Banning nuclear weapons is crucial for global health

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Date of Publication: September 28, 2016

Year of Publication: 2016

Publisher: Guardian News and Media Limited

Author(s): Ira Helfrand, Tilman Ruff, Michael Marmot, Frances Hughes, Michael Moore

Newspaper: The Guardian

Less than 1% of the nuclear weapons in the world today could put two billion people at risk of starvation. World-leading health experts have called on the UN to introduce a ban treaty as a global health priority

Public health leaders Ira Helfrand, Tilman Ruff, Michael Marmot, Frances Hughes, and Michael Moore call on UN member states to mandate negotiations on a new treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons:

An evidence-based understanding of what nuclear weapons actually do invalidates all arguments for continued possession of these weapons by anyone, and requires that they urgently be prohibited and eliminated as the only course of action commensurate with the existential danger they pose.

The full opinion piece is available here.

 

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