<Li> 28 May 2010: ICAN campaigners at the NPT Review Conference in New York call on governments to support a nuclear weapons convention . While references to a convention are included in the final document, ICAN is already considering a shift in strategy toward a new treaty banning nuclear weapons in order to empower non-nuclear - weapon states to assume more effective leadership . </Li> <Li> 30 April 2007: ICAN is launched internationally during the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons preparatory committee meeting in Vienna . </Li> <Li> 7 September 2006: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the 1985 Nobel Peace Laureate, adopts ICAN as top campaign priority at its world congress in Helsinki, Finland . IPPNW's Australian affiliate, MAPW, commits to fund - raising and providing coordination for a campaign launch in 2007 . </Li> <P> A number of prominent individuals have lent their support to the campaign, including Nobel Peace Prize laureates Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama and Jody Williams, the musician Herbie Hancock, the cricket journalist and former player Ian Chappell, the actors Martin Sheen and Michael Douglas, and the artist Yoko Ono . </P>

International campaign to abolish nuclear weapons (ican