Ira Helfand, MD is a member of the International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapon, ICAN, the recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, and  Immediate Past President of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the founding partner of ICAN.

I asked Dr. Helfand, “How real is the danger of nuclear war?” 

His response: “The threat is real!”  We must remember the medical and environmental consequences of a nuclear war. Listen as he describes the aftermath of nuclear war and how civil society is our hope.

In  May of 2016 he chaired the session on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear war at the United Nations Open Ended Working Group meeting in Geneva that led to the successful negotiation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in the summer of 2017, and on September 20 of 2017 he represented IPPNW at the signing ceremony for the Treaty.

He has published studies on the medical consequences of nuclear war in the New England Journal of Medicine, the British Medical Journal, the Lancet and the World Medical Journal, and has lectured widely around the world on the health effects of nuclear weapons. 

Learn more at the September 30, 2021, 11:00am EDT seminar Eliminating the Existential Threat of Nuclear Weapons To Register:               IPPNW.ORG/ELIMINATING-THE-THREAT