The campaign received the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize " for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons . " ICAN seeks to shift the disarmament debate to focus on the humanitarian threat posed by nuclear weapons , drawing attention to their unique destructive capacity , their catastrophic health and environmental consequences , their indiscriminate targeting , the debilitating impact of a detonation on medical infrastructure and relief measures , and the long-lasting effects of radiation on the surrounding area
2017 Nobel Peace Prize
2017 Nobel Peace Prize
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons