Exploring physician anti-nuclear war activism March 27, 2025

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Group of IPPNW doctors holding the Nobel Prize in 1985
Photo: IPPNW

The legacy of groups including Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) inspired Katie Blanton, who studied the history of medicine at Harvard College and wrote her 2018 undergraduate thesis on physician anti-nuclear activism.

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