Helen Caldicott is an Australian anti-nuclear activist and physician, born in Melbourne in 1938.
In 1982, she founded Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND), and was very active in the group International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).
She divides her time between the United States and Australia and gives lectures in order to make known her views about nuclear power.
She gave a press conference in Tokyo November 19, 2012 about the medical consequences of Fukushima. It is, according to her, the worst accident that has ever occurred in the history of humankind.
