Time-Lapse of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945

  Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a time-lapse video of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998. Hashimoto created this map with the aim of showing the “fear and folly of nuclear weapons” and “for the means of an interface to the people who are yet

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How can you contribute to Nuclear Disarmament?

Youth is the vice of the future. Let’s make efforts to create a more peaceful world and to get nuclear weapons banned before it is too late! Below you can find helpful tips and suggestions on how you could contribute to the cause of nuclear disarmament.   International Campaign to Abolis

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Hiroshima Peace Media Centre

The Hiroshima Peace Media Center is a new wing of the Chugoku Shimbun, founded in 1892 and now one of Japan’s largest newspapers with a circulation of 720,000. Launched on January 1, 2008 to begin transmitting peace-related reporting via the internet in English and Japanese, the Hiroshima Peace Me

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Nuclear Suppliers Group - Meeting Hosted in NZ

The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) is a group of 46 countries which aims to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons through export controls on nuclear goods and nuclear-related technologies.  New Zealand is a member because the Group's guidelines cover high-technology "dual-use" goods, which a

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Response to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference 2010

.The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote co-operation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complet

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Cheater's Risk - Could you get away with building a nuclear bomb?

Cheater’s Risk is an interactive exploration of the dynamics in a world where nuclear weapons have been banned by a global treaty. The player steps into the role of a country seeking to gain the advantage of a monopoly on nuclear weapons and must avoid being detected by national intelligence servi

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Students send message of peace to President Obama

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today sent 1000 paper cranes to President Obama, which he received from students visiting his office from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, to highlight the importance of nuclear disarmament.  The students told the Congressman that they folded 23,000 cranes to repres

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Youth Reject Nuclear Weapons

Soka Gakkai International (SGI) facilitated a survey of youth at the beginning of this year from countries including New Zealand.  Text below is from the SGI website: Asked whether the presence of nuclear weapons contributes to global peace and stability, 59.6% of respondents, including those from

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Breaking Through for Peace – Petition to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

Sign the Breaking Through for Peace petition launched by youth from the Global Union, an international network of 900 unions representing over 20 million people. The petition supports Ban Ki-moon's initiatives for nuclear disarmament and for a redirection of military spending

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Has your parliamentarian signed the declaration for a nuclear weapons convention?

On Tuesday, July 1, 2008 over 75 members of the European Parliament commemorated the 40th anniversary of the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) by launching a Parliamentary declaration in support of the Nuclear Weapons Convention.  The declaration calls for implementatio

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