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.”
Josphat Mugo
Co-convenor, Afro-Asia Green Forum
"Why destroy your fellow human...dialogue is the best way to resolve conflict.
We all have the right to live including the entire biodiversity. Let's avoid nuclear weapons."
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.”
Mojtaba Aghamohammadi
Founder, National Peace and Democracy Coalition of Iran
"Washing out blood with blood is impossible; IMPOSSIBLE! (Rumi)"
George Hashaka
Founder and Chair, Uganda Peace Foundation
"The nine nuclear armed states and the umbrella states must come to their senses and realise the senseless strategy of nuclear focused security."
Sister Maureen Heam
Nurse, retired
"Let’s not annihilate each other and our planet."
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?”
David Baynham
Musician
"It is way past time to rid the would of the scourge of Nuclear weapons."
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”
"No nuclear weapons but Fair Sharing of our Sustainable Planet Earth."
Jan Juffermans
Dutch Platform for a Fair and Green Economy
Hashim Yussif
Climate and environmental sustainability activist , ICAN Ghana
"We want a Nuclear Free World Now"
Josphat Mugo
Co-convenor, Afro-Asia Green Forum
"Why destroy your fellow human...dialogue is the best way to resolve conflict? We all have right to live including the entire biodiversity. Let's avoid nuclear weapons."
Al McNair
Retired
"No country that has anything at all to do with nuclear weapons, including even condoning their use, can call itself a civilised country."
Aranyam Kashyap
Author and Independent Global Governance Thinker”
“Humanity’s future depends on trust, not deterrence. Nuclear abolition is not idealism—it is a necessity for global survival.”
Hon. Dr. Frank Habineza
Senator, President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda
"Nuclear is the end of life for all species."
Sunny Mustakim Ahmed
Member - PNND, CEO - Imperial Engineers Limited
"It is the reality that we are living in a moment where the most powerful leaders on earth can threaten to destroy a civilization overnight, and the systems we build, including artificial intelligence, can accelerate that risk if left ungoverned. I work in technology. I know what happens when powerful tools outpace the frameworks meant to control them. Nuclear weapons have always been that problem, unresolved. I endorse this appeal because abolition is not idealism. It is the only rational position left."
Rajesh Kumar
Professor Political Science , Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar, Punjab, India
"Clear Nuclear before it clears humankind."
Jagriti Acharyya Chowdhury
Teacher at Guwahati, Assam, India
"Nuclear missiles to be disarmed. Youth to be saved."
Lerato Maris
United Nations Brand Ambassador Political Activist and Influencer
"Nuclear disarmament is critical in eliminating dangers of nuclear wars so we can achieve international peace and security through cooperation."
Connie Rensink
Education Consultant
"The existence of nuclear weapons creates the opportunity for ending the world as we know it by accident or false alarm. Peace requires intentional action and we must move to eliminate these weapons of mass destruction."
Edward Mesa
Entrepreneur
"Until we lay down our weapons, we’ll be laying down our kind, and leveling destruction, not only upon humanity, put upon all of the beautiful, wise, living Flora Fauna and more, that make up this incredible place we call Earth. We Can Do Better!"
Melanie Morrison
Executive Director, Sydney Peace Foundation
"Total nuclear disarmament must be a priority of each and every state that believes in a safer, more just and more secure world."
Joan Russow
Global Compliance Research Project
"ICJ must rule that weapons states must sign and ratify the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons."
Martin Tiller
Board Member for the British Isles, Church and Peace
"As a Europe-wide ecumenical peace network, we naturally wanted to add our name to the thousands of others who are supporting this worthwhile demand for a better world."
Roland Joseph
Center for Global Nonkilling, Haiti
"As nuclear weapons threaten life now and across generations, non-killing peace action is essential to prevent their use and to advance the global movement for their abolition."
Robin Collins
Director, Pugwash Canada
"Spiral downward from militarization and shift those resources to save the planet together."
Benedicte Kusendila
Peace Spirituality, Pax Christi Flanders
"As stewards of the earth, we must rise and make choices. Nuclear weapons will not disappear of their own accord. They will only disappear when we convince states they must go."
Kehkashan Basu
Founder-President, Green Hope Foundation
"The scourge of nuclear weapons must be eradicated for the safety and security of humanity and the planet."
Paul Ré
founder of the Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize
"We must eliminate nuclear weapons and curb human-caused global warming to keep our planet habitable. Thank you everyone for your efforts with this."
Vladimir Slivyak
Co-Chair, Ecodefense Russia
"Nuclear weapon must be abolished. It should never have existed."
Manuel Camacho
Chair, City of New Haven Peace Commission
"Let us stand up and speak out for the safety, security, and peace of future generations."
Roger Orpwood
Professor, University of Bath
"Basing our security on a threat to destroy humanity is utter madness."
Kimmo Kiljunen MP
Member of Parliament, Finland. Former Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
"We are prepared to destroy the whole mankind for good reasons?"
Sheva Carr
CEO and President, The Fyera Foundation and Heart Ambassadors
"What can you imagine our world would look and feel like if we invested the resources of trillions of dollars and human genius and inventiveness in ways to celebrate and support one another rather than annihilate and destroy one another?"
Vincent Pilley
General Secretary of the french Fraternité d'Abraham
"Everything is a matter of choice and determination.We can choose another path that of a future collective suicide through a thermonucelar war.Leaders of nuclear-armed states must have the courage to sit down together ton achieve de-escalation. It's a matter of will."
Iyad Abumoghli
Founder and Chair of Al-Mizan Foundation
"No civilization can claim to honor human dignity, protect the Earth, and uphold justice while holding the power to destroy them; our sacred responsibility is to choose peace over fear, life over annihilation, and a future in which both people and planet are protected from the shadow of nuclear weapons."
Lerato Maris
United Nations Brand Ambassador Political Activist and Influencer
"Nuclear disarmament is critical in eliminating dangers of nuclear wars so we can achieve international peace and security through cooperation."
Jideofor Lordstadt
President, Ugonma Foundation
"Let's make Love, not War."
Joseph Faluyi
Young Leader in Media, Policy and Sustainable Development; General Secretary, Mass Communication Students’ Association, University of Lagos.
"Nuclear weapons threaten our shared future. As young people, we must speak up for peace, accountability, and a world free from nuclear harm. Our generation should not inherit a world built on fear. Nuclear abolition is not idealistic, it is necessary."
John Gittings
Research Associate, School of Oriental and African Studies,, London University
"Nuclear weapons are an existential risk: the world has no prospect of a long-term future till they are abolished."
Panagiotis Karafotias
Former UN Officer, professor of I.R.
"Si vis pacem, para pacem!
If you want peace, prepare for peace."
Baria Ahmar Conti
Journalist, Green Party of Lebanon
"Abolish nuclear weapons before they abolish Earth."
Tony Rinaudo
Principal Climate Action Advisor, World Vision Australia
"To World Leaders: For the sake of all people everywhere, for the sake of the earth, for the sake of your own children - please dismantle your nuclear arsenal!"
Max Obuszewski
Founder, Baltimore Nonviolence Center
"We act, not because it may be effective, but so we can sleep at night."
Ghurni Bhattacharya
Youth : Present, World Future Council
"It is high time to jointly abolish nuclear weapons for a conflict-free and just world dedicated to the present and future generations."
Dennis Ekwere
Executive Director, Children and Young People Living for Peace, Nigeria
"It's never late to make a U-turn for humanity sake. Why should stronger nations support and produce what can destroy the majority weaker nations in billions of strong currencies. Ask yourself once again, what's is the planet without the people?"
Michelle Santantonio
Chairperson, South Country Peace Group
"Stop the Nuclear madness! Stop the Arms Race, Cut the Arms Budget, Direct $ Resources for Environmental & Human Needs!"
Nondo Rugira Christian
Executive Director, Action Pour le Développement des Jeunes au Congo (ADJC).
"A world free from nuclear weapons is not only possible—it is a responsibility we owe to present and future generations. ADJC stands for peace, human security and a safer future for all."
Ardash K. Warman
Founder, Brij Peace Empowerers, India
"We as human beings should feel shame - to be the inventor of these weapons of mass destruction in our history."
Sophia Stroud
Associate/Communications Director, Nuclear Watch New Mexico
"The Los Alamos National Lab's nuclear weapons programs are getting a huge $1 billion raise on October 1 for a total of $6 billion in FY 2027, while virtually everything else is being cut. We need real national security against wildfires, pandemics and adverse climate change, not empty excuses for newdesign nuclear weapons for the new arms race that threatens us all."
Professor Thomas Jonter
Pugwash (Sweden)
“A Nuclear War Cannot Be Won and Must Never be Fought. Therefore, get rid of them. All of them!"
Rose Dyson
WFMC—TO VP
"Nuclear Weapons abolition is long overdue."
Innocent Hankanimana
Chief Executive Officer, Foundation Agape Pour L’Enfant Africain, Burundi
"Let us unite to build a peaceful and prosperous society free from nuclear weapons !!!"
Sehaj Sahni
Founder and DJ. Environmental Rave, India
"It must go, cauz it is time to Rave for Nature"
Sehaj Sahni
Founder and DJ. Environmental Rave, India
"It must go, cauz it is time to Rave for Nature"
Adriana González
Engineer. Director of EcoCitizen
"In 1948 my country abolished its army and moved the money to schools, clinics, and nature conservation. People still call that naïve. It's hope in a better future. Abolishing nuclear weapons is just the same decision at a different scale: the fate of our planet and the health of all people depends on us investing instead in soils, forests, water, and more."
Alan Race
Executive Chair, World Congress of Faiths
"Possession and use of nuclear weapons break all moral codes."
Romina Beitseen
Secretary, Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament , Australia
"Working together to create a nuclear-free world within our lifetimes."
Sima Samar
Chair, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission 2004-2019. Member, UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement
"As we have seen over the last 50 years of our country Afghanistan, militarization does not bring peace and security."
Leopold Mureithi
The Millennium Project Kenya Node
"Nuclear weapons pose an existential threat to all humankind, a no-go zone!"
Walter Dorn
Professor, Royal Military College of Canada
"One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day!"
Peggy Mason
Former Canadiam Amb for Disarmament
"We urgently need concrete practical steps to reduce ever-riding nuclear risks and put us on a sustainable path to nuclear disarmament."
Saffet Catovic
Imam and Director of UN Operations, Justice for All
“The pursuit of nuclear weapons is not a path to security; it is a rebellion against the divine trust of stewardship on Earth,” stated Imam Saffet Catovic, Director of U.N. Operations. “From Islamic teachings to other global faith traditions, a unified voice holds that these instruments of genocide and ecocide are an abomination. The international community has a moral and legal duty to ensure they are never used again and are ultimately eliminated.”
Dieudonné Lwaboshi
Executive Director, Femme en Action pour le Progrès Social , DRC
"Nuclear Weapons are dangerous for human Kind. They must be banned."
Johnmark Annan Mwene
Project Director, Upcoming African Youth Organisation
"Together lets champion for a world free of nuclear weapons enhancing peace and security of our nations."
Ann Suellentrop
Project Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility -Kansas City
"NO to a new nuclear arms race! Let’s race to zero instead for our children and all life on earth!"
Andrise Bass
Institute of Public Policy and Diplomacy Research
“Nuclear weapons hold humanity hostage. True security begins with diplomacy and ends with nuclear abolition.”
Pragnan Kumar Lakkaraju
Director-Programs & Liaison, Swanthana Charitable Trust
“Let us choose dialogue over destruction, peace over fear, and a world free from nuclear weapons for generations to come.”
Gian Clare
Chairperson, Warwick District United Nations Association
"Nuclear weapons continue to pose an existential threat to humanity."
Andre Sheldon
Director, Global Strategy of Nonviolence
"It is time for a Global Movement of Nonviolence to create trust and respect among nations and people to be able to prevent and stop wars. Until there is trust, there will be no change, no disarmament, no new treaties, and the cycle of violence will go on forever!"
Lindokuhle Sibiya
Director, Eswatini Youth and Women for Change , Eswatini
"Let's keep endorsing on, so that justice can be served."
Sehaj Sahni
Founder and DJ. Environmental Rave, India
"It must go, cauz it is time to Rave for Nature"
Samuel Chanchan
Executive Director, Global Peace and Development Organization , Liberia
“Nuclear weapons pose an unacceptable threat to humanity, peace and sustainable development. The Global Peace and Development Organization (GPDO) supports nuclear abolition as an essential step toward building a safer, more peaceful and sustainable world for present and future generations.”
Patrick McInerney
Director, Columban Centre for Christian-Muslim Relations, Australia
"Nuclear weapons threaten the future of all life on earth."
Phyllis Omido
Executive Director, Center for Justice Governance and Environmental Action, Kenya
“There can be no lasting peace, environmental justice or sustainable future while humanity continues to possess weapons capable of destroying life on an unimaginable scale. From Kenya, we affirm that the only truly secure future is one in which nuclear weapons are totally, verifiably and irreversibly eliminated. Nuclear abolition is not an abstract ideal—it is a demand for human dignity, accountability, justice and a livable planet.”
Gabriel Brezoiu
President, Prisma European Network - Group of the European Youth for Change, Romania
"A truly secure world is built on education, dialogue, and cooperation—not on the threat of nuclear annihilation. Disarmament is not just an international policy goal; it is a moral obligation to the youth of today and tomorrow."
Maiara Folly
Executive Director, Plataforma CIPÓ
"The vast sums channeled into nuclear arsenals divert resources from addressing the most consequential challenges of our era: notably climate change. The $100 billion spent annually on nuclear weapons could instead help meet urgent climate-finance needs across the Global South, including investments in mitigation, adaptation and resilience. Redirecting resources away from weapons, wars and conflicts and toward the common good is the least governments can do to confront the existential threat posed by the climate crisis."
Wyldon Fishman
President, New York Solar Energy Society
"Renewable energy and energy efficiency have a far smaller carbon footprint."
Elaine Scarry
Cabot Professor of Aesthetics, Harvard University
"Nuclear weapons and democracy are mutually exclusively; you can have one or the other, not both. Every human being who has had the privilege of seeing the beauty of earth should feel called upon to work for the abolition of the nuclear peril."
Ann Pratt
UN NGO Representative, Dominican Leadership Conference
"Human flourishing requires that we work for peace."
Innocent Hankanimana
Chief Executive Officer, Foundation Agape Pour L’Enfant Africain, Burundi
"Let us unite to build a peaceful and prosperous society free from nuclear weapons !!!"
Giselle Herzfeld
Campaign Coordinator, Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center
"I have lived my entire life in the shadow of Rocky Flats, the former U.S. nuclear weapons plant that was responsible for making every plutonium core of every nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal. The plant was shut down before I was born, because thousands of community members put their safety, comfort, and lives on the line to stop the flow of weapons of mass destruction. It is in the strength of my mentors that I find a seed of hope that a nuclear-free future is possible."
Eric Roux
Chair of the Global Council of the United Religions Initiative
"War is absurd and cannot be excused. But weapons capable of destroying an entire civilization, ultimately killing even those who decide to use them and destroying the very environment that sustains us, go far beyond absurdity. The elimination of nuclear weapons is the most precious gift we can offer humanity and all living beings—not only for the future, but for the here and now. There is no time to lose in making nuclear catastrophe impossible."
Florence Quinche
Head of Vox Ethica and General Secretary of Justice and Peace Switzerland
"The proliferation of nuclear weapons is a dangerous trap that does not bring about genuine and lasting peace."
Andi Bowsher
University Spiritual Care Co-ordinator
"It feels like we're going backwards in terms of what was learned from WW2, we have to remember properly so that we don't sleepwalk into further catastrophe."
Arnold Bomans
Independent researcher and developer, Werkgroep Voetafdruk Nederland.
"Cooperation is more profitable than competition."
Dr Diana Francis
Bath Stop War, UK
"War is destroying lives directly and also through the massive contribution it makes to climate change, even in its preparation."
Catherine Page
Retired Medical Practitioner. Member, Birkenhead Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
"Stop the billionaires from wrecking the world for their greed."
Rafael Jesús González
1st Poet Laureate Emeritus, Berkeley, California
"The threat of a nuclear blaze haunts us, blights our dreams, hangs over us, a cloud like a mushroom poisonous and deadly."
Michele Sterlace-Accorsi
Executive Director, Feminists Choosing Life of New York
"War, like abortion, is violence against humanity, and thwarts civilized progress."
Natalie Bennet
Member, UK House of Lords, Green Party
"The 'nuclear taboo' has seen no aggressive use of these weapons of mass destruction since 1945. But their continued existence presents an existential threat that has to be ended. The cost of nuclear weapons' design, production and maintenance must be put to tackling the now unavoidable risks presented by humans' collective expansion beyond planetary boundaries and to ending the immense suffering that poverty continues to inflict on hundreds of millions of people."
Harry Adams
Member, Veterans For Peace
"It is absurd to even debate whether the nuclear extinction of large numbers of humans and other species is worthy of urgent governmental action. Now is the time!"
Tarak Kauf
Vice-President, Veterans For Peace Chapter 188 Mid-Hudson Valley, NY
"The existence of nuclear weapons is diabolically insane. This is not normal insanity, it is a profit and lust for power insanity that could end life on this planet. We must end nuclear technology and the threat of nuclear war. Life depends on it."
Dorian Thibaudeau
Member ICAN, France
"A nuclear war means the suicide of humanity. All our other humanitarian and social fights are dependant on this one. Because there will be nothing left to fight for, if we let it happen."
Ellen Barfield
Baltimore Phil Berrigan Memorial Chapter Veterans For Peace
"Windmills NOT warheads!"
Christopher Coutinho
Laudato Si Animator
"I reaffirmed that the use of nuclear weapons is immoral —this must also be included in the Catechism of the Catholic Church —, and not only its use, but also its possession because an accident [due to] possession, or the madness of some government leader, a person’s madness can destroy humanity."
Pope Francis 26 November 2019
Lois Barber
Executive Director, Earth Action
"We will all be safer without nuclear weapons."
Senator David Shoebridge
Member of the Australian Senate. Green Party
"Every nuclear weapon is a war crime, an act of untold violence, against past and future generations. We must come together on this little planet we share to rid ourselves of them forever."
Laurie Ross
Director, New Zealand Nuclear Free Peacemakers
"Abolish Nuclear Weapons-Protect Humanity and the Earth"
Dvir Aviam
Executive Board Member, JEF Europe (Young European Federalists)
"Nuclear weapons are a risk to humanity, they must be abolished!"
Nina Bodisch
Automotive industry buyer, South Africa
"Choose Peaceful Coexistence. Build Trust, not weapons."
Annet Weijermars
Chair Women & Sustainable Peace, The Hague
"Nuclear weapons are a threat for the world, let’s unite and work on peace instead of threat."
Sashwin Pillai
Founder and CEO, Africa Vision Holdings (Pty) Ltd
"The very quality, essence and nature of being Human; is being compassionate to all beings. Weaponised motives and actions of any kind are evidences of the inhumane amongst us."
Marilyn Turkovich
Executive Director, International Charter for Compassion
“Compassion asks us not only to care for one another, but to protect one another. The Charter for Compassion is proud to add our signature to the global call for a world free from nuclear weapons.”
Yadanar Maung
Spokesperson, Justice For Myanmar
"Myanmar borders two nuclear powers, China and India, which both back the illegal military junta alongside Russia. The threat of nuclear weapons is a threat to us and to humanity everywhere. The international community must work towards nuclear disarmament for a more peaceful world."
Francesca de Gasparis
Executive Director, Southern African Faith Communities Environment Institute
"Nuclear weapons are ethically and morally wrong, and at the level of destruction they cause, they have no place in our modern world and future."
Sister Mary Pendergast
Sisters of Mercy
"Peace is possible, but only with honest conversation and negotiation!"
Jack Gilroy
Media Coordinator, Stu Naismith Veterans For Peace Ch 90 Binghamton NY
"Any survivors of a nuclear war will envy the dead."
Jay Naidoo
Minister in the Mandela Cabinet, South Africa
“Nuclear weapons do not protect humanity; they hold it hostage. I support their total abolition and urge the United Nations to turn this moral imperative into binding global action.”
John Wilks III
President, Veterans For Peace - Albuquerque
"Nuclear Weapons are used to bully others, not for national security."
Debalina Goshal
Non Resident Senior Fellow, Indian Aerospace and Defence News
"Let us pray for a colourful rainbow, Nuclear weapons development be rather slow; Let there be hay days and wonder, And may nuclear deterrence ponder! I pray for peace and tranquility, Cause nuclear deterrence is obliquity."
Dr. Thomas Clough Daffern
Director, International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy
"To rid the Earth of nuclear weapons, we must first overcome fear. To overcome fear, we must cultivate and deepen the human capacity for love. To remember how to love, we need to pause, reflect, breathe and pray, and to live philosophically rich and meaningful lives. If all of us do that, the need for these grotesque weapons will vanish like the morning mists on Salisbury Plain as the sun rises at the Midsummer Solstice."
Simon Barrow
Writer and researcher, Ekklesia Network
"It is vital that faith organisations do all in their power to reject the nuclear nightmare and embrace global friendship and solidarity"
Rivera Sun
Author, activist
"Nuclear abolition is the only sane path forward for humanity. These weapons do not keep us safe."
Simone Filippini
President, UNA for the Kingdom of The Netherlands
"The use of nuclear weapons is just no option. Non proliferation and cutback of nuclear arsenals are crucial to prevent disasters from happening and force government leaders to build real peace and security."
Scott Yundt
Executive Director, Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment (CAREs)
"The nuclear weapons states plan trillions in spending on modernizing nuclear arsenals with AI and other risk inducing technologies. The world must come together to stop this madness, redirect those dollars and prevent nuclear war."
Rev. Chloe Breyer
Executive Director, The Interfaith Center of New York
"People of different faith traditions and nationalities often disagree. However, we share the hope of a better world for our children--and are called to work towards one without the imminent threat of nuclear war."
David Gibson
Co-director, Peace, Justice, Sustainability NOW
"The abolition of nuclear weapons is essential for the survival of humanity. If we do not, one day they will be used and by then it will be too late. Once the strat - it will be almosy impossible to stop. They are playing tic-tac-toe with our children's future. The best way to win - is not to play."
Rev. Dr. Larry Kochendorfer
National Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
"This is a fine and timely statement that promotes God's desire for peace."
David D'Angelo
National Chairperson, Green Party of the Philippines
"We owe it to the next generation to create a better and more peaceful world. "
Gunnar Stålsett
Bishop emeritus of Oslo. Honorary President Religions for Peace. Former Vice Chair Nobel Peace Prize Committee
"Now or never! Our window of opportunity is closing. Act now for humanity. Politicians, diplomats and civil society UNITE for total abolition."
Michiel van de Kasteelen
Secretary General, Netherlands United Nations Association
"The UN is at the core of Nuclear Disarmament: from the very first General Assembly Resolution in 1946 to the establishment of the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs; from the Treaties on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the Non-Prolifiration Treaty and the Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty to the historic 1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice."
Earl Turcotte
Past Chair, Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear disarmament is imperative if we and our fragile planet are to continue to exist!
Dr. Ann Behrmann MD
Pediatrician and Treasurer, Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin
"Prevention of nuclear weapons use is the only choice as there is no medical treatment or cure for nuclear weapons once they are used, whether in war or accidentally."
Mary-Ellen Francoeur
Peace Activist, Pax Christi Toronto, Member of Discernment Team
"Nuclear Weapons are immoral and illegal!"
Christopher Gwyntopher
Retired Social Worker, Community Worker, Manager of two voluntary organisations.
"Abolish nuclear weapons. Invest in peacemaking and essential resources for people and planet."
Sangeeta Desarda
President, Arihant Foundation
"Nuclear weapons violate the right to life and dignity guaranteed by Article 21 and threaten every community, especially women and children. From India I endorse this Joint Appeal: implement UN Charter Article 26, end the nuclear arms race, and invest instead in climate justice and a secure future for all."
Manju Kak
Convenor Peace, for the All India Women's Conference and the International Alliance for Women
"No good outcomes in absence of Peace"
Professor Oluremi Olutimo
United Nations Association of Nigeria
"Our future is not negotiable. Our lives are not simply pawns in a game. We refuse to live in a world where the power to eliminate humanity is regarded as a source of security. We unite, raise our voices, and demand the only truly safe number of nuclear weapons: ZERO. Let us speak louder than the threat of nuclear war.”
Roger Abbiss
Executive Director, World United | Occupy Earth
I will simply quote Albert Einstein on this matter: "There is no solution for civilization or even the human race, other than the creation of world government"
Antony Owen
Peace Poet. Patron of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
"With the current amount of nukes there is the equivalent of a tonne of TNT for every living soul on earth. Our appetite for megadeath is repulsive."