Make a difference in the challenge to confront global warming and prevent nuclear war and the development and use of nuclear weapons.
Tell President Obama to abolish the Nuclear Loan Guarantee Program.
Nuclear weapons pose a threat to human life and health. Additionally, the weakening of international treaties and the rising threat of nuclear terrorism make taking steps to eliminating nuclear weapons essential. With recently reported bipartisan and global support for a vision of world free of nuclear weapons, PSR will promote taking concrete steps to zero including: U.S. ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, a reduction of the role nuclear weapons play in security strategies, U.S.-Russian agreement to verifiably reduce nuclear arsenals, and a strengthening of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) collborates with two international organizations--the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in an effot to abolish nuclear weapons. PSR, ICAN and IPPNW have identfied some critical steps towards zero including the U.S. ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
Researcher Corner
Climate and Health Effects of Regional Nuclear War
Recent studies have shown that even a “limited” nuclear conflict, involving as few as 100 Hiroshima-sized bombs, would have global climate implications. Among the most serious consequences, a significant cooling of the earth's surface would curtail growing seasons for a decade or more, affecting the food security of billions of people far removed from the area of conflict. Read more »
An amendment to the Department of Defense Authorization Bill (S.1390) outlines a plan to cut funding from nuclear weapon reduction activities. Senators Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT) introduced the Amendment (S. 1760) on behalf of McCain (R-AZ), McConnell (R-KY), Sessions (R-AL) and other prominent members of Congress. This Amendment attempts to both stifle nuclear disarmament negotiations between the U.S. and Russia and strengthen U.S. missile defense systems. Read more »
The Obama Administration is embracing the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, but understands that attaining this goal will take time. The President has made it clear that the United States will keep its nuclear deterrent capabilities for the time being. Yet the U.S. must take concrete steps to realize this vision in order to prevent our greatest threat today: nuclear terrorism. Read more »
President Obama met with authors of a 2007 Wall Street Journal article that pushed the international community onto a nuclear weapons free world wave. Former secretaries, Henry Kissinger, and George Schultz, and two leading Democrats, Sam Nunn, and William Perry met with President Obama to help him realize what he committed America to in Prague last month, “a world without nuclear weapons.’’ Read more »
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We need you to write to President Obama now and ask him to bring us back from the brink of a conflict that neither country can afford. We ask President Obama to establish direct diplomatic engagement with Iran.
Please take a moment to contact your Representative now, asking them to sign on to Rep. Markey's letter.
The U.S. and Nuclear Terrorism
This report on nuclear terrorism in the US provides detailed analysis of the medical and public health consequences of nuclear terrorism or accidents. Read more »
PSR Reports Spring 2011
Inside this issue: 50 years of physician anti-nuclear advocacy; pressing for better toxics policy; next steps for the Clean Air Act; and more. Read more »
Video: PSR's Dr. Ira Helfand speaks to students on the urgency of action
Dr. Helfand spoke in September, 2010 to an audience of University students and professors on the medical consequences of nuclear weapons and the urgent need for the United States of America to reduce the risk posed by these weapons of mass destruction. Read more »
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