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The 2022 Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons
The 2022 Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons (HINW22Vienna) took place on 20 June 2022 in the Austria Center Vienna.
The conference brought together state representatives, international organisations, the scientific community, survivors of nuclear weapons use or testing and civil society to present established and new research on the humanitarian consequences and risks of nuclear weapons. Building on the Conferences on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in Oslo (March 2013), Nayarit (February 2014) and Vienna (December 2014), the HINW22Vienna provided an overview of their findings and discussions, and provided additional insight and new research conducted since. The aim was to advance the common factual and scientific foundation for the global discussion on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
Today, more than thirty years after the Cold War, there are still nearly an estimated 13,000 nuclear weapons owned by nine states in the world. This number is set to increase even further, with arsenal enlargements and modernisation programmes ongoing and nuclear technology being more readily available to other states as well as non-state actors. At the same time, the risks associated with nuclear weapons are also increasing. Human or technical miscalculations and mistakes can lead to devastating and global short, mid and long-term consequences. Besides their terrible human cost, the weapons’ impact on the environment, health, development and socio-economic development knows no borders and poses an existential danger to the entire world. Austria organised this conference in the hope of further engaging with the scientific evidence and the substantive arguments underlying the humanitarian impact and risks of nuclear weapons.
Agenda
The conference was an inclusive event comprised of expert panels and presentations.
Conference Program
Overview of Speakers - Biographies and Abstracts
HINW Brochure
Related Links
- pdf: Conference Program
- web: Overview of Speakers
- pdf: Chair´s Summary
- web: Conference Video youtube.com
- web: Opening Ceremony - Speech by H.E. Alexander Schalllenberg
- pdf: Opening Ceremony - Speech by H.E Izumi Nakamitsu
- pdf: Opening Ceremony - Speech by H.E. Dr. ElBaradei
- pdf: Speech by Nobel Prize Laureate John C. Polanyi
- web: Presentations
- twitter: #HINW22 twitter.com