Janet Fenton
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After the TPNW 3MSP, what’s the next move?
Read more: After the TPNW 3MSP, what’s the next move?Janet Fenton, Secure Scotland, is reflecting on what the UN third meeting of the State Parties to the TPNW will mean for its progress, and what to expect when States meet for its first Review Meeting in 2026. This May will see the final preparative meeting for the Nuclear Non – Proliferation Treaty (NPT) before…
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NUCLEAR BAN WEEK IN NEW YORK 2 – 7 MAR
Read more: NUCLEAR BAN WEEK IN NEW YORK 2 – 7 MARScottish disarmament campaigners are getting ready for the week of high-level and civil-society events to tackle the urgent threat of nuclear weapons at Nuclear Ban Week New York, 2025. Some will be reporting the events here and on their own websites and in the press, some will be submitting working papers and some will be attending…
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TPNW
Read more: TPNWLawrence Witner writes in Counterpunch on 31st January 2025, covering how and why the TPNW came into force, and why this process may avert a nuclear catastrophe. Dr. Lawrence Wittner is Professor of History emeritus at SUNY/Albany and the author of Confronting the Bomb (Stanford University Press.) The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Provides a Way…
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Doomsday Clock highlighted by The National
Read more: Doomsday Clock highlighted by The NationalScottish campaigners are shocked but not surprised that the BAS has advanced the hand of the clock this year . https://www.thenational.scot/news/24895238.anti-nuclear-campaigners-call-action-doomsday-clock-moves
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2025 Doomsday Clock AnnouncementJanuary 28, 2025
Read more: 2025 Doomsday Clock AnnouncementJanuary 28, 2025In setting the Clock one second closer to midnight, the Science and Security Board sends a stark signal: Because the world is already perilously close to the precipice, a move of even a single second should be taken as an indication of extreme danger and an unmistakable warning that every second of delay in reversing…
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22 January, the day we banned the bomb!
Read more: 22 January, the day we banned the bomb!We banned the bomb on the 7 July 2017, the day that the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted at the United Nations. The next step was to get enough UN Member States to sign and ratify it in their own countries,, and when the first fifty states states did that, on…
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NOBEL NIGHT – memorable occasion for peace
Read more: NOBEL NIGHT – memorable occasion for peaceA meaningful and inspiring event took place on Tuesday, December 10thin the form of a torchlight procession from The Scottish Parliament to Queen Elizabeth House to mark the Nobel Peace prize celebrations in Oslo, and reaffirm Scotland’s commitment to nuclear disarmament. This year the Nobel Peace Prize was won by Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese Confederation of A- and H- Bomb Sufferers…
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ELECTION ASK- WATCH A MOVIE BEFORE 4 JULY!
Read more: ELECTION ASK- WATCH A MOVIE BEFORE 4 JULY!ICAN believes that Nuclear Weapons are a red line election issue, and that our next Scottish-based MPs will represent that view. That is why all candidates must agree to sign the ICAN Parliamentary Pledge for the United Nations Treaty on The Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Scotland is the launchpad and the bomb store for…
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Nuclear war, Scotland and the general election
Read more: Nuclear war, Scotland and the general electionMy sister has been watching a Cold War series on TV and we were reminiscing about these days. She was 10 during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and I was in sixth year at Aberdeen Grammar. Jeannie remembers that our parents were in a state of fear, but at the time she did not know…
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SCOTLANDS VOICE IN NEW YORK
Read more: SCOTLANDS VOICE IN NEW YORKSecond Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW in New York in November (2MSP) See full information at https://www.icanw.org/tpnw_meeting_of_states_parties.The nuclearban.scot website (re-launched) will be regularly updated. Campaigners committed to public meetings, writing blogs and generally spreading the message after returning to Scotland will be very useful! There will be an ICAN Campaigners Meeting on the 26th…
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