US should stop spending billions of dollars on nuclear weapons July 29, 2024
Bangor Daily News
In June, the U.S. mint issued a commemorative $1 coin to honor Dr. Bernard Lown, a refugee who grew up in Lewiston and graduated from the University of Maine, citing his invention of the direct current defibrillator preventing cardiac death and saving countless lives. He was also honored for founding International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). Lown and Dr. Yevgeniy Chazov of the Soviet Union were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 on behalf of IPPNW.
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Lown, who died in 2021 at 99, was among the founders of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which continues to address growing nuclear dangers increased by current conflicts and nine nuclear-armed states.
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