Medical Association for Prevention of War

The Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) works for the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction and the prevention of armed conflict. We promote peace through research, advocacy, peace education and partnerships. Please use our many resources on nuclear weapons, power and waste, peace and conflicts.

Our professional not-for-profit organisation has branches across Australia, and works globally through the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Please consider joining us, or supporting our work with a donation.

Recent News

Remove US nuclear weapons from Europe now!

Written 15/05/2012

On 20 May 2012 world leaders will meet at the NATO summit in Chicago. The future of nuclear weapons presently deployed in Europe is on the agenda. Sign a petition, initiated by the Global Zero movement, to have these dangerous weapons removed.

Doctors slam uranium miner over junk science on radiation safety

Written 01/05/2012

A statement signed by 45 medical doctors calls on uranium mining company Toro Energy to stop promoting the view that low-level radiation is beneficial to human health.

Who decides when Australia goes to war?

Written 26/04/2012

A new MAPW paper says the power to make war should be removed from Executive government (Cabinet) and located in the Australian Parliament. Sending Australians to War is the third in the MAPW War & Militarism series.

Nuclear famine: New IPPNW study shows a billion people at risk

Written 24/04/2012

A nuclear war anywhere in the world, using as few as 100 weapons, would disrupt the global climate and agricultural production so severely that the lives of more than a billion people would be at risk, according to research findings released overnight by MAPW's international organisation IPPNWⁱ.

Michael Leunig, Peter Cundall reflect on Language of War for MAPW on Anzac Eve

Written 23/04/2012

Artist Michael Leunig and gardener and TV presenter Peter Cundall will join local writers and performers to reflect on The Language of War, on Anzac Eve in Melbourne.