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Remembering the Missed Opportunity of Reykjavík as Nuclear Doomsday Looms www.commondreams.org/opinion/miss...

The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has proposed weakening radiation protection regulations meant to protect nuclear workers and communities near nuclear facilities. Here’s more from Chesapeake PSR’s public comment against weakening the regulations: 1/6

We believe in a world free from nuclear weapons for the health of our patients, our communities, and our planet. We have a common-sense plan for their complete elimination through the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Curious? Learn more: IPPNW.org

Data centers are an emerging threat to health and the environment in the age of climate change. Chesapeake PSR is glad to promote a symposium at the University of Maryland on how we can meet this challenge. Come spend a day of active learning with national climate change and health . . . 1/4

30 years ago, the UN General Assembly adopted the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Although the Treaty hasn't entered into force, it established the International Monitoring System, watchdogs for nuclear explosions. Learn more with Xanthe Hall's latest: peaceandhealthblog.com/2026/09/10/3...

"The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade." The people with the most intimate knowledge of how AI companies operate and develop this tech are sounding the alarm loud and clear. Why the hell isn't Congress listening?

30 years after the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, none of its recommendations have been implemented. A new article by Xanthe Hall explores the Commission in todays contexts. peaceandhealthblog.com/2026/08/14/t...

Check out the new report from @gchalliance.bsky.social "Climate Change, Armed Conflict, and Global Public Health: A reinforcing cycle of harm" with contributions by IPPNW Board member Stella Ziegler!

What's with AppleTV displaying live prediction app results during MLS games??? Don't we have enough issues with betting and illegal use of these predication markets?

#catturday

BREAKING: Bill Cassidy says he’s a YES on Todd Blanche, solidifying his legacy as the man who enabled RFK Jr. to wreak havoc on Americans’ health, and now the man who will let Blanche weaponize the DOJ like never before seen in history and cover up for Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.

BREAKING: Sen. Cassidy announced he will confirm Trump's minion Todd Blanche to lead the Department of Justice. With Blanche as AG, the only justice that will be served is that which benefits Donald Trump. The American people deserve better than this corrupt & vengeful pick.

What happened in Hiroshima and in Nagasaki can never happen again. Today marks 81 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. #NuclearBan

Hiroshima’s medical witnesses and the Red Cross legacy: humanitarian testimony and nuclear prevention Read the new article by Dr. Ghassan Shahrour:

Nuclear power is a dangerous distraction. Drs. Philip Landrigan and Brita Lundberg, two medical doctors who published a recent letter in the leading medical journal The Lancet, explain why. From the letter: “Uranium, the fuel of nuclear power, is radioactive and carcinogenic. . . . 1/5

The Global Nobel Laureates Assembly on Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear War highlighted the growing danger of nuclear war posed by artificial intelligence in nuclear command and control systems. IPPNW joins the Rome Declaration. globalnobelassembly.org/rome-declara...

Why is this not a bigger deal? Where is the UN Security Council? We need to step back and bring diplomacy back into the forefront. We are risking WWIII due to complete incompetence and arrogance.

At a time when the New York Times and others have found that the threat of nuclear war is growing, we need to be dismantling nuclear weapons, not building new ones. The federal government is planning to resume production of at least 80 new plutonium pits a year. 1/4

Science is under attack by the Trump administration. A new proposal would allow political appointees to interfere with federal research funding and deny support to research that doesn't conform to the Trump admin's priorities. Sign onto this opposition letter! actionnetwork.org/petitions/ac...

The integration of AI and automation into nuclear command and control would mark a new era of exponential risk to humankind. We stand starkly against the integration of artificial intelligence into nuclear decision making. Learn more: ippnw.org/ai

IPPNW Co-Founder Dr. Jim Muller and a 'Boston brain trust' are organizing a Global Nobel Laureates Assembly on Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear War in Italy in July to highlight the extreme dangers of mixing the two technologies. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/23/m...

Trump’s dangerous $1.2 trillion “Golden Dome” boondoggle will not protect Americans. It’s just a giveaway to defense contractor buddies like Elon Musk. We’re demanding answers from Hegseth on Trump’s trillion-dollar scam.

Has anyone else felt the quality of customer service interactions have fallen considerably since introduction of AI phone bots? Google search results/summary just plain wrong? These shouldn’t be deployed unless they improve existing solutions. Jeesh.

The Knicks were ahead halfway through the third quarter but there were wide changes in the results after that. It undermines integrity in the score.

Proposed changes to OMB rules would decimate objective science funding (and all other departments) by requiring political-appointee oversight over federal financial assistance. Follow the link in the article to file a public comment by July 13. open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

If you had 💸$3.6 trillion would you build a missile defense system that leaves over 75 million Americans at risk? Or would you rather those funds go to healthcare? Read the report on the false promise of the Golden Dome: www.ippnw.org/golden-dome-...

L - GOP Rep and MI senate candidate Mike Rogers actual photo from the campaign trail. R - Photo put out by staffer.

The Parallel Universe of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/08/t...

The 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant meltdown in Ukraine was the most serious nuclear power plant accident in history. As one affected person put it in the documentary collection Voices from Chernobyl, "Chernobyl is like the war of all wars. There's nowhere to hide. . . . 1/3

share.google/WS0vLIuNwECR... why no coverage about this attack on civilians?

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The Golden Dome is a false promise which would leave tens of millions of Americans vulnerable to nuclear attack, stimulate a global arms race, and cost trillions of dollars. Our press conference in DC last week exposed the truth @psr.org @backfrombrink.bsky.social @upinarms-us.bsky.social @ucs.org

Nuclear powers are expanding their arsenals instead of disarming. Australia doesn’t have to be complicit in this theconversation.com/nuclear-powe...

thebulletin.org/2026/05/ai-c... Important heads up about a dangerous oversight in our discussion about AI safety. We cannot trust the models and we cannot trust the companies who say trust them. This requires governmental oversight.

Later today, the month long Review Conference to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty will end. While we wait on an outcome from States, let’s look back on some of IPPNW's engagement to make sure humanitarian calls for disarmament are at the center of the conversation! 🧵

No one alive has seen corruption like this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K1X...

As Trump dismantles lifesaving HIV prevention and treatment work around the world, we must continue fighting for the breakthroughs to help end the epidemic. This HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, we celebrate the dedicated researchers and community members who aren’t giving up on an HIV-free future.

This is a political time to wake up EVERYDAY prepared to Speak Truth to Power!.....

This is pretty amazing.

thebulletin.org/2026/05/nucl... Important look at an unfortunately very relevant topic these days...

1/ Hantavirus update as of 12pm PDT May 11: 18 passengers connected to the cruise outbreak safely arrived in the United States overnight after disembarking in Spain. Of those, 16 are now in Nebraska and 2 were transferred to Emory in Atlanta for specialized monitoring.

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS issues “GVRs” in the Alabama cases—vacating district court injunctions & remanding for further proceedings in light of Callais. In practice, this means Alabama can now redraw its congressional districts in time for the midterms:

At the #NPT we are speaking with States at about the value of the Treaty on the Prohibition of #Nuclear Weapons which provides a legal pathway to achieve obligations of the NPT's article 6. We are encouraging all states to engage with the upcoming TPNW RevCon in November.

The U.S. Forest Service isn’t managing forests anymore. It’s running a timber operation and poisoning everything else to do it. A yearlong investigation by Mother Jones found that the Forest Service and private logging companies are systematically spraying thousands of

The first Mother’s Day proclamation was a call to disarm. It’s more crucial than ever to honor the day’s antiwar roots. buff.ly/KrOB0rp

#catturday

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

open.substack.com/pub/yourloca... well balanced update

Several IPPNW members and co-founders have signed onto a statement declaring President Trump too unstable to remain in office, citing nuclear weapons risks. Read the statement, which was read into the congressional record on April 30th: peaceandhealthblog.com/2026/05/05/m...