Maria Udalova on the left and Talia Wilcox on the right

Here I am privileged to be with the two 2024 youth recipients honored by Physicians for Social Responsibility. Maria is a remarkable Brookline High School Senior, a valued Trebuchet Team Member, who I successfully nominated to become an Oslo Scholar of the Human Rights Foundation, working with a Belarus Activist. Talia is a Tufts Senior, passionate about nuclear disarmament who advocates for education as President of the Tufts Women in International Relations Club, Co-President of the newly formed Tufts University Nuclear Activists, she is also a member of the Students for Nuclear Disarmament Steering Committee.

Maria's Remarks

https://gbpsr.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/09/2024-Maria-Udalova-remarks.docx.pdf

Talia's Remarks

https://gbpsr.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/09/2024-Talia-Wilcox-award-remarks.docx.pdf

Here they are pictured with Harvard Professor Elaine Scarry author of "Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom", with whom I worked decades ago on nuclear disarmament and the MX missile controversy.

Professor Robert J. Lifton, was awarded PSR's Lifetime Achievement award. Bob was an important mentor for me. I first met him after reading The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, I am pictured here with him at the Truro library, where at age 98, where he gave a talk on "The State of The World". Bob is truly extraordinary. At age 97 he published a new book, Surviving Our Catastrophes: Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the COVID-19 Pandemic. This is reassuring for me since I now have 17 more years to consider publishing one. :)