80 Years of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 89 Seconds to Midnight

To mark the 80th year of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Muslim Collective, Hiroshima Day Committee Sydney and International Coalition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Australia have organized this event.

We have with us, Dr Ruth Mitchell and Dr Vince Scappatura.

Dr. Ruth Mitchell is a neurosurgeon at Sydney Children’s Hospital and Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW. She is currently Chair of the Board of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). She also chairs the board of the Ubuntu Lab, an emerging museum of the humanities. Recently awarded the 2022 Convocation Medal by her alma mater, Flinders University, for her work with ICAN, she was also the 2019 winner of the John Corboy Medal from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons for her advocacy for diversity and inclusion in surgery, and was the inaugural Australian Medical Association Doctor in Training of the Year in 2016. She has previously served as Co-Chair of the ICAN Australia Board, and Vice President of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War.

Dr Vince Scappatura is currently Sessional Academic in the School of International Studies at Macquarie University. He has a PhD in International Relations and is author of The US Lobby and Australian Defence Policy. He is currently working on the Nuclear-Capable B-52H Stratoforterss Bombers Project for the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainabillity.