We assess the potential damage and smoke production associated with the detonation of small nuclear weapons in modern megacities. While the number of nuclear warheads in the world has fallen by about a factor of three since its peak in 1986, the number of nuclear weapons states is increasing and the potential exists for numerous regional nuclear arms races. Eight countries are known to have nuc...

A nuclear war between Russia and the United States, even after the arsenal reductions planned under New START, could produce a nuclear winter. Hence, an attack by either side could be suicidal, resulting in selfassured destruction. Even a ÒsmallÓ nuclear war between India and Pakistan, with each country detonating 50 Hiroshima-size atom bombsÑonly about 0.03 percent of the global nuclear arsena...

I thank you for the invitation and the great honor to speak at the opening ceremony of this important congress. “Aiming for Prevention – Small Arms, Gun-Violence and Injury” is indeed a topic that affects all people of good will – particularly today, 17 days after the tragedy in New York and Washington. Until now, “small arms” have been defined as “weapons that one to three people are able to c...

Is the Western narrative about Ukraine war correct? If it is, then policies might arguably make sense, even if they entail some risk of nuclear conflict. But is wrong, West basing existential decisions on false premises. a quickly negotiated compromise, one that would spare lives combatants and civilians alike, simultaneously greatly reduce war, not represent appeasement. Rather, be practical n...

As a baby boomer and retired doctor, are the things that bothered Steve Head in his youth – nuclear war, pollution population growth same as bother him now?