The “Burdens” of Hope and Peace

By Robert M. Gould, M.D., President, SF Bay Area Chapter, Physicians for Social Responsibility
The astonishing award of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Barack Obama is a welcome global affirmation of our President’s strongly stated commitments for new American leadership dedicated to breaking with the unilateralist and militarist agenda of the Bush-Cheney administration. President Obama’s [...]

Some Thoughts on Nagasaki Day

Some Thoughts on Nagasaki Day
by Bob Gould, M.D., President, SF Bay Area Physicians for Social Responsibility
My Mom passed away last week at the age of 86, after a three-year battle with metastatic colon cancer. Over the last two months, our family and close friends were able to share our love with her and help her [...]

William Perry speaking on reducing nuclear threat

Unitarian William Perry speaks on reducing nuclear threat July 16
Dr. William Perry was not only a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Palo Alto (indeed, Board President for two years), but was also the Secretary of Defense during three years of the Clinton administration. In recent years, he has devoted considerable thought and [...]

SF PSR President Dr. Robert Gould Speaks on Nuclear Weapons on KPFA Radio–Listen Here

Terra Verde – November 7, 2008 at 1:00pm
Click to listen (or download)

SF PSR President Dr. Robert Gould To Be Heard On KPFA Radio 94.1 Today, November 7

Dr. Gould will appear on KPFA Radio (94.1) 1-1:30 this afternoon (Nov. 7) to discuss the Environmental/Public health impacts of the nuclear weapons complex.

SFPSR Steering Committee Member Dr. Thomas Newman Publishes Book Review In New England Journal Of Medicine

From New England Journal Of Medicine 10/23/2008 Issue

Prescription for Survival:
A Doctor’s Journey to End
Nuclear Madness
By Bernard Lown. 436 pp., illustrated. San Francisco,
Berrett–Koehler, 2008. $35. ISBN 978-1-57675-482-5.
In Prescription for Survival, Bernard Lown
tells the remarkable story of how he and Eugene
Chazov, cardiologists whose countries were on
opposite sides of the Cold War, created and nurtured
the organization International Physicians
for [...]

SF PSR President Dr. Robert Gould Authors Resolution on Highly-Enriched Uranium; Shephards Through California Medical Association House of Delegates

Below Text of Resolution, please find an excellent article providing background and context.
CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF DELEGATES
Resolution 705-08: Highly Enriched Uranium in Radiopharmaceutical Production
Author: Robert M. Gould, MD

Adopted: October 6, 2008
Whereas, the California Medical Association has for many years shared the medical community’s understanding that nuclear weapons pose a unique threat to human [...]

Senator Feinstein Responds to SF PSR President Dr. Robert Gould’s Email Concerning the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal

Dear Dr. Gould:
Thank you for writing about the U.S.-India nuclear energy agreement. I appreciate the time you took to write me. As you may know, India has agreed to separate its civilian and military nuclear program over the next eight years and take other steps in order to receive U.S. nuclear technology and fuel.
On November [...]

SF Bay PSR Co-Sponsors Livermore Anti-Nuclear Event

LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: REMEMBERING THE VICTIMS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Toward a Nuclear Free Future * No War on Iran; Stop Threatening, Start Talking!
Saturday, August 9th 2008 63 years after the U.S. bombings of Nagasaki, August 9, 1945, and Hiroshima, August 6, 1945.

At Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab, Corner of Vasco Rd. and Patterson Pass Rd, Livermore, [...]

SF Bay PSR Co-Sponsors Anti-Nuclear Protest In Berkeley. Executive Director Evan Krasner, MD to Speak

NO MORE Nuclear War EVER AGAIN, August 6th Noon-4:00pm
Stand for peace – in remembrance of the lives destroyed in Hiroshima, lives now threatened in Iran, and our Constitutional rights – with CodePINK, SF Bay PSR, MECA, Courage to Resist, Women in Black, Gray Panthers, South Bay Mobilization, American Muslim Voices, and others August 6th, Wednesday, [...]