This publication on civil society engagement in disarmament processes draws on recent research and reflections from literary non-fiction, academia, risk assessment, activism and advocacy to present the case for a nuclear weapons ban as a vital first step in nuclear weapons' ultimate abolition.
Introduction: Hibakusha's hope to ban the bomb / Kathleen Sullivan -- Witness to nuclear war: Hibakusha in Nagasaki / Susan Southard -- Nuclear risks: humanitarian consequences, probabilities, and mitigation / Patricia Lewis and Beyza Unal -- Climate disruption and global famine: nuclear weapons impact on the environment / Ira Helfand -- Human consequences of radiation: a gender factor in atomic harm / Mary Olson -- Banning the bomb: from 1950s activism to the General Assembly via Greenham Common / Rebecca Johnson -- Delegitimising nuclear violence / Nick Ritchie -- Revolt and resistance / Ray Acheson .
