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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.

On the 7th of July 2017, 122 countries voted in favour of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Countries that don’t have nuclear weapons but live under their threat voted for a ban. Without the knowledge of most of their citizens, the governments of the world’s nuclear powers didn’t vote, and yet the ban went ahead. Something new is happening.

Setsuko Thurlow, a native of Hiroshima, Japan, shared 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.

In his first public discussion of his forthcoming book, Hope in the Nuclear Age: the Realist Case for Eliminating Nuclear Weapons, Ward Wilson presents a complete case for the elimination of nuclear weapons. Wilson challenges Cold War concepts that still inform policy, and present new and compelling reasons why we should take the question of elimination seriously.