{"id":2987,"date":"2009-11-21T02:13:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T00:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2025-02-26T12:59:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T11:59:38","slug":"international-physicians-for-the-prevention-of-nuclear-war-ippnw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=2987","title":{"rendered":"International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War IPPNW"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linked on oour blogs with Medical Association for Prevention of War<\/a> MAPW.<\/p>\n

IPPNW is the only international medical organization dedicated to preventing nuclear war and abolishing nuclear weapons. We recognize that the catastrophic health and environmental consequences of a nuclear war are at the extreme end of a continuum of armed violence that undermines health and security. IPPNW is committed to ending war and advancing understanding of the causes of armed conflict from a public health perspective … (full text Homepage<\/a>).<\/p>\n

News<\/a>; Newsletter<\/a>; Press releases<\/a>; Events<\/a>; Programs; Resources<\/a>; Affilates<\/a>; Our Blog<\/a>; Support<\/a>; FAQs<\/a>;
\nAddress: IPPNW CENTRAL OFFICE, 66-70 Union Square, #204, Somerville, MA 02143, USA;
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About<\/a>: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War is a non-partisan federation of national medical organizations in 62 countries, representing tens of thousands of doctors, medical students, other health workers, and concerned citizens who share the common goal of creating a more peaceful and secure world freed from the threat of nuclear annihilation.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

IPPNW was founded in 1980 by physicians from the United States and the former Soviet Union who shared a common commitment to the prevention of nuclear war between their two countries. Citing the first principal of the medical profession\u2014that doctors have an obligation to prevent what they cannot treat\u2014a global federation of physician experts came together to explain the medical and scientific facts about nuclear war to policy makers and to the public, and to advocate for the elimination of nuclear weapons from the world\u2019s arsenals.<\/p>\n

IPPNW received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. Although the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the US and Russia retained thousands of nuclear weapons ready to launch at a moment\u2019s notice. Proliferation and the threat of nuclear terrorism have added to the nuclear danger in the post-Cold-War world. In recent years we have learned that even a regional nuclear war using a fraction of the world\u2019s nuclear weapons would cause irremediable harm to the Earth\u2019s ecosystems and could kill a billion people in a \u201cnuclear famine.\u201d<\/p>\n

IPPNW has remained a leader in the global movement for a world without nuclear weapons, launching the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in 2007, and working with numerous other NGOs to promote a Nuclear Weapons Convention that would outlaw these instruments of mass extermination under international law.<\/p>\n

We recognize that the catastrophic health and environmental consequences of a nuclear war are at the extreme end of a continuum of armed violence that undermines health and security. IPPNW is committed to ending war and to addressing the causes of armed conflict from a public health perspective.<\/p>\n

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Linked on oour blogs with Medical Association for Prevention of War MAPW. IPPNW is the only international medical organization dedicated to preventing nuclear war and abolishing nuclear weapons. We recognize that the catastrophic health and environmental consequences of a nuclear war are at the extreme end of a continuum of armed violence that undermines health … Continuer la lecture de « International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War IPPNW »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16226,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions\/16226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}