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Nuclear Abolition Day Appeal Extended
February 27, 2026
In September 2025, the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes signed the Joint Appeal for Nuclear Abolition Day which was presented to the UN High Level Plenary on the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons on September 26, 2025, and also presented to the UN First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) on October 17, 2025.
The Appeal was endorsed by over 600 organizations and more than 1200 additional individuals from 99 countries, including Nobel Laureates, former high level officials (foreign ministers, UN Officials...), parliamentarians, local body representatives, other political leaders, academics/scientists, religious leaders, medical professionals, youth leaders, educators, business leaders, artists and other members of civil society.
The five calls made in the appeal remain valid and vitally important for 2026. The risks of nuclear war occurring and the lack of progress on nuclear disarmament are of high concern, as reflected in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announcement on January 27 that the hands of the Doomsday Clock have been moved another 4 seconds closer to midnight.
The core team for NuclearAbolitionDay.org has therefore decided to extend the Nuclear Abolition Day Appeal to 2026 in order to present it to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference at the UN in April-May, and to the UN High-Level Plenary on September 26, 2026.
In order to do so, they have changed the date of the appeal to 2026 - the 81st anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the establishment of the United Nations. In addition, they have updated the global number of nuclear weapons to 12,300 (as reported by the Federation of American Scientists).
As everything substantive in the appeal remains the same, the plan is to include the current list of endorsers, and call for additional endorsements for the presentations of the appeal in 2026. CSA has been asked to encourage others to promote the call for additional endorsements to your networks. We hope you will!
Further updates will be posted on the NuclearAbolitionDay News page and in the UNFOLD ZERO newsletter.
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