The INES campaign "Scientists for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World" was launched successfully on August 6th, 2009 (Hiroshima Day).
49 first signatories, 31 of them Nobel Laureates, supported the campaign and gave it a remarkable start. For at least 25 years, there has been no comparable campaign supported by so many prominent members of the scientific community and beyond.
INES Program Director Reiner Braun presented the appeal at the World conference against atomic and hydrogen bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The appeal was published by various newspapers including the well known Ahi Shim Bun (Japan's Leading Newspaper) and Aka Hata. Several radio stations reported about the appeal. A press review is available as a pdf document from the INES office.
The INES campaign "Scientists for a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World" is, at its core, a petition representing scientists and engineers from across the globe. Our goal is to increase scientific as well as public awareness on nuclear weapons issues, and to add weight to calls for a Nuclear Weapons Convention conferring the obligation on all states to achieve complete nuclear disarmament by 2020. A nuclear weapons-free world is possible, realistic, necessary and urgent - but it will not be attained without the efforts of a large number of committed scientists and engineers.
Our appeal constitutes a part of the global peace actions preparing the NPT Review Conference (New York 2010), an event of critical importance to the non-proliferation movement.
Our goal is to increase scientific as well as public awareness on nuclear weapons issues, and to add weight to calls for a Nuclear Weapons Convention conferring the obligation on all states to achieve complete nuclear disarmament by 2020. A nuclear weapons-free world is possible, realistic, necessary and urgent - but it will not be attained without the efforts of a large number of committed scientists and engineers.
We would be appreciative if you could help us reach wider parts of the scientific community.
What you can do:
- Sign the appeal individually or as an organisation
- Publish the appeal on your website or in your newsletter and forward it to the members of your organization;
- Collect as many signatures as possible within your network;
- Promote the appeal through your organization; and
- Issue your own statement in support of our common cause.
- Please consider to become a member of INES
The campaign will last until May 2010 where signatures will be presented to the Secretary General of the UN or the General Assembly or the Secretary General of the Conference on the nuclear Non-Proliferation-Treaty (NPT).
The NPT conference will take place from 3.-28. May 2010 in New York City/USA.
INES collaborates with IPPNW, IALANA, IPB, NAPF and the AFSC in various events and also participates in the International Conference for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Peace and Disarmament on 1. May 2010 organised by an international NGO coalition.
For 2. May a huge demonstration is planned.