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DiaNuke Invite: Book Discussion with Prof Bo Jacobs, February 23, 2022 on ‘Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha’

DiaNuke Invite: Book Discussion with Prof Bo Jacobs, February 23, 2022 on ‘Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha’

Symposium Invitation We are pleased to announce a symposium to discuss the new book Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha (to be released on March 29, 2022). The author Robert A. Jacobs, professor of history at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University, will be interviewed by Dennis Riches, CenterRead More

Full text: Indian anti-nuclear groups’ statement on 10 years of the Fukushima accident

Full text: Indian anti-nuclear groups’ statement on 10 years of the Fukushima accident

​We, the members of various anti-Uranium mining, anti-nuclear power, anti-nuclear bomb groups and movements all over India, would like to express our solidarity with the people of Japan in the wake of the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster. The Great East Japan Earthquake disaster had a 9 point (onRead More

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Nuclear Safety Regimes and India: What the Silence on the latest Fukushima Crisis Tells Us

Sonali Huria| The Leaflet  THE new year has begun on a grim note with a toxic gas leak at the Rourkela Steel Plant in Odisha on 6 January, which claimed the lives of four contractual workers. This is the latest in a disconcerting string of industrial accidents in India over the last fewRead More

Setsuko Thurlow’s Wish for Nuclear Disarmament

Setsuko Thurlow’s Wish for Nuclear Disarmament

Setsuko Thurlow, a native of Hiroshima, describes her journey from atomic bomb survivor to nuclear disarmament advocate. In 2017, she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which had spearheaded efforts to achieve a treaty banning nuclear weapons.