For once, the United States, France and the United Kingdom are in agreement with Russia: plans to negotiate a nuclear weapons ban need to be stopped. Read more »

It was a decisive victory for nuclear disarmament advocates -- including PSR. On October 27, an overwhelming majority of UN member nations approved a resolution setting negotiations in motion for a treaty to legally prohibit nuclear weapons, leading to their elimination. Read more »

A study published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology journal highlights the billions of dollars hormone-disrupting chemicals take away from the U.S. economy yearly. Read more »

The dangers posed by nuclear weapons are utterly unacceptable, and the only sure way to prevent an unthinkable catastrophe is to eliminate them completely. Read more »

Last summer the U.S. updated the federal law (Toxic Substances Control Act-TSCA) that regulates chemicals in manufactured products. EPA's first major decision under the reformed TSCA is the choice of which chemicals to review first. Read more »

The last hurdle to formally adopting the Paris Climate Accord was cleared this week with the EU’s endorsement. Twenty-eight EU nations have simultaneously ratified the agreement, crossing the threshold of representing 55 percent of global emissions. Read more »

Fifteen enthusiastic PSR members came to Capitol Hill to discuss just how bad nuclear weapons are for humanity. Read more »

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has overturned the state's pro-fracking "Act 13," ruling it unconstitutional. Read more »

On October 15, 2016, the Tufts University School of Medicine will host a one-day symposium to examine the catastrophic public health consequences of climate change and the ways that climate change will increase the risk of conflict, including nuclear war. Read more »

Countries from around the world are now gathering in New York for "Climate Week" with the objective of advancing the climate accords developed in Paris last December. Read more »

Thank you for signing on to PSR Security Program petitions! On September 15, PSR representatives delivered three petitions to White House Office of Public Engagement staff, with the names of signers that totaled 4657 signatures. Read more »

Although the mass media failed to report it, a landmark event occurred recently in connection with resolving the long-discussed problem of what to do about nuclear weapons. Read more »

North Korea today confirmed that it had conducted its most powerful nuclear test explosion to date, with an estimated yield of 10 kilotonnes, triggering a magnitude 5.3 earthquake. Read more »

Physicians for Social Responsibility and WildEarth Guardians filed a landmark federal lawsuit today to defend our climate, health, and America’s public lands from widespread oil and gas leasing, drilling, and fracking. Read more »
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Last year, the United Nations First Committee--which is in charge of nuclear disarmament--created the "Open Ended Working Group on Taking Forward Multilateral Disarmament Negotiations" (OEWG). Read more »

People all over the United States expressed, in myriad ways, their support for abolishing nuclear weapons altogether on the 71st anniversaries of the bombing of Hiroshima (Aug 6) and Nagasaki (Aug 9). Read more »
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Climate scientists, as we have heard many times, refrain from attributing any single weather event to climate change. But they do tell us in no uncertain terms that climate change increases the likelihood of frequent intense weather events. Read more »

Born, developed and efficiently exploited in Europe, ‘Don’t Bank on the Bomb’ has also achieved a great success in Massachusetts a few months ago. But what is Don’t Bank on the Bomb and why is PSR talking about it? Read more »

Despite recent revelations about Exxon’s deceptiveness about climate change, the billion-dollar industry is now turning the tables and pushing for a carbon tax on all U.S. energy companies. Read more »
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Setsuko Thurlow was 13 years old and in Hiroshima when her hometown was destroyed by a U.S. atomic bomb. Read more »
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