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@nuclearban.bsky.social
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Working with governments, ICRC and the UN to end nuclear weapons. 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. #nuclearban
1/ Excellent to see over 30 states attending Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic and ICAN's side event on synergy between the #NuclearBan & the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone at @ungeneva.bsky.social. Panelists highlighted the complementarity between the 2 & their contribution to peace and security.
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
1/ Excellent to see over 30 states attending Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic and ICAN's side event on synergy between the #NuclearBan & the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone at @ungeneva.bsky.social. Panelists highlighted the complementarity between the 2 & their contribution to peace and security.
😲Did you know the global majority rejects nuclear weapons?
What that means is:
1⃣Most of the world’s countries are now part of the #NuclearBan Treaty🎉
2⃣They’ve chosen real security rooted in cooperation, not fear.
Learn more here: www.icanw.org/global_major...
What that means is:
1⃣Most of the world’s countries are now part of the #NuclearBan Treaty🎉
2⃣They’ve chosen real security rooted in cooperation, not fear.
Learn more here: www.icanw.org/global_major...
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
😲Did you know the global majority rejects nuclear weapons?
What that means is:
1⃣Most of the world’s countries are now part of the #NuclearBan Treaty🎉
2⃣They’ve chosen real security rooted in cooperation, not fear.
Learn more here: www.icanw.org/global_major...
What that means is:
1⃣Most of the world’s countries are now part of the #NuclearBan Treaty🎉
2⃣They’ve chosen real security rooted in cooperation, not fear.
Learn more here: www.icanw.org/global_major...
Huge congratulationns to our partners at ICAN France for making it happen!!🥳👏
To celebrate, here are throwback pictures from the ICAN Paris Forum! #NuclearBan
To celebrate, here are throwback pictures from the ICAN Paris Forum! #NuclearBan
November 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Huge congratulationns to our partners at ICAN France for making it happen!!🥳👏
To celebrate, here are throwback pictures from the ICAN Paris Forum! #NuclearBan
To celebrate, here are throwback pictures from the ICAN Paris Forum! #NuclearBan
1/ @nuclearban.bsky.social was pleased to participate in the 151st Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly in Geneva to speak on the crucial role parliamentarians play in advancing the #NuclearBan Treaty.
More here ➡️🔗https://www.ipu.org/event/151st-ipu-assembly-and-related-meetings
More here ➡️🔗https://www.ipu.org/event/151st-ipu-assembly-and-related-meetings
November 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
1/ @nuclearban.bsky.social was pleased to participate in the 151st Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly in Geneva to speak on the crucial role parliamentarians play in advancing the #NuclearBan Treaty.
More here ➡️🔗https://www.ipu.org/event/151st-ipu-assembly-and-related-meetings
More here ➡️🔗https://www.ipu.org/event/151st-ipu-assembly-and-related-meetings
Missile defence is back in the headlines from President Trump’s renewed push to the film #HouseofDynamite, where defence fails dramatically.
Can missile defence really protect us?
We've got answers ➡️🔗https://www.icanw.org/can_missile_defence_against_nuclear_attack_work
Can missile defence really protect us?
We've got answers ➡️🔗https://www.icanw.org/can_missile_defence_against_nuclear_attack_work
October 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Missile defence is back in the headlines from President Trump’s renewed push to the film #HouseofDynamite, where defence fails dramatically.
Can missile defence really protect us?
We've got answers ➡️🔗https://www.icanw.org/can_missile_defence_against_nuclear_attack_work
Can missile defence really protect us?
We've got answers ➡️🔗https://www.icanw.org/can_missile_defence_against_nuclear_attack_work
🎉Happy United Nations Day!
The best way to honor and celebrate it? Join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and make our world safer! #UnitedNationsDay #NuclearBan
The best way to honor and celebrate it? Join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and make our world safer! #UnitedNationsDay #NuclearBan
October 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🎉Happy United Nations Day!
The best way to honor and celebrate it? Join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and make our world safer! #UnitedNationsDay #NuclearBan
The best way to honor and celebrate it? Join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and make our world safer! #UnitedNationsDay #NuclearBan
2/ We lobbied Italian parliamentarians, spoke to media about the unacceptability of nuclear weapons, and also visited La Sapienza University to share hibakusha testimony, debate nuclear deterrence, and discuss organising for nuclear disarmament.
📽️➡️ webtv.camera.it/evento/29336
📽️➡️ webtv.camera.it/evento/29336
October 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
2/ We lobbied Italian parliamentarians, spoke to media about the unacceptability of nuclear weapons, and also visited La Sapienza University to share hibakusha testimony, debate nuclear deterrence, and discuss organising for nuclear disarmament.
📽️➡️ webtv.camera.it/evento/29336
📽️➡️ webtv.camera.it/evento/29336
🧵1/ What a powerful few days in Rome!
Together with Masashi Ieshima, Hiroshima survivor and member of the 2024 Nobel Peace laureate Nihon Hidankyo, ICAN's Florian Eblenkamp and our partners Senza Atomica & Rete Italiana Pace e Disarmo, we urged Italy to join the #NuclearBan Treaty.
Together with Masashi Ieshima, Hiroshima survivor and member of the 2024 Nobel Peace laureate Nihon Hidankyo, ICAN's Florian Eblenkamp and our partners Senza Atomica & Rete Italiana Pace e Disarmo, we urged Italy to join the #NuclearBan Treaty.
October 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🧵1/ What a powerful few days in Rome!
Together with Masashi Ieshima, Hiroshima survivor and member of the 2024 Nobel Peace laureate Nihon Hidankyo, ICAN's Florian Eblenkamp and our partners Senza Atomica & Rete Italiana Pace e Disarmo, we urged Italy to join the #NuclearBan Treaty.
Together with Masashi Ieshima, Hiroshima survivor and member of the 2024 Nobel Peace laureate Nihon Hidankyo, ICAN's Florian Eblenkamp and our partners Senza Atomica & Rete Italiana Pace e Disarmo, we urged Italy to join the #NuclearBan Treaty.
3/ ICAN’s Seth Shelden gave a presentation about the growing membership of the treaty, including that the treaty has just reached a “global majority” of states as parties or signatories. This is a clear sign of momentum and an invitation for all States to step up and join the #NuclearBan.
October 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
3/ ICAN’s Seth Shelden gave a presentation about the growing membership of the treaty, including that the treaty has just reached a “global majority” of states as parties or signatories. This is a clear sign of momentum and an invitation for all States to step up and join the #NuclearBan.
2/ Speakers discussed their commitment to advancing the universalisation of the treaty and discussed the work being done to implement it; they shared resources to support States ready to join the treaty, and emphasised the treaty’s role in advancing global nuclear disarmament. #NuclearBan
October 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
2/ Speakers discussed their commitment to advancing the universalisation of the treaty and discussed the work being done to implement it; they shared resources to support States ready to join the treaty, and emphasised the treaty’s role in advancing global nuclear disarmament. #NuclearBan
1/ At the UN General Assembly, we co-hosted a side event on the universalization of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons with the Permanent Missions of New Zealand, Austria, and Uruguay, in their capacity as Co-Chairs of the Informal Working Group on Universalisation of the #TPNW.
October 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
1/ At the UN General Assembly, we co-hosted a side event on the universalization of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons with the Permanent Missions of New Zealand, Austria, and Uruguay, in their capacity as Co-Chairs of the Informal Working Group on Universalisation of the #TPNW.
2/ And while NATO may frame that as “ensuring that NATO’s nuclear deterrent remains safe, secure and effective,” let’s not forget what nuclear weapons actually do: wipe out entire cities and mass murder civilians. #NuclearBan
October 14, 2025 at 6:07 AM
2/ And while NATO may frame that as “ensuring that NATO’s nuclear deterrent remains safe, secure and effective,” let’s not forget what nuclear weapons actually do: wipe out entire cities and mass murder civilians. #NuclearBan
🧵1/ You can’t prepare to “responsibly” use a weapon that would make humanitarian response impossible.
The ICRC and UN say no one can handle the consequences of a nuclear war, yet NATO #SteadfastNoon countries are training to cause one.
#NuclearBan
The ICRC and UN say no one can handle the consequences of a nuclear war, yet NATO #SteadfastNoon countries are training to cause one.
#NuclearBan
October 14, 2025 at 6:07 AM
🧵1/ You can’t prepare to “responsibly” use a weapon that would make humanitarian response impossible.
The ICRC and UN say no one can handle the consequences of a nuclear war, yet NATO #SteadfastNoon countries are training to cause one.
#NuclearBan
The ICRC and UN say no one can handle the consequences of a nuclear war, yet NATO #SteadfastNoon countries are training to cause one.
#NuclearBan
2/ But there is a way to stop these inhumane weapons from ever being used again and that is the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Read more here: www.icanw.org/the_treaty #NuclearBan
October 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
2/ But there is a way to stop these inhumane weapons from ever being used again and that is the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Read more here: www.icanw.org/the_treaty #NuclearBan
🧵1/ Nuclear weapons are the most destructive, inhumane and indiscriminate weapons ever created. Both in the scale of the devastation they cause, and in their uniquely persistent, spreading, genetically damaging radioactive fallout, they are unlike any other. #NuclearBan
October 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🧵1/ Nuclear weapons are the most destructive, inhumane and indiscriminate weapons ever created. Both in the scale of the devastation they cause, and in their uniquely persistent, spreading, genetically damaging radioactive fallout, they are unlike any other. #NuclearBan
🥳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
This is the global majority rising up to say: no more threats, no more excuses, we need action for nuclear disarmament! Together, we’re building a future free from the threat of nuclear weapons.
#NuclearBan #TPNW #GlobalMajority
#NuclearBan #TPNW #GlobalMajority
September 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This is the global majority rising up to say: no more threats, no more excuses, we need action for nuclear disarmament! Together, we’re building a future free from the threat of nuclear weapons.
#NuclearBan #TPNW #GlobalMajority
#NuclearBan #TPNW #GlobalMajority
🥳😍The world is celebrating!
From every corner of the globe, we are marking a historic milestone: the majority of countries have now joined the UN treaty banning nuclear weapons!!
This is people's power in action.
From every corner of the globe, we are marking a historic milestone: the majority of countries have now joined the UN treaty banning nuclear weapons!!
This is people's power in action.
September 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
🥳😍The world is celebrating!
From every corner of the globe, we are marking a historic milestone: the majority of countries have now joined the UN treaty banning nuclear weapons!!
This is people's power in action.
From every corner of the globe, we are marking a historic milestone: the majority of countries have now joined the UN treaty banning nuclear weapons!!
This is people's power in action.
1/ This is what leadership looks like👏
Thank you for being on the right side of history Kyrgyzstaand Ghana! Today we celebrate the countries stepping up for humanity: the leaders who have signed, ratified, or acceded to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. #NuclearBan
Thank you for being on the right side of history Kyrgyzstaand Ghana! Today we celebrate the countries stepping up for humanity: the leaders who have signed, ratified, or acceded to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. #NuclearBan
September 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
1/ This is what leadership looks like👏
Thank you for being on the right side of history Kyrgyzstaand Ghana! Today we celebrate the countries stepping up for humanity: the leaders who have signed, ratified, or acceded to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. #NuclearBan
Thank you for being on the right side of history Kyrgyzstaand Ghana! Today we celebrate the countries stepping up for humanity: the leaders who have signed, ratified, or acceded to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. #NuclearBan
HISTORY MADE TODAY! The global majority has joined the #NuclearBan Treaty!
Today Kyrgyzstan🇰🇬 signed and Ghana🇬🇭 ratified the UN Treaty banning nuclear weapons, bringing us to bringing the total to 99 out of 197 eligible states.🎉
Today Kyrgyzstan🇰🇬 signed and Ghana🇬🇭 ratified the UN Treaty banning nuclear weapons, bringing us to bringing the total to 99 out of 197 eligible states.🎉
September 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
HISTORY MADE TODAY! The global majority has joined the #NuclearBan Treaty!
Today Kyrgyzstan🇰🇬 signed and Ghana🇬🇭 ratified the UN Treaty banning nuclear weapons, bringing us to bringing the total to 99 out of 197 eligible states.🎉
Today Kyrgyzstan🇰🇬 signed and Ghana🇬🇭 ratified the UN Treaty banning nuclear weapons, bringing us to bringing the total to 99 out of 197 eligible states.🎉
1/ Did you know the very first UN General Assembly resolution was on nuclear disarmament?
Today, on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, we reaffirm our collective commitment to a safer world, one free of nuclear weapons. #NuclearBan
Today, on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, we reaffirm our collective commitment to a safer world, one free of nuclear weapons. #NuclearBan
September 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
1/ Did you know the very first UN General Assembly resolution was on nuclear disarmament?
Today, on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, we reaffirm our collective commitment to a safer world, one free of nuclear weapons. #NuclearBan
Today, on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, we reaffirm our collective commitment to a safer world, one free of nuclear weapons. #NuclearBan
💰Each year, billions are poured into nuclear weapons while communities struggle with healthcare, education, and climate resilience. Is this really sustainable security? Read more here: www.icanw.org/global_spend...
#Nuclearban #Disarmament #InternationalSecurity #Divestment
#Nuclearban #Disarmament #InternationalSecurity #Divestment
September 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
💰Each year, billions are poured into nuclear weapons while communities struggle with healthcare, education, and climate resilience. Is this really sustainable security? Read more here: www.icanw.org/global_spend...
#Nuclearban #Disarmament #InternationalSecurity #Divestment
#Nuclearban #Disarmament #InternationalSecurity #Divestment
1/ The US and France have followed Russia with rehearsals for the end of the world. Nuclear exercises don’t make anyone safer, they deepen insecurity and prepare for mass murder. #nuclearban
📰➡️ www.navy.mil/Press-Office...
More sources in the thread 📰.
📰➡️ www.navy.mil/Press-Office...
More sources in the thread 📰.
September 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
1/ The US and France have followed Russia with rehearsals for the end of the world. Nuclear exercises don’t make anyone safer, they deepen insecurity and prepare for mass murder. #nuclearban
📰➡️ www.navy.mil/Press-Office...
More sources in the thread 📰.
📰➡️ www.navy.mil/Press-Office...
More sources in the thread 📰.
🕊 This #PeaceDay, remember: a world free from nuclear weapons is not only possible it’s necessary:
1⃣In classrooms, workplaces, even family group chats talk about the threat nukes pose.
2⃣Take action for nuclear disarmament online & offline.
#NuclearBan
1⃣In classrooms, workplaces, even family group chats talk about the threat nukes pose.
2⃣Take action for nuclear disarmament online & offline.
#NuclearBan
September 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
🕊 This #PeaceDay, remember: a world free from nuclear weapons is not only possible it’s necessary:
1⃣In classrooms, workplaces, even family group chats talk about the threat nukes pose.
2⃣Take action for nuclear disarmament online & offline.
#NuclearBan
1⃣In classrooms, workplaces, even family group chats talk about the threat nukes pose.
2⃣Take action for nuclear disarmament online & offline.
#NuclearBan
Follow along ICAN's ED Melissa in Greece and the incredible work of campaigners like Nikos, Maria and Kostas without whose efforts are driving change in the country. # NuclearBan
Read more🔗🔖: www.news247.gr/ellada/i-sin...
Read more🔗🔖: www.news247.gr/ellada/i-sin...
September 18, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Follow along ICAN's ED Melissa in Greece and the incredible work of campaigners like Nikos, Maria and Kostas without whose efforts are driving change in the country. # NuclearBan
Read more🔗🔖: www.news247.gr/ellada/i-sin...
Read more🔗🔖: www.news247.gr/ellada/i-sin...