Ending Nuclear Weapons, before They End Us
Kamran Abbasi¹, Parveen Ali², Virginia Barbour³, Marion Birch⁴, Inga Blum⁵, Peter Doherty⁶, Andy Haines⁷, Ira Helfand⁸, Richard Horton⁹, Kati Juva¹⁰, Jose F Lapena Jr¹¹, Robert Mash¹², Olga Mironova¹⁰, Arun Mitra⁸, Carlos Monteiro¹³, Elena N Naumova¹⁴, David Onazi¹⁰, Tilman Ruff⁸, Peush Sahni¹⁵, James Tumwine¹⁶, Carlos Umaña¹⁰, Paul Yonga¹⁷, Chris Zielinski¹⁸
Affiliation : ¹ Managing Editor, BMJ; ² Managing Editor, International Nursing Review; ³ Managing Editor, Medical Journal of Australia; ⁴ Managing Editor, Medact & University College London; ⁵ At-large Board Member, IPPNW; ⁶ 1996 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine; ⁷ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; ⁸ Past President, IPPNW; ⁹ Managing Editor, The Lancet; ¹⁰ Co-President, IPPNW; ¹¹ Vice-President, WAME; ¹² Managing Editor, African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine; ¹³ Managing Editor, Revista de Saúde Pública; ¹⁴ Managing Editor, Journal of Public Health Policy; ¹⁵ Managing Editor, National Medical Journal of India; ¹⁶ Managing Editor, African Health Sciences; ¹⁷ Managing Editor, East African Medical Journal; ¹⁸ President, WAME
A worldwide nuclear arms race is underway. Deployed nuclear weapons are increasing again, and China, India, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, and UK are all enlarging their arsenals. An estimated 2,100 nuclear warheads in France, Russia, UK, US, and for the first time, in China, are on high alert, ready for launch within minutes. With disarmament in reverse, extensive nuclear modernization underway, multiple arms control treaties abrogated without replacement, no disarmament negotiations in evidence, nuclear-armed Russia and Israel engaged in active wars involving repeated nuclear threats, Russia and the US deploying nuclear weapons to additional states, and widespread use of cyberwarfare, the risk of nuclear war is widely assessed to be greater than ever. This year the Doomsday Clock was moved closest to midnight since the Clockʹs founding in 1947.
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