Document Type : Editorial
Authors
1 Editor-in-Chief, British Medical Journal, London, UK
2 Health Sciences School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
3 Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals, Doncaster, UK
4 Sheffield University Interpersonal Violence Research Group, Sheffield, UK
5 Medical Journal of Australia, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
6 University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
7 Dutch Journal of Medicine, and Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
8 The Lancet, London, UK
9 Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
10 Editor-in-chief, African Journal of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine, Stellenbosch, South Africa
11 Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paolo, Brazil
12 Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA
13 Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA, USA
14 MBBS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences [AIIMS]), New Delhi, India
15 School of Medicine at Kabale University, Kampala, Uganda
16 CA Medlynks Medical Centre and Laboratory, East African Medical Journal, Nairobi, Kenya
17 University of Winchester and Vice-President, World Association of Medical Editors, Winchester, UK
18 President Indian Doctors for Peace and Development, Ludhiana, India
19 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
20 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
21 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Springfield, IL, USA
Highlights
Note: This Comment is being published simultaneously in multiple journals. For the full list of journals see: https://www.bmj.com/content/full-list-authors-and-signatories-nuclear-risk-editorial-august-202
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In January 2023, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward to 90s before midnight, reflecting the growing risk of nuclear war.1 In August, 2022, the United Nation Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the world is now in a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War.2 ... (Read more...)