Tell President Obama to cancel the Vogtle Loan Guarantee! We don’t want or need new nuclear reactors and we don’t think that taxpayers should be on the hook to support a mature industry.
PSR provides a powerful vehicle for doctors and other health professionals to address the gravest threats to human survival. As physicians we have a unique and critically important message about the dangers of nuclear war and climate change. PSR brings that message to the public debate about these issues.
Biographical Sketch
Ira Helfand has worked for many years as an emergency room physician and now practices internal medicine at an urgent care center in Springfield, MA. He is a Past President of Physicians for Social Responsibility and is currently the North American Vice President of our global federation, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
To request Dr. Helfand as a speaker, please email psrnatl@psr.org or call 202-667-4260.
Accidental Nuclear War—A Post Cold War Assessment, Forrow L, Blair B, Helfand I, et al, New England Journal of Medicine 4/30/98
Nuclear Terrorism, Helfand I, Forrow L, Tiwari J, British Medical Journal, 2/9/2002
Projected US Casualties and Destruction of US Medical Services from Attacks by Russian Nuclear Forces, Helfand I, Forrow L, McCally M, Musil RK, Medicine and Global Survival, 2/2002
The United States and Nuclear Terrorism: Still Dangerously Unprepared, Ira Helfand MD, Andrew Kanter MD, Michael McCally MD, Kimberly Roberts, Jaya Tiwari 8/2006
An Assessment of the Extent of Projected Global Famine Resulting from Limited, Regional Nuclear War, Ira Helfand, MD, presented at Royal Society of Medicine, London 10/2007
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