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After a scoreless first period during which USSR goalie Vladislav Tretiak stymied the defending champions, the Soviets put on a strong skating display to thwart the home team's dangerous offense...
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...
...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...
...addition, the growth of the two superpowers' nuclear stockpiles makes it difficult for both the U.S. and the USSR to persuade other countries not to acquire their own, Lown says, adding that many nations now want their own bomb for status and "a national macho image." Six contries now have nuclear bombs--U.S. USSR, China, India, Great Britain, and France, South Africa and Israel are suspected of having tested bombs, and Pakistan, Iraq and Libya and Argentina are waiting in the wings...
Lown envisions several scenarios which could provoke a nuclear attack. A crisis in the Middle East leading to the polarization of the U.S. and the USSR...a deliberate act of any government with nuclear capabilities...or simple error...