Dear Friend,

This year was incredible! Together with our partners around the world, we planned, organized, communicated, researched, commemorated, celebrated and rallied at hundreds of events to show the awful reality of nuclear weapons and move closer to their total elimination.

At the Third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in March, we saw the solid commitment of governments and a huge participation of civil society leading to a powerful declaration, including the strongest ever multilateral condemnation of nuclear deterrence.

In June, our Nuclear Weapons Spending Report showed how nuclear-armed states poured more than 100 billion USD into their nuclear arsenals in 2024. Campaigners around the world took these figures to their governments and triggered parliamentary questions, public debates and the interest of the media. Can you help us do more?

Over the summer, we commemorated the first nuclear weapons detonation at the Trinity site in New Mexico and the first two military uses of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Affected communities from these and the too many other sites where nuclear weapons have been used, shared the stories of their loss but also of their activism. A fierce demonstration of resilience in raising awareness of the true costs of nuclear weapons and calling for their total elimination.

Across Europe, Africa and Latin America, ICAN and our partners organised national-level events, bringing together government representatives, politicians, researchers, artists and campaigners and ensuring that nuclear weapons and the need for their elimination becomes a national conversation. Moreover, hundreds of municipalities in Spain, France, Germany, Belgium and Greece, to name just a few, have endorsed the ICAN’s Cities Appeal. This is grassroots advocacy at its best, and every one of those endorsements is the result of patient, determined local campaigning.

In September, the number of TPNW states parties and signatories rose to 99 out of 197 states. This global majority sends a clear signal to the nine nuclear weapon states and their allies that they are standing on the wrong side of history.

We are very proud of these achievements and grateful to all of you for your ongoing support. Will you help us get ready for next year? Please donate so that we can continue to write history together.

Thank you
Melissa Parke,
Executive Director