Media Release 2 2026

July 30, 2026July 30, 2026 Denis Doherty

Nuclear War is closer than ever

30/7/2026

The current two wars in Ukraine and Iran are both possible sites where a nuclear exchange could take place. Any exchange will not be confined to both these states and radioactive clouds will travel to adjoining states and further afield. The combatants Russia, Israel and the USA are all nuclear owning states who have the capability to deliver these weapons over thousands of kilometers. Russia and the USA are the two most nuclearized states in the world. As well Pakistan is not going to stand by and watch Islamic states being destroyed as well Iran is closely associated with China who have nuclear weapons with sophisticated missiles and technology.

“European countries especially the UK, France and Germany are not in any way intimidated by the fact that Russians have the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world and keep taking steps to provoke Russia with massive assistance to Ukraine to help it to kill Russians.” Said Denis Doherty of the Hiroshima Day Committee Sydney.

“There is no alternative that Ukraine must move for peace and readjust its borders with Russia and accept that it cannot be a member of NATO. The future demands a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, the alternative of continuous war with help from US and Western intelligence agencies helping with targeting sites deep into the heart of Russia.”

“Voices inside Russia are calling for strikes and nuclear strikes in Europe if the situation continues to go out of control. What the response to these possible strikes would be, we do not know but the risks are great and the Governments of UK, France and Germany appear not to be very sensible about these issues and is apparently sleeping walking into disaster.”

“Similar problems are arising in the conflict US vs Iran where both US and in a lesser way Israel are nuclear armed. The volatile nature of Trump’s personality where he has a reputation for disliking any sense of losing. Israel too has a sense it will use nuclear weapons if it is threatened and feels it has no other alternative. The recent experience in Israel where it called for help when Iran fired many thousands of missiles into its territory.”

Time for Australia to sign the UN treaty on the prohibition on nuclear weapons (TPNW).

Conference

July 31, 2025August 7, 2025 Denis Doherty

80 years of Hiroshima and Nagasaki –
89 seconds to midnight

In person conference

book your ticket

https://events.humanitix.com/80-years-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-89-seconds-to-midnight

August 10 Sunday 4 pm- 6 pm

NSW Teachers Federation Auditorium

37 Reservoir St, Surry Hills

Online use this link

click here at the appropriate time

This link will open a zoom link – please open at around 4 pm on Sunday 10th August

Speakers

Ruth Mitchell

Ruth Mitchell is a neurosurgeon at Sydney Children’s Hospital and Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW. She is currently Chair of the Board of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). She also chairs the board of the Ubuntu Lab, an emerging museum of the humanities. Recently awarded the 2022 Convocation Medal by her alma mater, Flinders University, for her work with ICAN, she was also the 2019 winner of the John Corboy Medal from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons for her advocacy for diversity and inclusion in surgery, and was the inaugural Australian Medical Association Doctor in Training of the Year in 2016. She has previously served as Co-Chair of the ICAN Australia Board, and Vice President of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War.

Dr Vince Scappatura

Dr Vince Scappatura is currently Sessional Academic in the School of International Studies at Macquarie University. He has a PhD in International Relations and is author of The US Lobby and Australian Defence Policy. He is currently working on the Nuclear-Capable B-52H Stratoforterss Bombers Project for the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainabillity. A compilation of his recent publications can be found at https://mq.academia.edu/VinceScappatura

Tom Unterrainer

Tom is the chair of the UK Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). His role in the country (the UK) which will be building the next generation of AUKUS submarines which will eventually arrive in this country around 2040’s or 2050’s is extremely important to us. We want to forge a relationship with people in the UK who oppose this AUKUS madness. We want the peoples of both our countries to see that spending the huge sums on submarines will make both countries not more secure but poorer with huge social problems.

Get Active in 2024

July 13, 2024July 13, 2024 Denis Doherty

The Australian Peace Movement, the Sydney part of it needs to be more active and united as we face the prospect of more wars and more divergence of resources away from our needs to the needs of the arms industry lobby.

Need for Committee Members

Hiroshima Day Committee meets from May to August every year and needs more people on its committee as people are getting older and less able to devote energy to this project. In short we need new committee members.

Other peace groups in Sydney

Australian Anti-Bases Campaign – aims to close US bases in Australia such as Pine Gap etc as well as campaigning for an end to the US-Australia alliance. Covers issues such as the arms trade, military exercises and the like.

Visit their web page: www.anti-bases.org , or email info@anti-bases.org

Sydney Anti-Aukus Coalition (SAAC) -is the local campaign against AUKUS which includes the nuclear powered submarines and other aspects of the relationship with the US military.

Visit their facebook page: SydAntiAukusCoalition