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Physicians Must Confront the Increasing Threat of Nuclear War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Bernard Lown
Bernard Lown
Affiliation:
Harvard School of Public Health, Dept. of Public Nutrition, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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This is an age of unprecedented uncertainty. Life is now perilously posed at the precipice of history. Never before has man possessed the destructive resources to make this planet uninhabitable. Having unlocked the Pandora's box of the atom, a new dimension has been provided to our potential for self-annihilation.

An objective assessment indicates no vital national interest that would justify nuclear war. Nonetheless, the nuclear arms race is ever accelerating.

Type
Section Two—Prevention of Nuclear War
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , Issue 1: Military and Disaster Medicine , Spring 1985 , pp. 8 - 11
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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