Helen Caldicott

Helen Caldicott is militant a antinuclear and doctor Australian, born with Melbourne in 1938.

Biography

After having obtained its diploma of medicine at the University of Adelaide (Australia), Helen Caldicott joined the Hospital for children of Adelaide, then leaves it in 1977 for that of Boston (the USA) and teaches the Pédiatrie of 1977 to 1978 with the Harvard Medical School . It gives up its medical career since 1980 to be devoted to the antinuclear movement.

It reaches notoriety in 1982, thanks to its participation in documentary Canadian If you coils this planet . Caldicott then shows there the Hershey Foods Corporation to distribute food contaminated by Strontium 90 following the accident of the nuclear plant of Three Mile Island. According to Caldicott, the strontium 90 absorptive by the plants is then introduced by the cows, thus producing the contaminated milk which the company Hershey used.

In 1982, it also founds association Women' S Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND, movement of the women for nuclear disarmament), then famous Women' S Action for New Directions (WAND, movement of the women for new orientations), a group aiming at reducing the nuclear energy utilization.

Helen Caldicott took an active part within the group Physicians for Social Responsibility of 1977 to 1986, an organization gathering 23.000 doctors wishing to inform the population of the risks of nuclear energy. She worked throughout the world with the creation of similar groups. One of them, International Physicians for the Prevention off Nuclear War (international group of the doctors for the prevention of the nuclear war) was rewarded by the Nobel Prize for peace in 1985.

In 1990, it launches out in policy and aspires to the seat of deputy of Richmond (Australia). In spite of its failure, it tries into 1991 to enter to the Australian Senate with the support of the Australian democratic party for the post of senator of New South Wales. However, cacique of the party is preferred to him.

One of its investigations is selected by Project Censored (university organization of investigation) in 1990. Quoting research of the Soviet scientists Valery Burdakov and Vyacheslav Fiin, Caldicott affirms that the program of the space shuttle of NASA destroys the layer of ozone. A total of 300 flights would be sufficient for " to completely destroy the layer of ozone which protects Terre". There is however no scientific proof.

In 1995, Helen Caldicott goes back to the United States where she teaches the international policy and the environment with the New School off Social Research one the Media (New York). It also animates a weekly radio program on WBAI and becomes president founder of the foundation STAR (Standing for Truth About Radiation).

Its sixth book, The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush' S Military Industrial Complex is published in 2001. It created the Nuclear Policy Research Institute , whose seat is in Washington (the USA). The objective of the NPRI is to push the great media to be informed on the dangers of the nuclear power, to create a popular consensus around a stop necessary of the nuclear programs civil and military.

The documentary film Helen' S War: portrait off has dissenting (2004) is an immersion in the life of Helen Caldicott, filmed through the eyes of his/her niece, the director Anna Broinowski.

Helen Caldicott shares its time between the United States and Australia, it continues its conferences in order to deliver its opinion on the nuclear power. It was rewarded by 19 honorary doctorates, nominated for the Nobel Prize of peace, rewarded for the price Lannan Foundation for its cultural freedom in 2003, the Australian Peaceful Organization rewarded it with first Australian Peace Prize " for her longstanding commitment to raising awareness medical butt and environmental hazards off the nuclear age" in 2006. Smithsonian Institution named Caldicott like one of the most influential women of the 20th century.

In May 2003, Helen Caldicott gives a conference on “the new nuclear threat” to the Université of San Diego to the the United States.

Distinctions

External bonds

  1. official site of Helen Caldicott
  2. NPRI - Nuclear Policy Research Institute
  3. WAND - Women' S Action for New Directions
  4. PSR - Physicians for Social Responsibility
  5. IPPNW - International Physicians for the Prevention off Nuclear War
  6. Project Censored

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