Kansas City PSR We Must Prevent What We Cannot Cure

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Physicians for Social Responsibility Kansas City

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1865 S. Pyle St.
Kansas City, Kansas 66103
913-342-0587 (h)
email: annsuellen@gmail.com

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Program Director: Ann Suellentrop, MSRN

Chairperson: Dr. Yolanda Huet-Vaugh

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Past Events

August 2025 Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration

Kimmy Igla in Kansas City, MO. Photo: Jim Hannah
Shiho Burke, center, leads the discussion pod called Preserving Hibakusha Legacy. PSR's Ann Suellentrop, at right, says World War III will be made in KC. Photo: Jim Hannah
Bree Crawford, left, listens as Kimmy Igla says they both attended this year’s DC Days, intensive lobbying sponsored by the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability. Photo: Jim Hannah

October 2025 No Kings Protest

Kansas City PSR's Ann Suellentrop, RN (in banana costume)
Kansas City PSR's Ann Suellentrop, RN (in banana costume)

May 2025 KC Plant Protest

PSR Kansas City joined protests at the KC Nuclear Plant
Anne Suellentrop, MSRN (left) speaks to the media at a demonstration outside the KC National Security Campus
PSR Kansas City protested at the KC Nuclear Plant

April 2024 KC Plant Protest

PSR Board Members David Drake, DO and Ann Suellentrop, MSRN protesting at the KC Nuke Plant.

August 2023 Hiroshima & Nagasaki Event

Photo credit Jim Hannah/KC Peaceworks
Ann Suellentrop MSRN, Program Director for PSR-Kansas City at the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration, Loose Park Pond, Kansas City, MO Photo credit: Jim Hannah/KC Peaceworks

August 2022 Hiroshima & Nagasaki Event

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On August 7, Ann Suellentrop, RN of Kansas City PSR presented at Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki: Never Again! This event was at the entry to the Kansas City National Security Campus, where some 85% of non-nuclear parts are made for the US arsenal. The event was cosponsored by PeaceWorks Kansas City and Veterans for Peace

August 2019 Hiroshima & Nagasaki Event

55 people attended a community event to commemorate the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at Loose Park Lagoon in Kansas City, MO. Photos courtesy of Jim Hannah, PeaceWorks Kansas City.

In this photo, an attendee takes the mic to ask a question. Photo courtesy of Jim Hannah, PeaceWorks Kansas City. Description courtesy of Ann Suellentrop, PeaceWorks KC/ Kansas City PSR and Jane Stoever, PeaceWorks KC.
Atsuki Mori displays pictures of her grandmother’s fiance’s nephew, who had perfect sight as a baby in Hiroshima and then had his left eye destroyed by glass from a window shattered by the first nuclear attack on Hiroshima in 1945. Photo courtesy of Jim Hannah, PeaceWorks Kansas City. Description courtesy of Ann Suellentrop, PeaceWorks KC/ Kansas City PSR and Jane Stoever, PeaceWorks KC.
In this photo, Dave Pack helps hang peace cranes. Photo courtesy of Jim Hannah, PeaceWorks Kansas City. Description courtesy of Ann Suellentrop, PeaceWorks KC/ Kansas City PSR and Jane Stoever, PeaceWorks KC.
People of all ages showed up to attend the commemoration event. Photo courtesy of Jim Hannah, PeaceWorks Kansas City. Description courtesy of Ann Suellentrop, PeaceWorks KC/ Kansas City PSR and Jane Stoever, PeaceWorks KC.
In this photo, Inoru Wade speaks of having roots in Japan and, in Kansas City, counseling First Responders. Photo courtesy of Jim Hannah, PeaceWorks Kansas City. Description courtesy of Ann Suellentrop, PeaceWorks KC/ Kansas City PSR and Jane Stoever, PeaceWorks KC.
In this photo, Kosuke Mori-Kreiner rings the gong, marking 74 years since the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Photo courtesy of Jim Hannah, PeaceWorks Kansas City. Description courtesy of Ann Suellentrop, PeaceWorks KC/ Kansas City PSR and Jane Stoever, PeaceWorks KC.

KC PSR Celebrates the Nuclear Ban Treaty Entry into Force, Jan. 22, 2021

Ann Suellentrop MS RN Project Director for PSR – KC
Dr. David Drake, national PSR President
Dr. Yolanda Huet-Vaughn, Chairperson of Kansas City PSR

Photos courtesy of Jim Hannah, PeaceWorks

Kansas City Hiroshima Event, 2015

Kansas City PSR News

40 discuss plan for underground nuclear reactor near Parsons, KS

February 9, 2026

PeaceWorks Kansas City article on recent event featuring PSR Board Member Ann Suellentrop, MSRN.

Nuclear imperialism and KC’s role ramping up for World War III

August 17, 2025

PeaceworksKC’s recap of event co-sponsored by PSR Kansas City and featuring PSR Board Member Ann Suellentrop, MSRN.

KC’s nuclear bomb parts plant is ramping up significantly.

July 9, 2025

Op-ed by PSR Board Member Ann Suellentrop, MSRN, in the The Kansas City Star [subscription required].

Protests in Kansas City Demanding a Halt to Nuclear Weapons Production and the U.S. Arms Race 

May 22, 2025

On May 19, 2025 six resisters to nuclear weapons production in Kansas City crossed the purple property line at the National Security Campus. This was to protest the plant’s doubling in size to accommodate the new U.S. arms race.

KKFI asks: ‘Why are you protesting nukes?’

May 18, 2025

Article from PeaceWorks Kansas City quoting Ann Suellentrop, MSRN, PSR Board Member.

Kansas City is preparing for nuclear war. We don’t have to sit by and watch it happen

January 21, 2025

Op-ed in The Kansas City Star by PSR Board Member Ann Suellentrop, MSRN.

Midwest PSR board members join tax day protest at Kansas City nuke plant

April 29, 2024

On April 15, tax day, PSR Board members David Drake, DO and Ann Suellentrop, MSRN joined with members of Peaceworks Kansas City and the Catholic Worker to protest nuclear weapons work conducted at Kansas City Nuclear Security Campus.

Fifty Protest Nuclear Weapons Production in Kansas City

April 19, 2024

Counterpunch article quoting Ann Suellentrop, MSRN, PSR Board Member.

Organizers Warn Kansas Citians As Local Nuclear Components Plant Plans to Double in Size This Year

April 16, 2024

Article in The Kansas City Defender quoting Ann Suellentrop, MSRN, PSR Board Member.

Missouri weighs tax break for KC nuclear weapons facility expansion amid protests

April 15, 2024

Kansas City Star article quoting Ann Suellentrop, MSRN, PSR Board Member.

Photo: Clare Conboy/ICAN