Organizer’s Report to the 70th Anniversary 2024 Bikini Day Rally

Hiroshi Taka

by Hiroshi TAKA, Co-chair of the Steering Committee, Organizing Committee of the World Conference against A and H Bombs First, it was reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened all-out nuclear war in his annual state-of-the-nation address delivered yesterday, saying that Russia’s “strategic nuclear forces are in a state of full readiness for guaranteed use.” … Read more

Urgency of Disarmament Public Forum, Nov. 29, 2023

Nov. 29 Forum Audience

On the evening of Nov. 29, during the 2nd Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW CPDCS and partner organizations held a very successful (great speakers and packed hall) international forum on the Urgency of Disarmament. We have several speech texts in hand, which you will find here, while others are being transcribed. Co-sponsors included the … Read more

Tectonic Geopolitical Changes & Their Nuclear Implications: November 28, 2023, TPNW Round Table

Tectonic Geopolitical Changes & Their Nuclear Implications

On November 28, during the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, CPDCS, the International Peace Bureau, and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, held a round table session on the world’s tectonic geopolitical changes and their implications for nuclear weapons and nuclear disarmament. We were 25 leading analysts and leaders of … Read more

Former Canadian Disarmament Ambassador Douglas Roche’s Sean MacBride Peace Prize Ceremony Speech – October 16, 2022

Douglas Roche Speech McBride Prize 2022

Former Canadian Disarmament Ambassador Douglas Roche’s speech at the MacBride Peace Prize ceremony for Hiroshi Taka, spoke of the urgency of confronting the specter of nuclear war arising from the Ukraine War, where disarmament initiatives of the past 50 years went wrong, the urgent need to reinforce the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and build on the … Read more

Hiroshi Taka’s IPB MacBride Prize Acceptance Speech – October 16, 2022

Hiroshi Taka speech

Hiroshi Taka, long the General Secretary of Gensuikyo, the Japan Council against A- & H-Bombs was awarded the International Peace Bureau’s Sean MacBride Peace Prize. True to his modest character and profound commitments to nuclear weapons abolition, Taka’s speech reviewed 40 years of some of the world’s most important nuclear disarmament initiatives and the importance … Read more

In the Spirit of Chinngis Khan: Mongolian Independence, and Its Nuclear Weapons
Free Zone

CPDCS’s Joseph Gerson was invited to speak at Blue Banner’s international conference in Mongolia. His article describes the role of Mongolia’s nuclear weapons free-zone to its centuries-long efforts to remain independent of both China and Russia. It also reflects discussions with Vladimir Ivanov, a Russian scholar based in Moscow. We don’t often think in terms … Read more