For most of my professional life going back to the late 1980’s, I have been a nuclear weapons organizer/campaigner. It’s my life’s work. Over all these years, no group of campaigners has impressed me more than the good folks with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). Their skill, passion, energy, professionalism and unrelenting doggedness is truly inspiring in our mutual pursuit of a safer world free of nuclear weapons. Read more >
Sean's Latest Posts

Historic Treaty Makes Nuclear Weapons Illegal
July 7, 2017 2:51 PM EDT
Remember this day, July 7, 2017. Today, history was made at the United Nations and the nuclear status quo was put on notice and most of the world stood up and said simply, “Enough.” Read more >

The Vienna Conference on Nuclear Weapons
December 22, 2014 12:27 PM EDT
I recently returned from the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons (HINW14), the third such conference since March 2013 spearheaded by a number of international civil society organizations and non-nuclear weapons states. These states are growing increasingly impatient with the nuclear weapons states in their lack of progress toward global disarmament—as they pledged to do in Article VI of the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Read more >