Studies, reports, other print resources (chronological)
The medical consequences of thermonuclear war. New England Journal of Medicine, 1962. The original research papers on the medical consequences of nuclear war written by members of the Physicians for Social Responsibility Study Group. [PDF]
Proceedings of the First Congress of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Airlie, VA. 1981. [PDF]
Medical problems of survivors of nuclear war. New England Journal of Medicine, 1981. [PDF]
Transcript of IPPNW telecast on Soviet National Television. June 24, 1982.This unprecedented roundtable discussion about the medical consequences of nuclear war was broadcast in its entirety on Soviet television and was seen by millions of Russians. US networks refused to show it to an American audience. [PDF]
Last aid: the medical dimensions of nuclear war. 1982.
- Acute Medical Effects at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ohkita. [PDF]
- Burn Injuries Among Survivors. Constable. [PDF]
- Delayed Medical Effects at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ohkita. [PDF]
- Psychological Effects of the Atomic Bombings. Lifton. [PDF]
- Survivors of Nuclear War: Infection and the Spread of Disease. Abrams.[PDF]
- Survivors of Nuclear War: Psychological and Communal Breakdown. Lifton, Erikson. [PDF]
A medical prescription for survival. Lancet. 1985 [PDF]
New perspectives on the medical consequences of nuclear war. New England Journal of Medicine, 1986. [PDF]
The problem of accidental or inadvertent nuclear war. Preventive Medicine. 1987. [PDF]
The short-term effects of nuclear war: the medical legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Preventive Medicine. 1987. [PDF]
Psychiatric aspects of nuclear war. Preventive Medicine. 1987. [PDF]
Effects of nuclear war on health and health services, 2nd edition. World Health Organization. 1987. [PDF]
Effects of nuclear war on health and health services, 2nd edition, 1987; Annex 3: Biological effects of nuclear war, acute effects of radiation; the LD-50 value. World Health Organization. [PDF]
Twelve articles by supporters of IPPNW. Lancet 1988. [PDF]
- Looking back, seeing ahead
- Physicians, triage, and nuclear war
- Nuclear threat and health in the Pacific Ocean
- The enemy system
- The arms race as a threat to health
- Nuclear weapons test ban 1988
- Inadvertent nuclear war
- Youth and the threat of nuclear war
- Could we safely negotiate a treaty banning all nuclear tests?
- A view from a nation less likely to be a target of nuclear weapons
- Nuclear winter
- Medical education and nuclear war
IPPNW/IEER Commission
During the 1990s, IPPNW and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research formed an International Commission to Investigate the Health and Environmental Consequences of Nuclear Weapons Testing and Production. The Commission published three books, excerpts from which are available here.
Radioactive Heaven and Earth. 1991. [Full book PDF]
Nuclear Poison. Summary of plutonium’s toxicity, routes of exposure, and carcinogenicity. [PDF] From: Plutonium: Deadly Gold of the Nuclear Age. 1992. [Full book PDF]
Health risks of ionizing radiation. [PDF] From: Nuclear wastelands: A global guide to nuclear weapons production and its health and environmental effects. 1995.
Crude nuclear weapons. Proliferation and the terrorist threat; IPPNW Global Health Watch Report number 1. 1996
Accidental nuclear war – a post-cold war assessment. New England Journal of Medicine, 1998. [PDF]
Medicine and nuclear war: From Hiroshima to mutual assured destruction to Abolition 2000. Journal of the American Medical Association. 1998. [PDF]
Bombing Bombay? Effects of nuclear weapons and a case study of a hypothetical explosion. 1999. [PDF] Fast track to zero nuclear weapons. 1999 [PDF]
Security and survival: the case for a nuclear weapons convention. 1999 [PDF]
The threat of low-yield earth-penetrating nuclear weapons to civilian populations: nuclear “bunker busters” and their medical consequences. 2003 [PDF] Rethinking nuclear energy and democracy after September 11, 2001. Global Health Watch report. 2004 Nuclear terrorism: effects of a nuclear explosion in a populated area. 2004. [PDF]
Projected casualties among US military personnel and civilian populations from the use of nuclear weapons against hard and deeply buried targets. 2005. [PDF]
Securing our survival: the case for a nuclear weapons convention. 2007 [PDF] Health status of indigenous people around Jadugoda uranium mines in India. 2007 [PDF] Zero is the Only Option: Four Medical and Environmental Cases for Eradicating Nuclear Weapons. 2010. [PDF]
- Japanese translation [PDF]
- Swedish translation [PDF]
IPPNW Germany Health Effects of Chernobyl: 20 years after the reactor catastrophe. IPPNW Germany and German Society for Radiation Protection. 2010 [PDF]
Nuclear Energy and the Nuclear Reactor Crisis in Fukushima, Japan 2011 [Medicine and Global Survival Special Edition. 2011.] [PDF] Nuclear Famine: Climate Effects of Regional Nuclear War. 2012 edition. [PDF]
- Spanish version [PDF]
No such thing as a safe number of nukes. 2013. [PDF] Docs and nukes—still a live issue. New England Journal of Medicine 2015 [PDF]
Health effects of the nuclear disasters in Chernobyl and Fukushima. 2016. [PDF]