Physicians for Social Responsibility

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For more than two decades, he has led the organization's research and policy advocacy on a range of issues, including cancellation of the new nuclear weapons programs, the conclusion of the 2015 P5-plus-1 nuclear deal with Iran, and the negotiations and ratification of the 2010 New START agreement.

Previously, he was the executive director of the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers and the director of security programs at Physicians for Social Responsibility.

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I'm Ian Masters and this is Background Briefing and I'm speaking with Darrell Kimball, the Executive Director of the Arms Control Association and publisher and contributor for the organization's monthly journal, Arms Control Today.

For more than two decades, he has led the organization's research and policy advocacy on a range of issues, including cancellation of new nuclear weapons programs, the conclusion of the 2015 P5-plus-1 nuclear deal with Iran, and the negotiation and ratification of the 2010 New START agreement.

And previously, he was the Executive Director of the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers and the Director of Security Programs at Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Welcome to Background Briefing, Darrell Kimball.

But $10 here and $10 there, and a lot of people listening, it adds up.

So I encourage you to really consider throwing some change in the begging cup of protectbetter.org. I'll just mention that the fiscal agent is Physicians for Social Responsibility, a well-known, long-standing national organization with people in the healthcare industry and expertise of medical stature.

Founded it and continued to support it.

So we're new as a coalition, but if you look at the lineup of groups, including Generational Radiation Impact Project, in my thirty-five years of experience, we are deeply committed people.

I also shoot things for their program, um, Keynote, which is basically podium speakers who are authors, things like that.

And then I, I work out here for another station called the LA Thirty-Six, and, um, I recently produced a program for them with, uh, Physicians for Social Responsibility called The Medical Consequences of the War in Iraq.

It was a, an all-day thing at UCLA, and, um, a lot of PhDs spoke to like post-traumatic stress, head injuries, civilian casualties, things like that.

So I sort of follow the, you know, the, the after effects of nine eleven-