Associate Professor Tilman Ruff AO
Board member, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (Nobel Peace Prize 1985); Founding international and Australian Chair, co-founder, Australian Committee member, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN, Nobel Peace Prize 2017); Honorary Principal Fellow, School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
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Health & Medicine
Everyone can help forge a safe ending to what Oppenheimer began
While no film can convey everything about nuclear weapons, Oppenheimer is a timely reminder of how fallible humans created the first weapons that could destroy our world
Sciences & Technology
Go Figure
Would cockroaches really survive a nuclear apocalypse?
Cockroaches have a reputation for resilience, even when it comes to surviving a nuclear bomb and radiation - but would they really outlive us all?
Health & Medicine
Fukushima: The misery piles up
Five years on from the Fukushima nuclear disaster there is now an emerging thyroid cancer epidemic and 174,000 people are still displaced
Business & Economics
We need one law for all
North Korea’s nuclear test again proves that everybody needs to sign up if the world is to be rid of the worst of all terror weapons