“Qualsiasi utilizzo di armi nucleari sarebbe catastrofico per l’umanità”. Così l’ultimo editoriale del British Medical Journal (BMJ), pubblicato in contemporanea su numerose riviste medico-scientifiche mondiali.

Dati alla mano, “anche se fosse un intervento limitato, usando ad esempio 250 dei 13.000 ordigni nucleari disponibili, potrebbe uccidere 120 milioni di persone e metterne a rischio altri 2 miliardi” per danni ambientali e carestie conseguenti.

Una guerra nucleare su vasta scala farebbe invece 200 milioni di morti nel’immediato, riservando una agonia da “inverno atomico” ad altri 6 miliardi di persone, “minacciando la sopravvivenza stessa dell’umanità”.

Per questo “la prevenzione dall’uso di armi nucleari è da considerare urgente priorità sanitaria”.

Non ci sono dubbi. Per gli scienziati “le armi nucleari vanno abolite”.

Medical journals unite in call to eliminate nuclear weapons

La Redazione di Brainfactor, insieme al suo direttore Marco Mozzoni, si unisce all’appello dei colleghi di:

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Acta Paediatrica

African Health Sciences

African Journal for Physical Activity and Health Sciences

African Journal of Clinical and Experimental Microbiology

African Journal of Current Medical Research

African Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine

African Journal of Reproductive Health

Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic diseases

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Allergy

AlQalam Journal of Medical and Applied Sciences

American Journal of Psychiatry

Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine

Anatomy Journal of Africa

Annales Africaines de Medecine

Arabian Journal of Scientific Research

Bayero Journal of Medical Laboratory Science

Biomolecules & Biomedicine

BJU International

Bleeding, Thrombosis and Vascular Disease

Blood Cancer Journal

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

BMJ

Bone Narrow Transplantation

Brain

Brain Communications

British Journal of Cancer

British Journal of Surgery

British Medical Bulletin

Cancer Gene Therapy

Complementary Therapies in Medicine

Croatian Medical Journal

Current Medical Research & Opinion

Cytopathology

Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

Dutch Journal of Medicine

East African Medical Journal

ESC Heart Failure

Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences

European Geriatric Medicine

European Journal of Heart Failure

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

European Journal of Pediatrics

European Journal of Public Health

Farm Animal Health and Nutrition

Ghana Medical Journal

Haematological Oncology

IJQHC Communications

Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

Internal and Emergency Medicine

International Journal for Quality in Healthcare

International Journal of Epidemiology

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

International Journal of Medical Students

International Nursing Review

JAMA

JAMA Cardiology

JAMA Dermatology

JAMA Health Forum

JAMA Internal Medicine

JAMA Network Open

JAMA Neurology

JAMA Oncology

JAMA Ophthalmology

JAMA Pediatrics

JAMA Psychiatry

JAMA Surgery

Jos Journal of Medicine

Journal de la Faculté de Médecine d’Oran

Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science

Journal of Contemporary Language Research

Journal of Exploratory Research in Pharmacology

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Journal of Internal Medicine

Journal of Lab Animal Research

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences

Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice

Journal of Pathology

Journal of Pathology: Clinical Research

Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes

Journal of Phytomedicine and Therapeutics

Journal of Postgraduate Medical Institute

Journal of Public Health

Journal of Public Health Policy

Journal of Radiography and Radiation Sciences

Journal of Surgical Sciences

Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (JRSM)

Journal of Travel Medicine

Journal of Veterinary Physiology and Pathology

Journal of World’s Poultry Science

Journal of World’s Poultry Research (JWPR)

Khyber Medical University Journal

Langenbeck’s Archives of Surgery

Leukemia

Malawi Medical Joural

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Medical Journal of Australia

Medical Journal of Indonesia

Medscape

Medwave

Microbes and Infectious Diseases

National Medical Journal of India

New England Journal of Medicine

Nigerian Hospital Practice

Nigerian Journal of Medical and Dental Education

Online Journal of Animal and Feed Research

Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences

Orapuh Journal

Oxford Open Digital Health

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences

Pediatric Research

Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery

Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases

Public Health Ethics

Reproductive, Female and Child Health

Research in Biotechnology and Environmental Science

Revista Cirujano General

Revista de Saúde Pública

Revista Medica Hondureña

Romanian Journal of Clinical Research

RUHS Journal of Health Sciences

Small Animal Advances

Social Medicine

Sokoto Journal of Medical Laboratory Science

Sokoto Journal of Veterinary Sciences

Supportive Care in Cancer

The Cerebellum

The Lancet

Tunisie Medicale

VOICE

West African Journal of Medicine

World’s Veterinary Journal (WVJ)

References:

AAVV, “Reducing the risks of nuclear war”, BMJ 2023; 382 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p1682 (Published 01 August 2023), Cite this as: BMJ 2023;382:p1682

AAVV, “Medical journals unite in call to eliminate nuclear weapons”, BMJ 2023; 382 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p1786 (Published 02 August 2023), Cite this as: BMJ 2023;382:p1786

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