From Ashes to Insight: 80 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Panel discussion 1 December 2025, 15:00 – 16:30
Karolina Widerströmsalen, Svenska Läkaresällskapet, Klara Östra Kyrkogata 10, Stockholm

How can we ensure that another Hiroshima or Nagasaki never happens again? What lessons can we draw from the past, and how do they relate to the current nuclear policy debate in Sweden? The Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament, Swedish Physicians Against Nuclear Weapons and SIPRI are jointly hosting a discussion on these questions. The discussion is followed by a reception at 16:30.

Opening remarks and moderator: Karim Haggag, SIPRI Director

Speakers

Jakob Hallgren, Director, Swedish Institute of International Affairs

Dr Tytti Erästö, Senior Researcher, SIPRI Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme & Swedish Pugwash

Professor Emeritus Peter Wallensteen, Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament, Uppsala University

Josefin Lind, Secretary General, Swedish Physicians Against Nuclear Weapons 

Please register your attendance here.