[Nuclear arms and medical responsibility]

The medical profession would be unable to cope with the millions of simultaneous casualities of a nuclear war. Such a war between developed countries becomes less likely, but new countries equip themselves, with nuclear weapons, using the violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty by the great powers as an excuse. The danger of nuclear war is spreading with the consequences one can imagine. A world movement, including military experts, political, moral and scientific leaders and representative national medical groups, among them the World Medical Association, press governments to negotiate a comprehensive abolition treaty. The "Académie royale de Médecine de Belgique" joining moral prestige to an authoritative expertise, should take a stand on the problem.