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Letter to the Editor

August 9, 2019 Comments Off on Letter to the Editor

Letter to the editor in The Mountaineer from PSR member Dr. Stephen Wall on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

Healthy children more important than gas fracking

August 9, 2019 Comments Off on Healthy children more important than gas fracking

Letter to the editor from PSR Pennsylvania board member Dr. Ned Ketyer in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

PSR Opposes LNG-by-Rail

August 9, 2019 Comments Off on PSR Opposes LNG-by-Rail

PSR opposes the Trump Administration’s reckless proposal to allow liquefied natural gas (LNG) to be hauled by train. If such a train were to derail, the result could be a “gas bomb”—a fire so intense that emergency responders could not put it out.

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and nuclear weapons

August 9, 2019 Comments Off on Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and nuclear weapons

Letter to the editor in The Mountaineer by Dr. Stephen Wall, PSR member.

Hiroshima, the INF treaty and the decline of U.S. arms control leadership

August 6, 2019 Comments Off on Hiroshima, the INF treaty and the decline of U.S. arms control leadership

Op-ed in The Hill by PSR board member Dr. Robert Dodge on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings.

Hiroshima and the New Arms Race—No Winners

August 6, 2019 Comments Off on Hiroshima and the New Arms Race—No Winners

Op-ed in Common Dreams by Dr. Robert Dodge, PSR-Los Angeles and National PSR board member.

On nuclear anniversaries, support no-first-use policy

August 5, 2019 Comments Off on On nuclear anniversaries, support no-first-use policy

Letter to the editor in the Seattle Times by PSR member and family doctor Chris Covert-Bowlds, MD.

The U.S. Should Never Start A Nuclear War

August 2, 2019 Comments Off on The U.S. Should Never Start A Nuclear War

Op-ed in OtherWords by PSR Media Relations Manager Olivia Alperstein on the 74th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

Physicians for Social Responsibility Opposes U.S. Withdrawal from the INF Treaty

August 2, 2019 Comments Off on Physicians for Social Responsibility Opposes U.S. Withdrawal from the INF Treaty

PSR firmly opposes President Donald Trump’s dangerous decision to withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Read our statement.

Sound the Alarm

August 1, 2019 Comments Off on Sound the Alarm

Mark Vossler, MD, Washington PSR, writes in Washington State Medical Association Reports on climate change and heart health.