Health professionals working in organisations promoting health through social and environmental justice have a good track record. Poverty is the greatest violence Ghandi Do health professionals have a responsibility to identify, and attempt to correct the social and environmental wrongs that so undermine our personal and collective health? The organisation of which I am presently chairman, Meda...

An example of our fruitful collaboration and teamwork was the reciprocal and complementary contributions for the development of UNSCEAR and WHO reports related with the Chernobyl and Fukushima-Daichi nuclear accidents. Our successful cooperation also included the evaluation of risks of the exposure to radon and other natural radiation sources as well as the assessment and communication of radia...

T he United States carried out the world's fi rst nuclear test, codenamed " Trinity, " on 16 July 1945 in the desert of New Mexico. Just three weeks later, on 6 August, the US exploded a uranium device called " Little Boy " 2,000 feet above the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing around 150,000 people. Three days later, the US deployed a second nuclear bomb, a plutonium device called " Fat Man,...

Although the Canadian and US nuclear industries have shared origins in World War II, their paths soon diverged.

Nuclear criticism theorizes culture as the site of struggle between ideological nanatives seeking authority over the meaning of nuclear symbols. Following the end of the cold war, various groups have conducted this stnlggle through public discourse about U.S. nuclear weapons organizations. This paper examines symbolic conflict over the history and future of one such organization, the Los Alamos...

OVER THE LAST 25 years the United States has become increasingly dependent on space-based systems to support its military forces, and this trend is likely to continue for some time. Satellite systems have become an integral part of nuclear deterrence by providing strategic warning of an attack, tactical warning of missile launches, reliable communications between command authorities and nuclear...

Climate science and nuclear weapons testing have a long and surprisingly intimate relationship. The global networks that monitored the Fukushima radiation plume and forecasted its movement are the direct descendants of systems and computer models developed to trace fallout from weapons tests. Tracing radioactive carbon as it cycles through the atmosphere, the oceans, and the biosphere has been ...

On Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, a wide-ranging coalition of environ­ mentalist and population-control organizations sponsored a conference bankrolled by the Rockefeller Foundation on "The World After Nuclear War: Conference on the Long-term World-wide Biological Consequences of Nuclear War." As­ tronomer Carl Sagan and biologist Paul Ehrlich announced the results of a supposed scientific investigation o...