This year at the 2019 PSR Visionary Leaders Awards, we are delighted to honor several outstanding advocates who are working to abolish nuclear weapons and to address environmental hazards to health, including the climate crisis. Each week you will have an opportunity to meet one of our awardees. This week, meet Marylia Kelley who will …
Op-ed in Common Dreams by Robert Dodge, MD, PSR board member.
Op-ed in VTDigger by PSR member John Reuwer, MD, for International Day for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons.
On September 19, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates gathered in Merida, Mexico for the 17th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. By a vote of consensus, the assembled Nobel Laureates adopted a statement which emphasized the urgent need to prevent nuclear war. They call on world leaders to take “decisive action” to eliminate the danger of …
Op-ed in CNN by Irwin Redlener, MD, former PSR board member.
Op-ed in The Hickory Record by Dr. Bert Crain, Western North Carolina PSR.
Video interview with PSR board member Dr. Ira Helfand on nuclear weapons, from Pressenza.
Interview on the Scholar’s Circle podcast with PSR board member Ira Helfand, MD.
Radio interview with PSR-Wisconsin’s Paula Rogge, MD and Vicki Elson on the UN Ban Treaty, financial divestiture in companies which support the nuclear weapon industry, and Senate Bill 2047, which aims to prohibit a first-strike nuclear attack of North Korea.
Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass extermination. In light of the terrible humanitarian and environmental effects that such weapons have, doctors and scientists have always warned the global society that such weapons must never be used again, and should be abolished.