IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
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The blog provides news and opinion from the international medical movement to abolish nuclear weapons and prevent war. IPPNW is a non-partisan federation of national medical organizations representing doctors, medical students, other health workers, and concerned citizens who share the common goal of creating a more peaceful and secure world freed from the threat of nuclear annihilation.
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
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This article was originally published on IPPNW’s bi-annual newsletter Vital Signs Dr. Gislin Dagnelie first became aware of IPPNW when he was still living in his homeland: the Netherlands. His father was a pulmonologist who eventually served on the Dutch IPPNW board of directors and traveled to international conferences, including to Leningrad, where he joined ..read more
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
1M ago
by Michael Christ, IPPNW’s Executive Director, originally published on IPPNW’s bi-annual newsletter Vital Signs As diplomats assembled at United Nations Headquarters for the second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (2MSP/TPNW), an IPPNW volunteer force of more than 50 doctors, medical students and activists from 14 countries descended ..read more
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
1M ago
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 ..read more
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
2M ago
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 ..read more
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
2M ago
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 ..read more
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
2M ago
by Mitch Bogan, 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 ..read more
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
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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 ..read more
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
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by Drs. Angelika Claussen, Harrison Kuria Karime, Bimal Khadka, and Knut Mork Skagen “What are you guys doing here?” As the first IPPNW delegation attending the UN climate summit (COP28), this was a question we heard often. For years, the security sector has described climate change as a “threat multiplier,” retooling the crisis into an ..read more
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
3M ago
Although, according to the UN Charter, the United Nations was established to “maintain international peace and security,” it has often fallen short of this goal. Russia’s ongoing military invasion of Ukraine and the more recent Israeli-Palestinian war in Gaza provide the latest examples of the world organization’s frequent paralysis in the face of violent international conflict. The ..read more
IPPNW Peace and Health Blog
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by Dr. Arun Mitra War is the most serious threat to public health with catastrophic effects on infrastructure and environment and accounts for more deaths & disability than many major diseases combined. It destroys families, communities and sometimes whole cultures. It channels limited resources away from health and other social needs. Any nuclear exchange can ..read more