Nuclear Weapons
Arms Control Treaties
Physicians for Social Responsibility's Security Program is primarily focused on the development of institutions and treaties to help build the necessary international consensus to move towards global disarmament. This section covers the Strategic Arms Reduction, Comprehensive Test Ban, Non-Proliferation, and Fissile Material Cut-off Treaties which represent steps to PSR's overal goal of the abolition of nuclear weapons.
New Video Available - "Nuclear Tipping Point"
This is a recent video produced and being circulated by, "The Nuclear Threat Initiative." It features the authoratative and persuasive voices of; recent U.S. Secretaries of State and Defense and of a Senate Armed Services Committee Chair- for securing nuclear bomb-making materials, warheads and and reducing worldwide the number of nuclear warheads.
Speaking Truth to Power Y-12 July 5, 2010
The awareness and courage of nonviolent protesters is again manifest at the Oak Ridge Nuclear Bomb Plant. Thirteen were arrested on the federal charge of trespassing (crawling through a barbwire fence). The penalty can be as much as $100,000 and a year in prison. Twenty-three others were arrested on state charges of obstructing a roadway (standing at the gate across the entry road to the plant). This protest was organized to stop the planned construction of a new bomb plant at Y-12 for upgrading current nuclear weapons into the "future." It is the commitment and sacrifice of these people over the last sixty years that till now has prevented the use of nuclear weapons. As they 'speak truth to power' directly, let us add our voices until there is de-alerting and finally the abolishing of all nuclear weapons.
The Challenge of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
A BOOK REVIEW Edited by David Krieger President of The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, http://www.napf.org. The book presents the views of many scholars and policy analysts. Topics are arranged to progress from history to progress in negotiations, obstructions by nuclear weapons states and finally solutions including the need for a binding "Nuclear Weapons Convention." Can mankind control and abolish this looming threat? This book will further convince you of the urgency and of the efforts being made to accomplish it.
Weapons in Space
The United States’ “National Space Policy” has changed over the last fourteen years. From 1996, when it spoke of “concluding agreements governing activities in space” to 2007, when it most recently declared, “Proposed arms control agreements must not impair the rights of the United States to conduct research, development, testing and operations in space – and if indicated, to deny these rights to an adversary.”
