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⭐️⭐️ International law, global security and weapons at @lexintl_org . Former Executive Director of ICAN @nuclearban , @nobelprize laureate 2017. 🇸🇪in🇨🇭
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In the last week, I’ve suddenly seen a lot of “well, the use tactical nuclear weapons wouldn’t be THAT bad” takes. And this comes even from “defense experts” in countries without nuclear weapons. Let me tell you why it would be that bad. 🧵
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The largest Swedish evening paper publishes an investigation of child labour in mica mines in Madagascar that is being used in Tesla cars. If you click on any link to this story on Twitter today, this platform will give you a warning that the story might be spam or dangerous.
Trettonårige Laha bryter glimmer i gruvan på Madagaskar. Aftonbladets
@staffanlindberg
och
@magnuswennman
lyckas koppla mineralen till Teslas leverantör – som erkänner att man inte kan skilja ut barnbruten glimmer. Tesla vägrar svara på frågorna.
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Sweden just elected a neo-nazi party to be the biggest party in the new extreme right wing coalition. While Sweden has steadily moved in this direction for the last 16 years, it’s shocking to think of the implications this election will have on democracy, human rights & equality.
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They’d literally would rather accept that some people will die from a flaming fireball of 4,000°C or through radioactive rain than have the guts to even say out loud that Russia, the US and China should disarm. I can’t think of anything more pathetic and cowardly really.
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GOOD MORNING WORLD!
Today, nuclear weapons are banned. There’s no going back from this point, the
#nuclearban
will only grow stronger from now on.
The ban is the future.
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But the worst thing is what this kind of argument displays about the writers of it. They are so committed and attached to weapons of mass destruction that they rather convince their own people to be ok with nuclear war than dare to ask the nuclear armed states to disarm.
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I feel so completely broken at the moment. I don’t know how anyone is supposed to continue working on international law, treaties, UN issues and things like that at a moment like this. I can’t stand hearing some governments at the UN right now.
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Let’s take an example of a random nuclear armed state, say **cough** RUSSIA. Russian tactical nuclear weapons have an estimated yield of between 10 to 100 kt. Sounds small? Well, the bomb over Hiroshima was 15kt and it killed 140’000 people by the end of 1945.
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And for all survivors, cancers related to radiation exposure continued to increase throughout their lifespan, even to this day, seven decades later. So yes, even a “small” nuclear bomb would be that bad. & this is without even going into how it can trigger full scale nuclear war
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Yes, a tactical nuclear weapon is one of those “smaller” nuclear weapons. Unfortunately today’s nuclear weapons are so incredibly large and dangerous that we have a really distorted idea of what a small nuclear weapons is.
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It hasn’t been talked enough that in the US congress bill defunding UNRWA, there was a decision to refuse aid to Palestine if it ever initiates or supports an ICC investigation against Israel, or if it seeks to upgrade its status at the UN or other forums.
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And finally, almost every German I talked to this weekend, at some point during the conversation lowered their voice & said they think the German position on Israel is wrong but they’re scared of saying it in public so they stay silent. I think we should be worried about this.
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But it didn’t stop there. Five to six years after the bombings, incidences of leukaemia increased noticeably among survivors. Among girls & women particularly. After about a decade, survivors began suffering from thyroid, breast, lung & other cancers at higher than normal rates.
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This one single bomb razed and burnt around 70% of all buildings. 90% of all physicians and nurses in the city were killed or injured. 42 of 45 hospitals were rendered non-functional.
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Pregnant women exposed to the bombings experienced higher rates of miscarriage and deaths among their infants; their children were more likely to have intellectual disabilities, impaired growth and an increased risk of developing cancer.
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I for one would support Kiribati and Liechtenstein to be the only permanent members of the UN security council.
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It's a great honour that we have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for our work to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons.
#nuclearban
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It would cost $25 billions to vaccinate the whole world against COVID. The 9 nuclear armed states spent $72.6 billion on their arsenals in 2020. We could have protected a lot of people if governments actually prioritized their own people’s security over weapons companies profit.
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@isobelsverkstad
Nu har jag inte bara läst den utan jag är också utbildad internationell jurist, har arbetat med att ta fram internationella avtal inom FN i över 15 år och tagit emot Nobelpris för den typen av arbete men jaja.
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Stoppandet av humanitär hjälp och mat till Gaza var det starkaste beviset som lades fram i ICJ, och en av de centrala punkterna som fick domstolen att säga att det finns en trovärdig risk att Israel bryter mot folkmordskonventionen. Nu hjälper Sverige till att hindra mat & hjälp.
Sverige pausar stödet till FN:s flyktingorgan Unrwa, säger biståndsminister Johan Forssell till TT.
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Reading the agreement now. We support diplomacy and peaceful solutions. But there is no agreement on nuclear disarmament and this all looked more like a big welcome party to the nuclear-armed club.
#nuclearban
#singaporesummit
#TrumpKimSummit
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This. Is. Surreal.
BREAKING NEWS The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
@nuclearban
#NobelPrize
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Nej. ICJ säger att det finns en trovärdig risk att Israel bryter mot folkmordskonventionen i Gaza just nu och beordrar Israel att omedelbart sluta döda palestinier. Det var inte riktigt det du sa för ett par veckor sen.
Jag skrev alltså för ett par veckor sen ungefär samma saker som det ICJ i Haag sade och blev då både anklagad för att vara en idiot och för att vara för folkmord.
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Nuclear weapons is on a lot of peoples mind right now. Join me tomorrow where I’ll be talking to some of the foremost experts on nuclear weapons about the nuclear threats & what it means for the war in Ukraine,
@russianforces
@PatriciaMary
&
@kjolvegeland
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Kommer ni ihåg när Natomedlemskapet såldes in med att Sverige ABSOLUT inte skulle ha kärnvapen på sin mark, och definitivt fortfarande skulle driva nedrustning?
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The war in Gaza sprinkles an uneasiness over the love fest for more weapons that MSC usually is. It’s hard to muster up pride for weapons when we all see images of children’s body parts being scraped of walls on a daily basis & we know the weapons are coming from US, UK, Germany
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THIS IS SO STUPID! I CAN'T BELIEVE THE REST WORLD HAS TO PUT UP WITH THIS STUFF RIGHT NOW, LIKE WE DON'T HAVE OTHER PROBLEMS ON OUR MIND AT THE MOMENT?
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From the bomb to the ban.
Our new page takes you on a journey with the survivors of
#Hiroshima
and
#Nagasaki
from the moment the bomb dropped to the negotiating of the
#nuclearban
treaty.
Visit it here:
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Some might think it’s exaggerating to call them neo-nazi. But the party was formed by neo-Nazi movement in the 90s & current party leader & many party officials high up joined at that time. Last week, party members running for office were exposed to be nazi sympathizers.
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Today was my last day as Executive Director of ICAN. And it’s perfect to end it here in South Africa —a country that disarmed its nuclear weapons—together with governments, academics & campaigners from a region free of nuclear weapons. It’s a reminder that this isn’t impossible!
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What a fantastisk day! And thank you all for the wonderfully kind words about ICAN and our work. Do you want to get involved? Check out
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FUCK YEAH!!!!! 50 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Can we have your attention? 📢 WE GOT IT! 🙌 The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons just reached 50 ratifications. On 22 January 2021, the ban on nuclear weapons will come into force. The
#nuclearban
is here.
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Loved meeting one of the coolest Swedish pop artists ever
@zaralarsson
. She's so badass and clear on her feminist views, the future looks bright when people like her are marching forward to take over the world.
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I'm so proud of this campaign, and I have so much love for everyone who made this happen. This is history in the making!
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Jamaica and Nauru just ratified the
#nuclearban
treaty and we’re only 1 state away from triggering entry into force. ⏰ ⏰ ⏰
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They run on an unapologetic racist political platform, and there is a consistent stream of reports and evidence of party members and officials expressing racist, anti-semitic and anti-democratic opinions and views. We will have neo-nazis in our new government.
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I’ve heard over 60 countries have apparently signed a letter calling on Switzerland to convene this Conference on the Geneva Conventions. Important effort to keep the focus on that there are laws of war that need to be upheld.
SCOOP: As the US slowrolls UN action on Gaza, the State Dept is working to block another bid for accountability. Officials are preparing to pressure Switzerland to reject global calls for a conference on Geneva Conventions violations in Israel-Palestine:
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MORE NEWS!! Belgium becomes the 4th NATO state to confirm that it will participate in the First Meeting of States Parties. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Daarnaast zullen er meer inspanningen zijn in het kader van nucleaire ontwapening.
Ons land zal komende week eindelijk als waarnemer deelnemen aan de conferentie van het VN Verdrag voor een Verbod op Kernwapens (
#TPNW
) in Wenen.
@UN_Vienna
#begov
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Just minutes ago, the Swiss parliament voted yes to Switzerland signing the
#nuclearban
treaty today! Brilliant work by
@ICAN_CH
and
@CarloSommaruga
. Onwards to 2nd chamber now.
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To be clear, this is better than nuclear war. But we cannot keep nuclear weapons forever (and add new nuclear armed states), because they will eventually be used one day. So, we need actual nuclear disarmament before a bomb goes off.
Reading the agreement now. We support diplomacy and peaceful solutions. But there is no agreement on nuclear disarmament and this all looked more like a big welcome party to the nuclear-armed club.
#nuclearban
#singaporesummit
#TrumpKimSummit
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It’s pretty weird to see some feminists more upset about Barbie being snubbed by the oscars than by the fact that Palestinian women have to have c-sections without anaesthetics.
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People say nuclear deterrence are to “protect” a country. It’s not. Nuclear deterrence allows people like Putin act like nobody can stop them.
This is madness. We need the whole world to mobilize against this now.
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian nuclear deterrent forces on alert amid tensions with the West over Ukraine.
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Putins nuclear weapons are used to enable him to invade Ukraine. The west’s nuclear weapons are preventing us from helping Ukraine.
Tell me again how nuclear deterrence creates peace and security?
Putin said today that he would consider countries imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine as participating in the conflict. “We will immediately consider them as participants in a military conflict," Putin said in a meeting with flight crewmembers of Russian national airlines.
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After 9 years in this role, I’m announcing today that I’ve decided to step down as the Executive Director of
@nuclearban
on 31 January 2023.
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I don’t know what to say anymore but I still want to keep publicly acknowledging that I see this. I see what Israel is doing. I know governments & people all over the world are seeing the same thing I see & it breaks my heart that so many chose to be silent or supportive of this
The utter destruction of
#Gaza
’s Al Shifa hospital after the withdrawal of Israeli soldiers is extensive. Hundreds returned to the area after a two-week long Israeli bombardment - and found bodies inside and outside the hospital
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Just to clarify, the election is not officially called yet but it’s looking very unlikely that the last few overseas votes (👋🏼 one anti-racist vote from me coming at least) will change the current outcome.
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We need to have an honest conversation about nuclear deterrence now. Because the way nuclear deterrence has been talked about this past year has been so bizarre and we really need to talk about it and dig in a bit more about what it means. Sorry, this is going to be a long one 😬
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Paid your respects for what? To whom? It’s insulting to survivors of nuclear weapons use and to people living under the threat of nuclear weapons today that these presidents and prime ministers can’t even admit what a visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is about.
Today, my fellow G7 Leaders and I paid a visit to Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park where we paid our respects.
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Amazing!
AMAZING: Addressing the U.N. General Assembly,
#Myanmar
's representative to the U.N. Kyaw Moe Tun just broke rank and called on the world to oppose the military coup in Myanmar. He waved the three-fingered salute. Stunning and historic.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Here are the think tanks that receive funding from nuclear weapons producing companies in 2020.
Just something to keep in mind when you read their recommendations regarding nuclear weapons.
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I'm so honoured to get to accept ICANs
@NobelPrize
together with Setsuko Thurlow, campaigner & survivor of Hiroshima
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Thank you all for the congratulations & kindness, I'm so honored to work with the most amazing people in
@nuclearban
. Everything is awesome!
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Wow! We just got 9 new signatures and 5 new ratifications of the
#nuclearban
. So honoured to work with some of the most amazing campaigners, diplomats and politicians that are taking us closer to the end of nuclear weapons.
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#gender
,
#nuclearweapons
and how women are leading the fight to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons.
#nuclearban
#ToxicMasculinity
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I was so delighted to hear
@Pontifex
describe the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as "a light of hope in our unruly world".
#nuclearban
#Vaticannuclear
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I don’t know guys, I know the take on the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist as “bad for diplomacy” is a way to condemn what just happen but please don’t forget it’s actually also illegal and completely horrific to murder people.
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Excited to hear that Kazakhstan signed the
#nuclearban
treaty today. Kazakhstan has suffered the humanitarian and environmental impact of nuclear testing and knows nuclear weapons do not provide people with safety and security.
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It’s such a good week for revenge music! And since my New Year’s resolution was to only listen to music released in 2023, Miley and Shakira are really making it easy for me so far.
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It was really special to visit the memorial sites of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So much suffering and pain, yet today these are two cities of hope, devoted to working for nuclear disarmament. They are an inspiration to all of us.
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It’s really hard to answer media requests on Kim/Trump summit and get two kids ready for school at the same time. I might have accidentally yelled “PUT YOUR SHOES ON NOW” to a journalist on the phone.
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When I met
@Pontifex
a month ago, I asked him if he would use Sunday 10th Dec to lead the Catholic Church in a prayer for nuclear disarmament and for
#nuclearban
.
You'll never guess what happened next!
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Nine nuclear-armed states walked in to a bar, because it was set too low.
🎤⬇️
At a minimum, all states should encourage nuclear-armed states not to make
#nuclear
threats -
@DarylGKimball
#firstcommittee
#nuclearban
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Of course Russia is responsible for blocking consensus at
#NPTRevCon
, but make no mistake, the outcome document was stripped of any meaningful commitments through a joint effort of nuclear armed states and their allies.
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This is such appalling behavior by the Biden administration and shows how the US openly undermine and sabotage the UN Security Council, the “rules based order” and international law.
WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN JOHN KIRBY STATEMENT:
On the UN Security Council Resolution:
"It's a non-binding resolution, so there's no impact at all on Israel and Israel's ability to continue to go after Hamas...as I said in my opening statement, it does not represent a change at all…
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Good morning to those of you who support the
#nuclearban
treaty and only those of you who support the
#nuclearban
treaty!
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Donald Trump threatens nuclear war, rejects diplomacy & multilateralism, and wants to build new types of nukes but somehow states that want to make a legally binding commitment to never use or possess nuclear weapons are the irresponsible ones?
#US
says it would be “irresponsible” to sign
#nuclearban
, calling it counterproductive. Urges all other states to not sign
#FirstCommittee
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Most people don’t know that there are more nuclear weapons in Italy than in North Korea.
Italy is the European country with the highest number of US
#NuclearWeapons
on its soil and the only one with 2 nuclear bases. We at
@fattoquotidiano
asked
@nukestrat
, an authority on
#NuclearWeapons
, to provide us data, analysis, comment (Italian):
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Part 2 of the investigation was released today, where aftonbladet shows how Volvo gets its mica for its electric cars from Russia. This article works perfectly fine to click on, no warning for this link from Twitter.
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We’re not talking enough about the lies that some leaders have made. In addition to this below, I can’t get over how Biden said he’d seen pictures of beheaded babies when there were no such pictures & no evidence of beheaded babies. He’s not a random dude, he’s the US president
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Maybe pause to remember that MLK opposed nuclear weapons.
Today, we pause to remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s enduring legacy of selfless service.
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Excited to wake up to the news that Palestine ratified the
#nuclearban
treaty last night as state number 6!
Each state that joins this treaty will take the world one step closer to the stigmatization and delegitimization of nuclear weapons.
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Probably not my most eloquent moment, but definitely the phone call of my life!
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE CALL FROM OSLO!
Listen to when Executive Director of ICAN Beatrice Fihn receives the news
#NobelPrize
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I’m still in this work, because I really don’t know what else to do. None of it is working but i don’t have any other suggestions of what to do either. I don’t even know what point I’m trying to make here, I just want to say that none of this is ok & everything is breaking
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Whenever there's some clever manoeuvring done to achieve something good at the United Nations, you can bet on Mexico being involved. 🇲🇽 👏👏
A first-ever U.N. treaty addressing crimes against humanity is now on the table.
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This exact moment 75 years ago, the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on the city of
#Hiroshima
.
We remember the victims of these inhumane weapons of mass destruction. They were people just like you and I.
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Campaigning for nuclear disarmament is hard. You spend hours, days, weeks, moths & years on what feels like endless organising, debating, writing, arguing, A hundred no’s before that one yes.
But this anniversary of
#Hiroshima
&
#Nagasaki
felt different. I felt a shift, did you?
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I don’t really get this article. I see LOADS of young people wanting to work on nuclear weapons. They’re just not interested in spending their life maintaining dangerous & outdated nuclear deterrence theory policies, they’re interested in prohibiting & eliminating nuclear weapons
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Det här är så galet. Ryska taktiska kärnvapen har en explosivitet mellan 10-100kt. Hiroshimabomben som dödade 140’000 personer var 15kt. Inte en enda gång i denna artikel nämner Adam de hundratusentals ukrainska civila offer som kärnvapenanvändning skulle leda till.
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Had a great time at
#NobelPrize
events this week. At a time when anti-intellectualism, conspiracy theories, populism & nationalism grows, it’s important to encourage & celebrate science, research, literature and peace. (And to wear gowns, we don’t do enough gowns in this field)
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Good news! Germany becomes the 2nd NATO state to confirm it will observe the first meeting of states parties to the
#TPNW
, & the first nuclear weapons hosting state to do so. Welcomed decision and a first step to show leadership on multilateral nuclear disarmament.
#nuclearban
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The Dutch court ruling from February obliging Netherlands to stop arms exports to Israel due to obligations under the Arms Trace Treaty (and EU law) means that such lawsuits are now being filed in more countries that are ATT states parties.
🚨 BREAKING, we’re suing the Danish National Police and Ministry of Foreign Affairs with
@OxfamDanmark
@amnestydk
&
@ActionAidDK
to STOP DANISH ARMS EXPORTS TO
#ISRAEL
#StopArmingIsrael
#GazaGenocide
#CeasefireNOW
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And don’t forget that black people, in particularly black women, showed up and voted out Trump. Without them, he would be re-elected. Black women have made the world safer this week.
Remember that in January when it’s time to set policies, make budgets, propose laws etc.
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Today is a good day to remember how racist the idea of a "responsible nuclear weapon state" is. Imagine the reactions to a 40% nuclear weapons increase by China or Pakistan?
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Women: just hold on for a sec, I'm solving the problems that men have caused.
Men:
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Let's kick off this Friday with some great news, the Dominican Republic signed the
#nuclearban
treaty yesterday. Each state that joins the
#TPNW
will help chip away at the legitimacy of nuclear weapons!
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Shocking news: producers of nuclear weapons don’t like ICAN,
#nuclearban
or public opinion against nuclear weapons very much. 😂
New report from
@WiltonPark
(with
@Livermore_Lab
and
@SandiaLabs
) on how US/NATO should deal with new strategic environment.
Report comes down hard on
@nuclearban
and Germany for anti-nuclear stand and wants academics/NGOs to counter them.
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Every 10 December for as long as I live I’ll be like “remember that time when we won the
@NobelPrize
and Oslo made an ICAN ferris wheel for us?”
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I very much enjoyed engaging with NATO today, and I'm pretty sure this was this first time someone brought up how nuclear weapons relate to gender, racism, and fascism in a settings like this.
The white old men in the room looked puzzled. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#NATOEngages
#NATOSummit
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Want to know how a bunch of 30-year olds banned nuclear weapons & won a Nobel Peace Prize?
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