Civil society and disarmament 2016
Subtitle: civil society engagement in disarmament processes, the case for a nuclear weapons ban
By: UNODA, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
Publisher: United Nations; United Nations Publications
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9789211423174
Subjects: Nuclear weapons; Congresses; Nuclear nonproliferation; Nuclear disarmament; Armes nucléaires; Congrès; Aspect de l'environnement; Non-prolifération nucléaire; Désarmement nucléaire; Environmental aspects
Other titles: Civil society engagement in disarmament processes, the case for a nuclear weapons ban
Description: "This publication on civil society engagement in disarmament processes draws on recent research and reflections from literary non-fiction, academia, risk assessment, activism and advocacy to present the case for a nuclear weapons ban as a vital first step in nuclear weapons' ultimate abolition"--Title page verso.
Notes: "Sales no. E.17.IX.2"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Hibakusha's hope to ban the bomb / Kathleen Sullivan; title: Witness to nuclear war: Hibakusha in Nagasaki / Susan Southard; title: Nuclear risks: humanitarian consequences, probabilities, and mitigation / Patricia Lewis and Beyza Unal; title: Climate disruption and global famine: nuclear weapons impact on the environment / Ira Helfand; title: Human consequences of radiation: a gender factor in atomic harm / Mary Olson; title: Banning the bomb: from 1950s activism to the General Assembly via Greenham Common / Rebecca Johnson; title: Delegitimising nuclear violence / Nick Ritchie; title: Revolt and resistance / Ray Acheson