Doctors urge India and Pakistan not to launch nuclear attack

BMJ 1998;317:369 ( 8 August )

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Doctors urge India and Pakistan not to launch nuclear attack

Jacqui Wise, BMJ

Leading doctors have sent an open letter to the prime ministers of India and Pakistan calling on both countries not to initiate a nuclear attack after the recent testing of nuclear weapons.

The letter is signed by Saeed Ul Majeed, president of the Pakistan Medical Association; R Jayachandra Reddy, president of the Indian Medical Association; Bernard Lown from the Harvard School of Public Health; Eugene Chazov from the Cardiology Research Center in Moscow; and William Foege from Emory University in Atlanta. Drs Lown and Chazov won the Nobel peace prize in 1985 on behalf of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. The letter is published as an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association (1998;280:4670).

The authors write: "Nuclear war is an accident waiting to happen," and urge that "an immediate powerful trust building measure would be to pledge . . . [Full text of this article]

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