📣 Campaign Updates from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Hey friend, did you know today is the International Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation? Right now, the world feels more dangerous with several nuclear-armed states, US, Israel, Russia fighting wars; and another, France, has announced a new nuclear doctrine. But we do have a solution: the Nuclear Ban Treaty. Most of the world already supports it, the global majority is on board. Now we need the rest to follow. Will you join us make it happen?

On 5 February 2026, the New START treaty between the United States and Russia expires. For the first time since the early 1970s, there will be no arms control agreement at all limiting the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals. ICANs Melissa Parke explain what the end of New START means, why it is so dangerous, and how the TPNW offers an alternative security path for everyone. Will you take a moment and help share it?

Hey, I know the world 🌍 feels heavy right now. But here’s something worth celebrating: 5 years ago, the UN Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons became law🎉 and gave us a pathway to end these weapons once and for all. It’s already changing the world in real ways. If this gives you hope, share it with a friend🤍

The latest Don’t Bank on the Bomb report reveals a staggering surge in global financing for the nuclear weapons industry: 301 institutions poured money into the industry last year. A troubling sign of growing investment and rising risks of a nuclear arms race. Find out more and what you can do -->

$100 BILLION is what the 9 nuclear armed countries spent last year on their nuclear arsenals. $190,151 a minute. Citizens in these countries pay the cost, but the entire world will pay the price if nuclear weapons are ever used again. #NuclearBan

The US spent $56.8 billion on nuclear weapons in 2024, more than all other nuclear-armed countries combined. That's not security. That's a dangerous waste of taxpayer money. #NuclearBan

💣💸 The $100 billion spent on nukes in 2024 would be enough to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for 205 years, protected our planet from climate collapse and provided vital social infrastructures. Instead, we got more weapons of mass destruction. #NuclearBan #NuclearSpending #Divestment

The United States alone spent more than all other nuclear-armed states combined: $56.8 billion. The nuclear weapons industry earned at least $42.5 billion and spent $128 million on lobbying to protect their profits. What could that money have done instead? It could have provided millions of meals, homes, and life-saving healthcare. It could have funded solutions to the climate crisis. #NuclearBan #Divestment #GlobalSecurity #EthicalInvesting

ICAN’s latest report on global nuclear weapons spending is out: Nuclear-armed states spent $100 billion on their arsenals in 2024, that’s $190,151 a minute, an 11% rise. ICAN is also able to reveal some ofthe hidden costs of hosting US and Russian nuclear weapons in other countries. Citizens in these countries are paying the price, but these costs are kept out of public view and away from democratic scrutiny. #NuclearBan

These women are (or were) Heads of State or Government when their countries signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) — helping bring the world closer to a nuclear-free future. Today we celebrate them, and women everywhere. Let’s keep pushing to end nuclear weapons once and for all. Share if you’re with us.

Today, 66 years ago, France carried out Blue Gerboise, the first of many nuclear tests in Algeria. Decades later, radioactive waste still threatens communities and the enviroment because as a matter of fact France has had a policy of burying all waste in the sands or disposing of it in the ocean. Nuclear disarmament must include nuclear justice and that’s why the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons matters.