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The future of the disarmament agenda is on the line now as New START ratification moves forward in the US Senate.
Ira Helfand, MD
City, State: Leeds, Massachusetts
Medical Specialty: Emergency Medicine
PSR Affiliation: Member, National PSR Board of Directors
Professional Affiliation: North American Vice-President, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Areas of Expertise:
- Nuclear power, nuclear waste, radiation exposure
- Iran nuclear crisis
- Nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament
- Nuclear war, terrorism and preparedness
- Nuclear waste reprocessing
Publications:
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 Kantor 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
In the Spotlight
August 16, 2010
Countdown to Zero
On the 65th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, the Sacramento Annual August Peace Event and Physicians for Social Responsibility-Sacramento screened "Countdown To Zero," a film that traces the history of the atomic bomb from its origins to the present state of global affairs. Read more about this month’s chapter in the spotlight event on Hiroshima.
