Japan

Children's Day: N-weapons are not child's play

MEDIA STATEMENT:

Governments urged to act on Children's Day - nuclear weapons are not child's play. Read more »

Australia urged to build on Japan's disarmament initiative

MEDIA STATEMENT:

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons applauds Japan's announcement to host a major disarmament conference in 2010 and calls on Australia, as co-chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation Disarmament (ICNND), to actively promote and build on this initiative. Read more »

Non-proliferation commission meets in Sydney

The international community must wake up to the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation, the Australian chairman of a new disarmament body says.

"The scale of the havoc and the devastation that can be wreaked by one major nuclear weapon alone puts 9/11 and almost everything else into the category of insignificance." - Gareth Evans.

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White Light, Black Rain - new Hiroshima/Nagasaki film

ICAN partner Japanese for Peace held a screening in Melbourne of the new film White Light, Black Rain - The Destruction Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki, directed by Steven Okazaki. Read more »