Quotes from Endorsers
Women Capacity and Advocacy Initiative
Nigeria
The abolition of nuclear weapons is a moral, humanitarian, and security imperative. These weapons pose an existential threat to humanity, with the capacity to cause catastrophic destruction, long-lasting environmental damage, and intergenerational harm. Resources spent on nuclear arsenals could instead be redirected toward sustainable development, healthcare, education, and addressing climate change. Supporting global disarmament initiatives strengthens international peace, fosters trust among nations, and ensures a safer future for generations to come. A world free of nuclear weapons is not only possible but urgently necessary.
Mary-Ellen Francoeur
Peace and Justice Activist, Pax Christi Toronto and Hiroshima Nagasaki Day Coalition
“Nuclear weapons possession and use is immoral and illegal.”
Khaled Ayesh Sagheer
Executive Manager of the National Forum for Human Rights
​“We strongly support the Joint Appeal for Nuclear Abolition Day 2025, recognizing the urgent need for global disarmament and renewed multilateral commitment to a nuclear-free world.”
Ela Gandhi
Chairperson of Gandhi Development Trust, CoPresident, Religions for Peace. Granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi
​“Nuclear weapons are a hazard for all of humanity and therefore should be dismantled and abolished altogether from the face of our earth our planet our home.”
Vina Colley
President, Portsmouth/ Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security initiation
“Give us universal healthcare. Stop Nuclear production in our communities, we our killing our own people.”
Sean Conner
Executive Director, International Peace Bureau (IPB)
“There is no responsible use or possession of nuclear weapons. The nature of these weapons is to cause indiscriminate harm and the sourcing of the materials based in colonialism and extractivism. Their mere existence creates unbridgeable geopolitical inequalities and imbalances and threatens every person on this planet with the existential risk of annihilation - whether through nuclear war or mere accidents. The lie of nuclear deterrence that underpins the continued presence of nuclear weapons exacerbates divides between nations and peoples and increases the likelihood of a false calculation. For all these reasons and much more, it is well past time that nuclear weapons become a thing of the past!”
Mairead Corrigan Maguire
Ireland, Nobel Peace Laureate 1976
"Let us all build friendship and peace among nations, abolish genocidal nuclear weapons and give hope to Humanity"
Prasanth Natarajan
SDG Policy Advisor, Edenz India
​“Disarmament isn’t a policy—it’s architecture of courage”
Agneta Norberg
Advisory Group Global Network, Women for Peace, Global Network Against Weapons in Space
“Nuclear Weapons are not weapons they are tools for extinction”
Glenn Carroll
Coordinator, Nuclear Watch South
“We call upon the United States to cease its $2 trillion nuclear weapons modernization program and lead the world in abolishing nuclear weapons. "Stop the arms race. Invest in the human race."
Suhaila Aboujarad
Executive Director of the Women’s Initiatives Human Rights Foundation
“We believe that nuclear disarmament is not only a political issue, but also a humanitarian and human rights concern that affects the present and future of humanity. We are proud to participate in this global initiative”
Mohammad Minhaj Khokhar
Chairperson, Silicon Valley Institute of Climate Change
“Some technologies are beyond human control. Nuclear fission technologies are one of them. The damage outweighs the benefit. Fukushima damage resulted into $630B loss for Japan. No developing countries can afford such a loss. All benefits of electricity generation pales in comparison to the loss.”
Kevin Martin
President, Peace Action
“Nuclear weapons cannot be trusted in fallible human hands. We must rid the world of this threat.”
Francis Hutchinson
Professor/Dr, Human Survival Project & International Network of Museums for Peace(INMP)
“We are living in a dangerous period in human history in which achieving global nuclear disarmament should be a very high priority. If either by accident or deliberate intent nuclear weapons are used in the future, this would have devastating humanitarian and climatic consequences.
Rather than sensible, long-term foresight, there is too often policy shortsightedness, moral myopia and a lack of respect for responsibilities under international law. This is the case when nuclear weapon states chose to ‘modernise’ their nuclear arsenals in the name of deterrence. With nuclear weapon ‘modernisation’ projects, funds are diverted from important social and environmental peace-building projects locally and globally.
We owe it to future generations to take urgent steps now to help lessen the enormous risks, and to work toward a world without nuclear weapons.”
Reverend David Penney
East Lancashire CND
“Nations which are serious about Nuclear Disarmament should sign and ratify the TPNW”
Dumiso Gatsha
Director, Success Capital Africa
"Peace can only be achieved if people and planet are prioritised. Abolishing Nuclear Weapons is a first step towards assuring our shared humanity"
George Hashaka
Founder Executive Chairman, Uganda Peace Foundation
“The Best Gift to the World is the Nuclear Armed States to Give Up Nuclear Weapons”
John Hallam
Nuclear Disarmament Campaigner, People for Nuclear Disarmament
“September 26th is the day when in 1983, Colonel Stanislav Petrov's commonsense averted global thermonuclear war. The likelihood of that taking place is even greater now than it was then. Sept 26th, now the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons should recieve the existential priority it deserves and be the instrument for nuclear risk reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons that it is intended to be.”
Natia Ninoshvili
Program Officer, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament (PNND)
“Through simple and symbolic actions, we can amplify a collective message: civic engagement and youth participation are essential to achieve a nuclear weapons-free world. Our social media initiative invites people from around the world to take part and send a clear message to take steps forward for nuclear disarmament.”
Ms Izumi Nakamitsu
Head of United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)
"Nuclear weapons have returned to the centre of national security strategies and are being brandished as tools of coercion. Peace and security cannot be achieved through an arms race, but must be built on dialogue, diplomacy, confidence building, transparency, and arms control and reduction."
General Bernard Norlain
Former Air Defense Commander and Air Combat Commander of the French Air Force
Global nuclear testing has enabled the manufacture of weapons systems involving the planned death of hundreds of millions of human beings. It has also directly caused the deaths of nearly 2.5 million people living near test sites and led to radioactive fallout on a global scale…. We must strongly denounce the nuclear arms race in which nuclear-armed countries and their allies are engaged.”
Nnimmo Bassey
Director, Heath of Mother Earth Foundation
“With rampant violence and trigger happy leaders in the world today, nuclear armament is a huge risk and a total disregard for the people and the planet.”
Aaron Tovish
Senior Adviser, NoFirstUse.Global
“As an interim goal, some of us are suggesting a multilateral mutual non-use agreement with universal adherence by 2035.”
Dr. Ann Frisch
Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
“The world dismantled nuclear weapons before: we can do it again!”
Zurab Bezhanishvili
President, International Community for Georgia Development and the Progress
“The human brain is our most powerful weapon. The weaker the courage and wisdom, the greater the hunger for mass destruction. Be human—not a coward armed with catastrophe.”
Ivana Hughes
President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
“Elimination of nuclear weapons is not only a moral imperative, but an existential issue of our time.”
Lorin Peters
Retired Physicist
“A great prophet said, “Those who live by weapons of war will die by weapons of war.” Because war leads to advancing military technology, which leads to catastrophic weapons, which leads to Armageddon.”
Driss Larafi
University Professor, University Ibn Tofail
“Now that the Humakind has reach its suicide by acquiring the A-bomb-as commonly said the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre-it's more than urgent to abolish this kind of weapons of mass destruction for the sake of its survival”
Martin Tiller
Co-Chair, Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
“As Christians we cannot sit back with our fingers crossed and hope that things get better. Our faith impels us to stand up for what is right - and nuclear abolition is right!”
Lauren Pope
Executive Director, Rehumanize International
“As supporters of the inherent dignity and worth of all human beings, we call for an end to nuclear warfare. Nuclear weapons killed 100,000-200,000 civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki at their first use by the United States, and they threaten all of humanity today.”
Haruna Sinyang
Founder, Jamma Children Foundation
“Peace is an ultimate need and must not be an option”
Luiz Bispo
Communications and Outreach Officer, World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy (WFM/IGP)
“We are one human race, and we should act as world citizens — respecting all cultures and beliefs so that we can all thrive and live in peace."
Peter Kuznick
Professor of History, Director of Nuclear Studies Institute, American University, Washington, DC
“We've been lucky to have survived the past 80 years. If we don't abolish nuclear weapons, our luck may soon run out. Let's devote our creativity, resources, and energy to building a more peaceful and prosperous planet instead of wasting money on our militaries and finding ways to make weapons more lethal."
Faisal Ilyas
Executive Director, Peace Hope Pakistan - Peace Promoter
“War is not a solution for peace building, war ends with destruction and tears. Peace always promote humanity, love and care. Say loudly NO to war, and let's give a chance to peace for sustainable peace. Human beings are not created to spread the violence, rather peace, not hatred but love, not revenge but forgiveness, not harm but care and not curse but prayer for others to create a better world.
Al McNair
Peace Advocate
“No country which endorses the use of nuclear weapons in any way can call itself a civilised country. Even to have anything to do with the manufacture of or transportation of these inhumane weapons is despicable.”
Lalita Ramdas
Peace Educator & anti Nuclear Activist, Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace - (CNDP)
“Nuclear Weapons are the worst form of technology ever invented - inhuman, criminal in in intent and purpose, they must be abolished.”
Dr. Gwen Bray
“Nuclear armaments reduction leading to disarmament is essential for current life on earth to continue. Nuclear arms and depleted uranium use with all the other degrading of healthy air, water, soil, food, ocean is leading to deduction of species and sickness of humans. The increase in cancer and respiratory diseases is likely due to degradation of life support systems.”
Alyn Ware
International Representative of Aotearoa Lawyers for Peace and Director of the Basel Peace Office
“Nuclear armed and allied States can’t avoid the nuclear disarmament obligation on the excuse that they need nuclear weapons for security. In order to fulfill this obligation, they are required to meet their security needs in other ways, including in accordance with the UN Charter which prohibits the threat or use of force.
Jackie Cabasso
Executive Director of Western States Legal Foundation
“There are a number of pathways to reaching the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons. But the nuclear-armed States and their allies must commit to ending reliance on the ever-more-dangerous doctrine of nuclear deterrence – the threatened use of nuclear weapons – as the basis for their national security. They could do this by negotiating a comprehensive and inclusive nuclear-weapons-convention similar to the Chemical Weapons Convention. Or they could start with a framework agreement on nuclear disarmament and fill in the details of the implementation mechanisms later. Or they could negotiate protocols that would enable them to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Under any of these pathways, the elimination of nuclear weapons no later than 2045 is imperative and is feasible. We urge individuals and organizations to endorse our Joint Appeal to governments to make this happen."
Daria Platushchikhina
Student, Higher School of Economics
Member, Pact for a Sustainable Tomorrow,
“One press - millions of horror. Do we really want it?”
Dr. Deepshikha Kumari Vijh
Executive Director of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
“Nuclear Weapon States are urged to meet their obligations under international law to pursue negotiations in good faith on nuclear disarmament. The latter was significantly strengthened by the unanimous disposition of the 1996 International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion, which held that there exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion, negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control.”
Rebecca Shoot
PNND’s Senior Advisor and the Co-Convener of the ImPact Coalition on Strengthening International Judicial Institutions
“There is a stark dissonance between the rapid ticking of the Doomsday Clock closer than ever to midnight and the number of nuclear armed and allied States engaged in armed conflict with a retreat in the collective conscience and consciousness of the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons. Our joint actions in New York aim to close this gap – especially for younger generations for whom the specter of nuclear war may not be felt as acutely.”
Peter Gunther
Retired archivist
“No one wins a nuclear war. Everybody dies.”
Sharon Dolev
Executive Director, Middle East Treaty Organization
“A world free from nuclear weapons is in our hand and there for is our shared responsibility”