International Conferences

Nuclear Weapons: The Final Pandemic
Preventing Proliferation and Achieving Abolition
October 3-4, 2007
London, England

CONFERENCE OVERVIEW | PROGRAM | MAPS & EVENTS | PRESENTATIONS

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2007

Opening Plenary - Medicine and Nuclear War
Moderators:
Gunnar Westberg, MD; Co-President, IPPNW
Steve Mannion; President, Catastrophes and Conflict Forum, Royal Society of Medicine

Greeting:
Message from Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London

Speakers:
1. Masao Tomonaga, MD; Professor of Hematology, Nagasaki University Hospital; Nagasaki survivor, Member of the Board, IPPNW
"Human consequences of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs after 62 years: The lifelong health effects of radiation and the psychological threat"
[PDF 63KB]

2. Prof. Sir E. D. Williams; Emeritus Professor of Histopathology, University of Cambridge
"The need for continuing scientific study of radiation effects"
[PPT]

3. Victor W. Sidel,MD, Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Former Co-President, IPPNW
"Medicine and nuclear war"
[SPEECH - PDF 51KB] [MONOGRAPH - PDF 270KB] and [PPT 9.3MB]

Plenary - Climate Effects of Regional Nuclear War
Moderator:
Prof. Sir Andy Haines, MD; Dean, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Speakers:
1. Owen B. Toon, PhD; Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Consequences of regional-scale nuclear conflicts:understanding and avoiding nuclear catastrophe
[PPT]

2. Alan Robock, PhD; Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
"Climatic consequences of nuclear conflict-nuclear winter is still a threat"
[PPT]

3. Ira Helfand, MD; IPPNW
"Global medical consequences of regional nuclear conflicts"
[PDF 498KB]

Using Weapons Grade Uranium to Produce Medical Isotopes - An Avoidable Terrorist Danger
Moderator:
Bill Williams, MBBS; Medical Association for the Prevention of War, Australia

Speaker:
Martin Kalinowski, Director, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center for Science and Peace Research (ZNF), Germany
"The dangers associated with the use of highly enriched uranium in medical isotope production"
[PPT]

Plenary - Radiation and Health
Moderators:
David Rush, MD; Emeritus Professor of Nutrition, Community Health (epidemiology), and Pediatrics, Tufts University

Speakers:
1. Steve Wing, PhD; Associate Professor of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Public Health
"Changing views of the biological effects of low-level ionizing radiation"
[PPT]

2. Dr. Ian Fairlie; Independent consultant on radiation and health
"New understandings of radiation effects, and new evidence from Chernobyl"
[PPT]

Respondents:
1. Martin Tondel; Department fo Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences. Linköping University, Sweden

2.Prof. Sir E. D. Williams; Emeritus Professor of Histopathology, University of Cambridge

Plenary - Destruction Before Detonation
Part 1: The Legacy of Nuclear Testing
Moderator:
Ime John, MD, PhD Candidate, Division of Social Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm; Co-President, IPPNW

Speakers:
Tilman Ruff, MD; President, Medical Association for the Prevention of War, Australia
"The legacy of nuclear testing"

Part 2: The Human Impacts of Uranium Mining
Speakers:
1. Satyajit Kumar Singh, MBBS; MS; MCh (Urology); Vice President, Indian Doctors for Peace and Development

2. Shakeel Ur Rahman, National Secretary, Indian Doctors for Peace and Develpment
"Health status of indigenous people around Jadugoda uranium mines in India"
[PPT]

3. Bill Williams, MBBS; Medical Association for the Prevention of War, Australia
"Health implications of Australia's uranium rush"
[PPT]

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2007

Working Group Sessions to develop specific work plans for carrying forward the research, education, and advocacy work of IPPNW and the international physicians movement.

Morning Session 9-11:30AM
1) Climate effects of low-yield nuclear war: Setting a research and education agenda
2) The psychosocial dimnsions of nuclearism
3) Vertical and horizontal proliferation -- the growing threat to health and life from new nuclear weaons, new nuclear infrastructures, and new nuclear policies

Afternoon Session 1-3:30PM
4) Radiation and Health -- the legacy of nuclear testing and the public health hazards of continued reliance on nuclear weapons: Scientific data as a basis for activism
5) The nuclear weapnos-nuclear energy link: Can one be abolished without the other?
6) Nuclear terror: Exploring options for prevention and preparedness

4:00 PM - 5:30PM
Working Group Reports

Closing Plenary - How to Eliminate the Nuclear Threat; Rewards of Success, Consequences of Failure
Moderator:
Elisabeth McElderry, Medact

Speakers:
1. Catherine Thomasson, MD; President, Physicians for Social Responsibility, USA
"The military and humanitarian consequences of an attack against Iran"
[PPT]

2. Shahriar Khateri, MD; President, Society of Chemical Weapons Victims Support, Tehran
"An Iranian Perspective on Humanitarian Consequences of Preemption: Lessons Learned from the Past"
[PPT]

3. Ron McCoy, MD; Former Co-President, IPPNW
"Abolition is the Third, Best, and Only Option"
[PDF 113KB]

Closing Ceremony: Candlelight Procession