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It’s time to listen to doctors on the risks of climate change

August 25, 2019 Comments Off on It’s time to listen to doctors on the risks of climate change

Letter to the Editor in the Florida Times-Union from Dr. Todd Sack, MD, PSR board member and PSR Florida steering committee member.

PSR Chapters Focus on Nuclear Weapons in August Recess Meetings

August 23, 2019 Comments Off on PSR Chapters Focus on Nuclear Weapons in August Recess Meetings

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…

Human Health on an Ailing Planet — Historical Perspectives on Our Future

August 22, 2019 Comments Off on Human Health on an Ailing Planet — Historical Perspectives on Our Future

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.

Preventing Nuclear War

August 22, 2019 Comments Off on Preventing Nuclear War

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.

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Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 2019

August 22, 2019 Comments Off on Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 2019

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…

Join PSR and UCS on Sept. 25 for a webinar on Back from the Brink

August 21, 2019 Comments Off on Join PSR and UCS on Sept. 25 for a webinar on Back from the Brink

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 Free Future: Hiroshima/Nagasaki Vigils – Why Now?

August 19, 2019 Comments Off on Nuclear Free Future: Hiroshima/Nagasaki Vigils – Why Now?

Interview on Town Meeting Television with John Reuwer, MD, Greater Boston PSR, discussing Back from the Brink.

Nuclear weapons are a threat to our world

August 16, 2019 Comments Off on Nuclear weapons are a threat to our world

Op-ed in The Hickory Record by Dr. Bert Crain, Western North Carolina PSR.

“Heat, Fire, Water” and the Public Health Emergency

August 15, 2019 Comments Off on “Heat, Fire, Water” and the Public Health Emergency

Extreme heat, billowing wildfires, and water—either too much or not enough—are today’s faces of climate change. PSR board member Alan Lockwood, MD, FAAN profiles the health effects of these frightening…

A public health emergency

August 12, 2019 Comments Off on A public health emergency

Letter to the editor from PSR member Dr. Alan Peterson in LNP on the public health emergency that is climate change.