FORA.tv Speaker - Helen Caldicott

Helen Caldicott is the founder and president of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute. For more than thirty-five years, Dr. Caldicott has lobbied on the hazards of nuclear weapons and nuclear war. The organization she co-founded in 1978, Physicians for Social Responsibility, was co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. A documentary based on a lecture she gave in 1981, on the topic of nuclear war, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (short) in 1982.