New developments in addressing the threat of nuclear weapons

Recent research studies have shown that even a very limited nuclear war involving less than 0.5% of the world's nuclear arsenals would cause catastrophic worldwide climate disruption, which would put more than one billion people at risk in a global nuclear famine. These studies have motivated a broad new movement for nuclear abolition, involving civil society and a growing coalition of non-nuclear weapons states. This movement is demanding that an understanding of the humanitarian/public health consequences of nuclear war inform future policy discussion about nuclear weapons. Explicitly criticizing the failure of the nuclear weapons states to move towards the elimination of their nuclear arsenals, it seeks to build a broad international campaign to pressure them to meet their responsibilities under Article VI of the Non Proliferation Treaty to negotiate the abolition of all nuclear weapons.