Why is Australian Red Cross – a neutral and impartial organisation – calling on the world’s governments to ban nuclear weapons? CEO Robert Tickner’s leadership has built momentum within the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement for a global campaign to make the use of nuclear weapons illegal and eliminate them forever. He makes a logical and impassioned argument, presenting evidence of how nuclear weapons cause suffering that cannot be limited by time, and why there can be no effective humanitarian response to a nuclear war.