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Her latest book is The New Nuclear Danger: George Bush's Military Industrial Complex. The international umbrella group (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. Helen Caldicott has received many prizes and awards for her work, including nineteen honorary degrees. She was awarded the Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom in 2003, and in 2006, the Peace Organisation of Australia presented her with the inaugural Australian Peace Prize "for her longstanding commitment to raising awareness about the medical and environmental hazards of the nuclear age".
On the sixth count, Caldicott had 27.4 percent of the vote, with Nationals incumbent (and then leader of the Nationals) Charles Blunt at 43.2 percent and Labor candidate Neville Newell at 29.4 percent. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling. From 2007 to 2009 she was also a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board convened by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the then Prime Minister of Spain.
Five decades of her work regarding peace and the dangers of nuclear weapons are honored and recognized by the US Peace Memorial Foundation in its US Peace Registry.
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Biography: Dr.
Helen Mary Caldicott
Dr. In 2009 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.[1]
Life
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Caldicott attended the Fintona Girls' School, and received her medical degree in 1961 from the University of Adelaide Medical School. Caldicott polled very well for a federal independent candidate, receiving 23.3 percent of the primary vote.
Caldicott disputes this report in her book, Nuclear Power is Not the Answer.
Also in 1980, she founded the Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND) in the United States, which was later renamed Women's Action for New Directions. Helen Caldicott resigned from Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston so that she could devote herself to Physicians for Social Responsibility.
She has been awarded 20 honorary doctoral degrees and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling. It was entitled The Medical and Environmental Consequences of Fukushima helencaldicottfoundation.org, download at http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=hcf.
A book – Crisis Without End — emanating from the conference proceedings and edited by Dr.
Caldicott will be published by The New Press in the Spring of 2014.
From 2010 to 2013 Dr Caldicott hosted a weekly radio show If You Love This Planet which aired on many community and other public radio stations internationally. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, a progressive think tank in Spain.
Since 14 July 2008, Dr.
Caldicott has hosted an hour-long, weekly radio program, "If You Love This Planet." The show was first aired and originated by Houston station KPFT and is now heard on dozens of U.S., Australian and Canadian stations, and on its own website www.ifyoulovethisplanet.org.[6]
A fully revised and updated edition of her 1992 book "If You Love This Planet" was published by W.W.
Norton in September 2009.
Helen Caldicott is featured along with foreign affairs experts, space security activists and military officials in interviews in Denis Delestrac's 2010 feature documentary "Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space".
Australian politics
Caldicott contested the New South Wales seat of Division of Richmond in the House of Representatives at the 1990 federal election, a seat held by conservatives since the inaugural 1901 election, and by the Country Party (now National Party) since it first contested elections at the 1922 election.
According to Caldicott, citing a 30 March 1979 study by the Pennsylvania State University, College of Engineering, radiation contaminants that fell on the Pennsylvania grass found its way into the milk of the local dairy cows.[3] Caldicott noted this was contrary to the findings in the government official report[4] released shortly after the Three Mile Island disaster.
She herself received the Humanist of the Year award from the American Humanist Association in 1982.
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.
In year 2001, she founded the US-based Nuclear Policy Research Institute (NPRI), which became Beyond Nuclear.
The Foundation’s most recent symposium, co-sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility was held at the New York Academy of Medicine in March 2013, 2013. With her family, Dr. Caldicott moved to the United States in 1977, where she became an instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
The Smithsonian Institution has named Caldicott as one of the most influential women of the 20th century.