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Why and how did a campaign born in Melbourne help ban nuclear weapons and win the first Nobel Peace Prize born in Australia?
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April 27, 2018 - April 28, 2018
Nuclear weapons pose an existential threat to all humanity, and the danger of their use is growing. We all have a stake in ending nuclear weapons before they end us. The new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons provides a path. We should take it. All states should promptly join and implement this historic treaty.
Tilman Ruff AM is Associate Professor in the Nossal Institute for Global Health at the University of Melbourne; international medical advisor for Australian Red Cross; Co-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW, Nobel Peace Prize 1985); and founding international and Australian Chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons". He headed the IPPNW delegation to and participated throughout the treaty negotiations in New York.
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