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Lives at Risk from COVID & Nuclear: PSR’s Peter Wilk, MD

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Peter Wilk, MD | Portland Press-Herald We must save lives at risk from COVID and the new nuclear arms race.

Remembering the Face of Annihilation: PSR’s Geoff Gratwick, MD

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August 6 and 9 are days of remembrance. On those days in 1945, the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 civilians. Those two…

Maine Voices: Congressional delegation should press for nuclear de-escalation

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Mainers collectively pay $257 million a year in taxes toward the arms race, exacerbating the detonation threat and diverting crucial resources. BY BENJAMIN T. COLLINGS SPECIAL TO THE PRESS HERALD…

PSR in the news

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We must prevent war with Iran By Maureen McCue, Tribune New Service. The BDN publishes opinions from partner news services to bring a wider variety of perspectives to readers. • June 3,…

How the cost of nuclear weapons impact Mainers

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One of the things that we all seem to share living in Maine is a sensibility about spending money.  But when it comes to the nuclear arms budget, this is…

Resolution focusing on preventing nuclear war is worthy of support

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If there is one thing in Maine we can all agree about, it is protecting children, no matter where they live. Here in Lewiston, I see examples of that every…

Maine Compass: Step back from brink of nuclear annihilation

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World leaders should focus on how to use diplomacy, not threats of nuclear annihilation, in addressing the dark path begun 73 years ago. Recent events have brought into focus the…

Trump’s EPA cuts are a threat to clean water

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Bangor Daily News Op-ed by physician Janis Petzel on the repeal of the Clean Water Rule and proposed cuts to EPA’s budget. “Weakening clean water protections harms Maine and its…

We can pull ourselves back from the brink of nuclear war

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Bangor Daily News Op-ed from Peter Wilk, MD and Constance Jordan, MSN, ANP, PMHNP on what we can do to prevent nuclear war. “Mainers are joining in the urgent effort…

Our View: Nuclear threat brings world closer to ‘midnight’

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There’s been too much reckless talk about the unthinkable: first-strike use of nuclear weapons. On Sunday, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons will receive the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for drawing…

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