Word: ippnw
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...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...
...loss of detente is another issue which concerns the IPPNW, although Lown emphasizes that the group tries to avoid politics as much as possible. Fear and competition between America and the USSR have escalated the arms race--a fact that the IPPNW would like to reverse by education as to the final consequences of such escalation. "In 1972 we had a chance to outlaw MIRVs. The Russians, who did not have them, wanted to ban them, but we didn't. Now we have to build MX missiles because their MIRVs are threatening us." Lown says, stressing that this spiral could...
...likely is the event of a nuclear exchange? Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of History of Science, says that "Anyone who looks seriously at the issue is deeply frightened, adding that he attributes more widespread knowledge about nuclear war to the IPPNW. Mendelsohn reocunts that at a recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Scientists, Richard Garwin, professor of Policy Studies at the Kennedy School of Government and a member of the Defense Department Advisory Council predicted the likelihood of a limited nuclear exchange. "Garwin said he believed the probability of a small scale nuclear exchange...
...possibility of nuclear war is especially relevant to young people, Muller, IPPNW's secretary, asserts. There is a finite, but real chance of a nuclear exchange every year, he says, adding that no one is sure what it is. But if one assumes it is a one per cent chance. "In the 50 years life expectancy left to Harvard undergraduates, that makes a 40 per cent chance of war in their lifetime...