nuclear weapons

Organize with us!

September 29, 2025

Join the Boston-hub of Back from the Brink in our efforts to help prevent nuclear war, from the local level up.

My Generation’s Deadly Inheritance

August 9, 2025

GBPSR Board Member Trey Hale and our former Global Health and Peace award winner Rishi Gurudevan are featured in this NYTimes article.

Mombasa Appeal for peace and prevention of nuclear war

June 18, 2024

This statement was issued by IPPNW’s International Council and Board of Directors at the conclusion of the 23rd IPPNW World Congress in Mombasa, Kenya. Greater Boston PSR endorses the Mombasa…

GBPSR’s statement on the war in the Middle East

May 7, 2024

At Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, we are appalled and saddened by the events of the past seven months in the Middle East, from the horrific attacks on October…

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.

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.

Annual Global Health and Peace Concert

August 23, 2022

Greater Boston PSR (GBPSR) and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) are pleased to host a very special fifth annual peace and health concert to address the twin existential threats of nuclear war and climate change.

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…

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)

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…