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IPPNW peace and health blog title: IPPNW peace and health blog | News and opinion from the international medical movement to abolish nuclear weapons and to prevent war

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by Ghassan Shahrour In 1868, long before satellites or nuclear weapons, the world confronted a deceptively simple question: Should every weapon that can be built also be used? The question arose after the Russian Empire developed an exploding rifle bullet that inflicted devastating injuries far beyond any military necessity. Russian military physicians warned that...

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One of the curious ironies of our time is that, although many politicians spout heated nationalist rhetoric, rail against foreign nations, and belittle international cooperation, this approach to international affairs is not at all what most people want. The climate of aggressive nationalism is clear enough.  In nations around the globe, demagogues (usually of a rightw...

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by Anna Khouri, IPPNW International Student Representative This was the guiding mandate for the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) delegation at the 79th World Health Assembly (WHA). At its core, the WHA is a massive, high-energy engine of global diplomacy, where the scale of international health policy becomes tangible. While official […]

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[Ed. note: The following article was originally published by The Conversation, a nonprofit, independent news organization based in Australia, and is reprinted with permission under a Creative Commons license. While part of the focus is on Australia’s role in nuclear weapons policy, all 34 nuclear-complicit states—the 29 non-nuclear-armed members of NATO, Japan, South Korea...

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Physicians for Social Responsibility, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and Back from the Brink released a scientific report today that finds a proposed U.S. missile defense system—dubbed the “Golden Dome”—would leave tens of millions of Americans vulnerable to nuclear attack while costing trillions of dollars and accelerating the global arms race. The ...

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