SUPPORT A WORLD FREE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Human psychology makes nuclear weapons a horrific threat to continued human existence. Whether in the hands of terrorists or state leaders, nuclear weapons pose unnecessary potential for catastrophe. PsySR urges policy changes that end, rather than promote, their existence. We strongly recommend the development of psychologically sound strategies that reduce tension, fear and hatred; address the root causes of violence; and promote human welfare.
To quote George Kennan, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1952, "To my mind, the nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself. It is only something with which, in a moment of petulance or panic, you commit such fearful acts of destruction as no sane person would ever wish to have upon his conscience.”
To sign an appeal to the next President of the United States, please visit the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation website.
PsySR's Handbook on Using Psychology to Help Abolish Nuclear Weapons
This Handbook by Marc Pilisuk and Jamie Rowen, produced upon the auspices of PsySR, is designed to provide information about the potential contribution that psychology can make in our efforts to abolish nuclear weapons.
Links and Resources to Learn More and Take Action
Abolition 2000
Abolition 2000 is a network of over 2000 organizations in more than 90 countries world wide working for a global treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons.
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
ANA is a network of 35 local, regional and national organizations representing the concerns of communities in the shadows of the U.S. nuclear weapons sites and radioactive waste dumps.
Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World
In 2007, forty-six founding organizations teamed up to form a new consortium focusing on our common vision of a nuclear weapons free world. The Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational organization.
Council for a Livable World
The Council provides Senators and Members of Congress with sophisticated technical and scientific information that helps them make intelligent decisions about weapons of mass destruction - nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, nuclear nonproliferation, and other national security issues.
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
IEER provides activists, policy-makers, journalists, and the public with understandable and accurate scientific and technical information on energy and environmental issues. Their aim is to bring scientific excellence to public policy issues in order to promote the democratization of science and a safer, healthier environment.
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
IPPNW is the only international medical organization dedicated to preventing nuclear war and abolishing nuclear weapons.
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
The mission of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation is to initiate and support worldwide efforts to abolish nuclear weapons, to strengthen international law and institutions, and to inspire and empower a new generation of peace leaders.
Peace Action
One of the U.S.’s largest grassroots peace networks, with chapters and affiliates in 30 states.