The 24th IPPNW World Congress in NAGASAKI
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The 24th IPPNW World Congress in NAGASAKI
Program
As of September 26, 2025
▶ Program at a Glance
 
▶ Speakers Bio
 
DAY1 October 2 (Thu)
DAY2 October 3 (Fri)
DAY3 October 4 (Sat)
  9:00-10:15
 
Plenary Ⅳ - Nuclear Deterrence Does Not Ensure Security
-  Dr. Fumihiko Yoshida (Director of RECNA)
-  Professor Tom Sauer (Professor, International Politics at the Department of Politics, University of Antwerp)
-  Tong Zhao (Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
-  Anahita Parsa (Policy Fellow, BASIC)
-  Moderator: Dr. Kati Juva (IPPNW Co-President, PSR Finland)
  10:30-12:00
 
Workshops
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Fukushima Nuclear Power Station Disaster
IPPNW Japan
-  Noboru TAKAMURA (Professor, Department of Global Health, Medicine and Welfare Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University)
-  Seiji YASUMURA (Director, Fukushima Global Medical Science Center, Radiation Medical Science Center for the Fukushima Health ManagementSurvey, Fukushima Medical University)
-  Hyoe TAKATA (Professor, Marine Radionuclide Dynamics,Radioisotope Geoscience Division, Institute of Environmental Radioactivity,Fukushima University)
Convention Hall 1
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South Asia in the Quest for Peace
Indian Doctors for Peace and Development
Room 102
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Understanding Nuclear Proliferation as Addiction & Societal Consequences of Increased Military and Nuclear Weapons Budgets: A Roundtable Discussion
Physicians for Social Responsibility USA & IPPNW Geneva Liaison Office
Room 103
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Breaking the spell of nuclear deterrence
IPPNW Norway & Germany
Convention Hall 2
  13:00-14:15
 
Plenary Ⅴ - What Happens If Deterrence Fails: Catastrophic Humanitarian Suffering & Nuclear Winter Overview
-  Dr. Ira Helfand (Board Member, IPPNW)
-  Professor Cheryl Harrison (Professor, Louisiana State University)
-  Dr. Jans Fromow (IPPNW Mexico, TPNW Scientific Advisory Group)
-  Angela Nambiro (IPPNW Kenya)
-  Moderator: Dr. Olga Trushina (IPPNW Co-President, Russia)
  14:30-15:45
 
Plenary Ⅵ - Preventing Catastrophe: Creating a Nuclear Weapons Free World through the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
-  Keiko Nakamura (RECNA, Nagasaki University)
-  Dr. David Onazi (IPPNW Co-President, Nigeria)
-  Kjolv Egeland (Senior Researcher, NORSAR)
-  Moderator: Stella Ziegler (IPPNW Student Representative, Germany)
  16:00-17:30
 
Panel Discussions:
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Radiation Disaster Medicine
-  Nobuyuki Hirohashi (Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine,Hiroshima Univ.)
-  Satoshi Tashiro (Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine,Hiroshima Univ.)
-  Mariko Mine (Nagasaki Univ.)
Convention Hall 1
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Climate Crisis, Nuclear Threat, and Health
-  Bob Gould (moderator, PSR-USA)
-  Dennis Opondo (IPPNW Kenya)
-  Angelika Claussen (IPPNW Germany)
-  Bimal Khadka (MedAct / PSR Nepal)
Room 102
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AI and Nuclear Weapons
-  Michael Schrefl
-  Facilitater: Victor Chelashow
Room 103