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Edited by the Hiroshima International Council for Medical Care of the Radiation-Exposed, with Itsuzo Shigematsu, Chikako Ito, nanao Kamada, Mitoshi Akiyama, and Hideo Sasaki. 419 pp. Langhorne, Pa., Harwood Academic, 1995. $50. ISBN 3-7186-5418-0.

Ten years after the Nobel peace prize was awarded to physicians for efforts to prevent nuclear war, and 50 years after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Nobel Committee has again honored activists working against the bomb by naming physicist Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences as recipients of the peace prize for 1995, emphasizing the continuing risks posed by nuclear arms. Yet the risks associated with atomic weapons have changed. From the charged political atmosphere of the Reagan–Gorbachev years, the world has entered a less dangerous but oddly unsettled time, characterized by the smaller scale . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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