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.
Global Nobel Laureate Summit on AI and Nuclear War
IPPNW was part of the coalition initiating the Global Nobel Laureate Summit on Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear War at the Vatican in July of 2026 in Castel Gandolfo.
IPPNW attended the conference to advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons through the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and a permanent firewall on AI and related technologies and Nuclear Weapons systems.
The Rome Declaration adopted by participants of the conference called for “urgent, sustained and good-faith negotiations
leading, within an agreed and time-bound framework, to the verifiable and irreversible elimination of nuclear weapons.”
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
- 40 years later: The Abduction of Mordechai Vanunu
by Xanthe Hall on September 29, 2026 at 7:14 amFew whistleblowers have risked as much as Mordechai Vanunu did when he handed over covertly taken photographs of the Dimona nuclear facility in Israel to The Sunday Times in 1986. 40 years ago, on 30 September 1986, he was drugged and abducted by Mossad, taken back to Israel and sentenced to 18 years in prison,
- Jonathan Schell and the moral urgency of our time
by Dr. Ghassan Shahrour on September 28, 2026 at 12:00 pmIn revisiting my tribute to Jonathan Schell, written in March 2014, more than a decade after his passing, I find that his voice carries an even sharper moral resonance today. What once felt like a reflection on a towering figure in humanitarian thought has become a call to confront a world where civilian suffering is
- From child to child: building a culture of humanitarian disarmament in schools
by Dr. Ghassan Shahrour on September 21, 2026 at 12:00 pmMore than fifteen years ago, a pioneering initiative was launched in public schools in Syria to introduce humanitarian disarmament education through the child-to-child approach. I documented part of this experience in the national school magazine Bunat Al-Ajyal as part of a series of community awareness activities. The idea was simple: children should not be viewed only as
- Tolstoy and the moral roots of peace and disarmament
by Dr. Ghassan Shahrour on September 14, 2026 at 1:53 pmIn the nineteenth century, when European powers repeatedly reshaped borders through war and states measured their strength by armies and conquests, Russia witnessed a remarkable literary flourishing known as the Golden Age of Russian literature. This cultural moment was not only artistic. It became a moral space in which writers explored human dignity, authority, justice, violence,
- 30 years later: The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
by Xanthe Hall on September 10, 2026 at 11:39 amThe Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was adopted on this day — 10 September 1996 — by a vote in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). This was an unusual ending to the negotiation process that had lasted several years. Today, the CTBT is still functioning, as all signatory states are compliant with its provisions,