IPPNW Congress in Nagasaki and PSR Leaders Speak Out  September 26, 2025

PSR is excited to be joining the IPPNW World Congress in Nagasaki this week! Make sure you follow us on social media to see any updates on how the congress goes. Our PSR representatives and members will sit in on congress meetings, engage in thoughtful panels, and plan actions at this international meeting. 

Ahead of the congress, PSR member and past President Dr. Ira Helfand alongside many other IPPNW leaders published a new editorial on ending nuclear weapons, before they end us, in Internal and Emergency Medicine’s publication. Read the full article here. 

“It is an alarming failure of leadership that no progress has been made on these needed measures, nor on many other feasible steps away from the brink, acting on the obligation of all states to achieve nuclear disarmament. Nine states jeopardize all humanity and the biosphere by claiming an exclusive right to wield the most destructive and inhumane weapons ever created. The world desperately needs the leaders of these states to freeze their arsenals, end the modernization and development of new, more dangerous nuclear weapons, and ensure that new technology such as artificial intelligence can never trigger the launch of nuclear weapons.”