u.s. nuclear policy

What is the “INF” and why does it matter?

October 25, 2018

In December, 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev signed the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. On October 21st of this year, President Donald Trump…

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Withdrawing from the INF Treaty Makes the U.S., and the World, Less Safe

October 22, 2018

Withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty would make United States citizens less safe and increase the risk of nuclear war between the United States and Russia.

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Madison can help abolish nuclear weapons

October 15, 2018

Op-ed by PSR Board Member Robert Dodge, MD for The Capital Times.

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Physicians for Social responsibility: Ban the Bomb!

October 10, 2018

Radio interview with PSR-Wisconsin’s Paula Rogge, MD and Vicki Elson on the UN Ban Treaty, financial divestiture in companies which support the nuclear weapon industry, and Senate Bill 2047, which aims to prohibit a first-strike nuclear attack of North Korea.

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Don’t Arm This President With These Nukes

October 2, 2018

Op-ed by PSR’s Olivia Alperstein for Foreign Policy in Focus.

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As Trump postures, a national nuclear abolition campaign moves forward

September 5, 2018

Op-ed by Robert Dodge, MD, PSR Board Member, in The Hill.

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California Votes to Support U.N. Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty, Restrict Presidential Authority for Nuclear Strike

August 28, 2018

The California Senate has voted to approve AJR 33, a resolution introduced by Assemblymember Monica Limón that urges the U.S. to embrace the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and implement important protective nuclear policies.

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Baltimore and Los Angeles city councils vote to support nuclear disarmament

August 13, 2018

August 6 and 9, 2018, marked the 73rd anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Among the 76+ commemoration events around the country were two in city council…

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‘Denuclearization’—Why stop at North Korea?

June 25, 2018

Responding to citizens everywhere who yearn for peace, political leaders in South Korea, North Korea, China and the United States staged a flurry of diplomatic activity this year to avert…

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North Korea shouldn’t have nukes — and neither should we

June 13, 2018

Op-ed by Chesapeake PSR’s Dr. Gwen DuBois in the Baltimore Sun.

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