THE WAR GAME is a docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain, indicating how dangerous nuclear weapons are to exist.
Ira Helfand, MD is a member of the International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapon, ICAN, the recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, and Immediate Past President of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the founding partner of ICAN and itself the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize. He is also co-Founder and Past President of Physicians for Social Responsibility, IPPNW’s US affiliate. He is active in the Back from the Brink campaign. Dr. Helfand was educated at Harvard College and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Helfand co-authored PSR’s report, Nuclear Famine: 2 Billion at Risk?, which outlines the global health consequences of regional nuclear war. He was a leading medical voice in ICAN’s campaign for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Dr. Helfand addressed government delegations at international conferences on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in Oslo, Norway, Narayit, Mexico, and during the May 2016 U.N. Open-Ended Working Group on disarmament in Geneva, and throughout the U.N. General Assembly negotiations in 2017.
Brennan Tierney is a fundraising consultant with the Back from the Brink campaign, a grassroots coalition of national and local organizations working to bring communities together to advocate for a world free of nuclear weapons and he is a Foundation Associate at the Peace Development Fund, a public foundation with forty years of service to peace and justice movements. He was one of thirty participants from around the world in the 2020 Hiroshima and International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Academy on Nuclear Weapons and Global Security. Brennan holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Legal Studies and Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he was involved with the UMass Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign.
