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Addressing apocalypse now: The effects of nuclear warfare as a public health concern

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  • Geiger, H.J.

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Despite staggering increase in potential, the effects - human, medical, ecologic, social - of neclear warfare are neither unimaginable nor unspecifiable, as a brief review of recent calculations will demonstrate. There is, however, a unique new dimension. It has always been clear that in nuclear warfare (as in all warfare) there is no health. It is now becoming clear that we are within reach of the level at which, after an all-out nuclear exchange that utilized every weapon in every stockpile, there would be no public. Literally, all human existence would end. It is difficult to formulate a more compelling reason for public health concern.

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  • Geiger, H.J., 1980. "Addressing apocalypse now: The effects of nuclear warfare as a public health concern," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 70(9), pages 958-961.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.70.9.958_8
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.70.9.958
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