and achievable.

In the preface to SOS, Judge Christopher Weeramantry, former Vice-President of the International Court of Justice, says “The principal agenda item in our program for human survival in this 21st Century must be the elimination of nuclear weapons.... [E]liminating the bomb can only be achieved through a Convention subscribed to by all
powers, nuclears and non-nuclears alike.”

Published by IPPNW, the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), and the International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation (INESAP); 2007

PDF version at ICAN website
Print version also available

Medicine and Nuclear War: Preventing Proliferation and Achieving Abolition, by Dr. Lachlan Forrow, Dr. Victor Sidel, Jonathan E. Slutzman; 2007

Medical personnel and medical organizations have played an important role in the efforts since 1945 to prevent the further use of nuclear weapons in war and to prevent their proliferation and achieve their abolition. This monograph updates and expands the article by Lachlan Forrow and Victor W. Sidel entitled Medicine and Nuclear War: From Hiroshima to Mutual Assured Destruction to Abolition 2000 published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1998. Much of the new material and analysis has been added by Jonathan E. Slutzman, a medical student of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, who also managed the formatting of the text to printing. The term physicians has different meanings in the United Kingdom, where it refers to medical doctors practicing internal medicine, and in the United States, where it refers to all medical doctors regardless of their medical specialties. The term will be used in this report in the way it is generally used in the United States. This study was made possible by generous support from Svenska Lakare mot Karnvapen, the Swedish Affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

For more information about the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), contact John Loretz, Program Director, IPPNW, 10 Union Square, #204, Somerville, MA 02143; 617.440.1733, ext. 280.