Pulling Back From the Nuclear Brink December 31, 2024

Dr. Bob Dodge, PSR Board
Michael Crist, IPPNW
The New York Times

There is a grass-roots movement, Back From the Brink (I am on its steering committee), that calls on the United States, and by extension the president, to indeed step back. Like your editorial, it calls on the United States to resume arms-control talks. In addition, it calls for renouncing the first use of nuclear weapons, ending sole presidential authority to launch, canceling the rebuilding of our nuclear arsenal and ending hair-trigger launch alert.

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