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PSR has been working for more than 50 years to create a healthy, just and peaceful world for both the present and the future generations. Join us.

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PSR advocates on the issues you care about by addressing the dangers that threaten communities, using our medical and public health expertise to prevent nuclear war and proliferation, reverse our trajectory towards climate change, protect the public and our environment from toxic chemicals and eliminate the use of nuclear power.

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Nuclear Weapons

Working for a nuclear weapons-free world.

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Nuclear Disarmament & Public Health

Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy

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Environment & Health

A strong medical voice for climate solutions.

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Clean Renewable Energy

Fighting Fracked Gas

Health Leadership on Climate

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Campaign Updates

Campaign Update
Facing nuclear reality, 35 years after “The Day After”
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) has released a new multimedia presentation on the 1983 television movie The Day After. This landmark film showed the actual consequences of a full-scale...
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PSR empowers chapters and organizers through advocacy trainings
PSR’s Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program is working with chapters to conduct a series of advocacy trainings around the country, to develop critical community organizing tools and skills among PSR health...
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Oregon PSR helps pass Portland Clean Energy Initiative
Oregon PSR helped pass the landmark Portland Clean Energy Initiative, the nation’s first-ever clean energy fund for climate justice. The Initiative will raise $30 million annually to invest in renewable energy,...
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Powerful op-ed sounds PSR’s themes
Two PSR/Washington physicians, Michael Soman, MD and Mark Vossler, MD, published a powerful op-ed article recently in the Seattle Times. “Climate Change is Killing Our Patients” presents with great cogency a...
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PSR Helps Raise Health at COP 24 Climate Talks
As the nations of the world meet in Poland to discuss compliance with the Paris Climate Accords, PSR national board president Pouné Saberi, MD coauthored an article asking: Where is...
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Action Alert
Tell the EPA: Protect us from fracked gas
Tell the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: They need to retain the rules that require oil and gas drillers to capture escaping fracked gas. Fracked gas (methane) leaks into the atmosphere...
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Action Alert
Tell Congress to protect the EPA and our health!
Congress is working on a year-end deal to fund the remainder of the federal government for Fiscal Year 2019, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Congress must fully fund...
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Campaign Update
New ICAN Cities Appeal Inspired by PSR’s Work in American Cities
Earlier this month, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) launched its new Cities Appeal, ICAN Save My City, a global campaign to persuade cities to express support for the...
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Campaign Update
Greater Boston PSR Fights Proposed Compressor Station
PSR members in Virginia have been fighting a proposed fracked-gas compressor station for years. Now, Greater Boston PSR has taken up the fight against a compressor station proposed for their...
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Air Pollution Is Killing Kids, But Trump’s EPA Doesn’t Seem To Care
As a fourth-year medical student and future family medicine provider, I have a moral obligation―as does any doctor―to keep my current and future patients healthy and thriving. It’s for that...
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Sheer luck has helped us avoid nuclear war so far—now we need to take action
The 100th anniversary of the World War I armistice last weekend underscored the great folly of President Donald Trump's threat to pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with...
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Campaign Update
PSR’s 2018 Visionary Leaders Awards
On Thursday, November 8, Physicians for Social Responsibility held our annual Visionary Leaders Awards in Washington, DC, where we honored incredible individuals and organizations for their efforts to advance nuclear...
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