'It is either the end of nuclear weapons, or the end of us.' DalaiLama nuclearban IPPNW
"It is either the end of nuclear weapons, or the end of us," the peace prize winners say in an open letter.The Dalai Lama is among 16 Nobel Peace Prize laureates who jointly issued an open letter Saturday calling for the immediate end of the attack on Ukraine and an explicit vow from both Russia and NATO forces that nuclear weapons of any kind will not be used as part of this conflict or any other.
Backed by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War , which won the Nobel in 1985, and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons , awarded the prize for similar advocacy in 2017, the letter was also signed by ten other individual winners—including Jody Williams, Kailash Satyarthi, and Óscar Arias Sánchez—as well as the International Peace Bureau, which won the award in 1910, the American Friends Service Committee , and the Pugwash Conference on Science...
Concern over the possible use of nuclear weapons has been heightened throughout the conflict after Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 27 ordered his military to put its nuclear forces on"special alert"—a move that was immediately condemned as"Since then there has been growing worry that Putin could resort to the use of so-called"tactical" nukes, lower-yield weapons that some have tried to justify as less dangerous or destructive than their larger counterparts.
We call for an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of all Russian military forces from Ukraine, and for all possible efforts at dialogue to prevent this ultimate disaster.
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