News from medact

Posted: 13th October 2024

Globally, we’re witnessing even further major escalations in the threat of nuclear weapons use.

In the last month alone, we’ve seen Russia change the conditions in which it would use nuclear weapons to now include conventional strikes by non-nuclear states that have the backing of nuclear powers. We’re also seeing the terrifying possibility of all-out war between two nuclear powers as Israel’s devastating military assault on Lebanon has been met with retaliatory missile attacks on Israeli military bases by Iran.

In more warming news, just today, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.

Medact’s Nuclear Weapons Group, in the face of worsening loss of life and threat of annihilation, is continuing to come together and take action as part of a strong, international movement for complete nuclear disarmament.

Join one of our upcoming meetings:

• Register to join the Nuclear Weapons Group at our next monthly meetings on Thursday 17th October and Thursday 14th November, 6pm.
• Join the very first Don’t Bank on The Bomb Network Meeting on Tuesday 26th November, 6.30pm.

Upcoming events:

• If you’re in London tomorrow – join Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament for a fantastic conference: The World We Want: A New Agenda for Peace and Justice, this Saturday 12th October. Join a wide range of expert and activist speakers discussing the dangers our world faces today, and what we can do about it.
• Next week Tuesday 15 October, 1–2pm, join CND and Nuclear Information Service (NIS) for a joint online briefing on the Mutual Defence Agreement – the secretive treaty that underpins the US–UK nuclear weapons relationship.
• And on Thursday 14th November, friends at Musicians for Peace and Disarmament have organised a Concert for Peace in London, with all proceeds donated to organisations in the peace movement!

Upcoming actions:

On Saturday 2nd November, take action with CND and activists across the UK at RAF Lakenheath, with the Lakenheath Alliance for Peace. Join the national demonstration in opposition to the return of US nuclear weapons to Britain. 

In solidarity,

Sarah Lasoye (she/her)
Transforming Peace & Security Campaigns and Programme Lead