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Doctor warns on nuclear famine

Nuclear-Winter-Editorial: A doctor’s grim diagnosis: nuclear famine  Gazettenet.com, December 31, 2013  A Northampton doctor has been out on the road ministering to a sickness that lies in wait like a dormant virus. In February, Dr. Ira Helfand will join with representatives of 100 nations in Mexico to continue to explore what would happen on the planet after even a relatively small exchange of nuclear weapons.The United States won’t be there. U.S. officials did not attend a gathering last March in Oslo, either, where a number of non-nuclear nations heard Helfand present the findings of a new report and to discuss the humanitarian consequences of a small nuclear war.

The report, funded in part by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, was commissioned by International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and Physicians for Social Responsibility. Helfand, a doctor in private practice, is its author.

A limited nuclear war between Pakistan and India, the first draft of the report concluded, would put so much soot into the atmosphere from fires that crop yields would fall dramatically and 1 billion people would face death by starvation — a syndrome known as nuclear famine……..

Helfand and representatives of the physicians groups are working behind the scenes to awaken Congress and the White House to the threat of nuclear famine.

We’ve passed the Cold War era of “mutually assured destruction,” but as Helfand’s work illustrates, the consequences of a smaller nuclear war would indeed be global.http://www.gazettenet.com/home/9944652-95/editorial-a-doctors-grim-diagnosis-nuclear-famine

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