Closing words to Symposium on The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident. She recounts her experience during the "Second American Revolution" when doctors and citizens organized to pressure political leaders to end nuclear weapons proliferation and the normalization of the belief that nuclear war was "winnable". Nuclear power reactor high level radioactive waste has reached the point that it is, along with run away climate change, an existential threat to the future of civilization, perhaps human life itself. In spite of her bleak prognosis, she reminds us of the commitment that doctors make to sacrifice on behalf of their patients recovery and admonishes those of us in the United States to work toward to that end.
Helen Caldicott Foundation Physicians for Social Responsibility Union of Concerned Scientist The New York Academy of Medicine