@article{ref1,
title="Proliferation of nuclear weapons: opportunities for control and abolition",
journal="American journal of public health",
year="2007",
author="Levy, B. S. and Sidel, V. W.",
volume="97",
number="9",
pages="1589-1594",
abstract="Nuclear weapons pose a particularly destructive threat. Prevention of the proliferation and use of nuclear weapons is urgently important to public health. &quot;Horizontal&quot; proliferation refers to nation-states or nonstate entities that do not have, but are acquiring, nuclear weapons or developing the capability and materials for producing them. &quot;Vertical&quot; proliferation refers to nation-states that do possess nuclear weapons and are increasing their stockpiles of these weapons, improving the technical sophistication or reliability of their weapons, or developing new weapons. Because nation-states or other entities that wish to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons need methods for delivering those weapons, proliferation of delivery mechanisms must also be prevented. Controlling proliferation--and ultimately abolishing nuclear weapons--involves national governments, intergovernmental organizations, nongovernmental and professional organizations, and society at large.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0090-0036",
doi="10.2105/AJPH.2006.100602",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2006.100602"
}