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Helen Caldicott
 Helen Caldicott |
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Dr. Caldicott received her medical degree in 1961 from the University of Adelaide Medical School. In 1977 she joined the staff of the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston. In 1980 she left her medical career in order to concentrate on calling the world's attention to what she perceived as the "insanity" of the world's increasing supply of nuclear weapons and national stockpiles.
Her media presence sparked in 1982, when she was featured in the Canadian Oscar-winning documentary If You Love This Planet. Also in 1982, she founded the Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND) in the United States, which was later renamed Women's Action for New Directions, a group dedicated to reducing or redirecting military spending towards what it perceives as unmet social issues.
From 1977 to 1986, Caldicott also became heavily involved with Physicians for Social Responsibility, an organization of 23,000 doctors committed to educating others on nuclear dangers. One international group (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.
In 1995 Caldicott returned to the US where she lectured for the New School of Social Research on the Media, Global Politics, and the Environment. She also hosted a weekly radio show on WBAI (Pacifica) and became the Founding President of the STAR (Standing for Truth About Radiation) Foundation.
Her sixth book, The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military Industrial Comple x was published in 2001. While touring with that book, she founded the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, headquartered in Washinton, D.C. NPRI seeks to facilitate an ongoing public education campaign in the mainstream media about what it perceives as the dangers of nuclear weapons and power programs and policies.
—From Wikipedia.org
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