International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
ICAN Website - www.icanw.org.au
Launched in 2007, ICAN is a campaign initiated by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (
IPPNW), a federation of medical professionals in 60 countries.
They have joined with mayors, civil society groups, non-government organisations, churches and citizens to demand an end to nuclear weapons through a
Nuclear Weapons Convention which will make nuclear weapons illegal, banning their development, possession, use and threat of use.
IPPNW received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for uniting doctors across the Cold War divide to raise awareness of the threats posed by nuclear weapons. Its prescription for survival was, and remains, the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.
ICAN focuses on the roots of the nuclear weapons problem - the continued possession of nuclear weapons by a small minority of countries who risk their use by design, accident, miscalculation or by terrorists, and whose weapons are an incentive to others to also become nuclear armed.
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