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PSR DC Metro Area Chapter Hosts a Showing of "A Walk in the Woods" Play

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play details an exchange between a U.S. and Soviet Union negotiator for a nuclear arms control agreement. With increasing interest in the international community in nuclear disarmament, the play's perspective on the politics of these negotiations is timely.

Watch this video of the discussion held after the play, led by nuclear weapons negotiator Ed Ifft, PhD and DC Chapter president Dr. Mohammad Khalid.
PSR Takes Action against Toxic Chemicals in Consumer Products

You don’t know what toxic chemicals lurk in the products you buy. Manufacturers won't tell you, and the government doesn't require disclosure. So PSR is joining with allies across the country, calling on major retailers to identify voluntarily whether the products they sell contain specified hazardous chemicals. If they do, we're asking the store to develop a plan to remove them.
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Nuclear Weapons
The nuclear weapons danger is real and growing: nuclear terrorism, proliferation, and thousands of weapons still on hair-trigger alert in the United States and Russia. Fortunately, there also are new opportunities to eliminate this threat.
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Activists gather in Maryland to discuss PSR's recent Nuclear Famine Report and the urgent need for action
June 22, 2012

On Sunday, June 17th, Dr. Mohammad Khalid hosted a reception for local activists. PSR's Director of Security Programs David Hart and Executive Director Dr. Catherine Thomasson asked for attendees to support PSR and help to form a local DC Metro Area chapter.

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Nuclear Famine: A Billion People at Risk
The newly generated data on the decline in agricultural production that would follow a limited, regional nuclear war in South Asia support the concern that more than one billion people would be in danger of starvation. Epidemic disease and further conflict spawned by such a famine would put additional hundreds of millions at risk. Read more »