That ticking sound? It’s the nuclear threat that never went away. April 12, 2024

Dr. Joseph Hodgkin, Greater Boston PSR Co-Chair | Boston Globe
At Physicians for Social Responsibility, we agree that nuclear weapons present “the most clear and present danger to humankind.” A study in the journal Nature Food in August 2022 showed a nuclear war could lead to the starvation of up to 5 billion of the 8 billion people on earth.
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