Nuclear weapons threaten everything you know and love.
IPPNW is the only international medical organization dedicated to the abolition of these indiscriminate and illegal weapons. Together, we have a common-sense plan for their complete, irreversible elimination.
On April 30, 2026, a group of 36 leading physicians and other doctors with expertise in mental health issued a statement calling for President Donald J. Trump’s immediate, lawful removal from office for medical reasons. His mental instability, coupled with his sole, unchecked authority to launch nuclear weapons, makes him a clear and present danger to the safety of all Americans, they declared. The U.S. Senate offices of Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Jack Reed (D-RI) entered the experts’ statement into the Congressional Record, Vol. 172, No. 76.
9 nuclear armed states – US, UK, Russia, China, France, India, Pakistan, Israel, North Korea- possess approximately 12,000 nuclear weapons. These arsenals, possessed by only a few countries, have the power to destroy the world as we know it many times over. Only 3% of their nuclear power could kill up to every 3rd person on earth.
Around the clock, IPPNW affiliates are working to rid the world of the nuclear threat. Our affiliates know that the only answer to this existential threat is total abolition. We are hard at work to achieve this reality through the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Peace and Health Blog
- Sweden’s Slippery Slope
by IPPNW on May 13, 2026 at 12:00 pmThe following remarks were delivered by Josefin Lind, Director of IPPNW Sweden, at Tectonic Geopolitical Changes, a pre-NPT Review Conference civil society meeting, on April 26, 2026. I will focus my remarks on a profound shift in Swedish security policy: how Sweden, long known for its neutrality and advocacy for disarmament, began to embrace the
- “[Transforming] discussions from abstract political debates into profound human realities” at the NPT
by IPPNW on May 12, 2026 at 7:27 pmby Sofia Vitale, PSR Emerging Leader and IPPNW Student My name is Sofia Vitale, and I am a student member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) and Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). I attended the 11th Review Conference to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) at the United
- Shining a light on the health care crisis in Gaza
by IPPNW on May 6, 2026 at 7:02 pmIPPNW Board chair Dr Ruth Mitchell recently returned from two weeks in Gaza, supporting patients with critical and complex injuries at two hospitals, Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the middle of Gaza, and al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. She was interviewed by Croakey Health Media, an Australian not-for-profit public interest journalism organization. “I
- Medical Experts Declare President Trump Too Unstable to Remain in Office, Cite Nuclear Weapons Risks
by IPPNW on May 5, 2026 at 8:19 pmOn April 30, 2026, a group of 36 leading physicians and other doctors with expertise in mental health issued a statement calling for President Donald J. Trump’s immediate, lawful removal from office for medical reasons. His mental instability, coupled with his sole, unchecked authority to launch nuclear weapons, makes him a clear and present danger
- We are in a crisis…the response cannot be business as usual
by IPPNW on May 1, 2026 at 6:22 pm[IPPNW’s statement to the 11th Review Conference to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was delivered on 1 May by Magritte Gordaneer, the director of the nuclear weapons abolition program at IPPNW’s US affiliate, Physicians for Social Responsibility.] Honorable Chair, Distinguished Delegates, and Civil Society Colleagues, We are in a crisis — you wouldn’t know that walking
