You may have been following PSR’s updates on recent developments in the House of Representatives regarding zeroing out funding for so-called “low-yield” nuclear weapons. Thanks to the great leadership of House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith (WA), the House voted to zero out funding for low-yield nukes. Now, the fight is in the Senate. …
This year at the 2019 PSR Visionary Leaders Awards, we are honoring outstanding contributions to the advancement of nuclear weapons abolition and addressing environmental hazards to health, including the climate crisis. Dr. Helen Caldicott, a past PSR president and highly influential advocate who played a pivotal role in PSR’s work for decades, will be honored …
Article in The Conversation highlighting PSR’s anti-nuclear weapons work and efforts to get the broader medical community to respond to the climate crisis.
On August 6, activists from PSR Los Angeles, Beyond the Bomb, Nuclear Free Schools, Vets for Peace, and Peace Action, met with Representative Adam Schiff, Chair of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to discuss Representative Adam Smith’s No First Use legislation (H.R. 921). The bill simply states it is the policy of the United States not …
Article in the New England Journal of Medicine highlighting PSR’s anti-nuclear weapons work and efforts to get the broader medical community to respond to the climate crisis.
Letter to the editor in the New York Times from PSR board member and PSR-LA President Dr. Robert Dodge on the need for nuclear weapons abolition.
August 6, 1945. August 9, 1945. Seventy-four years ago, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two of the most horrific acts of warfare in history. This August, we remember the estimated 200,000 or more civilian men, women and children who died. We remember those who survived the bombing but suffered radiation …
Union of Concerned Scientists and PSR are proud to be co-hosting a webinar to highlight Back from the Brink on September 25. Back from the Brink: The Call to Prevent Nuclear War is a national grassroots initiative seeking to fundamentally change U.S. nuclear weapons policy and lead us away from the dangerous path we are …
Interview on Town Meeting Television with John Reuwer, MD, Greater Boston PSR, discussing Back from the Brink.
Op-ed in The Hickory Record by Dr. Bert Crain, Western North Carolina PSR.