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Nuclear bomb and public health
Since the nuclear bomb attack against Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the world has advanced in nuclear technology. Today, a nuclear bomb could target a large-scale attack, at a longer range, and with much greater destructive force. People are increasingly concerned about the potential destructive h...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10485088/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37316551 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41271-023-00420-x |
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description | Since the nuclear bomb attack against Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the world has advanced in nuclear technology. Today, a nuclear bomb could target a large-scale attack, at a longer range, and with much greater destructive force. People are increasingly concerned about the potential destructive humanitarian outcomes. We discuss actual conditions detonation of an atomic bomb would create, radiation injuries, and diseases. We also address concerns about functionality of medical care systems and other systems that support medical systems (i.e., transport, energy, supply chain, etc. systems) following a massive nuclear attack and whether citizens able to survive this. |
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spelling | pubmed-104850882023-09-09 Nuclear bomb and public health Xu, Shan Dodt, Alicia J Public Health Policy Review Article Since the nuclear bomb attack against Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the world has advanced in nuclear technology. Today, a nuclear bomb could target a large-scale attack, at a longer range, and with much greater destructive force. People are increasingly concerned about the potential destructive humanitarian outcomes. We discuss actual conditions detonation of an atomic bomb would create, radiation injuries, and diseases. We also address concerns about functionality of medical care systems and other systems that support medical systems (i.e., transport, energy, supply chain, etc. systems) following a massive nuclear attack and whether citizens able to survive this. Palgrave Macmillan UK 2023-06-14 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10485088/ /pubmed/37316551 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41271-023-00420-x Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Review Article Xu, Shan Dodt, Alicia Nuclear bomb and public health |
title | Nuclear bomb and public health |
title_full | Nuclear bomb and public health |
title_fullStr | Nuclear bomb and public health |
title_full_unstemmed | Nuclear bomb and public health |
title_short | Nuclear bomb and public health |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10485088/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37316551 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41271-023-00420-x |
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