At the first NPA conference in Helsingør, Denmark in 2023 an appeal was adopted to call for a nuclear-weapon-free Nordic Region.
Read the full text of the Appeal here
In 2024, the nine nuclear-armed states spent more than $100 billion or $190,151 per minute - on their nuclear arsenals – an increase of 11% from the previous year, according to ICAN’s new report Hidden Costs: Nuclear Weapons Spending in 2024. (Summary)
In the 25 years since the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action was adopted, the relationship between women and disarmament has been recognised in a series of resolutions at the United Nations.
Read ICAN's brief on the gender perspective of nuclear weapons.
In this Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists feature the two renowned researchers Alan Robock and Owen Brian Toon lay out how military planners now treat the environmental effects as collateral damage even though a regional conflict has the potential to cause mass starvation worldwide through environmental effects.