• North Korea's Latest Missile Firing and Nuclear Weapons Test

    North Korea's Latest Missile Firing and Nuclear Weapons Test

    This article has been written Dr Frank Boulton – an active Medact member and Trustee with a long-standing interest and considerable experience of the nuclear weapons debate. On January 6th 2016, North […]


  • A “healthy end” to the nuclear era: interview with Tilman Ruff

    A “healthy end” to the nuclear era: interview with Tilman Ruff

    Tilman Ruff, an expert on immunization who consults with the WHO and the Australian Red Cross, is Co-President of IPPNW and former president of the Australian affiliate, MAPW. He serves […]


  • Dear Presidents Obama and Putin: Ukraine conflict risks nuclear war

    Dear Presidents Obama and Putin: Ukraine conflict risks nuclear war

    by IPPNW [IPPNW co-presidents Ira Helfand and Vladimir Garkavenko have sent the following letter to Presidents Barack Obama of the United States and Vladimir Putin of Russia, expressing the Federation’s concern […]


  • Hiroshima 70th Anniversary Appeal

    Hiroshima 70th Anniversary Appeal

    Thank you to all those who contributed to our matched funding appeal to mark the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima!  Nuclear weapons are the most destructive, inhumane and indiscriminate of weapons […]


  • The Courage to Ban Nuclear Weapons

    The Courage to Ban Nuclear Weapons

    Judith McDonald is an active member of Medact and has been so for many years. She recently attended the civil society forum that preceded the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian […]


  • Comments on the Trident Commission

    Comments on the Trident Commission

    At the beginning of last month the ‘independent, cross-party inquiry to examine UK nuclear weapons policy’ – otherwise known  as the Trident Commission, issued its final report. The three co-chairs, […]


  • The Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons

    The Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons

    Nuclear weapons have a unique and horrifying humanitarian impact. The only natural events to which a nuclear explosion can be compared are massive earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, and similar disasters […]


  • Health Professionals and Nuclear War

    Health Professionals and Nuclear War

    ‘We physicians protest the outrage of holding the entire world hostage. We protest the moral obscenity that each of us is being continually targeted for extinction. We protest the ongoing […]