Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons

NEW: Full awareness survey data on the Survey on Youth Attitudes toward Nuclear Weapons and Their Humanitarian Consequences I briefed in the campaigners meeting last weekend is now available at the following website. See the "NPT 2013" section: http://www.peoplesdecade.org/

News: Conference: Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear weapons

Reaching Critical Will has published a conference report for the meeting hosted by the government of Norway on 4-5 March 2013 on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons.

Chair’s summary Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons (05.03.2013)

Opening Statement at Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons (04.03.2013)

Statements (04.03.2013)

Nett-TV: Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons - Day 2 (04.03.2013)

Presentations (03.03.2013)  

ICAN Video Statement

Events:

2 - 3 March: Civil Society Summit on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, Oslo, Norway

4 - 5 March: Conference: Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, Oslo, Norway

Recommended Reading:

Tim Caughley, Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons: Tracing Notions about Catastrophic Humanitarian Consequences, UNIDIR, 2013

John Borrie, “Viewing Nuclear Weapons through a Humanitarian Lens: Context and Implications,” UNIDIR, 2013

Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General’s remarks at Monterey Institute of International Studies “Advancing the Disarmament and Non-proliferation Agenda: Seeking Peace in an Over-Armed World,” Monterey, California, 18 January 2013

Alison Whyte, “The delusional thinking behind ‘nuclear deterrence’,” OpenDemocracy, 6 February 2013

Unspeakable suffering: the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, Reaching Critical Will of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, February 2013