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ReviewJournal of public health policy2022

Ending nuclear weapons before they end us: current challenges and paths to avoiding a public health catastrophe.

Tilman A Ruff

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Review in Journal of public health policy, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. Bioethics, climate change, and civilization.The journal of climate change and health
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Tilman A RuffSchool of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, PO Box 2285, Brighton North, VIC, 3186, Australia. tar@unimelb.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9823-3918

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)-an important planetary health good-entered into legal force in January 2021. Evidence of the consequences of nuclear war, particularly the global climatic and nutritional effects of the abrupt ice age conditions from even a relatively small regional nuclear war, indicates that these are more severe than previously thought. None of the nine nuclear-armed states is disarming; instead, all invest enormously in new and more hazardous nuclear weapons. Nor has any of the 32 states claiming reliance on another state's nuclear weapons yet ended such reliance. These factors, abrogation of existing nuclear arms control agreements, policies of first nuclear use and war fighting, growing armed conflicts worldwide, and increasing use of information and cyberwarfare, exacerbate dangers of nuclear war. Evidence-based advocacy by health professionals on the planetary health imperative to eliminate nuclear weapons has never been more urgent.

Indexed as

Nuclear WeaponsHealth PersonnelHumansInternational CooperationPublic HealthUnited NationsWeaponsExistential riskNuclear disarmamentNuclear famineNuclear winterTreaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Identifiers

PMID35034958
PMCPMC8761508

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