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Hiroshima-ICAN Academy 2025 Online Learning Materials

Webinar 1: Humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons

Required videos

  1. Mary Dickson, “Downwinders Interview with Mary Dickson,” the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library, January 2017 (9 min)

Required readings

  1. ICAN, “The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Children,” 2024
  2. 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

  1. Sue Coleman-Haseldine’s speech at the UN conference to negotiate a treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons, 2017 (4 min)
  2. ICAN and Peace Boat, Archives of the World Nuclear Survivors Forum 2021

Suggested readings

  1. Setsuko Thurlow, “Setsuko Thurlow remembers the Hiroshima bombing,” Arms Control Today, July/August 2020
  2. ICAN, “Black Mist - The impact of nuclear weapons on Australia,” 2014
  3. The University of Utah, “Downwinders of Utah Archive”

 

Webinar 2: The social, economic, and environmental impacts of nuclear weapons

Required videos

  1. Isao Hashimoto, “1945-1998,” CTBTO Preparatory Commission, 6 July 2012 (14 min)

Required readings

  1. Robert Jacobs, “Nuclear Conquistadors: Military Colonialism in Nuclear Test Site Selection during the Cold War,” Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, November 2013
  2. Kate Brown, “The Last Sink: The Human Body as the Ultimate Radioactive Storage Site,” Perspectives Issue 2016/1
  3. W.J. Hennigan, “The Toll,” New York Times, 2024

Suggested readings

  1. ICAN,“Hidden Costs: Nuclear Weapons Spending in 2024,”
  2. Vincent Intondi,  “Reflections on Injustice, Racism, and the Bomb,” Arms Control Today, Vol. 50: No. 6 (July/August, 2020): 12-15.
  3. Matt Bivens, “Nuclear Famine,” IPPNW, August 2022
  4. Ray Acheson, “A feminist critique of the atomic bomb,” Heinrich Böll Stiftung, 2018
  5. Proposals compiled by Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe) and presented by the Governors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the G7 Hiroshima Summit, “Realizing a Sustainable Future Without Nuclear Weapons,” December 2022

 

Webinar 3: Nuclear deterrence in today’s world

Required video

  1. Center for Strategic & International Studies, “Deterrence 101 Module 1 - Foundations of Deterrence” (2021)

　Please consider the following questions as you watch the video:

Required readings

  1. Benoît Pelopidas, Kjølv Egeland, “The false promise of nuclear risk reduction,” International Affairs, January 2024
  2. The Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe), “Hiroshima Report 2025 (Executive Summary)

Suggested readings

  1. Patricia Lewis, Heather Williams, Benoît Pelopidas and Sasan Aghlani, Too Close for Comfort: Cases of Near Nuclear Use and Options for Policy, Chatham House, April 2014
  2. ICAN, “Emerging technologies and nuclear risks,” 2020
  3. Michal Onderco & Madeline Zutt, “Emerging technology and nuclear security: What does the wisdom of the crowd tell us?” Contemporary Security Policy, May 2021
  4. Yasmin Afina, “The Global Kaleidoscope of Military AI Governance,” September 2024
  5. The Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe), “Hiroshima Report 2025 - Booklet   ”The Global Threat of Nuclear Weapons"

 

Webinar 4: Building peace in times of change

Required readings

  1. Olamide Samuel, “Once seen as a symbolic protest, the nuclear ban treaty is growing teeth” (April 2025)
  2. Olamide Samuel, “Nuclear Risk: The Trillion-Dollar Blind Spot in Global Finance” (April 2025)

Suggested video

  1. This House Believes Nuclear Weapons Have Made the World Safer: Cambridge Union Debate  https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYpyB-7KwFc6ZY7-uJVrYcUDn_rudNkBm&si=rmunOYe4FoeAd9J6

Suggested readings

  1. Report of the coordinator of the consultative process on security concerns of States under the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons to the Third Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW: https://docs.un.org/en/TPNW/MSP/2025/7
  2. Ken Berry, Patricia Lewis, Benoît Pélopidas, Nikolai Sokov and Ward Wilson, Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons: Examining the validity of nuclear deterrence, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), 2010
  3. 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

  1. UN Secretary-General, Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 9, “A New Agenda for Peace,” July 2023
  2. Reaching Critical Will / Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), “2025 NPT Briefing Book” (April 2025)
  3. Declaration “Our commitment to a world free of nuclear weapons” (Annex I) and the Vienna Action Plan (Annex II), Report of the First Meeting of States Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, TPNW/MSP/2022/6, 21 July 2022
  4. ICAN, Annual Report 2023
  5. ICAN, “How the TPNW Works,” 2021
  6. UN, “Summit of the Future Outcome Documents: Pact for the Future,” September 2024

Required video

  1. ICAN, “If You Love this Planet,” 2017

Suggested readings

  1. UN Office for Disarmament Affairs, “Securing Our Common Future - An Agenda for Disarmament,” UN Disarmament Agenda, 2018 (See also the section of ‘Disarmament and the Sustainable Development Goals’ on the website)
  2. Draft final document of the 10th NPT Review Conference, August 2022
  3. Chair’s Summary the Second Preparatory Committee for the 2026 NPT Review Conference, August 2024
  4. Declaration “Our commitment to upholding the prohibition of nuclear weapons and averting their catastrophic consequences” (Annex I) and the Decisions (Annex II), Report of the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, December 2023
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