Word: ippnw
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...would like to respond briefly to comments made by Professor Richard Pipes concerning the Nobel Peace Prize and IPPNW [International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear...
...IPPNW physicians do not purport to be arms control experts. They do however, speak as experts on the medical consequences of the arms race and nuclear war. It is for this effort to educate the world public that IPPNW was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The nuclear arms race is a problem with important political dimensions--but it is also the most profound public health issue of our time...
Professor Pipes also states that the Soviet physicians affiliated with IPPNW are government spokesmen. It is well understood that the Soviet physicians are not as independent of their government as are the American physicians. This is a reflection of our different ideologies and political systems. But we reject the notion that American physicians should not, therefore, work with their Soviet colleagues to educate the public on the medical consequences of nuclear war. We must accept these differences and pursue our mutual interest in survival for we are all linked by a common fate...
...IPPNW held their first congress in Airlie, Va. this March to begin piercing that silence. The 90 participants from 10 countries, including the U.S., the USSR, Great Britain and Japan, has six days of discussion centering on the medical and other effects of nuclear warfare, and how they, as doctors, could prevent a disaster with no cures...
...some levels, the problem of nuclear war is already bothering people, Muller says, adding that the primary purpose of IPPNW is to help "move this fear from the subconscious to the conscious level." He compares those who deny the threat of nuclear warfare to cardiology patients who refuse to face that their chest pains are more than indigestion--all the way to the hospital...