Citation

Forrow L, Ruff T, Thurlow S. New Engl. J. Med. 2018; 378(24): 2258-2261.

Affiliation

From the Ethics Programs and the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Harvard Medical School - both in Boston (L.F.); the Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia (T.R.); and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Geneva (S.T.). Dr. Ruff is founding chair of ICAN, and Ms. Thurlow was a corecipient of the Nobel Peace Prize on ICAN's behalf; Dr. Forrow is the former chief executive officer, and Dr. Ruff the copresident, of IPPNW.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Massachusetts Medical Society)

DOI

10.1056/NEJMp1801908

PMID

29742013

Abstract

The awarding of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) may mark a turning point in efforts to ensure that humanity survives the nuclear-weapons era. The urgency of ICAN’s work was recently highlighted when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock forward to just 2 minutes to midnight, the highest level of danger since 1953 and 5 minutes closer to midnight than when concerns about U.S. and Soviet preparations for nuclear war sparked the founding of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in 1980 ...

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