Government urged to act on nuclear threat
Media release, 17 September 2009: ICAN has welcomed today's call by a federal parliamentary inquiry for Australia to play a leading role in ridding the world of nuclear weapons through a global Nuclear Weapons Convention. "Australia can help end the threat of nuclear weapons and war and support a roadmap for the elimination of nuclear weapons in a structured and verifiable way," said campaign director Dimity Hawkins. Read more »
We are at the crossroads of a nuclear crisis
Malcolm Fraser et al, 8 April 2009: We are at the crossroads of a nuclear crisis. On the one hand, we are at an alarming tipping point on proliferation of nuclear weapons, with a growing risk of nuclear terrorism and use of still massively bloated arsenals of the worst weapons of terror. On the other, we have perhaps the best opportunity to abolish them. Read more »
Let's ban all nuclear weapons — now
Tilman Ruff, 28 October 2007: Forty-five years ago today, on October 28, 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink. The US and the Soviet Union came within a hair's breadth of nuclear war over Soviet missiles in Cuba, all based on mistaken analysis of the other side's intentions and capabilities. Read more »
