Docs and Nukes--Still a Live Issue

Ira Helfand1, Victor W Sidel

  • 1From Physicians for Social Responsibility, Washington, DC (I.H., V.W.S.); the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Somerville (I.H., V.W.S.), Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Leeds (I.H., V.W.S.), and the Family Care Medical Center, Springfield (I.H.) - all in Massachusetts; and the Department of Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, New York (V.W.S.).

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