Date
Event
March 1-8
Global
Abolition Day (Week of public actions and lobbying for nuclear abolition,
upholding
articles 1, 2 and 6 of NPT)
March 1
Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific Day
(U.S. detonates 17 megaton hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll, 1954)
March 5
NPT Day
(NPT enters into forces, 1970)
April 22
Earth Day
April 26
Chernobyl Day (Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident, 1986)
May 11 and 28 Proliferation Days
(India and Pakistan conduct nuclear tests, 1998)
June 1
Sunflower Celebration Day
(U.S. Russian and Ukrainian defense ministers plant sunflowers to celebrate Ukraine
becoming
nuclear weapons free)
July 8
International Court of
Justice Opinion Day
(International Court of Justice rules nuclear weapons generally illegal and there exists
an
obligation for complete nuclear disarmament)
July 16
Trinity Day
(First nuclear weapon test, 1945)
August 6
Hiroshima Day
August 9
Nagasaki Day
October 9
Nuremberg Day
(Leaders held to account for crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity,
1946)
October 19 Indigenous
Peoples' Day
(Indigenous peoples have suffered disproportionate effects of nuclear mining and testing)
October 24
Disarmament Week
October 24 United
Nations Day
December 1
Prisoners of Conscience Day
December 10
Human Rights Day
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