IPPNW's 19th World Congress demands fulfillment of pledge for a nuclear-weapons-free world

摘要

'Nuclear abolition: for a future' was a thoughtful choice for the title of the 19th World Congress of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, held in Basel, Switzerland from 25-30 August 2010. While the Congress programme reflected IPPNW's broad range of activities to confront the causes and humanitarian consequences of armed violence, the 'red thread' running throughout the sessions was the unprecedented - if, perhaps, fleeting - opportunity to rid the world of the only weapons capable of erasing our future. The Congress theme, therefore, was both an aspiration and a warning that perfectly summed up this moment in time.