Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us

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Published Jun 1, 2025
https://doi.org/10.62438/tunismed.v103i6.6095
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Vol. 103 No. 6 (2025): Tunis Med June 2025

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Kamran Abbasi
Editor-in-Chief, BMJ
Parveen Ali
Editor-in-Chief, International Nursing Review
Virginia Barbour
Editor-in-Chief, Medical Journal of Australia
Marion Birch
Editor-in-Chief, Medact & University College London
Inga Blum
At-large Board Member, IPPNW
Peter Doherty
1996 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
Andy Haines
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Ira Helfand
Past President, IPPNW
Richard Horton
Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
Kati Juva10
Co-President, IPPNW
Jose F. Lapena Jr
Vice-President, WAME
Robert Mash
Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
Olga Mironova
Co-President, IPPNW
Arun Mitra
Past President, IPPNW
Carlos Monteiro
Editor-in-Chief, Revista de Saúde Pública
Elena N. Naumova
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Public Health Policy
David Onazi
Co-President, IPPNW
Tilman Ruff
Past President, IPPNW
Peush Sahni
Editor-in-Chief, National Medical Journal of India
James Tumwine
Editor-in-Chief, African Health Sciences
Carlos Umaña
Co-President, IPPNW
Paul Yonga
Editor-in-Chief, East African Medical Journal
Chris Zielinski
President, WAME

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Keywords:

War, Nuclear, Health, Environment

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