Beatrice Fihn

Move the UN to Geneva immediately. It has the space, facilities etc.

Nuclear weapons are really just a radioactive teddy bear for leaders to cuddle when things feel scary.

Nuclear deterrence is inherently illogical. And any country is going to be worse off after using nuclear weapons than before and therefore it doesn’t make sense to use them and our opponents know this and therefore they don’t really deter that much and are pretty much obsolete and just symbolic.

The comments are so silly. basically 100 versions of “Russia knows we have nukes too!”. It’s fascinating how people just know that Russias nuclear threats won’t work but are convinced that US threats would. If Russias threats are a bluff, the US’s threats are a bluff too, you can’t have it both ways

For any UN or diplomacy nerds, this is fascinating about how the UNEP secretariat undermined the chair and tried to encourage NGOs to get him replaced, maybe because the text was too strong for Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries?? Cream it!

Palace intrigues The plastics treaty talks in Geneva ended without a deal. As negotiators weigh their options about the way forward, troubling questions are…

💣 An excellent analysis of the #PlasticsTreaty 's Whistledown (aka @magnuslovold.bsky.social) of what happened behind the scenes at the end of #INC5.2. Once again, important questions are raised about the role of UNEP, which seems to support a low-ambition treaty #Plastics
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Nuclear weapons security is deeply trusting; as in we trust our enemies to “do the right thing”. @beafihn.bsky.social of Lex International & @unidir.org talks about news media, public perception, and deterrence.

Right now, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland and Finland are in the process of withdrawing from the Mine Ban Treaty. These withdrawals mean more tragedies will inevitably follow. Landmines don’t protect. They kill your own civilians, and they mainly kill children.

He was just living a normal life, long long after a war. And this isn’t an isolated tragedy, this happens over and over again around the world where landmines have been used. Every time landmines are used, civilians will pay the price for decades ahead. People not even born yet.

This weekend in Bosnia, 19 year old Mehmed was killed by a 30 year old landmine. He was tending to his family’s goats, which had wandered into a mined forest. Mehmed wasn’t a soldier. The war ended 30 years ago, 11 years before Mehmed was even born. n1info.ba/english/news...

Marking 80 years since the invention & use of nuclear weapons and their devastating legacy from Hiroshima & Nagasaki to Alamogordo & Congo; we hosted Artists Against the Bomb in Geneva🎨🕊️

With artists, activists, diplomats & all @nuclearban partners, we say: BAN THE BOMB! 🏳️

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We’re looking to fund short-term projects that can help reduce reliance on and support for nuclear deterrence policies. Grants are between 10-35k CHF and we aim to support new writing, impactful meetings, captivating content creation, etc. No long applications or complicated reporting!!

Call for proposals: Non-governmental organisations, think tanks, university-based centres, and other legal non-profit entities are welcome to apply for grants for projects that aim to address the security concerns raised by nuclear deterrence policies. lexinternational.org/call-for-pro...

(Obviously, football today is absolutely a capitalistic entertainment product & it’s getting worse & worse by the year but that’s why complaining that serie a, that is at least a bit less “product” than premier league is not catering enough to random Americans is so provoking)

I’ve said it as a joke before but now I’m 100% serious, Americans should stop appropriating our culture and leave football alone

SERIE A IS NOT FOR YOU! It’s for italian cities and their people. Not for random Americans picking a team for fun. Football is not an entertainment product, it’s a culture. Of course you can be a fan anyway, but these clubs are not made for you. Enjoy it but you’re not the center

I saw a TikTok with an American complaining that Serie A wasn’t promoting its “product” to tv viewers like him enough, that their marketing & stadiums are not attractive for a US tv audience that might want to become fans and I’ve never been more provoked in my entire life.

Keith Haring’s ‘Public Art for a Public Purpose’ galvanized disarmament Artist Keith Haring used his own money to print and distribute 20,000 haunting posters during the historic 1982 anti-nuclear weapons march in New York.

www.nucleartimes.com/keith-haring/

Last week, Marseille joined ICAN Cities Appeal. The city supports the #TPNW and calls on France to join it. The French government is one of the most stubborn opponents of the TPNW, yet the 3 largest cities Paris, Marseille and Lyon (and 95 others) supports it. Allez!!

Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story Hundreds of people have died while seeking food since delivery was taken over by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May. But Palestinians facing extreme hunger have no choice but to take the risk

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is a Frankenstein's Monster of corporate consultants, the Israeli government and for-profit mercenary companies.

It is not a bona fide aid organization, but another tool of Israel's effort to forcibly displace the people of Gaza.

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Very important article as landmines are unfortunately back on the agenda again.

Good to see the UNSG appointing 21 members of the UN scientific panel of experts on nuclear war. Really great, diverse group with significant expertise in the medical, environmental and societal consequences of nuclear weapons use. press.un.org/en/2025/dc39...

Military-trained Americans’ trust in the president’s nuclear launch authority dropped during Iran Crisis. Here’s why it matters. A recent study discovered something unexpected: The US military's confidence in the president having sole authority to launch a nuclear weapon went down when Trump authorized missile strikes on Iran. ...

🚨 JUST IN: Military-trained Americans’ trust in the president’s nuclear launch authority dropped during Iran Crisis. Here’s why it matters.

By @charlicarpenter.bsky.social, Grace Bernheart, Joseph Mara, and Fatima Zahra Marashi

In @thebulletin.org

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Opinion | How a nuclear attack on the U.S. might unfold, step by step A scenario of America’s response to an incoming nuclear attack.

My latest in @postopinions.bsky.social - the 5th installment of our @scientistsorg.bsky.social series "The Next Nuclear Age"

How a president might come to launch a nuclear strike

Massive thanks to @sebphilippe.bsky.social for helping us model what a nuclear attack on DC might look like
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The Israeli and US missions “rising lion” and “midnight hammer” are not only illegal actions, they also do not slow the Iranian program nearly as much as the JCPOA deal did. Diplomacy is both legal option and achieves better results than bombing.

Bombing Iran is illegal under international law, and anyone who isn’t condemning the US and Israeli attacks on Iran are contributing to a more unsafe and unstable world.

Opinion | Only one American can start a nuclear war: The president The American president has the sole authority to order a nuclear strike, even if every adviser in the room is against it.

"Three minutes, a football and a biscuit," writes @mknight.bsky.social, a senior research associate at @scientistsorg.bsky.social.

"These are all a president of the United States needs to start nuclear war."

Israel says Iran was racing toward a nuclear weapon. US intel says it was years away | CNN Politics When Israel launched its series of strikes against Iran last week, it also issued a number of dire warnings about the country’s nuclear program, suggesting Iran was fast approaching a point of no retu...

“US intelligence assessments had reached a different conclusion—not only was Iran not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon, it was also up to three years away from being able to produce and deliver one…according to four people familiar with the assessment” www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/p...

You can dislike the Iranian government and think it’s a terrible regime, I do, but you still are not allowed to bomb them. Many countries think Trump is a terrible and dangerous leader & US is a threat to international peace & security, it doesn’t mean it’s ok to bomb them!

Also, just as a reminder, which country has an illegal and secret nuclear weapons programme? Israel! And who has a war criminal as prime minister? Israel! Which country is committing mass violations of human rights, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and possibly genocide? Israel!