Hiroshima-ICAN Academy Online Learning Materials

2023.09.26

The Academy 2023 participants are required to read and watch the following materials. The “suggested” readings and videos are not required but encouraged to read and watch. Some of the materials are protected with passwords. Please refer to the Guidance for Participants.

Webinar 1 (Humanitarian and environmental consequences of nuclear weapons)

Required videos

1. Cannon Hersey, “Hiroshima Revealed”, 2015

Cannon Hersey visited the present day Hiroshima to trace his grandfather John Hersey’s footsteps as he wanted to understand his grandfather’s feelings when he was writing the book “Hiroshima”. Koko Kondo, our guest educator, was featured in this documentary along with her father, a Methodist minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto.

Part I (49min)

Part II (50min)

2. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, “[Hiroshima-ICAN Academy 2021 Special Program] Day2_Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park”, Hiroshima-ICAN Academy on Nuclear Weapons and Global Security 2021, March 2022 (40min)

3. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, “[Hiroshima-ICAN Academy 2021 Special Program] Day2_Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum”, Hiroshima-ICAN Academy on Nuclear Weapons and Global Security 2021, March 2022 (40min)

4. Mary Dickson, “Downwinders Interview with Mary Dickson”, the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library, January 2017 (9 min )

5. Mary Dickson, “Mary Dickson”, World Nuclear Survivors Forum 2021, December 2021 (10 min )

Required readings

1. Robert Jacobs, “The Radiation That Makes People Invisible: A Global Hibakusha Perspective”, The Asia Pacific Journal Japan Focus, Volume 12 | Issue 31 | Number 1, 2014

2. Mary Olson, “Human consequences of radiation: A gender factor in atomic harm”, Civil Society Engagement in Disarmament Processes – The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Ban, Civil Society and Disarmament 2016, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, 2016

3. The University of Utah, “Downwinders of Utah Archive

Suggested readings

1. Setsuko Thurlow, “Setsuko Thurlow remembers the Hiroshima bombing”, Arms Control Today, July/August 2020

2. Erika Hayasaki, “Daughters of the Bomb: A Story of Hiroshima, Racism and Human Rights”, Narratively, 2020

3. ICAN, “Black Mist – The impact of nuclear weapons on Australia”, 2014

Webinar 2 (Nuclear risks and emerging technologies)

Required videos

1. Future of Life Institute, “Artificial Escalation,” 2023

Required readings

1. Michal Onderco & Madeline Zutt, “Emerging technology and nuclear security: What does the wisdom of the crowd tell us?”, Contemporary Security Policy, 42:3, 286-311, May 2021

Suggested readings

1. Patricia Lewis, Heather Williams, Benoît Pelopidas and Sasan Aghlani, Too Close for Comfort: Cases of Near Nuclear Use and Options for Policy, Chatham House, April 2014

2. UNIDIR Research, Nuclear Weapon Risk Reduction

Webinar 3 (The impact of nuclear weapons in our society, economy and the environment)

Required Videos

1. Isao Hashimoto, “1945-1998“, CTBTO Preparatory Commission, 6 July 2012 (14 min)

2. MISA 4 the Pacific, “MISA My Fish is your Fish”, July 2019 (16min)

3. Holly Barker, “U.S. Nuclear Testing on the Marshall Islands”, 2012 (80 min)

4. Barbara Rose Johnston, “Marshall Islands Nuclear Legacies”, 2017 (33 min)

Required readings

1. Katlyn M. Turner, Lauren J. Borja, Denia Djokić, Madicken Munk, Aditi Verma, “A call for antiracist action and accountability in the US nuclear community”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, August 2020

2. Vincent Intondi, “Reflections on Injustice, Racism, and the Bomb”, Arms Control Today, Vol. 50: No. 6 (July/August, 2020): 12-15.

3. ICAN, “Racism and nuclear weapons”, 2021

Suggested readings

1. Vincent Intondi, “The Dream of Bandung and the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons”, Critical Studies on Security 7:1 (2019): 83-86

2. Matt Bivens, “Nuclear Famine”, IPPNW, August 2022

3. Ray Acheson, “A feminist critique of the atomic bomb”, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, 2018

4. Joint Statement of 67 States on Gender, Diversity and Inclusion at the 10th NPT Review Conference, delivered by Canada, August 2022

5. Adam Broinowski, “Nuclear imperialism”, The Palgrave encyclopedia of imperialism and anti-imperialism (pp. 1–10). Springer. 29 May 2020

6. Danielle Endres, “From wasteland to waste site: The role of discourse in nuclear power’s environmental injustices”, Local Environment, 14(10), pp.917–937, 15 October 2009

7. Proposals compiled by Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe) and presented by the Governors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the G7 Hiroshima Summit, “Realizing a Sustainable Future Without Nuclear Weapons”, December 2022

8. Hiroshima Governor Hiroshima Governor Hidehiko Yuzaki, ”Perspectives from Hiroshima ~A reflection on nuclear weapons and SDG implementation~”, UN High Level Political Forum Special Session, 2022

Webinar 4 (The role of the UN and international law for nuclear disarmament)

Required readings

1. UN Secretary-General, Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 9, “A New Agenda for Peace”, July 2023

2. UN Office for Disarmament Affairs, “Securing Our Common Future – An Agenda for Disarmament”, UN Disarmament Agenda, 2018 (See also the section of ‘Disarmament and the Sustainable Development Goals’ on the website)

3. Reaching Critical Will / Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), First Committee Briefing Book 2023, September 2023

4. Declaration “Our commitment to a world free of nuclear weapons” (Annex I) and the Vienna Action Plan (Annex II), Report of the First Meeting of States Parties of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, TPNW/MSP/2022/6, 21 July 2022

Suggested readings

1. Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe), “Hiroshima Report 2023”, April 2023

2. Draft final document of the 10th NPT Review Conference, NPT/CONF.2020/CRP.1/Rev.2, 25 August 2022

3. Draft factual summary of the First Preparatory Committee for the 2026 NPT Review Conference, NPT /CONF.2026/PC.I/CRP.2, 10 August 2023

4. Joint Statement from Civil Society to the 10th NPT Review Conference, 10 January 2022

5. G7 Leaders’ Hiroshima Vision on Nuclear Disarmament, 19 May 2023

Webinar 5 (The role of civil society for global security)

Required readings

1. Civil 7 Communiqué 2023, April 2023

2. ICAN, Annual Report 2022

Webinar 6 (Nuclear risks in the changing world)

Required readings

1. Rebecca Davis Gibbons & Stephen Herzong, “Durable institution under fire? The NPT confronts emerging multipolarity”, Contemporary Security Policy, Volume 43, 2022 – Issue 1, Pages 50-79

Watching / reading materials before coming to Hiroshima

Required readings

1. ICRC, Why the ICRC wants nuclear weapons eliminated, June 2022

2. ICRC, Avoiding catastrophe: we must act now to ensure nuclear weapons are never again used, May 2023

3. Group of Eminent Persons for Substantive Advancement of Nuclear Disarmament, Chair’s Report, October 2019

Suggested readings

1. Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe), Global Alliance“Sustainable Peace and Prosperity for All”, 2022

2. “Kakuwaka: a group of young people actively thinking about nuclear weapons”, Hiroshima for Global Peace, 2021

3. Sumiko Hatakeyama and Akira Kawasaki, Navigating Disarmament Education: The Peace Boat Model, Civil Society and Disarmament 2020, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, 2020

4. Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition of Nagasaki University (RECNA), Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, and Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN), Possible Nuclear Use Cases in Northeast Asia: Implications for Reducing Nuclear Risk, January 2022

5. Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition of Nagasaki University (RECNA), Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, and Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN), Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons Use in Northeast Asia: Implications for Reducing Nuclear Risk, March 2023

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