Outlining the state of nuclear weapons today and celebrating the achievements of the peace and anti-nuclear movement.

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ICAN is a new campaign initiated by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), a federation of medical professionals in 60 countries. The organisation received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for uniting doctors across the Cold War divide to raise awareness of the threats posed by nuclear weapons. Its prescription for survival was, and remains, the complete elimination of nuclear weapons

GOALS

* Launch an exciting and credible new initiative to inspire enthusiasm and inspiration for agitating for nuclear disarmament, with new slogans, visuals, demands, alliances, audiences and strategies;

* Build on what is already being done in IPPNW on nuclear disarmament, such as the Nuclear Weapons Inheritance Project that involves IPPNW students travelling for dialogues with medical students in Nuclear Weapon States, and Target X, a public activity involving students in white coats informing the public of what would occur if a nuclear weapons was dropped, as well as the initiatives of various affiliates in generating publications and events about NATO nukes or the replacement of Trident in the UK;

* Raise the number and diversity of voices within the medical and health professions, and among the general public about nuclear weapons;

* Strengthen the call, and the legitimacy of the call for a Nuclear Weapons Convention by generating an updated version of Security and Survival and the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention;

* Generate a suite of credible, digestible nuclear disarmament education materials on the urgent imperative for nuclear weapons abolition using compelling arguments and facts for professional and public audiences. Using easily replicable information materials, activities and humour, all ICAN materials will emphasise solutions, prevention and prescriptions for steps towards the goal of abolition, carrying the legitimacy and authority of the medical profession to its maximum to advocate for a Nuclear Weapons Convention, a means to politically organize the technical process of nuclear disarmament;

* Increase NGOs collaboration and coordination of strategies and messaging to encourage NGOs and other experts to work together to lobby their government or generate media and teachable moments and create strategic alliances with NGOs between doctors, health professionals and other constituencies to create a truly international coordinated campaign coalition that results in a Nuclear Weapons Convention.