Online Learning Materials for the Hiroshima - ICAN Academy 2026

Webinar 1: Humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons

• Required videos
  • Mary Dickson, “Downwinders Interview with Mary Dickson,” the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library, January 2017 (9 min)
• Required readings
  • ICAN, “The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Children,” 2024
  • Mary Olson, “Human consequences of radiation: A gender factor in atomic harm,” Civil Society Engagement in Disarmament Processes - The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Ban, Civil Society and Disarmament 2016, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, 2016
• Suggested videos
  • ICAN and Peace Boat, Archives of the World Nuclear Survivors Forum 2021, 2021
• Suggested readings
  • ICAN, Children’s Peace Memorial, 2025
  • Setsuko Thurlow, “Setsuko Thurlow remembers the Hiroshima bombing,” Arms Control Today, July/August 2020
  • ICAN, “Black Mist - The impact of nuclear weapons on Australia,” 2014

Webinar 2: The social, economic, and environmental impacts of nuclear weapons

• Required videos
  • Isao Hashimoto, “1945-1998,” CTBTO Preparatory Commission, 6 July 2012 (14 min)
• Required readings
  • Robert Jacobs, “Nuclear Conquistadors: Military Colonialism in Nuclear Test Site Selection during the Cold War,” Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, November 2013
  • Kate Brown, “The Last Sink: The Human Body as the Ultimate Radioactive Storage Site,” Perspectives Issue 2016/1
  • W.J. Hennigan, “The Toll,” New York Times, 2024
• Suggested readings
  • ICAN, “Hidden Costs: Nuclear Weapons Spending in 2024,” June 2025
  • Vincent Intondi,  “Reflections on Injustice, Racism, and the Bomb,” Arms Control Today, Vol. 50: No. 6 (July/August, 2020): 12-15.
  • Ray Acheson, “A feminist critique of the atomic bomb,” Heinrich Böll Stiftung, 2018

Webinar 3: Nuclear deterrence in today’s world

• Required video
  • Center for Strategic & International Studies, “Deterrence 101 Module 1 - Foundations of Deterrence” (2021)

1. Please consider the following questions as you watch the video:
   1. What (if anything) is new to you in this video?
   2. Is there anything you agree/disagree with in this video?
   3. Is there anything (ideas, voices, perspectives) that you think are missing from this video? 
   4. What is your overall reaction to this video as a way of introducing deterrence?

• Required readings
  • Benoît Pelopidas, Kjølv Egeland, “The false promise of nuclear risk reduction,” International Affairs, January 2024
  • The Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe), “Hiroshima Report 2025 (Executive Summary)
  • Andrey Baklitskiy and Sarah Ruth Opatowski, “Nuclear Risks: Perceptions and Pathways,” UNIDIR, 2024
• Suggested readings
  • ICAN, “Emerging technologies and nuclear risks,” 2020
  • Yasmin Afina, “The Global Kaleidoscope of Military AI Governance,” September 2024
  • The Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe), “Hiroshima Report 2026 Executive Summary”

Webinar 4: Bridging divides to advance nuclear disarmament

• Required readings
  • ICAN, “The Cornerstone Report,” April 2026
  • Health Policy Watch, “WHO Mandated to Update of 30-Year-Old Review on Health Impacts of Nuclear War – After Heated WHA Debate,” 2025
• Suggested video
  • Florian Eblenkamp (ICAN) at the Cambridge Union Debate: This House Believes Nuclear Weapons Have Made the World Safer: Cambridge Union Debate (2024)
• Suggested readings
  • Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) Northeast Asia, “Advancing Nuclear Disarmament in Northeast Asia— Regional Perspectives on the 2026 NPT Review Conference” (2026)
  • Report of the coordinator of the consultative process on security concerns of States under the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons to the Third Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW (2025)
  • Alexander Kmentt, “Time to engage seriously with the TPNW’s security concerns,” European Leadership Network, 4 June 2024.

Webinar 5: The roles of the UN and civil society for nuclear disarmament

• Required readings
  • ICAN, “Investing in the Arms Race,” April 2026
  • ICAN, Annual Report 2025 
  • UN, “Summit of the Future Outcome Documents: Pact for the Future,” September 2024
  • UN Secretary-General, Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 9, “A New Agenda for Peace,” July 2023
  • ICAN, “How the TPNW Works,” 2021
• Required video
  • ICAN, “If You Love this Planet,” 2017