Some multimedia clips from OEWG

Ira Helfand reflects on experience of Hiroshima survivor (May 3)

On May 3, 2016, IPPNW co-president Ira Helfand spoke during a panel on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons during the UN Open-Ended Working Group meetings on nuclear disarmament. His comments were directed to Setsuko Thurlow, a Hiroshima survivor who had just told her personal story of August 6, 1945, the day the US dropped an atomic bomb on her city, when she was 13 years old.


IPPNW co-president Tilman Ruff addresses OEWG (May 4)

Banning and eliminating nuclear weapons is the only way to secure planetary health.