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Joe Hodgkin’s Poor People’s Campaign Remarks

March 6, 2024

GPBSR Co-Chair for Nuclear Disarmament Dr. Joe Hodgkin recently addressed the crowd at the Poor People’s Campaign on Boston Common.

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A Warning about Radioactive Air Pollution from Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station

February 24, 2024

Written by Greater Boston PSR members Dr. Brita Lundberg, Dr. Joe Hodgkin and Dr. Susan Racine.

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Letter calling for an immediate halt to radioactive aerosol releases from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, an endangerment to public health

January 30, 2024

Letter from Greater Boston PSR to Gov. Maura Healey.

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GBPSR’s Dr. Brita Lundberg testifies in support of nuclear disarmament

October 4, 2023

Brita E. Lundberg, M.D., GBPSR Board Chair, testified before the Massachusetts Legislature in support of two bills related to nuclear disarmament.

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Nuclear Famine: Even a “limited” nuclear war would cause abrupt climate disruption and global starvation

August 15, 2022

Report prepared by IPPNW, written by GBPSR board member Dr. Matt Bivens. We consider this the “Readers Digest version” of the Nuclear Famine report — filled with graphics and charts…

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Study: Global food insecurity and famine from reduced crop, marine fishery and livestock production due to climate disruption from nuclear war soot injection

August 15, 2022

New report in Nature Food (a subsidiary of Nature)

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Effects of Nuclear Weapons and Avenues for Clinician Advocacy

May 18, 2022

On May 18, 2022 the Mass General Hospital Center for the Environment and Health held a webinar, and the second half of it featured a discussion surrounding the “Effects of Nuclear Weapons…

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The Growing Threat of Nuclear Extinction

January 2, 2022

Letter to the editor in the New York Times co-authored by GBPSR board member Dr. Ira Helfand.

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Q&A by Dr. Ira Helfand after watching The War Game film — August 6, 2021

August 6, 2021

Watch video from the event here.

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Nuclear Weapons Have Always Been Illegal; It’s Long Past Time to Abolish Them

July 5, 2021

In Depth News – July 8, 2021, marks the 25th anniversary of the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ’s) Advisory Opinion on the legal status of nuclear weapons.

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