PSR’s Executive Director Catherine Thomasson and IPPNW’s Co-President Ira Helfand "worked the aisles" and witnessed the exciting and historic outcome of the Vienna conference on the Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons. Read more »

Chemical fragrances are added to a wide range of products including shampoos, soaps, makeup, candles and toys. Read more »
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On Saturday and Sunday, December 6 and 7, more than 600 campaigners gathered in Vienna in the largest ever civil society meeting on the abolition of nuclear weapons, the Vienna Civil Society Forum, organized by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Read more »

Four months ago, I was traveling across the Kazakh steppe by plane, train and bike with fellow students and young physicians from around the world. Two weeks ago, I was watching a 1987 documentary with fellow Washingtonians at our local Busboys and Poets, a community center for social transformation and delicious eats. Read more »

On Friday, November 7th, the U.S. Department of State announced to PSR and other disarmament groups that they WILL send an official delegation to participate in the third Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons Conference on December 8-9, 2014. Read more »

The science is clear, the solutions are outlined. IPCC’s authoritative report says humanity’s healthy existence is on the line. Our fossil fueled system is causing climate chaos and damaging our ability to feed and house ourselves. Read more »

The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War student movement has a history of spreading its message through bike tours in various regions around the world. This year, as PSR’s student coordinator, I worked with three other students—from Kazakhstan, Estonia, and India—to coordinate an International Peace Bike Tour in Kazakhstan. Read more »
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At Rendez-Vous Ottawa 2014, a cross-Atlantic mix of campaigners from many different organizations trained each other in advocacy techniques, strengthened alliances, and developed North American strategies. Read more »

The student PSR at Penn State Hershey started the school year with a PSR banquet at Harrisburg, PA and a lunch lecture featuring Patrick Bocco, the fundraising manager of CRY America. Read more »
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This month, we’d like to take a moment to recognize the outstanding achievements of our Western North Carolina chapter in the nuclear disarmament field. Read more »

Dr. Ira Helfand, representing PSR and IPPNW, has spearheaded the effort to amend the World Medical Association Statement on Nuclear Weapons adopted in October 1998. Read more »

Following on the heels of the "People's Climate March," PSR board member and past president Alan Lockwood, MD toured Canada to highlight the health implications and costs of coal combustion and to raise questions about carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), an experimental technology being tested now in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Read more »

On the 26th of September in 1983 one man, a Russian officer whose name is Stanislav Petrov showed so much civil courage that he was later called "the man who saved the world." Read more »
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The People’s Climate March made history as the world’s largest demonstration on climate – and PSR was there to help. Read more »
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Fish can play an important part in a healthy diet. But certain fish are safer to eat than others, due to toxic pollutants such as mercury. Read more »
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This summer, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency held four public hearings on the Clean Power Plan, its proposed rule to set limits on carbon emissions from power plants. However, no hearings were held in or even close to Iowa, a particularly coal-intensive state relative to its low population. Read more »

The anniversaries of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki provide a “teachable moment” on one of the gravest health threats of our era: the world’s arsenals of over 17,000 nuclear weapons. Read more »
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Western North Carolina’s PSR Chapter participated in the Veterans for Peace 29th Annual Convention in Asheville, NC. Read more »
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Recently the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Science, Space, and Technology subcommittee on Oversight and the Environment held a joint hearing to discuss the status of reforms to EPA's Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS). What is IRIS and how is the public’s health impacted by this program? Read more »

Dr. Susan Katz, Oregon PSR board President, provided the medical voice at a recent press conference announcing a new bill to phase out the worst of the worst toxic chemicals. Read more »