Podcast appearances and mentions of Beatrice Fihn

Hon har ägnat hela sitt vuxna liv åt anti-kärnvapenfrågan ofta med stor framgång. Nu fruktar Beatrice Fihn kärnvapen i Sverige. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Beatrice Fihn är faktiskt den enda personen i världen som både blivit Årets Göteborgare och tagit emot Nobels fredspris.Hon var under många år chef för organisationen ”Ican”, Internationella kampanjen för att avskaffa kärnvapen, som fick stort genomslag 2017. Organisationen spelade en nyckelroll i att driva igenom ett förbud i FN mot kärnvapen, och tilldelades därefter ett Nobels fredspris för sitt arbete.Nu, åtta år senare, blåser plötsligt hårda kärnvapen-positiva vindar i debatten, efter Rysslands fullskaliga invasion av Ukraina och USA:s förändrade retorik gentemot sina allierade i Europa.Tror Beatrice Fihn fortfarande att en kärnvapenfri värld är möjlig?Programledare: Martin WicklinProducent: Filip BohmKontakt: sondagsintervjun@sr.se

This episode is a recording of a live event in Oslo 11.12.24: From Hiroshima to Gaza, with Hiroshima survivor Ms. Rumi Hanagaki, and Gaza-photojournalist Motaz Azaiza. The event is opened with a joik by Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, and an introduction by Beatrice Fihn, the Executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The conversation is led by artist and activist Nosizwe Baqwa, and the event ends with a speech by the leader of Palestinakomiteen (The Palestine Committee of Norway), Line Khateeb. The event was hosted by ICAN, Lex International, Aksjonsgruppa for Palestina and Palestinakomiteen i Norge, and supported by Fritt Ord and Norsk Folkehjelp (Norwegian People's Aid).

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations. Three Hibakusha (A-bomb survivors) were in Oslo, Norway to accept the award. Link: This Week’s SPECIAL Feature: The first ever Outrider Nuclear Reporting Summit drew together more than 100 reporters, editors, nuclear experts, activists...

John Everard, former British Ambassador to Belarus & Beatrice Fihn, former Excecutive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and director of Lex International

The Accutron Show is delighted to talk to Beatrice Fihn, former executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). In October 2017, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize honor was given to ICAN "for its efforts to raise awareness of the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons use and for pioneering efforts to achieve a treaty-based ban on nuclear weapons". Our hosts David and Indrani discuss with Beatrice the importance of knowledge, correct information and awareness about the subject of nuclear weapons, today ever so relevant. Listed by Bloomberg Media as one of 50 innovators who "changed the global landscape", Beatrice is one to listen to and to follow.EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS 10:00 With everything going on in the world from a political point of view, the subject of nuclear weapons is relevant again. The movie "Oppenhemer" also contributed to make this issue one to discuss and learn more about. 14:00 All our problems right now are global. We have seen it with Covid, climate change, migration issues etc. No country can solve these issues on their own. But at the same time, as these problems become global, countries' leaders retract to become more nationalistic. 20:00 When we won the Nobel Prize, we were a small project and no one really paid attention to us. We went overnight to get a lot of attention. I remember signing the Laureate book as asked by the committee and seeing all the signatures of these incredible individuals like Martin Luther King, Desmond Tutu, Malala... My hand was shaking, I was so nervous!

Dr. Pavel Podvig, Senior researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva and Beatrice Fihn, Former Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and director of Lex International

In this episode, Annelise Riles talks  Beatrice Fihn, the Former Executive Director of ICAN - the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Under her leadership, ICAN was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize and played a key role in the adoption of the landmark UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. 

After nine years as Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Beatrice Fihn is stepping down. She talks with Ploughshares President Emma Belcher to reflect on her time leading the organization, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and her hopes for the future. On Early Warning, Lauren Billet sits down with Tong Zhao, senior fellow at Carnegie's Nuclear Policy Program. He discusses the leaked memo by a high-ranking US general predicting a war between the US and China by 2025 and how it furthers the narrative of the “China threat”.

Bill Leikam tells us about a fight between two of his foxes. Alexey Prokhorenko report in from Warsaw, and we discuss the plight of Russian men who left the country to avoid being mobilized to kill Ukrainians; now they may be unable to get visas to Western societies because the NATO countries are excluding Russians -- even those who are themselves opposed to Putin. There is a discussion about the desirability of promoting a ceasefire now. Andre Sheldon describes how war has hardened people's hearts and claims that Naomi Klein and Beatrice Fihn are uniquely able to help combine the peace and climate movements. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-543-global-town-hall-jan-2023.

Atombomben föddes ur rädsla: Oron för tyska kärnvapen fick USA att bygga dem, och oron för amerikanska kärnvapen fick Sovjet att skaffa sig egna. Sedan dess bygger världens säkerhet på att alla fortsätter vara rädda. Ändå var kärnvapen tillåtna fram till 2017 när FN röstade ja till organisationen ICAN:s förslag om att göra dem förbjudna. Hör ICAN:s ordförande Beatrice Fihn berätta om kampen mot kärnvapen och för en säkrare värld. . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

New York has issued a public service announcement advising how people can protect themselves in the event of a nuclear attack. Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons joined Sean to discuss the potential for nuclear war and what when we talk about nuclear war what we actually mean.

New York has issued a public service announcement advising how people can protect themselves in the event of a nuclear attack. Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons joined Sean to discuss the potential for nuclear war and what when we talk about nuclear war what we actually mean.

Insight and inspiration are vital for the important mission for peace through awareness and action to minimize the threats from nuclear weapons to people and our planet. How do we verify and respond to the complex reality of nuclear weapons and the humanitarian consequences? How can innovative technologies engage on a personal level and in society at large? Listen to the conversation between: Dr. Cordula Droege, Head of the Legal Division at the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross), Nobel Peace Prize laureate for 1917, 1944 and 1963 Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), Nobel Peace Prize laureate for 2017 Mette Vågnes Eriksen, Secretary General, Norwegian Polytechnic Society This episode is part of the 2022 Summit on the Modern-Day Nuclear Threat and How to Respond at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, in collaboration with ICAN Norway, NORSAR and Games for Change. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I det här avsnittet träffar vi svenska Beatrice Fihn som leder antikärnvapenrörelsen ICAN, mottagare av Nobels fredspris 2017. Men hur är det att leda den globala kampen mot kärnvapen mitt under brinnande krig, när världen plötsligt står inför ett verkligt kärnvapenhot? Är hon själv orolig för framtiden? Och varför är hon så besviken på den svenska regeringen? Researching Peace - en podcast från institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning samt Alva Myrdal-centrum för kärnvapennedrustning vid Uppsala Universitet.

Beatrice Fihn wants to rid the world of nuclear weapons. As Russian aggression raises the prospect of global conflict, can she put disarmament on the world's agenda?

Senator Elizabeth Warren joins the show to discuss the critical situation in Ukraine, student debt relief, and clean energy; Nobel Peace Prize winner Beatrice Fihn is here to talk Vladimir Putin's recent nuclear escalations; a top Russian journalist discusses how he had to flee his country for daring to speak the truth about the invasion of Ukraine.

As Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine continues with catastrophic human consequences - just how bad can things get? What sort of atrocities could Putin's regime inflict to subjugate the nation, including conquering its cities, not least Kyiv? And with siren voices in the West calling for a No Fly Zone - which would entail war with a nuclear armed power - is an apocalyptic scenario unthinkable?We're joined by Ukrainian social scientist Volodymyr Ishchenko and by Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.Please subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today we link two events, the birthday of Dr. King and the anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. We hear Dr. King in his own words as he decries militarism in general and specifically nuclear weapons during his Nobel Peace Prize-winning lecture. We read an Op-Ed from the Oak Ridge Environment and Peace Alliance that links Dr. King with the TPNW and then we hear the words of Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the Nobel Prize-winning organization the pushed for the TPNW. We note that Veterans for Peace, in the spirit of Dr. King and the spirit of Peace are issuing our own Nuclear Posture Review before the Biden Administration issues theirs. We hear Dr. King's call to action and then we finish with Dr. King's favorite song, sung by Mahalia Jackson.

Hear Beatrice Fihn's ideas about how we can personally be involved in effectively implementing the nuclear ban! Beatrice Fihn accepted the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for their coalition which helped bring about the Treaty to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons which is currently in force. "The Treaty categorically outlaws the worst weapons of mass destruction and establishes a clear pathway to their total elimination." She said in her Nobel Lecture in Oslo (here). As Executive Director, Ms. Fihn has led the campaign since 2013 and has worked to mobilize civil society throughout the development of the Treaty. This includes developing and executing ICAN's political strategy and fundraising efforts as well as representing the campaign in relation to media and key stakeholders such as governments, the United Nations and other international organizations. -- See the video at: PeoplePoweredPlanet.com -- Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM Also, check out the film on World Citizen #1 Garry Davis at: www.theworldismycountry.com

In this episode Susan Misicka introduces our sister podcast, Inside Geneva. Nuclear weapons were banned by international treaty at the start of 2021. But the treaty doesn't apply to any of the nuclear powers, since none of them signed it. So are nukes really banned? Inside Geneva host Imogen Foulkes talks to Cordula Droege, Chief Legal Officer of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Beatrice Fihn of the International Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons, and Elaine Whyte Gomez, the ambassador from Costa Rica, who steered the treaty through the United Nations.

In January nuclear weapons were banned by international treaty. But the treaty doesn't apply to any of the nuclear powers, since none of them signed it. So are nukes really banned? In this episode, Imogen Foulkes talks to Cordula Droege, Chief Legal Officer of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Beatrice Fihn of the International Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons, and Elaine Whyte Gomez, the ambassador from Costa Rica, who steered the treaty through the United Nations. 

In this special episode, we have a long-form conversation with Beatrice Fihn. She is the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winning Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

We're discussing the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. I have an exclusive conversation with Nobel Peace Prize winner Beatrice Fihn. And we finish with the highest praise possible for Tom Brady.

Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, joins us to discuss the current risks of nuclear war, policies that can reduce the risks of nuclear conflict, and how to move towards a nuclear weapons free world. Topics discussed in this episode include: -The current nuclear weapons geopolitical situation -The risks and mechanics of accidental and intentional nuclear war -Policy proposals for reducing the risks of nuclear war -Deterrence theory -The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons -Working towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons You can find the page for this podcast here: https://futureoflife.org/2021/01/21/beatrice-fihn-on-the-total-elimination-of-nuclear-weapons/ Timestamps:  0:00 Intro 4:28 Overview of the current nuclear weapons situation 6:47 The 9 nuclear weapons states, and accidental and intentional nuclear war 9:27 Accidental nuclear war and human systems 12:08 The risks of nuclear war in 2021 and nuclear stability 17:49 Toxic personalities and the human component of nuclear weapons 23:23 Policy proposals for reducing the risk of nuclear war 23:55 New START Treaty 25:42 What does it mean to maintain credible deterrence 26:45 ICAN and working on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 28:00 Deterrence theoretic arguments for nuclear weapons 32:36 The reduction of nuclear weapons, no first use, removing ground based missile systems, removing hair-trigger alert, removing presidential authority to use nuclear weapons 39:13 Arguments for and against nuclear risk reduction policy proposals 46:02 Moving all of the United State's nuclear weapons to bombers and nuclear submarines 48:27 Working towards and the theory of the total elimination of nuclear weapons 1:11:40 The value of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 1:14:26 Elevating activism around nuclear weapons and messaging more skillfully 1:15:40 What the public needs to understand about nuclear weapons 1:16:35 World leaders' views of the treaty 1:17:15 How to get involved This podcast is possible because of the support of listeners like you. If you found this conversation to be meaningful or valuable, consider supporting it directly by donating at futureoflife.org/donate. Contributions like yours make these conversations possible.

A treaty to ban the use of nuclear weapons becomes international law on January 22, 2021.  The treaty seeks to do to nuclear weapons what previous international treaties have done to chemical and biological weapons -- that is, prohibit their use on humanitarian grounds.  Nobel Peace Prize winning Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, discusses exactly this treaty obliges of its member states and also the broader politics surrounding the effort to get countries to sign onto the treaty.           Beatrice Finh -- exec dir of int'l camp to abolish nuclear weapins 

Eine Welt frei von Atomwaffen: Diesem Ziel widmet sich die Willy Brandt Lecture 2020 von Beatrice Fihn, der Geschäftsführerin der Internationalen Kampagne zur Abschaffung der Atomwaffen. Nach der Ratifizierung durch 50 Länder kann der UN-Atomwaffenverbotsvertrag im Januar 2021 in Kraft treten. Die Rede als Video unter www.willy-brandt.de

In this episode, we hear the wrenching stories of two survivors of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima. These two women, known as “Hibakusha” or “explosion affected persons”, both suffered injury and radiation sickness, but unlike the more than 200,000 who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, survived to bear witness to the horrors of nuclear weapons. One, Setsuko Thurlow, culminated a life-long effort at nuclear awareness and activism, when she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 for ICAN, along with ICAN leader Beatrice Fihn. We’ll learn more about why the bombs were used, and why they were so uniquely devastating.

Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, comes back to Press the Button to discuss the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, a UN resolution that was passed in 2017 and is now just five ratifications shy of the 50 needed to enter into force. Early Warning features our senior program officer/nuclear field coordinator John Carl Baker and Pranay Vaddi, a fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, discussing prospects for US-Russia arms control and DPRK/ROK relations.

From authors William J. Perry, Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration and Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering in the Carter administration, and Tom Z. Collina, the Director of Policy at Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation in Washington, DC, The Buttonrecounts the terrifying history of nuclear launch authority, from the faulty 46-cent microchip that nearly caused World War III to President Trump’s tweet about his “much bigger & more powerful” button. Perry and Collina share their firsthand experience on the front lines of the nation’s nuclear history and provide illuminating interviews with former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, Congressman Adam Smith, Nobel Peace Prize winner Beatrice Fihn, senior Obama administration officials, and many others. Shermer, Perry and Collina also discuss: even if Trump loses the 2020 election and we have President Biden, real risks of nuclear catastrophe exist because of the system, not the person, why the Iran deal was a good one to keep that country from developing nukes, how to deal with North Korea and Perry’s experience with the Kim dynasty, why the Russians are rational actors who do not want nuclear war, terrorists and the possibility of them getting a nuke, why we must eliminate Launch on Warning and First Strikepolicies, what is in “the football” seen held by men constantly trailing the President? Stanislav Petrov: the man who saved the world, and what this story tells us about the precariousness of our current system, game theory, the logic of deterrence, and how to get around it, why nuclear weapons were not inevitable, and changing the taboo from not using nuclear weapons to not owning them. William J. Perry served as Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering in the Carter administration, and then as Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration, and has advised presidents all through the Obama administration. He oversaw the development of major nuclear weapons systems, such as the MX missile, the Trident submarine and the Stealth Bomber. His new “offset strategy” ushered in the age of stealth, smart weapons, GPS, and technologies that changed the face of modern warfare. His vision now, as founder of the William J. Perry Project, is a world free from nuclear weapons. Tom Z. Collina is the Director of Policy at Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation in Washington, DC. He has 30 years of nuclear weapons policy experience and has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and was closely involved with successful efforts to end U.S. nuclear testing in 1992, extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1995, ratify the New START Treaty in 2010, and enact the Iran nuclear deal in 2015. Collina has published hundreds of articles, op-eds, and reports and appears frequently in major media. Listen to Science Salon via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play Music, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn.

Beatrice Fihn is not playing. She has a Law degree from the University of London and a Bachelors in International Relations from Stockholm University. She also has a Nobel Peace Prize, accepted in her role as Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. According to her website Fihn has spent more than a decade working in disarmament diplomacy and civil society mobilization, but what that means in plain language is communication. She reminds us of the terrible toll nuclear weapons would cost if they were launched against civilians again, and how colonizer nations use the threat of all-out destruction to maintain the white supremacist balance of power. Black Diplomats host Terrell J Starr has studied and reported on nuclear weapons throughout his career, so he is well positioned for a deep and timely conversation with an expert in the field. But Starr makes sure to keep the technical details light and stress the importance of this issue to each and every one of us, in ways we can all understand. Do yourself a favor and follow Beatrice: Twitter: https://twitter.com/BeaFihn (@beafihn) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beafihn/ (@beafihn) Check out the organization she leads https://www.icanw.org/ (here). Find out more about Black Diplomats at our https://www.blackdiplomats.net/ (website) or support Black-lead journalism at our https://www.patreon.com/blackdiplomats (Patreon). To learn more about Terrell, please visit http://terrellstarr.com/ (terrellstarr.com). To read some of Terrell’s work on foreign policy, download the https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aTF7bUKu21cJQz3AKhO6vuLy1Py2H-2M/view?usp=sharing (Black Diplomats Digital Primer). Black Diplomats’ logo was designed by https://thefancyfriend.com/graphic-design (Antoinette Childs). Black Diplomats’ theme song is by http://tallblackguyproductions.com/ (Tall Black Guy). Thank you for listening!

Our latest episode of The Global Cable features our Distinguished Visiting Fellow Beatrice Fihn. Fihn leads the International Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). In 2017, she received the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of ICAN, recognizing its work towards the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.    Fihn talks about whether it's more naive to work for a ban on nuclear weapons or live in a world with thousands of them; why governments don't always want the public to engage with national security issues; and how we've so far avoided a nuclear war not by good judgment, but by dumb luck.

Today I’m happy to share with you the discussion I had with Beatrice Fihn,  the director of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winning organisation ICAN, i.e the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. This very positive and wise woman has an interesting and hopeful view on women and gender issues in the workplace and specifically in the disarmament field. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. With Beatrice, we talked about how it is to grow up in Sweden with outspoken feminist and activist parents, the importance to check our own privilege, the challenges that come with a Nobel Peace Prize, the links between weapons and gender norms, and the importance of just being good enough and being ok with failing to have space to learn and grow.  Follow Beatrice on twitter @beafihn and learn more about ICAN on www.icanw.org / nuclear weapons and disarmament on www.nuclearban.org Exceptionally this episode is in English.  And find us on www.euforia.org 

Velkommen til denne sommerutgaven av Urix på Lørdag - følger du med hele veien får du til til slutt et meget sterkt korrespondentbrev fra Kristin Solberg - men før det - skal du høre fra både Jens Stoltenberg, Beatrice Fihn og vår egen Tomm Kristiansen - det skal handle om atomvåpen og den internasjonale straffedomstolen.

Beatrice Fihn of Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in discussion with Joe Cirincione. They explore the humanitarian narrative around nuclear weapons and the basic belief of why it shouldn’t be legal to wipe out an entire city. Fihn will be keynote speaker at "Chain Reaction 2019: A New Moment," the Ploughshares Fund June 10 gala in San Francisco. Also: Early Warning nuclear news analysis with Michelle Dover, John Carl Baker and Catherine Killough. Chain Reaction 2019: A New Moment: http://ploughshares.org/chainreaction2019

This week on the podcast, we are doing things a little differently. Our guest does not work in the climate field, but is the Executive Director of the organization awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016. Beatrice Fihn leads the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which was awarded the prize for its work in in highlighting the humanitarian cost and consequences of nuclear weapons. Once again this year, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have identified the two most existential threats facing humankind as being climate change and nuclear weapons, for this reason our conversation with Beatrice is relevant, and incredibly useful in how we conceptualize and advocate for these issues. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Beatrice Fihn, miembro de ICAN, visita el programa para hablarnos de los trabajos para la erradicación de las armas nucleares en el mundo. Desde Mozambique escuchamos "los cuentos del conejo" un proyecto de la editorial Libros de las Malas Compañías para salvar a la población albina. Irene Dorta nos habla de un proyecto para conservar la memoria de los mayores en Palestina y Marcos Gordillo (de Manos Unidas) nos habla del derecho a la alimentación

Let me ask you all a question. How much weapons-grade nuclear material do you think it would take to level a city the size of San Francisco? How many of you think it would be an amount about the size of this suitcase? OK. And how about this minibus?0:33All right. Well actually, under the right circumstances, an amount of highly enriched uranium about the size of your morning latte would be enough to kill 100,000 people instantly. Hundreds of thousands of others would become horribly ill, and parts of the city would be uninhabitable for years, if not for decades.0:56But you can forget that nuclear latte, because today&`&s nuclear weapons are hundreds of times more powerful even than those we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And even a limited nuclear war involving, say, tens of nuclear weapons, could lead to the end of all life on the planet.1:20So it&`&s really important that you know that right now we have over 15,000 nuclear weapons in the hands of nine nations. And if you live in a city or near a military facility, one is likely pointed right at you. In fact, if you live in any of the rural areas where nuclear weapons are stored globally, one is likely pointed at you.About 1,800 of these weapons are on high alert, which means they can be launched within 15 minutes of a presidential command.1:59So I know this is a bummer of an issue, and maybe you have that -- what was it? -- psychic fatigue that we heard about a little bit earlier. So I&`&m going to switch gears for just a second, and I&`&m going to talk about my imaginary friend, who I like to think of as Jasmine, just for a moment.2:16Jasmine, at the age of 25, is part of a generation that is more politically and socially engaged than anything we&`&ve seen in 50 years. She and her friends think of themselves as change agents and leaders and activists. I think of them as Generation Possible. They regularly protest about the issues they care about, but nuclear weapons are not one of them, which makes sense, because Jasmine was born in 1991, at the end of the Cold War. So she didn&`&t grow up hearing a lot about nuclear weapons. She never had to duck and cover under her desk at school. For Jasmine, a fallout shelter is an app in the Android store. Nuclear weapons help win games. And that is really a shame, because right now, we need Generation Possible to help us make some really important decisions about nuclear weapons.3:10For instance, will we further reduce our nuclear arsenals globally, or will we spend billions, maybe a trillion dollars, to modernize them so they last throughout the 21st century, so that by the time Jasmine is my age, she&`&s talking to her children and maybe even her grandchildren about the threat of nuclear holocaust? And if you&`&re paying any attention at all to cyberthreats, or, for instance, if you&`&ve read about the Stuxnet virus or, for God&`&s sake, if you&`&ve ever had an email account or a Yahoo account or a phone hacked, you can imagine the whole new world of hurt that could be triggered by modernization in a period of cyberwarfare.3:54Now, if you&`&re paying attention to the money, a trillion dollars could go a long way to feeding and educating and employing people, all of which could reduce the threat of nuclear war to begin with. So --4:08(Applause)4:11This is really crucial right now, because nuclear weapons -- they&`&re vulnerable. We have solid evidencethat terrorists are trying to get ahold of them. Just this last spring, when four retirees and two taxi drivers were arrested in the Republic of Georgia for trying to sell nuclear materials for 200 million dollars, they demonstrated that the black market for this stuff is alive and well. And it&`&s really important, because there have been dozens of accidents involving nuclear weapons, and I bet most of us have never heard anything about them.4:48Just here in the United States, we&`&ve dropped nuclear weapons on the Carolinas twice. In one case, one of the bombs, which fell out of an Air Force plane, didn&`&t detonate because the nuclear core was stored somewhere else on the plane. In another case, the weapon did arm when it hit the ground, and five of the switches designed to keep it from detonating failed. Luckily, the sixth one didn&`&t. But if that&`&s not enough to get your attention, there was the 1995 Black Brant incident. That&`&s when Russian radar technicians saw what they thought was a US nuclear missile streaking towards Russian airspace. It later turned out to be a Norwegian rocket collecting data about the northern lights. But at that time, Russian President Boris Yeltsin came within five minutes of launching a full-scale retaliatory nuclear attack against the United States.5:47So, most of the world&`&s nuclear nations have committed to getting rid of these weapons of mass destruction. But consider this: the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which is the most widely adopted arms control treaty in history with 190 signatories, sets no specific date by which the world&`&s nuclear-armed nations will get rid of their nuclear weapons.6:16Now, when John F. Kennedy sent a man to the moon and decided to bring him back, or decided to do both those things, he didn&`&t say, "Hey, whenever you guys get to it." He gave us a deadline. He gave us a challenge that would have been incredible just a few years earlier. And with that challenge, he inspired scientists and marketers, astronauts and schoolteachers. He gave us a vision. But along with that vision,he also tried to give us -- and most people don&`&t know this, either -- he tried to give us a partner in the form of our fiercest Cold War rival, the Soviet Union. Because part of Kennedy&`&s vision for the Apollo program was that it be a cooperation, not a competition, with the Soviets. And apparently, Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Premier, agreed. But before that cooperation could be realized, Kennedy was assassinated, and that part of the vision was deferred.7:15But the promise of joint innovation between these two nuclear superpowers wasn&`&t totally extinguished.Because in 1991, which is the year that Jasmine was born and the Soviet Union fell, these two nations engaged in a project that genuinely does seem incredible today in the truest sense of that word, which is that the US sent cash to the Russians when they needed it most, to secure loose nuclear materials and to employ out-of-work nuclear scientists. They worked alongside American scientists to convert weapons-grade uranium into the type of fuel that can be used for nuclear power instead. They called it, "Megatons to Megawatts." So the result is that for over 20 years, our two nations had a program that meant that one in 10 lightbulbs in the United States was essentially fueled by former Russian warheads.8:18So, together these two nations did something truly audacious. But the good news is, the global community has the chance to do something just as audacious today. To get rid of nuclear weapons and to end the supply of the materials required to produce them, some experts tell me would take 30 years. It would take a renaissance of sorts, the kinds of innovation that, for better or worse, underpinned both the Manhattan Project, which gave rise to nuclear weapons, and the Megatons to Megawatts program. It would take design constraints. These are fundamental to creativity, things like a platform for international collaboration; a date certain, which is a forcing mechanism; and a positive vision that inspires action. It would take us to 2045.9:15Now, 2045 happens to be the 100th anniversary of the birth of nuclear weapons in the New Mexico desert. But it&`&s also an important date for another reason. It&`&s predicted to be the advent of the singularity, a new moment in human development, where the lines between artificial intelligence and human intelligence blur, where computing and consciousness become almost indistinguishable and advanced technologies help us solve the 21st century&`&s greatest problems: hunger, energy, poverty,ushering in an era of abundance. And we all get to go to space on our way to becoming a multi-planetary species.10:03Now, the people who really believe this vision are the first to say they don&`&t yet know precisely how we&`&re going to get there. But the values behind their vision and the willingness to ask "How might we?" have inspired a generation of innovators. They&`&re working backward from the outcomes they want, using the creative problem-solving methods of collaborative design. They&`&re busting through obstacles. They&`&re redefining what we all consider possible.10:34But here&`&s the thing: that vision of abundance isn&`&t compatible with a world that still relies on a 20th-century nuclear doctrine called "mutually assured destruction." It has to be about building the foundations for the 22nd century. It has to be about strategies for mutually assured prosperity or, at the very least, mutually assured survival.11:08Now, every day, I get to meet people who are real pioneers in the field of nuclear threats. As you can see, many of them are young women, and they&`&re doing fiercely interesting stuff, like Mareena Robinson Snowden here, who is developing new ways, better ways, to detect nuclear warheads, which will help us overcome a critical hurdle to international disarmament. Or Melissa Hanham, who is using satellite imaging to make sense of what&`&s going on around far-flung nuclear sites. Or we have Beatrice Fihn in Europe, who has been campaigning to make nuclear weapons illegal in international courts of law, and just won a big victory at the UN last week.11:52(Applause)11:55And yet, and yet, with all of our talk in this culture about moon shots, too few members of Generation Possible and those of us who mentor them are taking on nuclear weapons. It&`&s as if there&`&s a taboo. But I remember something Kennedy said that has really stuck with me, and that is something to the effect that humans can be as big as the solutions to all the problems we&`&ve created. No problem of human destiny, he said, is beyond human beings. I believe that. And I bet a lot of you here believe that, too. And I know Generation Possible believes it.12:39So it&`&s time to commit to a date. Let&`&s end the nuclear weapons chapter on the 100th anniversary of its inception. After all, by 2045, we will have held billions of people hostage to the threat of nuclear annihilation. Surely, 100 years will have been enough. Surely, a century of economic development and the development of military strategy will have given us better ways to manage global conflict. Surely, if ever there was a global moon shot worth supporting, this is it.13:20Now, in the face of real threats -- for instance, North Korea&`&s recent nuclear weapons tests, which fly in the face of sanctions -- reasonable people disagree about whether we should maintain some number of nuclear weapons to deter aggression. But the question is: What&`&s the magic number? Is it a thousand? Is it a hundred? Ten? And then we have to ask: Who should be responsible for them? I think we can agree, however, that having 15,000 of them represents a greater global threat to Jasmine&`&s generation than a promise.14:00So it&`&s time we make a promise of a world in which we&`&ve broken the stranglehold that nuclear weapons have on our imaginations; in which we invest in the creative solutions that come from working backward from the future we desperately want, rather than plodding forward from a present that brings all of the mental models and biases of the past with it. It&`&s time we pledge our resources as leaders across the spectrum to work on this old problem in new ways, to ask, "How might we?" How might we make good on a promise of greater security for Jasmine&`&s generation in a world beyond nuclear weapons? I truly hope you will join us.14:48Thank you.14:49(Applause)14:53Thank you.14:54(App

CHEF FÖR ICAN, JURIST, 35 år. Född i Göteborg, bosatt i Genève. Debuterar som Sommarvärd. Beatrice Fihn fick, som chef för ICAN, ta emot Nobels fredspris 2017. I sitt Sommar berättar hon hur hon blev intresserad av mänskliga rättigheter och om kampen mot kärnvapen. Beatrice Fihn växte upp i Angered i Göteborg och träffade tidigt i sitt liv människor som upplevt krig. Hon blev intresserad av mänskliga rättigheter och berättar i Sommar om hur hon kom att arbeta med ICAN, vars arbete har lett till att en majoritet av FN:s medlemsländer har antagit ett förbud mot kärnvapen. Det är svårt att få folk med makt att ändra på vanor, säger hon. Deras strategi blev därför att först prata med länder som inte hade kärnvapen för att få dem att skriva under ett förbud. Beatrice önskar att fler personer gör något litet för att få en bättre värld. Ensam orkar och kan man inte förändra allt, men alla kan bidra till att vi får en tryggare och mer jämlik värld.   Om Beatrice Fihn Mottagare av Nobels fredspris i fjol som chef för ICAN, en global kampanj som samlar organisationer mot kärnvapen. Som en följd av ICAN:s arbete förhandlade och antog en majoritet av FN:s medlemsländer ett förbud mot kärnvapen förra året. Redan under uppväxten intresserad av politik, miljö och mänskliga rättigheter. Tidigare arbetat på Internationella kvinnoförbundet för fred och frihet och dess avdelning Reaching Critical Will som arbetar för nedrustning. Har en magisterexamen i Public international law från University of London. Producent: Cecilia Khavar

A special defense-themed episode take you inside this week’s tense NATO summit and discusses the new specialism of 24/7 POTUS management. The stellar line-up includes United States Ambassadors Alexander Vershbow and Daniel Fried; Beatrice Fihn who leads ICAN an anti-nuclear and Nobel Peace Prize-winning campaign group; Brookings Institution’s Constanze Stelzenmüller and journalist Paul Taylor.

This week Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to meet with a North Korean head of state, raising the prospect that the repressive dictatorship might finally take steps toward dismantling its nuclear program. But there’s something missing from the conversation: the fact that the United States itself is sitting on the world’s most powerful stockpile of nuclear weapons. Beatrice Fihn, the director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, and William J. Perry, Secretary of Defense under President Clinton, join Mehdi to discuss the nuclear threat closer to home.

Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist and professor, discusses his new book, "Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress."Paresh Upadhaya, Director of Currency Strategy at Amundi Pioneer, on how the dollar will perform going forward under a protectionist agenda, and his favorite FX trade for 2018.Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), discusses a report that reveals what companies benefit from a new arms race.Vincent Piazza, Senior Equity Energy Analyst and Global Sector Leader for Bloomberg Intelligence, on oil, US shale overtaking OPEC, and what E&P companies will do with their excess cash.

Otorgan el Premio Nobel de Física a los científicos que detectaron, por primera vez, las ondas gravitacionales. Son Rainer Weiss, investigador del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts, Barry C Barish y Kip S. Thorne, investigadores del Instituto de Tecnología de California, miembros del proyecto LIGO/VIRGO. El descubrimiento, a través del experimento LIGO, ha confirmado lo que ya formuló hace un siglo Albert Einstein en su Teoría de la Relatividad.El Premio Nobel de Química ha sido para Jacques Dubochet, profesor de la Universidad de Lausanne, de Suiza, Joachim Frank, de la Universidad de Columbia de Nueva York, de Estados Unidos, y Richard Henderson, investigador del Laboratorio de Biología Molecular de Cambridge, Reino Unido, por hacer criomicroscopía electronica. La críomicroscopía resuelve el problema de poder observar moléculas biológicas en su entorno natural y sin usar tintes. El microscopio electrónico como tal tiene casi cien años, pero para observar los objetos requiere que estos estén al vacío.El premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina ha sido para Jeffrey C. Hall, profesor de la Universidad de Maine, de Estados Unidos, Michael Rosbash, profesor e investigador del Instituto Médico Howard Hughes de la Universidad de Brandeis, Estados Unidos, y Michael W. Young, profesor de la Universidad Rockefeller de New York, de Estados Unidos, por sus descubrimientos de los mecanismos moleculares que controlan el ritmo circadiano o el reloj biológico. También indica la regulación de la expresión genética.El Premio Nobel de Economía ha sido para Richard H. Thaler, de 72 años, profesor de la Universidad de Chicago, por su contribución a la economía del comportamiento, esto es, básicamente la incorporación de la psicología a la ciencias económicas. Imparte clases en la Universidad de Chicago. Sus investigaciones demuestran que las decisiones no siempre obedecen a criterios racionales, sino que también entran en juego variables psicológicas que las desvían de un comportamiento económico racional.La Campaña Internacional para la Abolición de las Armas Nucleares ha recibido el Nobel de la Paz , cuya ceremonia de entrega se ha celebrado en Oslo. Allí, ha llamado a las potencias nucleares a sumarse al tratado para la Prohibición de Armas Nucleares. "¿Será el fin de las armas nucleares, o acaso será nuestro propio final?", se ha preguntado Beatrice Fihn, directora de la ICAN.El Premio Nobel de Literatura es Kazuo Ishiguro, de origen japonés y nacionalidad británica, es autor de novelas como "Los restos del día". Nació en Nagashaki en 1954 y llegó a Londres en 1960 con sus padres y su hermana, para que su padre trabajara para el Gobierno británico. Su padre era investigador científico, un oceanógrafo.Por otra parte, en este programa se entrevista a Alejandro Pérez Pastor, profesor de la Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, sobre el proyecto Irriman, que ha reducido el consumo de agua en la agricultura un 30 por ciento y un 40 la emisión de CO2.

Wat misschien iets vertelt over de smaak en het inzicht van die kennis, maar die zijn in elk geval beter dan die van het comité dat de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede uitreikt. Waar háált dat stelletje bekrompen relikwieën uit de jaren 70 toch elke keer weer zijn kandidaten vandaan? De Verenigde Naties, de Europese Unie, Aung San Suu Kyi, Barack Obama en dan nu de Internationale Campagne ter Afschaffing van Kernwapens. Beatrice Fihn, de Australische leidster van de Campagne die de Nobelprijs in ontvangst nam, zei dat we maar één driftbui verwijderd zijn van totale vernietiging, wat er bij de internationale media inging als een borrel bij een corpsstudent. Het ging natuurlijk over Kim Jong-un en Donald Trump, die je zeker kunt verwijten een eng machtsspel te spelen, maar die echt niet in een driftbui met rode kop naar die beruchte knop rennen om die in te drukken. Bij die Nobelprijzen is iets ernstigs mis. Alles wat uit het filiaal Stockholm komt, is dik in orde. De Nobelprijzen voor scheikunde, natuurkunde, geneeskunde en economie gaan doorgaans naar de groten der aarde, die hun wetenschappelijke sporen dubbel en dwars hebben verdiend en aantoonbaar hebben bijgedragen aan een betere wereld. Het filiaal Oslo, dat alleen de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede uitreikt, is zon beetje vanaf dag één de weg kwijt geweest. Wees niet verbaasd als dit stelletje wereldverbeteraars volgend jaar de prijs uitreikt aan een vreselijk instituut als de Mensenrechtenraad van de Verenigde Naties. Of misschien wel aan de Nederlandse Vereniging van Huisvrouwen. Als fatsoenlijke media zouden we dit circus moeten negeren. Maar ja, dan loop je zon mooie kop mis als één driftbui verwijderd van totale vernietiging. Niet dat je daarmee ook maar één atoombom tegenhoudt, maar ach, een kniesoor die daarop let. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hardtalk is in Oslo to speak to the winners of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, ICAN (the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.) It comes as North Korea continues its testing of missiles capable of reaching the United States with a nuclear warhead. President Trump has threatened ‘fire and fury' against North Korea and talks of increasing America's nuclear weapons stockpile. Earlier this year ICAN helped to deliver the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which was signed by 122 countries, although none of the nuclear armed powers signed. Stephen Sackur talks to ICAN's executive director, Beatrice Fihn. What use is this Nobel Peace Prize when the world's nuclear powers are not listening?(Photo: Setsuko Thurlow (C) and Beatrice Fihn (R) the Executive Director of ICAN, receive the Nobel Peace Prize 2017 award from Berit Reiss-Andersen head Nobel Committee of Norway. Credit: Nigel Waldron/Getty Images)

Hardtalk is in Oslo to speak to the winners of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, ICAN (the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.) It comes as North Korea continues its testing of missiles capable of reaching the United States with a nuclear warhead. President Trump has threatened ‘fire and fury’ against North Korea and talks of increasing America’s nuclear weapons stockpile. Earlier this year ICAN helped to deliver the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which was signed by 122 countries, although none of the nuclear armed powers signed. Stephen Sackur talks to ICAN’s executive director, Beatrice Fihn. What use is this Nobel Peace Prize when the world’s nuclear powers are not listening? (Photo: Setsuko Thurlow (C) and Beatrice Fihn (R) the Executive Director of ICAN, receive the Nobel Peace Prize 2017 award from Berit Reiss-Andersen head Nobel Committee of Norway. Credit: Nigel Waldron/Getty Images)

Did you know that 122 countries have adopted a treaty to ban nuclear weapons? The organization behind this movement is the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). In this spirited and informative discussion, Ray Acheson and Beatrice Fihn of ICAN take apart the nuclear deterrence myth, expecially in the case of North Korea, and the belief that nukes are "special" and therefore exempt from the ban on targeting civilians.

Did you know that 122 countries have adopted a treaty to ban nuclear weapons? The organization behind this movement is the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). In this spirited and informative discussion, Ray Acheson and Beatrice Fihn of ICAN take apart the nuclear deterrence myth, expecially in the case of North Korea, and the belief that nukes are "special" and therefore exempt from the ban on targeting civilians.

Bill Press welcomes Beatrice Fihn, Ben Kamisar and Rep. Don Beyer (DA-V to discuss Donald Trump's intelligence-boasting impromptu press conference, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapon's Nobel Peace Prize win, Our Revolution's 2018 endorsements and the truth about the Trump dossier - the entire Thursday edition of the Bill Press Show!

  Exactly two weeks to the day before this interview, Beatrice Fihn received a phone call from Norway. It was the Nobel Committee informing her that the NGO she leads, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.  The committee cited ICAN, as the NGO is known, for its work to achieve an international treaty against nuclear weapons. The treaty is often compared to the Landmine Ban Treaty and Convention Against Chemical Weapons in that it invokes broadly humanitarian principles to ban what is an inherently indiscriminate weapon. The treaty was finalized in July and has already gained over 50 signatories from governments, with many more expected in the near future.   What does this treaty hope to accomplish? What logic do Beatrice Fihn and her colleagues  use to press their case against countries who include nuclear weapons as part of their national security strategies?  How will winning the Nobel Peace Prize affect her organization's work? Fihn discusses these questions at length, and explains how campaigning to abolish nuclear weapons takes a kind of fearlessness and disregard for traditional power dynamics.  (And it's worth pointing out that this is a treaty that is opposed, at least for now, by all nuclear weapons possessing states.)   We also discuss Beatrice Finh's life and career and how she first became interested in nuclear issues. It's an inspiring conversation.    We kick off with a discussion about the moment she learned her organization had won the Nobel Peace Prize.      Become a premium subscriber to unlock bonus episodes, earn other rewards, and support the show!  

ICAN won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work on "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons." Jeffrey and Aaron discuss the prize, the treaty to ban nuclear weapons, and efforts to promote disarmament Links of Note: NTI's fact page on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Our episodes on the ban treaty negotiations, Banning the Bomb: Part I Part II Part IIIA (with Beatrice Fihn herself!) Part IIIB (with Beatrice Fihn herself!)  

This Week’s Featured Interview: The Nobel Peace Prize announcement from Oslo, Norway, and press conference interview with Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of ICAN – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Straight talk on North Korea from Bob Alvarez, a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, who served as a senior policy advisor to...

* Velkommen til Urix på lørdag. Geneve er første stopp og nobelprisvinner, Beatrice Fihn, leder av Den internasjonale kampanjen mot atomvåpen - IKAN. Hvordan kan idealisme og grasrotkampanjer fjerne atomvåpen når statsminister Erna Solberg sier dette: "Så lenge det finnes land med kjernefysisk kapasitet, så kommer NATO også til å ha kjernefysisk kapasitet." Spørsmålet går også til seniorforsker Sverre Lodgaard, som er med meg her i studio. * Hvordan skaffer man seg en Nobelpris? Vår podcast kan gi deg ---- noen svar. * Etter folkeavstemning og politivold, venter vi på selstendighetserklæringen fra Catalonia. Vi får rapport fra vår korrespondent. Vi skal også høre at ekspert på suverenitet og folkerett, Øyvind Østerud, har liten tro på løsrivelse. * Og vår Londonkorrespondent vender nostalgisk tilbake til en bydel og en fotballklubb han besøkte for tjue år siden.

Intervju med Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director för ICAN, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Last October, the United Nations passed a historic resolution to begin negotiations on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Previous nuclear treaties have included the Test Ban Treaty, and the Non-Proliferation Treaty. But in the 70 plus years of the United Nations, the countries have yet to agree on a treaty to completely ban nuclear weapons. The negotiations will begin this March. To discuss the importance of this event, I interviewed Beatrice Fihn and Susi Snyder. Beatrice is the Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, also known as ICAN, where she is leading a global campaign consisting of about 450 NGOs working together to prohibit nuclear weapons. Susi is the Nuclear Disarmament Program Manager for PAX in the Netherlands, and the principal author of the Don’t Bank on the Bomb series. She is an International Steering Group member of ICAN. (Edited by Tucker Davey.)