The Danger of Nuclear Power
October 21st, 2008
This week’s show features a recent lecture by renowned anti-nuclear activist Doctor Helen Caldecott. The Smithsonian Institute named Dr. Caldecott one of the most influential women of the 20th century and she’s been a nominee for the Nobel Prize.
The Australia-born Caldecott left a medical career that included stints at Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Boston to devote her life to the prevention of nuclear war. She co-founded Physicians for Social Responsibility, an organization of 23,000 doctors committed to educating their colleagues about the dangers of nuclear power, nuclear weapons and nuclear war.
Her efforts were the subject of the 1982 Academy Award-winning documentary If You Love This Planet. Caldecott has received more than 20 honorary degrees, and has authored seven books.
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