Dr. Tilman Ruff: Safeguarding Health and Banning Nuclear Weapons
Channel: Ed Mays
Date: 10/12/2018

Unknown to many people in the US, in June 2017, the United Nations made history with the passage of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, an effort led by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). ICAN's efforts won them the Nobel Peace Prize. Finally, over 70 years after the tragic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons are declared illegal under international law. 

WPSR is hosted Dr. Tilman Ruff to discuss this remarkable achievement, and the importance of the humanitarian and health perspective on nuclear weapons issues. Dr. Ruff is a co-founder of ICAN, and co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. His talk comes at a crucial moment, when our own unpredictable government reminds us of the urgency to prevent nuclear catastrophe. 

Dr. Ruff spent a considerable amount of time illuminating the latest science on the effects that even a small nuclear exchange such as between India & Pakistan would have on the climate which would be massively worse than previously thought.

Dr. Ruff is Co-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW, Nobel Peace Prize recipient in 1985) and co-founder of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN, Nobel Peace Prize recipient in 2017). He is also Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne’s Nossal Institute for Global Health.

Thanks to the Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility
Recorded 11/8/18

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