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Member Perspectives on 3MSP in New York City

March 25, 2025

This blog post is intended to give you a sense of what citizen activism is achieving  — the TPNW grew out of a proverbial ‘small group of dedicated people wanting to change the world,’ and now it is an official United Nations Treaty meeting in the UN Headquarters in New York City, working to abolish nuclear weapons!

PSR Delegation Attends the TPNW 3MSP in New York!

March 20, 2025

During the first week of March, PSR participated in the Third Meeting of States Parties (3MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) at the United Nations in New York City.

Can We Go Back from the Nuclear Brink? Time Will Tell

March 10, 2025

Op-ed in Common Dreams by PSR Los Angeles Co-President Robert Dodge, MD.

Upcoming Events: TPNW Third Meeting of States Parties

February 21, 2025

From March 3-7, campaigners from around the world will be gathering in New York City to join the Third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

That ticking sound? It’s the nuclear threat that never went away.

April 12, 2024

Letter to the Editor in the Boston Globe by Dr. Joseph Hodgkin, Greater Boston PSR Co-Chair.

New Report from ICAN: Untenable Investments: Nuclear Weapon Producers and their Financiers

February 23, 2024

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has issued a new report examining the involvement of investors in the production, maintenance or modernization of nuclear weapons.

Kudos for Sri Lanka in US for ratifying Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

January 27, 2024

Coverage of Chesapeake PSR’s visit to the Embassy of Sri Lanka, in The Daily FT.

Nuclear deterrence is the existential threat, not the nuclear ban treaty

January 22, 2024

PSR Past President Dr. Ira Helfand co-authors this response to an article favoring nuclear deterrence.

It’s 90 Seconds to Midnight and We Never Give Up Push for a Nuclear-Free World

January 10, 2024

Op-ed by PSR Board Member Robert Dodge, MD in Common Dreams.

At the UN, ratifiers of the TPNW Ban Treaty reject nuclear deterrence, push for treaty universalization

December 15, 2023

Sixteen PSR members, along with colleagues from allied organizations, were among the 700 civil society registrants participating in the second Meeting of States Parties to the treaty.