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  • Hiroshima Day Appeal 2017

    August 6, 2017
    Hiroshima Day Appeal 2017

    Every year, on the anniversary of the horrific devastation of the world’s first nuclear bombing, our Hiroshima Day Appeal provides vital funds for our work to advocate for a safer […]


  • Doctors urge Britain to take lead on nuclear disarmament – The BMJ

    July 25, 2017
    Doctors urge Britain to take lead on nuclear disarmament – The BMJ

    Abbie Rimmer reports on Medact letter published in the Daily Telegraph today (25 July 2017) for BMJ News.


  • 6 reasons to believe in nuclear disarmament

    July 25, 2017
    6 reasons to believe in nuclear disarmament

    Our new report calls the UK Government to account for aggressive nuclear weapons policies and continued funding of Trident.


  • A Safer World – Treating Britain’s harmful dependence on nuclear weapons

    July 25, 2017
    A Safer World – Treating Britain’s harmful dependence on nuclear weapons

    The world now has an international treaty making it illegal for ratifying states to possess nuclear weapons. Our new report takes this opportunity to re-examine the arguments for and against the UK’s continued adherence to its own nuclear arsenal.


  • New report on UK’s continued possession of nuclear weapons in light of the international ban treaty

    July 18, 2017
    New report on UK’s continued possession of nuclear weapons in light of the international ban treaty

    The world now has an international treaty making it illegal for ratifying states to possess any nuclear weapons. Yet the UK continues to keep and modernise its nuclear weapons at huge cost and risk to life, and is increasingly seen as out of step with the rest of the world.


  • Majority of States Agree to Ban Nuclear Weapons at United Nations

    July 9, 2017
    Majority of States Agree to Ban Nuclear Weapons at United Nations

    UK refuses to participate in treaty negotiations New York, 7 July 2017: Negotiations of a new international treaty that bans nuclear weapons concluded at the United Nations today as the treaty […]


  • Release of the draft Ban Treaty

    June 2, 2017
    Release of the draft Ban Treaty

    The draft of the text of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty was released in Geneva on May 22nd by the president of the negotiating conference, Elayne Whyte Gomez of Costa […]


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