In the run-up to the anniversary of the Hiroshima atom bomb on 6 August, an editorial on “Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War—the Role of Health Professionals” came out in the BMJ and Lancet, JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine at 2330 BST last night, and will come out in over 100 other journals over the next three months. The editorial is the brainchild of the Nobel-Prizewinning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and had the full endorsement of the World Association of Medical Editors.
Access to the editorial is free on both the BMJ (https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1682) and The Lancet (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)01526-X/fulltext) – with a registration stage. The initial list of participating journals (which will be added to) is at https://www.bmj.com/content/full-list-authors-and-signatories-nuclear-ri....
The editorial calls on the nuclear armed states and those allied with them to take three immediate steps: “first, adopt a no first use policy; second, take their nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert; and, third, urge all states involved in current conflicts to pledge publicly and unequivocally that they will not use nuclear weapons in these conflicts.”
Chris Zielinski
Centre for Global Health, University of Winchester, UK and
Vice President, World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)
Blogs; http://ziggytheblue.wordpress.com and http://ziggytheblue.tumblr.com
Publications: http://www.researchgate.net and https://winchester.academia.edu/ChrisZielinski/
HIFA profile: Chris Zielinski: As a Visiting Fellow and Lecturer at the Centre for Global Health, University of Winchester, Chris leads the Partnerships in Health Information (Phi) programme, which supports knowledge development and brokers healthcare information exchanges of all kinds. He is the elected Vice President (and President-in-Waiting) of the World Association of Medical Editors. Chris has held senior positions in publishing and knowledge management with WHO in Brazzaville, Geneva, Cairo and New Delhi, with FAO in Rome, ILO in Geneva, and UNIDO in Vienna. He served on WHO's Ethical Review Committee, and was an originator of the African Health Observatory. He also spent three years in London as Chief Executive of the Authors Licensing and Collecting Society. Chris has been a director of the UK Copyright Licensing Agency, Educational Recording Agency, and International Association of Audiovisual Writers and Directors. He has served on the boards of several NGOs and ethics groupings (information and computer ethics and bioethics). chris AT chriszielinski.com. His publications are at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chris-Zielinski and https://winchester.academia.edu/ChrisZielinski/ and his blogs are http://ziggytheblue.wordrpress.com and https://www.tumblr.com/blog/ziggytheblue
