Research Results and
Recommendations for Download
Webinar 1: Humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons
Required videos
Mary Dickson, “Downwinders Interview with Mary Dickson,” the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library, January 2017 (9 min)
Required readings
ICAN, “The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Children,” 2024
Mary Olson, “Human consequences of radiation: A gender factor in atomic harm,” Civil Society Engagement in Disarmament Processes - The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Ban, Civil Society and Disarmament 2016, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, 2016
Suggested videos
ICAN and Peace Boat, Archives of the World Nuclear Survivors Forum 2021, 2021
Suggested readings
ICAN, Children’s Peace Memorial, 2025
Setsuko Thurlow, “Setsuko Thurlow remembers the Hiroshima bombing,” Arms Control Today, July/August 2020
ICAN, “Black Mist - The impact of nuclear weapons on Australia,” 2014
Webinar 2: The social, economic, and environmental impacts of nuclear weapons
Required videos
Isao Hashimoto, “1945-1998,” CTBTO Preparatory Commission, 6 July 2012 (14 min)
Required readings
Robert Jacobs, “Nuclear Conquistadors: Military Colonialism in Nuclear Test Site Selection during the Cold War,” Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, November 2013
Kate Brown, “The Last Sink: The Human Body as the Ultimate Radioactive Storage Site,” Perspectives Issue 2016/1
W.J. Hennigan, “The Toll,” New York Times, 2024
Suggested readings
ICAN, “Hidden Costs: Nuclear Weapons Spending in 2024,” June 2025
Vincent Intondi, “Reflections on Injustice, Racism, and the Bomb,” Arms Control Today, Vol. 50: No. 6 (July/August, 2020): 12-15.
Ray Acheson, “A feminist critique of the atomic bomb,” Heinrich Böll Stiftung, 2018
Webinar 3: Nuclear deterrence in today’s world
Required video
Center for Strategic & International Studies, “Deterrence 101 Module 1 - Foundations of Deterrence” (2021)
Please consider the following questions as you watch the video:
- What (if anything) is new to you in this video?
- Is there anything you agree/disagree with in this video?
- Is there anything (ideas, voices, perspectives) that you think are missing from this video?
- What is your overall reaction to this video as a way of introducing deterrence?
Required readings
Andrey Baklitskiy and Sarah Ruth Opatowski, “Nuclear Risks: Perceptions and Pathways,” UNIDIR, 2024
Benoît Pelopidas, Kjølv Egeland, “The false promise of nuclear risk reduction,” International Affairs, January 2024
The Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe), “Hiroshima Report 2026 Executive Summary”
Suggested readings
ICAN, “Emerging technologies and nuclear risks,” 2020
Yasmin Afina, “The Global Kaleidoscope of Military AI Governance,” September 2024
Webinar 4: Bridging divides to advance nuclear disarmament
Required readings
ICAN, “The Cornerstone Report,” April 2026
Health Policy Watch, “WHO Mandated to Update of 30-Year-Old Review on Health Impacts of Nuclear War – After Heated WHA Debate,” 2025
Suggested video
This House Believes Nuclear Weapons Have Made the World Safer: Cambridge Union Debate (2024)
Suggested readings
Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) Northeast Asia, “Advancing Nuclear Disarmament in Northeast Asia— Regional Perspectives on the 2026 NPT Review Conference” (2026)
Alexander Kmentt, “Time to engage seriously with the TPNW’s security concerns,” European Leadership Network, 4 June 2024.
Webinar 5: The roles of the UN and civil society for nuclear disarmament
Required readings
ICAN, “Investing in the Arms Race,” April 2026
ICAN, Annual Report 2025
UN, “Summit of the Future Outcome Documents: Pact for the Future,” September 2024
UN Secretary-General, Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 9, “A New Agenda for Peace,” July 2023
ICAN, “How the TPNW Works,” 2021
Required video
ICAN, “If You Love this Planet,” 2017
