u.s. nuclear policy

PSR Concludes First Nuclear Weapons and Radiation: Health Risks and Advocacy Course! 

February 23, 2026

Meeting weekly online, the course brought together leading scientific experts, frontline community voices, and experienced advocates to examine the full spectrum of radiation and nuclear weapons harms.

The Financial Cost of the U.S. Military

February 18, 2026

Webinar from the Sound Defense Alliance discussing financial costs of the U.S. military, co-sponsored by Washington PSR.

Health and Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Weapons and War

February 17, 2026

This presentation will describe the manifold public health threats posed by: current global programs to expand and modernize these nuclear weapons arsenals; the abrogation of international treaties to reduce the dangers; and areas of heightened great-power confrontation.

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.

The legacy of weapons testing and the fight for Nevada’s Cold War veterans

January 20, 2026

Op-ed by Magritte Gordaneer, PSR Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program Manager, in the Nevada Current.

2025 Wrap Up: The Year in Nuclear Weapons Abolition at PSR 

December 18, 2025

As nuclear risks continued to rise—from eroding arms control to renewed testing rhetoric—PSR worked to elevate the voices of health professionals to make clear that nuclear weapons are a public health emergency.

Take Action: Health Professionals Oppose Resumption of Nuclear Explosive Testing

November 24, 2025

Policymakers must hear that the medical and public-health community will not stand by while the U.S. abandons its leadership on the global norm against nuclear testing.

We must limit the nuclear option

November 18, 2025

Letter to the editor by Dr. Doug Dransfield, PSR Maine, in the Sun Journal.

Ann Suellentrop shares public health fight to save our country

November 3, 2025

Article from Peaceworks Kansas City on the recent American Public Health Association annual meeting with reflections from PSR Board Member Ann Suellentrop, MSRN.

“Extraordinarily Destabilizing Decision”: Trump Denounced over Call to Immediately Resume Nuclear Tests

October 30, 2025

Democracy Now! interview with PSR Past President Ira Helfand, MD.