This fact sheet looks at BAE Systems and its role in arms production globally and in Australia. It particularly looks at allegations of corruption in arms trading. It was prepared by Dale Hess and is No 10 in a series on the global weapons trade.

This fact sheet looks Boeing and its role in arms production  and in particular Boeing's role in missile defence. It was prepared by Dale Hess and is No 9 in a series on the global weapons trade.

This fact sheet looks at Lockheed Martin and its role in arms production globally and in Australia; including their role in producing cluster bombs. It was prepared by Dale Hess and is No 8 in a series on the global weapons trade.

ICANi submission to the 2008 Defence White Paper. This paper argues that Australia must work consistently for nuclear abolition through a nuclear weapons convention;  and adopt a nuclear weapon free defence posture.

Submission prepared by MAPW President Sue Wareham to the Defence White Paper, covering issues raised by Dr Wareham during the community consultation around the Defence Department's discussion paper, Key Questions for Defence in the 21st Century. MAPW recommendations include strengthening the United Nations and international law; adopting a truly defensive (rather than offensive) policy; recognising global poverty and climate change as major security threats; and withdrawing from participation in nuclear-war related activities.

18 September 2008: MAPW welcomes the recommendations by Australian government's Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, that Australia does not proceed with uranium sales to Russia until far more stringent measures are in place to separate Russia's civilian and military nuclear facilities.

The Artists for Peace Exhibition concludes, raising $36,677 for MAPW and cluster bomb survivors in Lebanon.

MAPW and the Australian Conservation Foundation say the current conflict in Georgia, with the renewed threat of the use of nuclear weapons, provides another reason why Australia should scrap plans to sell uranium to Russia. Dr Sue Wareham, President of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War (Australia) was invited to address the Australian Government's Joint Standing Committee enquiring into the proposed sale of Australian uranium to Russia, on Monday 25 August 2008. 

This educational booklet on nuclear weapons and solutions is being developed for use in schools, and contains a range of educational activities. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICANi) is seeking funding to further refine, print and distribute this publication.

For over sixty years now, the world has lived with the threat of nuclear destruction. Nuclear weapons are essentially instruments of terror. No other weapon matches their ability to devastate and destroy. This presentation examines exactly what nuclear weapons are, what the effects of these weapons are, who possesses these weapons and what could or should be done as a response to nuclear weapons.

MAPW's Victorian branch, supported by other peace organisations, has organised a vigil on Wednesday 6 August 2008 to commemorate the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, killing 85000 people immediately. This flier promotes the event.

"Nuclear weapons and other cheerful things; Easy ways for doctors to make a difference and why we should". This introduction to nuclear weapons issues covers major issues including war, nuclear testing and terrorism. (Slides addressing medical audiences could be left out to give an excellent general introduction). Prepared by MAPW President Dr Sue Wareham, OAM.

Address to the conference "Imagining the Real : Life on a Greenhouse Earth" held at ANU, Canberra in June 2008. Dr Wareham presented some reasons that nuclear power is not the solution to climate change; and emphasised a second inconvenient truth . . . 26,000 nuclear weapons, which must be abolished. Dr Sue Wareham OAM is President of MAPW. 

Flyer for meeting on Tuesday July 8 2008, organised by MAPW Victorian Branch, to hear from Assoc Prof Tilman Ruff and Yarra Councillor Jenny Farrar about the NPTi PrepCom in Geneva, May 2008. Also honouring - and with special guest - Senator Lyn Allison.

MAPW has congratulated Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for his announcement that Australia will set up a new international body to push for nuclear disarmament. President Dr Sue Wareham OAM, also an Australian Board Member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, said that Mr Rudd should also be applauded for visiting Hiroshima – the first Australian Prime Minister to do so. Dr Wareham and others are available for comment.
 

Tim Wright attended the nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee Meeting in Geneva in May 2008 on behalf of ICANi. MAPW Immediate Past President Tilman Ruff, with Yarra Councillor Jenny Farrar, were NGOi representatives on the official Australian delegation. This ICAN report describes both the official meeting, including Australia's role; and the unofficial campaign meetings and workshops of anti-nuclear NGOs which accompanied it. 

An introduction to issues addressed by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. (NB - last updated 2006 - see www.ican.org for more up-to-date resources).

Lax nuclear safeguards pose a key threat for Australia and the world. This article published in the Adelaide Advertiser, 22 April 2008, was written by MAPW Vice-President Dr Bill Williams, with Professor Jim Falk. 

MAPW's submission to the Australian Government’s 2020 summit, in April 2009, was prepared by MAPW President Dr Sue Wareham. It discusses three areas of concern: nuclear weapons; war as a response to terrorism; and our future security.

How well can the IAEA safeguard existing civilian nuclear energy facilities against the threat of nuclear proliferation? How sound are the agency's inspection efforts to prevent the possible diversions of fresh and spent fuel rods from reactors and of nuclear materials directly useable to make bombs from nuclear fuel making plants? A new NPECi report identifies the IAEA safeguards system's key structural and operational deficiencies and pinpoints where additional funding would strengthen IAEA safeguards and where it would not; and gives detailed recommendations to make the IAEA safeguards system more credible and effective. The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center's Executive Director Henry Sokolski summarises the report in this presentation. (Full report available on the NPEC website).

Sergei Kolesnikov outlines nuclear security issues in Europe and the need to "gain better vision of, and more ideas on how to tackle the most sensitive points which can be understandable both for the public and decision-makers", to keep IPPNWi at least as visible as it is now, but still able to increase its effectiveness, globally. Paper from IPPNW XIIIth World Congress 1998.

At the IPPNWi XIIIth World Congress, 1998, Dr Frank Barnaby outlined global nuclear arsenals - that the only way to remove the risk of nuclear war is to abolish nuclear weapons. The paper is titled "The grim reality: the current nuclear situation."

Dr Jim Green discusses the links between research reactors and nuclear weapons proliferation, including plutonium production, diversion of highly enriched uranium, weapons related research, production of isotopes for use in nuclear weapons and finally the political elements of weapons proliferation. Dr Green was then a member of Sutherland Shire Council's Nuclear Reactor Taskforce.

Jean McSorley, independent anti-nuclear campaigner since 1980, discusses the 2000 NPTi Review Conference and “peaceful uses of nuclear technology”. Paper from MAPW Conference 2000.

Dr John Loy, Chief Executive Officer of ARPANSAi, addresses the 2000 MAPW Conference, regarding radiation protection and standards, and the role of the regulatory agency.

An analysis of Australia's role in nuclear disarmament in recent years and options for the future, by Richard Leaver, Senior Lecturer, School of Political and International Studies, Flinders University, and academic specialising in international affairs. Paper from MAPW Conference 2000.

An appeal from Hiroshima by Kenjiro Yokoro, MD, of the Japanese Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Speech presented in Australia by Dr Tilman Ruff on behalf of JPPNW on August 1, 2002.

Former Australian Ambassador and author of Fact or Fission - the Truth About Australia's Nuclear Ambitions, Professor Richard Broinowski gives an overview of the links between nuclear technologies and proliferations risks, and the challenges these pose. Paper presented at the 2000 MAPW National Conference.

The 2000 MAPW National Conference address by Laurie Brereton, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Federal Member for Kingsford-Smith, Australian Labor Party, New South Wales. This paper reflects the then policy of the Federal ALP on issues of nuclear disarmament.

Dr Frank Barnaby outlines the categories of radioactive wastes, the need for a policy on disposal and management of plutonium and its inherent nuclear weapons proliferation aspects. Paper presented at the 2000 MAPW National Conference.

The USA officially withdrew from the Anti Ballistic Missile (ABMi) Treaty on 13 June 2002.

This talking paper from IPPNWi states that this simply creates an unnecessary risk and won't get the US any closer to a working National Missile Defence System.

The ABM Treaty does not keep the United States from continuing to research and test a missile defence system. In fact, the biggest impediments to a national missile defence system are unproven technologies and cost, not the ABM Treaty.

This report prepared by Friends of the Earth (FoEi)  and supported by MAPW and other groups critiques the argument that nuclear power is a solution to climate change, and documents its hazards for security, the environment and human health. (Summary: full report available at FoE website).

This 24-page booklet updated by Dimity Hawkins for MAPW sets out the important role of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPTi) and how it can be successfully implemented. It contains the text of the treaty and other relevant documents. (Printer quality version - larger file size).

This 24-page booklet updated by Dimity Hawkins for MAPW sets out the important role of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPTi) and how it can be successfully implemented. It contains the text of the treaty and other relevant documents. (The version linked below is to be read online only - to download a print quality version please click here).

This is a 4-page overview of Securing our survival: the case for a nuclear weapons convention (2007), which  sets out and explains an updated Model Convention aiming eliminate nuclear weapons.

Yellowcake Country? is a report on Australia's uranium industry prepared by the Beyond Nuclear Initiative in 2006. It raises environmental and health risks, and the threat of nuclear war.

This MAPW poster was made using the Michael Leunig cartoon. We are grateful for the artist's generous permission.

The near-universal use of weapons-grade, highly enriched uranium (HEUi) to produce radiopharmaceuticals used in medicine, is a significant hazard. This peer-reviewed paper argues that health professionals should stop the use of HEU in medicine, as a vulnerable pathway to creating a 'terrorist bomb'. Produced by MAPW doctors Bill Williams and Tilman Ruff, it was published in 2008.

Dr Ronald McCoy summarises Twentieth Century conflict, including the need for nuclear disarmament, the role of the UNi and International Law, and the causes for hope for our future, concluding with our need to "be committed to a culture of non-violence and the sanctity of life". Paper presented at the 1998 IPPNWi Congress.