TY - JOUR PY - 2018// TI - The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize and the Doomsday Clock - the end of nuclear weapons or the end of us? JO - New England journal of medicine A1 - Forrow, Lachlan A1 - Ruff, Tilman A1 - Thurlow, Setsuko SP - 2258 EP - 2261 VL - 378 IS - 24 N2 -
The awarding of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) may mark a turning point in efforts to ensure that humanity survives the nuclear-weapons era. The urgency of ICAN’s work was recently highlighted when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock forward to just 2 minutes to midnight, the highest level of danger since 1953 and 5 minutes closer to midnight than when concerns about U.S. and Soviet preparations for nuclear war sparked the founding of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in 1980 ...
Language: en
LA - en SN - 0028-4793 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1801908 ID - ref1 ER -