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Nagasaki, and the futility of history’s only nuclear weapons attacks
With thanks to Medact Trustee Frank Boulton Nagasaki: a catalogue of errors Seventy one years ago in the early hours of August 9, the mission to drop a second atomic […]
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Hiroshima Day Appeal 2016
As the majority of countries across the world press ahead to reach a legally binding nuclear weapons ban treaty, the UK government appears determined to replace the Trident system. Under […]
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Considerations for Parliament’s Main Gate decision in 2016
Medact’s Anti-Trident replacement leaflet and commentaries The attached documents describe Medact’s response to the Main gate debate held about Trident Replacement in the UK House of Commons on 18 July […]
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Health Through Peace & Trident Renewal
Health Through Peace & Trident RenewalWatch this video on YouTube
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Medact submission to the Labour Party Defence Policy Review
A number of members of Medact from the Nuclear Weapons Group (NWG) have produced a paper for submission to Labour’s International Policy Commission Defence Review. The submission is based on […]
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Nukes of Hazard
Nuclear Convoys: coming soon to a hospital near you! Written by Matt Hawkins, Project Officer at ICAN UK Out of sight and out of mind: this might be the […]
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Stop Trident
To coincide with the #StopTrident march on Saturday 27th February 2016, leading UK health professionals wrote a letter in The Telegraph calling on the UK government to back international efforts to […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]