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Medicine and Nuclear War: Preventing Proliferation and Achieving Abolition

Preface This initial edition of Medicine and Nuclear War was completed rapidly for circulation before the conference on " Nuclear Weapons: The Final Pandemic – Preventing Proliferation and Achieving Abolition " in London on October 3–4, 2007. Following the conference, a final edition of this monograph will be prepared A summary of the conference and further material on the work by IPPNW and its affiliates and their medical student members on prevention of nuclear proliferation and achievement of abolition will be added. Suggestions for additions and corrections would be most welcome. Medical personnel and medical organizations have played an important role in the efforts since 1945 to prevent the further use of nuclear weapons in war and to prevent their proliferation and achieve their abolition. This monograph updates and expands the article by Lachlan Forrow and Victor W. Sidel entitled " Medicine and Nuclear War: From Hiroshima to Mutual Assured Destruction to Abolition 2000 " published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1998. 1 Much of the new material and analysis has been added by Jonathan E. Slutzman, a medical student of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, who has also managed the formatting of the text to printing. Gunnar Westberg. While these people certainly helped to bring this document to fruition, all responsibility for the final result lies with the authors. The term " physicians " has different meanings in the United Kingdom, where it refers to medical doctors practicing internal medicine, and in the United States, where it refers to all medical doctors regardless of their medical specialties. The term will be used in this report in the way it is generally used in the United States.