News & Updates

 Watch a video of ICAN-UK patron Rebecca Johnson giving her views on a global nuclear abolition treaty and the May 2010 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) 

 

ICAN-UK December Update 23 December 2009

In this update:
1. ICAN-UK meet with Baroness Shirley Williams
2. ICAN reaction to ICNND report
3. Diego Garcia and the African Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
4. Jayantha Dhanapala (pictured) speaks out on a Nuclear Weapons Convention

A Nuclear Weapon Abolition Convention- It is Time to Begin
 
The belief that nuclear weapons ensure security rather than promote increasing insecurity has been sustained over the years by a number of myths.
 
One of them is that since nuclear weapons cannot be disinvented (quite true) they cannot be eliminated. A more secure world without them is therefore, it is claimed, not possible.

CND's International Conference took place on October 10th at Mary Ward House in Central London. The day focused on the 2010 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and how campaigners can make an impact on negotiations towards abolition.

 

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