u.s. nuclear policy

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…

‘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…

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.

Physicians for Social Responsibility Welcomes Positive Outcomes from Singapore Summit

June 13, 2018

PSR welcomes the positive steps taken by President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at Tuesday’s summit meeting in Singapore. A commitment to negotiate denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula has the potential to make the world a safer place.

A failed Trump-Kim summit would be a catastrophe

June 8, 2018

Op-ed by PSR’s Dr. Ira Helfand for CNN.

Physicians’ Prescription for Action on North Korea

June 8, 2018

In the run-up to the June 12 summit with North Korea, a group of prominent physicians urged Congressional leaders to promote diplomacy and prevent a war that could result in massive casualties.

Ojai, California’s Nuclear-Free Resolution: A Call to Action

May 24, 2018

On April 10, 2018, the city of Ojai, California adopted a resolution declaring the city the first nuclear-free zone in decades. Against the backdrop of events over the past year, and recognizing the catastrophic human consequences of any use of nuclear weapons plus the exorbitant costs of nuclear weapons production and maintenance, the City Council adopted the resolution unanimously.

Chain Reactions

May 1, 2018

The history of PSR and IPPNW disarmament activism from 1961 to the present, from Harvard Medicine magazine.

New Trump nuke policy veers us into more dangerous territory

January 19, 2018

Last week, a HuffPost reporter leaked a draft of the Trump administration’s new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). The NPR, which officially defines the role of U.S. nuclear weapons, dangerously increases…

American, British, and French Physicians Condemn Their Governments’ Protest of the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony

December 5, 2017

The American, British, and French embassies in Norway announced they will refuse to send top-level diplomats to the Nobel peace prize ceremony in protest of the awardee, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). ICAN received the Nobel peace prize for raising awareness on the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons and achieving the first-ever U.N. treaty that categorically bans such weapons.