PASSED!!! San Francisco unanimously voted embrace the UN Treaty on Prohibition on Nuclear Weapons
BRAVO! The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously PASSED a Resolution urging renunciation of nuclear weapons proliferation, actively pursuing a verifiable agreement among nuclear-armed states to eliminate their nuclear arsenals, and embracing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This resolution embraces the five point of the Back from the Brink Campaign. 12-8-20 Peskin ...
SUCCESS: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Drops Plan to Deregulate Rad-Waste Disposal
SF Bay PSR joined PSR-LA, Committee to Bridge the Gap, and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and collectively we were able to push the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to drop the plan to deregulate radioactive waste disposal. See more details and links below. For Immediate Release: Friday, December 18, 2020 Contact: Jeff Ruch (PEER) (510) 213-7028; ...
Farewell to a friend and mentor: H. Jack Geiger, 1925-2020
When I met Jack Geiger in 1987, he was already legendary. One of the founders of Physicians for Social Responsibility and a co-author—along with Vic Sidel, Bernard Lown, and others—of a series of groundbreaking articles about the medical consequences of nuclear war published by the New England Journal of Medicine in 1962, he had just finished his ...