Statements and presentations to the third conference on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons
Opening session
- Sebastian Kurz, Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs of Austria
- Angela Kane, United Nations High Representative for Disarmament,
- Peter Maurer, President of the International Committe of the Red Cross
- Setsuko Thurlow, Hiroshima Peace Ambassador
- Message by Pope Francis, delivered by Archbishop Silvano Maria Tomasi
Session Ia: Impact of nuclear weapons exlposions
- Mary Olson, Senior Radioactive Waste Policy Specialist
- Michael J. Mills, National Centre for Atomospheric Research
- Matthew McKinzie, Natural Resoures Defense Council
Session Ib: Impact of nuclear weapons testing
- Martin Kalinowski, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation Preparatory Commission
- Abacca Anjain-Maddison, testimony on impact of nuclear tests from the Republic of the Marshall Islands
- Sue Coleman-Haseldine, testimony on impact of nuclear tests from Australia
- Michelle Thomas, testimony on impact of nuclear tests from the United States of America
- Arjun Makhijani, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Session II: Risk drivers for deliberate or inadvertent nuclear weapons use
- Eric Schlosser, author of Command and Control
- Reinhard Mechler, International Institute for Applied Systems Analaysis and Vienna University of Economics
- Camille M. Francois, Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet & Socieity and Columbia University Arnold A. Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies
- Seth Baum, Global Catastrophic Risk Institute
- Bruce Blair, Global Zero and Princeton University research faculty in Program on Science and Global Security
Session III: Scenarios, challenges and capabilities regarding nuclear weapons use and other events
- Hans M. Kristensen, Director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington with Matthew McKinzie, Natural Resources Defense Council
- Micah D. Lowenthal, National Academy of Sciences
- Mark Pillay, Colonel in the South African Police Service
- Rudolph Mueller, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Session IV: A “bird’s-eye view” on international norms and the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons
- Dr. Jorge Vinuales, University of Cambridge
- Steven A. Solomon, Acting Legal Counsel at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva
- Dr. Helen Durham, International Committee of the Red Cross
- Dr. Gro Nystuen, International Law and Policy Institute
- Nobuo Hayashi, University of Oslo
Discussion/General Debate
- Japan
- Norway
- Mexico
- Senegal
- India
- Denmark
- Chile
- Kenya
- Spain
- Singapore
- Dominican Republic
- Thailand
- Kuwait
- Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America & the Caribbean (OPANAL)
- Greece
- Nicaragua
- Ukraine
- Uruguay
- United Sates
- New Zealand
- Malaysia
- Pakistan
- Egypt
- Mayors for Peace
- Estonia
- Sweden
- Italy
- Holy See (Discussion paper)
- Canada
- Indonesia
- Inter Parliamentary Union
- Ghana
- Lao P.D.R.
- Jordan
- Bulgaria
- Nepal
- Finland
- Slovakia
- Algeria
- Germany
- Togo
- Republic of the Congo
- Venezuela
- Ecuador
- Colombia
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- Mali
- Japan
- Philippines
- Arms Control Association
- United Kingdom
- South Africa
- Qatar
- Marshall Islands
- Hungary
- Mongolia
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Timor-Leste
- Australia
- Guatemala
- Latvia
- Peru
- El Salvador
- Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament (PNND)
- Nigeria
- Samoa
- Republic of Korea
- Netherlands
- Brazil
- Zimbabwe
- Jamaica
- Kazakhstan
- Zambia
- Uzbekistan
- Yemen
- Poland
- Chad
- Iran
- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
- Lithuania
- Comoros
- Cuba
- Czech Republic
- Turkey
- Nuclear Threat Initative (NTI)
- Myanmar
- Costa Rica
- Serbia
- Ireland
- Bangladesh
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Belgium
- Wildfire
- Morocco
- Malawi
- Switzerland
- Lebanon
- Guinea Bissau
- Liechtenstein
- Faith Communities on the Humantiarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons
- Republic of Moldova
- Burundi
- Libya
- Djibouti
- ASEAN
- Afghanistan
- Lesotho
- Niger
- Uganda
- Iraq
- Viet Nam