Urge President Obama to take Bold Leadership to Create a Safer World

Arizona PSR activists along with a coalition of other organizations including WILPF, Code Pink, the UN Association of Southern Arizona and many citizens collected 1600 postcards for each of our Senators to urge them to vote to ratify the New START Treaty in November of 2010. The CTBT is next!

This article on the dangers of nuclear war quotes PSR on the public health impacts of nuclear weapons.

Dr. Ira Helfand, a doctor in Springfield who is on the board of the national Physicians for Social Responsibility, said he met Senator Brown twice in Washington this year to urge him to vote in favor of the New START treaty.

PSR Executive Director Peter Wilk, MD writes on CNN.com that ratification of the New START Treaty can't wait any longer.

As we make the final push for ratification of New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), PSR is pleased with the work of our network keeping up a steady drum beat on this vital issue. The Bangor Daily News, a major Maine paper, ran an editorial on November 15 supporting ratification of New START. They wrote, "Further delaying the treaty is bad for the United States and the world. The Senate should ratify it."

The madness of nuclear war has been diverted in the past, but sometimes just barely says Dr. Ira Helfand of Leeds, who is interviewed in the film. Helfand is an emergency medicine physician and member of the national board of directors of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

A review of the new film Countdown to Zero, which features PSR's Dr. Ira Helfand.

An op-ed by PSR President Dr. Jeff Patterson on the New START treaty.

PSR has begun an active May by participating in multiple events at the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference. On May 1st, PSR took part in the the International Peace Conference where Secretary General Ban Ki Moon gave a groundbreaking speech on a world free of nuclear weapons.

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) and its US affiliate Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) are deeply disappointed in the Obama administration's opposition to the removal of US nuclear weapons stored in NATO countries.

IPPNW worked with PSR docs Vic Sidel and Ira Helfand to publish a briefing paper on four medical and environmental cases for the eradication of nuclear weapons.

An op-ed by PSR's Drs. Ira Helfand, Lynn Ringenberg, and Donald Mellman on the signing of the new START treaty between the US and Russia.

Early this morning, President Obama and President Medvedev signed the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The treaty marks a unique and historic moment as Russia and the United States signal to the world that progress is being made toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

An article on PSR’s Dr. Ira Helfand’s visit to Bates College on his speaking tour of Maine, where he discussed the dangers of nuclear war.

An interview with PSR’s Dr. Ira Helfand on the new START treaty.

The Economist reports on President Obama's nuclear agenda noting that cutting arms is not enough, we need tougher non proliferation rules.

U.S. and Russian arms-control negotiators have reached an "agreement in principle" on the first nuclear-arms-reduction treaty in nearly two decades, administration and arms-control officials said Tuesday.

Speaking at the Global Zero non-proliferation summit in Paris today, Undersecretary of State Ellen Tauscher said that Washington and Moscow are in the "endgame" of negotiations to sign a successor strategic arms reduction treaty.

Top US officials are now questioning why the United States still pursues a strategy based on the ability to annihilate its former foe. In a thorough review expected to be completed early this year, the size, structure, and even the very mission of America’s nuclear arsenal are being reconsidered as part of President Obama’s pledge to reduce the role of the world’s most deadly weapons.