Nuclear Disarmament Highlights

Visit the CIPS Blog at the link below for this commentary by Ernie Regehr, O.C., The Simons Foundation Canada's Senior Fellow in Arctic Security and Defence.

Visit the Globe and Mail at the link below for this important commentary by our colleague John C. Polanyi, University of Toronto Professor Emeritus, Founder and former Chair of Canadian Pugwash Group, world-renowned scientist and Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry.

Please visit The Guardian at the link below for this article featuring Professor the Hon. Gareth Evans who is one of The Simons Foundation Canada's Peace Shapers.

Given the relevance of the motion picture "Oppenheimer", The Simons Foundation Canada wishes to share this important poem written in 1995 by our colleague David Krieger, Ph.D., Founder and President Emeritus of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

Visit DownToEarth for this article by M.V. Ramana, Ph.D., the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security and Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, The University of British Columbia.

Please visit Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs for this tribute to Amb. (ret) Jayantha Dhanapala, a distinguished diplomat and advocate for nuclear disarmament who received The Simons Foundation Award for Distinguished Global Leadership in the Service of Peace and Disarmament for his contributions to nuclear disarmament, particularly as Chair of the 1995 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Conference and also served as the 2008 Simons Visiting Chair in International Law and Human Security at the School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University.

Visit The Hill Times at the link below for this commentary by The Hon. Douglas Roche, a Peace Leader at The Simons Foundation Canada.

The Simons Foundation Canada is pleased to share this announcement from the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA). The competition is open to all youth between the ages of 16 and 29.

Please visit Canada's National Observer and The Hill Times for recent commentary by Professor M.V. Ramana, Ph.D., the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security and Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, The University of British Columbia, and Susan O'Donnell.

Please see the link below to visit Bulletin for the Atomic Scientists for this article by Amb. Alexander Kmentt, Director of the Disarmament, Arms Control and Nonproliferation Department at the Austrian Foreign Ministry and President of the First Meeting of States Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in June 2022. As a recipient of The Simons Foundation Award for Distinguished Global Leadership in the Service of Peace and Disarmament, he is also one of The Simons Foundation Canada's Peace Shapers.