Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility

11/18/2025

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-1983-military-drill-that-nearly-sparked-nuclear-war-with-the-soviets-180979980/

Fearful that the Able Archer 83 exercise was a cover for a NATO nuclear strike, the U.S.S.R. readied its own weapons for launch

11/16/2025

On Saturday a group of young activists hosted a "Nuclear Reality" workshop in our office, telling their peers about their experiences visiting nuclear impacted sites and communities in Washington state.
The group split into 6 teams to play a new game, "the MAD World", designed to illustrate the concepts of nuclear deterrence, imperialism, and the risk inherent with the possession of nuclear weapons.
Participants ended the evening with a group discussion and informal presentation, and were invited to take action on nuclear weapons by contacting our members of Congress about the NewStart Treaty.

You can contact your members of Congress today at tinyurl.com/RestartNewSTART

11/14/2025

If you’ve never been to visit WPSR, now is a wonderful time as right outside our office door in El Centro de la El Centro de la Raza are the beautiful Dia de los Mu***os altars, part of an incredible annual tradition that runs through Nov 21!

Experience Our Día de los Mu***os Exhibit

Semillas de Justicia: Luchando por Dignidad y Democracia
Seeds of Justice: Fighting for Dignity and Democracy

📍 El Centro de la Raza – Historic Building, 3rd Floor
2524 16th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144

📅 Exhibit On View: November 3–21, 2025
🕐 Hours: Mon–Fri 11 AM–8 PM
Sat, Nov 9 & 16: 12–6 PM

Step inside a vibrant tradition that honors life, memory, and community.
Explore more than 25 beautifully crafted ofrendas created by local organizations—an annual tradition now in its 20th year. Each altar brings together elements of Mother Earth: flowers, candles, copal, water, salt, pan dulce, cherished foods, instruments, and personal belongings that guide loved ones home.

Read More Here from South Seattle Emerald by Yuko Kodama:

https://southseattleemerald.org/news/2025/10/31/south-end-life-for-day-of-the-dead-dozens-of-altars-on-beacon-hill-honor-those-whove-passed-on

11/14/2025

Only one week until our free in-person event on November 20! We hope to see you there! wpsr.org/housingevent2025

11/11/2025

Portland, Dec 3 — The NW Energy Coalition’s Fall Conference tackles energy demand, climate resilience, and transmission planning. Be part of the clean energy conversation. Register: https://nwenergy.org/featured/fall-2025-clean-affordable-energy-conference/

11/08/2025

WPSR speaks to of Washington pre-health students about the imperative of health advocacy, and how to give compelling testimony. We are proud to provide an advocacy home to health-focused activists of all stripes, and invite you to learn more and join us if you care about peace, justice, and health in WA state. Visit us and get involved at www.wpsr.org

11/06/2025

Supporters of nuclear sanity from La Conner, Anacortes, Bellingham, and Mt. Vernon met with office in La Conner, a little town that has called on him to join H. Res 317.

Constituents urged him to support renewed negotiations of the NewStart Treaty, which maintains limits on nuclear weapons deployments from Washington to Russia.

We also reminded him of the harms of nuclear testing in his district, and urged him to oppose recent calls to restart toxic nuclear testing.

We hope he will act on these requests.

11/04/2025

Book Review: Nuclear Abolition: A Scenario by Dan Worthen This is a case of one book leading to another. Last year, when Timmon Wallis read Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen’s non-fiction thriller about the end of the world as we know it (Penguin Publishing Group, 2024), he took a breath an

10/31/2025

"In August 2023, joined by Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, I traveled to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Archdiocese of Seattle is home to the largest stockpile of deployed nuclear weapons anywhere in the world. Los Alamos National Laboratory, where nuclear weapons were first built and tested, is in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. As the ordinaries of these two sites, each so significant in the arms race, we felt called to journey to Japan as pilgrims of peace."

https://www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus/2025/10/28/bishop-etienne-nuclear-weapons-catholic/

10/30/2025

Join us for an evening of connection-building, storytelling, and advocacy on Thursday, November 20th at 6:00pm in WPSR's office in El Centro de La Raza in Seattle! Hear from health professionals who work with unhoused people in their day-to-day practice as they share their experiences. Explore the profound effect homelessness has on health and the upstream policy changes we can make to improve the health of our communities. wpsr.org/housingevent2025

10/30/2025

https://www.wpsr.org/wpsr-blog/2025/10/30/washington-physicians-for-social-responsibility-condemns-trumps-call-to-resume-nuclear-weapons-testing

WPSR condemns Trump’s call to renew nuclear testing

10/24/2025

WPSR members are at our office today watching "A House of Dynamite", the nuclear war thriller film that released today on Netflix.

We'll be joining on Monday for a post-film discussion with their new director,