From The Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy | Original Article

Nuclear Truth Telling was a recent webinar hosted by the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy on the dangers of nuclear weapons and the prospects for nuclear abolition.

Here’s the video and a number of resources that came up in the course of the conversation.

Guest speakers:

Ira Helfand, MD is a member of the International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN, the recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, and  Past President of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the founding partner organization of ICAN and itself the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize. He is also co-Founder and Past President of Physicians for Social Responsibility, IPPNW’s US affiliate, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Back from the Brink coalition.

Cynthia Lazaroff is the founder of Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy and NuclearWakeUpCall.Earth. She is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and author of Dawn of a New Armageddon, a personal account of the Hawaii missile scare amidst escalating nuclear dangers, published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Hiroshima Day.

Susi Snyder is the programme coordinator at the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Her responsibilities include facilitating the development and execution of ICAN's key programmes, including the management of ICAN's divestment work and engagement with the financial sector.

• Ellsberg Archive Featured Documents

• The Defuse Nuclear War Podcast with Daniel Ellsberg

• Mari Faines, “No justice is possible without studying the injustices of nuclear weapons,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, February 2, 2003.

• NuclearWakeUpCall.Earth

• Cynthia Lazaroff, “Dawn of a new Armageddon,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, August 6, 2018.

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• “Climate change, famine and nuclear weapons,” ICAN

• Frederick, Bryan, Mark Cozad, and Alexandra Stark, Understanding the Risk of Escalation in the War in Ukraine. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2023.

• Leon E. Panetta, “If Putin Uses Nukes in Ukraine, the U.S. Must Respond with Military Force,” Politico, October 12, 2002.

• Dylan Matthews, “40 years ago today, one man saved us from world-ending nuclear war,” Vox, September 26, 2023.

• Back From the Brink

• ICAN, “Wasted: 2022 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending”

• ICAN, “Emerging Technologies and Nuclear Risks”

• Artists Against the Bomb

• ICAN, “These are the universities that help to build U.S. nuclear weapons”

• H.Res.77 - Embracing the goals and provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

• Rose McDermott, Reid Pauly, and Paul Slovic, “Putin and the Psychology of Nuclear Brinkmanship,” Foreign Affairs,

  May 30, 2023.

• ICAN, “Nuclear Test Impacts”