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The Psychopathology of Nuclear War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jim Dyer*
Affiliation:
Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh
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We are mad, not only individuals but nations also. We restrain manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the so-called glory of killing whole peoples?

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1986

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