• 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 […]