Alicia Sanders-Zakre
@azakre.bsky.social
ICAN Policy and Research Coordinator
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🥳GREAT NEWS: The global majority rejects nuclear weapons. What does it means?
1⃣ Most of the world’s countries are now part of the #NuclearBan Treaty.
2⃣ They’ve chosen real security rooted in cooperation, not fear.
3⃣ More in the thread
1⃣ Most of the world’s countries are now part of the #NuclearBan Treaty.
2⃣ They’ve chosen real security rooted in cooperation, not fear.
3⃣ More in the thread
September 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
🥳GREAT NEWS: The global majority rejects nuclear weapons. What does it means?
1⃣ Most of the world’s countries are now part of the #NuclearBan Treaty.
2⃣ They’ve chosen real security rooted in cooperation, not fear.
3⃣ More in the thread
1⃣ Most of the world’s countries are now part of the #NuclearBan Treaty.
2⃣ They’ve chosen real security rooted in cooperation, not fear.
3⃣ More in the thread
ICAN and Korean A-bomb survivors groups issue joint call for all countries to join TPNW #nuclearban www.icanw.org/_ican_and_ko...
ICAN and Korean A-bomb survivors groups issue joint call for all countries to join UN Nuclear Ban Treaty
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August 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
ICAN and Korean A-bomb survivors groups issue joint call for all countries to join TPNW #nuclearban www.icanw.org/_ican_and_ko...
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1/ 80 years ago at 11.02 am on August 9, JST, the US dropped the atomic bomb on #Nagasaki. In a flash, thousands were dead or injured. By the end of 1945, 74,000 had died. And the consequences from the radiation have affected the survivors to this day.
More here: www.icanw.org/remembering_...
More here: www.icanw.org/remembering_...
August 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
1/ 80 years ago at 11.02 am on August 9, JST, the US dropped the atomic bomb on #Nagasaki. In a flash, thousands were dead or injured. By the end of 1945, 74,000 had died. And the consequences from the radiation have affected the survivors to this day.
More here: www.icanw.org/remembering_...
More here: www.icanw.org/remembering_...
On the 80th Anniversary of the World’s First Atomic Attack, Hiroshima’s Youngest Survivors Call for Disarmament inkstickmedia.com/on-the-80th-...
On the 80th Anniversary of the World's First Atomic Attack, Hiroshima’s Youngest Survivors Call for Disarmament
On the 80th Anniversary of the World's First Atomic Attack, Hiroshima’s Youngest Survivors Call for Disarmament
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August 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
On the 80th Anniversary of the World’s First Atomic Attack, Hiroshima’s Youngest Survivors Call for Disarmament inkstickmedia.com/on-the-80th-...
Dr. Terumi Tanaka, a co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo: "Our Nobel Peace Prize sends a message to younger people that they need to be aware that we are facing an emergency...We have the solution in our hands: the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
Opinion | Eighty Years of Nuclear Weapons Is Enough
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August 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Dr. Terumi Tanaka, a co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo: "Our Nobel Peace Prize sends a message to younger people that they need to be aware that we are facing an emergency...We have the solution in our hands: the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
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Will you join us stand with the survivors of nuclear weapons and take action for nuclear disarmament? We everyone to get involved! Learn more here and share: cranesofmemory.com
#CranesofMemory #NuclearBan
#CranesofMemory #NuclearBan
August 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Will you join us stand with the survivors of nuclear weapons and take action for nuclear disarmament? We everyone to get involved! Learn more here and share: cranesofmemory.com
#CranesofMemory #NuclearBan
#CranesofMemory #NuclearBan
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At exactly 8:15 a.m. JST, around the time you’re reading this, 80 years ago, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
Today, we remember the lives lost, the survivors who continue to speak out, and the urgent need for nuclear disarmament. Read more here: www.icanw.org/remembering_...
Today, we remember the lives lost, the survivors who continue to speak out, and the urgent need for nuclear disarmament. Read more here: www.icanw.org/remembering_...
August 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
At exactly 8:15 a.m. JST, around the time you’re reading this, 80 years ago, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
Today, we remember the lives lost, the survivors who continue to speak out, and the urgent need for nuclear disarmament. Read more here: www.icanw.org/remembering_...
Today, we remember the lives lost, the survivors who continue to speak out, and the urgent need for nuclear disarmament. Read more here: www.icanw.org/remembering_...
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What don't we know about nuclear spending? And why is that a ✨huge✨ problem?
For our Story Center, @nuclearban.bsky.social's Alicia Sanders-Zakre (@azakre.bsky.social) dives into ICAN's June report: "Hidden Costs: Nuclear Weapons Spending in 2024." ⬇️
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For our Story Center, @nuclearban.bsky.social's Alicia Sanders-Zakre (@azakre.bsky.social) dives into ICAN's June report: "Hidden Costs: Nuclear Weapons Spending in 2024." ⬇️
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Why What We Don’t Know About Nuclear Weapons Spending Is a Problem - Ploughshares
ICAN's new report details how nuclear spending is an aspect of nuclear policy kept from the public and policy makers.
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July 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
What don't we know about nuclear spending? And why is that a ✨huge✨ problem?
For our Story Center, @nuclearban.bsky.social's Alicia Sanders-Zakre (@azakre.bsky.social) dives into ICAN's June report: "Hidden Costs: Nuclear Weapons Spending in 2024." ⬇️
ploughshares.org/article/ican...
For our Story Center, @nuclearban.bsky.social's Alicia Sanders-Zakre (@azakre.bsky.social) dives into ICAN's June report: "Hidden Costs: Nuclear Weapons Spending in 2024." ⬇️
ploughshares.org/article/ican...
For US colleagues: Tomorrow & Wednesday, you can provide input to NNSA on what to include in an environmental impact assessment on plans to expand production of plutonium “pit” bomb cores. Join the meetings & learn more: nukewatch.org/wp-content/u... @nukewatchnm.bsky.social @nuclearban.bsky.social
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May 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
For US colleagues: Tomorrow & Wednesday, you can provide input to NNSA on what to include in an environmental impact assessment on plans to expand production of plutonium “pit” bomb cores. Join the meetings & learn more: nukewatch.org/wp-content/u... @nukewatchnm.bsky.social @nuclearban.bsky.social
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🚨Date correction! The film screening: "JARA - Radioactive Patriarchy: Women of Qazaqstan" is on MAY 15TH at 6:30pm - 8:30pm at the University of Geneva.
It's excatly one week from today, so mark your calendars!
More info about the screening here: icanw.org/jara_film_sc...
#NuclearBan #NuclearTest
It's excatly one week from today, so mark your calendars!
More info about the screening here: icanw.org/jara_film_sc...
#NuclearBan #NuclearTest
May 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🚨Date correction! The film screening: "JARA - Radioactive Patriarchy: Women of Qazaqstan" is on MAY 15TH at 6:30pm - 8:30pm at the University of Geneva.
It's excatly one week from today, so mark your calendars!
More info about the screening here: icanw.org/jara_film_sc...
#NuclearBan #NuclearTest
It's excatly one week from today, so mark your calendars!
More info about the screening here: icanw.org/jara_film_sc...
#NuclearBan #NuclearTest
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1/ ICAN is gravely concerned by escalating hostilities between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, including last night’s missile strikes and nuclear threats. A nuclear exchange would be catastrophic for the world.
Read our full statement here: icanw.org/ican_respons...
#NuclearBan
Read our full statement here: icanw.org/ican_respons...
#NuclearBan
ICAN calls for immediate de-escalation of conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Nobel Peace Prize 2017) has issued the following statement from Executive Director, Melissa Parke:
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May 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
1/ ICAN is gravely concerned by escalating hostilities between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, including last night’s missile strikes and nuclear threats. A nuclear exchange would be catastrophic for the world.
Read our full statement here: icanw.org/ican_respons...
#NuclearBan
Read our full statement here: icanw.org/ican_respons...
#NuclearBan
Nobel Laureates Urge Trump, Putin To Meet On Denuclearisation www.barrons.com/news/nobel-l... #nuclearban
Nobel Laureates Urge Trump, Putin To Meet On Denuclearisation
Three Nobel Peace Prize-winning groups campaigning to eliminate nuclear weapons joined forces on Monday to urge the US and Russian presidents to meet and agree on significant denuclearisation.
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April 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Nobel Laureates Urge Trump, Putin To Meet On Denuclearisation www.barrons.com/news/nobel-l... #nuclearban
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What security risks do #NuclearWeapons pose from a #TPNW perspective?
Join VCDNP for a webinar with Amb. @akmentt.bsky.social
& Dr. @olivermeier.bsky.social presenting findings from the TPNW consultative process.
📅 31 March 2025
🕚 11:00 CEST
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/v84fksbs
#EUNPDC
Join VCDNP for a webinar with Amb. @akmentt.bsky.social
& Dr. @olivermeier.bsky.social presenting findings from the TPNW consultative process.
📅 31 March 2025
🕚 11:00 CEST
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/v84fksbs
#EUNPDC
Security Risks Emanating from Nuclear Weapons: A TPNW Perspective
The Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP) cordially invites you to attend a webinar presenting the report on “Articulating the Security Concerns of TPNW States Parties," which wi...
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March 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
What security risks do #NuclearWeapons pose from a #TPNW perspective?
Join VCDNP for a webinar with Amb. @akmentt.bsky.social
& Dr. @olivermeier.bsky.social presenting findings from the TPNW consultative process.
📅 31 March 2025
🕚 11:00 CEST
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/v84fksbs
#EUNPDC
Join VCDNP for a webinar with Amb. @akmentt.bsky.social
& Dr. @olivermeier.bsky.social presenting findings from the TPNW consultative process.
📅 31 March 2025
🕚 11:00 CEST
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/v84fksbs
#EUNPDC
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🚨The 3rd Meeting of States Parties to the #TPNW has concluded with a strong message: nuclear weapons & deterrence threaten us all. States agreed that the #NuclerBan is the alternative to reckless nuclear deterrence and proliferation.
Read more here: www.icanw.org/tpnw_third_m...
Read more here: www.icanw.org/tpnw_third_m...
March 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
🚨The 3rd Meeting of States Parties to the #TPNW has concluded with a strong message: nuclear weapons & deterrence threaten us all. States agreed that the #NuclerBan is the alternative to reckless nuclear deterrence and proliferation.
Read more here: www.icanw.org/tpnw_third_m...
Read more here: www.icanw.org/tpnw_third_m...
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Just back from the #TPNW3MSP, where states rejected nuclear deterrence as a security policy. Meanwhile, Europe is having a Fiebertraum (yes, German has a word for that) about European nukes. Let’s talk about why that’s absurd and counterproductive for European security 🧵
March 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Just back from the #TPNW3MSP, where states rejected nuclear deterrence as a security policy. Meanwhile, Europe is having a Fiebertraum (yes, German has a word for that) about European nukes. Let’s talk about why that’s absurd and counterproductive for European security 🧵
Rainbow Warrior arrives in Marshall Islands to call for nuclear and climate justice on 40th anniversary of Rongelap evacuation : www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
Rainbow Warrior arrives in Marshall Islands to call for nuclear and climate justice on 40th anniversary of Rongelap evacuation - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Greenpeace flagship vessel the Rainbow Warrior was welcomed back to the Marshall Islands today, marking the start of a six-week mission around the Pacific nation to elevate calls for nuclear…
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March 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Rainbow Warrior arrives in Marshall Islands to call for nuclear and climate justice on 40th anniversary of Rongelap evacuation : www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
It was a special privilege to join @nhpeaceaction.bsky.social , where my interest in activism for peace first began, to discuss a recent @nuclearban.bsky.social briefing paper on Israel's nuclear weapons and path to disarmament - www.icanw.org/israeli_nucl...
February 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
It was a special privilege to join @nhpeaceaction.bsky.social , where my interest in activism for peace first began, to discuss a recent @nuclearban.bsky.social briefing paper on Israel's nuclear weapons and path to disarmament - www.icanw.org/israeli_nucl...
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New: “At Great Cost: The companies building nuclear weapons and their financiers”, a publication of @paxforpeace.nl and @nuclearban.bsky.social
-> 260 financial institutions have significant financing or investment relations with nuclear weapon producers.
www.dontbankonthebomb.com/at-great-cost/
-> 260 financial institutions have significant financing or investment relations with nuclear weapon producers.
www.dontbankonthebomb.com/at-great-cost/
At Great Cost – Don't Bank on the Bomb
www.dontbankonthebomb.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
New: “At Great Cost: The companies building nuclear weapons and their financiers”, a publication of @paxforpeace.nl and @nuclearban.bsky.social
-> 260 financial institutions have significant financing or investment relations with nuclear weapon producers.
www.dontbankonthebomb.com/at-great-cost/
-> 260 financial institutions have significant financing or investment relations with nuclear weapon producers.
www.dontbankonthebomb.com/at-great-cost/
Great story on the new PAX / ICAN Don’t Bank on the Bomb report out today, showing the impact the #TPNW is having on divestment from nuclear weapons: www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Check out the full report here: www.dontbankonthebomb.com/at-great-cost/ #nuclearban
Check out the full report here: www.dontbankonthebomb.com/at-great-cost/ #nuclearban
Financial ties to nuclear arms drop about 25% post-UN treaty, campaigners find
The number of financial institutions with significant exposure to companies involved in the nuclear weapons industry has fallen by about a quarter since a U.N. treaty came into force in 2021, according to a report on Tuesday by campaign groups.
www.reuters.com
February 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Great story on the new PAX / ICAN Don’t Bank on the Bomb report out today, showing the impact the #TPNW is having on divestment from nuclear weapons: www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Check out the full report here: www.dontbankonthebomb.com/at-great-cost/ #nuclearban
Check out the full report here: www.dontbankonthebomb.com/at-great-cost/ #nuclearban
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A global call for applications to serve on the new independent Scientific Panel on the Effects of Nuclear War disarmament.unoda.org/panel-on-the... Self-nominations are accepted here forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... The deadline of 1 March 2025
February 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A global call for applications to serve on the new independent Scientific Panel on the Effects of Nuclear War disarmament.unoda.org/panel-on-the... Self-nominations are accepted here forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... The deadline of 1 March 2025
Great event tomorrow "Nuclear Weapons Choices - Governing Vulnerabilities between Past and Future" featuring recent Sciences Po research on nuclear weapons. Register here: www.sciencespo.fr/agenda/fr/ev... #nuclearban
Évènements | Sciences Po | CiviCrm
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January 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Great event tomorrow "Nuclear Weapons Choices - Governing Vulnerabilities between Past and Future" featuring recent Sciences Po research on nuclear weapons. Register here: www.sciencespo.fr/agenda/fr/ev... #nuclearban
Shigeko Sasamori, Hiroshima Survivor Who Preached Peace, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/w...
Shigeko Sasamori, Hiroshima Survivor Who Preached Peace, Dies at 92
Severely disfigured when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, she spent her life warning others about the dangers of nuclear war.
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January 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Shigeko Sasamori, Hiroshima Survivor Who Preached Peace, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/w...
Great article @beafihn.bsky.social ! "So how can individuals contribute? First, recognize your power. A key tool is to change the way we talk about nuclear weapons." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/o...
Opinion | Nuclear Weapons Are Not a Fact of Life
Like other weapons of mass destruction, nuclear weapons are not unsolvable problems.
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Great article @beafihn.bsky.social ! "So how can individuals contribute? First, recognize your power. A key tool is to change the way we talk about nuclear weapons." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/o...
Don't miss the upcoming Interdisciplinary Nuclear Disarmament Research Symposium at the University of Bradford on 6 December! Register to attend in person or online here by 27 November: www.icanw.org/interdiscipl... #nuclearban
Interdisciplinary Nuclear Disarmament Symposium at the University of Bradford
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November 25, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Don't miss the upcoming Interdisciplinary Nuclear Disarmament Research Symposium at the University of Bradford on 6 December! Register to attend in person or online here by 27 November: www.icanw.org/interdiscipl... #nuclearban