Nuclear weapons threaten everything you know and love.
IPPNW is the only international medical organization dedicated to the abolition of these indiscriminate and illegal weapons. Together, we have a common-sense plan for their complete, irreversible elimination.
February-November 2026
Are you concerned by the direction the world is moving in? Do you want to learn more about nuclear weapons and the risks they pose to human and environmental health? Have you been seeking ways to make change? Do you want to join global efforts to pull us back from the brink of nuclear war and abolish nuclear weapons?
IPPNW’s 10-month Global Classroom offers a structured, high-quality educational program focused on the humanitarian and environmental impacts of nuclear weapons, current risks, and actions for their abolition.
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- Be well-equipped to take action — from speaking to decision makers to publishing op-eds to organizing street actions — to pull us back from the brink of nuclear war.
9 nuclear armed states – US, UK, Russia, China, France, India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea- possess approximately 12,000 nuclear weapons. These arsenals, possessed by only a few countries, have the power to destroy the world as we know it many times over. Only 3% of their nuclear power could kill up to every 3rd person on earth.
Around the clock, IPPNW affiliates are working to rid the world of the nuclear threat. Our affiliates know that the only answer to this existential threat is total abolition. We are hard at work to achieve this reality through the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Peace and Health Blog
- IPPNW Condemns Strikes Against Iran, Calls for Return to Negotiations
by IPPNW on February 28, 2026 at 5:32 pmRead full statement here and below. 28 February, 2026. International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) unequivocally condemns the attack on Iran by the United States and Israel and calls on them to cease immediately all further use of force and to return to the negotiating table. The unprovoked strikes, ostensibly to stop
- No to uranium mining in Greenland
by IPPNW on February 27, 2026 at 12:00 pm[Ed. note: Niels Henrik Hooge works with NOAH, the Danish branch of Friends of the Earth. He is also closely associated with Greenland’s No to Uranium Association (URANI? NAAMIK) in Nuuk. Patrick Schukalla, IPPNW Germany’s policy advisor on energy and climate, spoke with Hooge in February about the role of Greenland’s uranium resources and other subsurface
- Arms over norms: military budgets given priority at security conference
by IPPNW on February 26, 2026 at 12:00 pmby Inga Bloom [Dr. Bloom represented IPPNW at the Munich Security Conference, held from 12-15 February. The first part of her report from those meetings was posted yesterday. Part two follows.] Overall, despite the palpable genuine concerns about the loss of values and rules, the conference was strongly characterized by competitiveness, superficiality, and a lack
- Arms over norms: giving priority to profits and deals
by IPPNW on February 25, 2026 at 3:23 pmby Inga Bloom [Dr. Bloom represented IPPNW at the Munich Security Conference, held from 12-15 February. Her observations from those meetings will be posted in two installments. Part one follows.] For three days, politicians gathered at the Bayerischer Hof in Munich to discuss key issues of global security. This year, I was invited to attend
- Statement of Concern for Narges Mohammadiby IPPNW on February 17, 2026 at 5:02 pm
Issued by IPPNW’s Executive Committee. 17 February 2026. IPPNW expresses its deep concern for the health and treatment of Narges Mohammadi, our fellow Nobel Peace Laureate, while in detention amid reports of her mistreatment and recent transfer to Zanjan prison. We join the Norwegian Nobel Committee in its recent call for Ms. Mohammadi’s immediate and