Books and Publications

Enough Blood Shed - 101 Solutions to Violence, Terror and War

By Mary-Wynne Ashford with Guy Dauncey

Addressing the roots of war and the heartening power of civil society’s rejection of the war paradigm, this book collects strategies and success stories showing that war and terrorism are not inevitable – that we already know how to prevent them.

The first part of the book describes the culture of violence that has led the world to this precipice of hopelessness, and then points to signs of hope that a different future is possible. It outlines the steps being made to build a culture of peace, including the phenomenal power of civil society: the second superpower - or the conscience of society.

Part Two then focuses on the solutions that are possible for all sectors of society:
-For individuals, including women, children and youth
-For schools, educators, activist groups and religious organizations
-For the media, professionals, business and labor
-For cities, nations and the global community

Focusing on the power of ordinary people to make a difference and packed with effective nonviolent success stories - often in a setting of hate and provocation - the book provides guidance, inspiration, hope and empowerment that peace is not only possible, but can be fun along the way.

Published by New Society Publishers; 2006
U.S. $21.95
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Rethinking Nuclear Energy and Democracy
After September 11, 2001

This IPPNW Global Health Watch Report collects a number of talks by speakers at the 2002 Basel symposium after which the publication is titled. Their analyses and evaluations should give the reader a better knowledge of the security and safety issues involved with nuclear power plants. Nuclear policies in several European countries and in Japan, as well as some phaseout scenarios advocated by civil society groups are discussed side by side with descriptions of some recent, serious accidents within power plants such as Tokai-mura in Japan and Chernobyl in the Ukraine. "Probabilistic risk analysis" is assessed and questioned. Flightpaths and their shocking proximity to large nuclear power plants in England are illustrated. Mechanisms are described through which accidents or assaults with airplanes could lead to catastrophic plant failures. The liabilities of nuclear plant operators and insurance alternatives such as risk pooling are explained. The role of the military in relation to the nuclear industry in a country such as France, as well as the role of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in terrorism protection are described. Democratic decision making on nuclear issues in countries with a so-called direct democracy as Switzerland is explained and, lastly, the options of NGO's in nuclear policy making are outlined.

Nuclear Weapons Convention Monitor

IPPNW (in consultation with LCNP)

The Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC) Monitor is a series of periodic bulletins exploring progress on and challenges to a Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC) -- a treaty to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons under a verifiable international regime. The opinions and analysis presented address political, legal, and technical questions critical to the future course of nuclear disarmament. The NWC Monitor is a continuation of the discussion surrounding the model NWC drafted by a non-governmental team of lawyers, scientists, and disarmament specialists and distributed by the United Nations as a discussion document in 1997. A revised and annotated version of the model NWC is contained in Security and Survival: The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention.

Published by IPPNW; 2001
U.S. $5.00 (see order form for shipping/handling charges)

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Primary Care of Landmine Injuries in Africa

IPPNW

A new IPPNW handbook contains instruction and discussion gathered from experts on surgery and community care for landmine victims and addresses both the first-aid treatment of landmine injuries and long-term rehabilitation. The clinical sections provide clear information applicable to the realities of rural African regions pockmarked by landmines. The handbook emerged from the November 1998 IPPNW Workshop on Care and Rehabilitation of Landmine Victims in Kenya, where local and international medical authorities came together to examine the landmines epidemic and to find ways to care for victims that are practical and appropriate in an African context. Physicians, surgeons, a landmine survivor, and IPPNW representatives from Australia, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, and the Central Office participated in a constructive discussion to frame Africa's role in the training of health workers to meet the needs of mine victims. Their responses are documented in this handbook, which will be distributed throughout Africa.

Published by IPPNW; 2000
U.S. $10.00 (see order form for shipping/handling charges)

Available for downloading as PDF files. Adobe Acrobat Reader required (free download of latest version for both Macintosh and Windows operating systems available at Adobe's Website. Section 1. The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention (2.4 MB) Section 2. Model Nuclear Weapons Convention (228 K) Section 3. Comments and Critical Questions (2.5 MB) Section 4. Verification (548 K) Documents (1.3 MB) Key Terms; Drafters and Consultants (12K)

Security and Survival: The Case for
a Nuclear Weapons Convention

IPPNW, INESAP, IALANA

An international team of scientists, lawyers, and disarmament specialists drafted and released a Model Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC) in April 1997. This model was submitted by Costa Rica to the United Nations as a discussion draft in November 1997. The responses and developments that have followed since then have led to the collaborative publication of a revised version of the Model NWC, together with comments and discussion on critical political, legal, and technical questions essential to complete nuclear disarmament.

"As the 20th century comes to a close, the international community has banned the use, threat and production of chemical and biological weapons...Recent political and technical developments...have made a nuclear-weapons-free world a realizable goal.

-- from the Introduction

Published by IPPNW; 1999
U.S. $10.00 (see order form for shipping/handling charges)

Click on book cover to download Bombing Bombay? as a PDF file (2 MB), which must be read with Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Bombing Bombay? Effects of Nuclear Weapons and a Case Study of a Hypothetical Explosion

M.V. Ramana
IPPNW

Part of the Global Health Watch series, this report describes the effects of nuclear explosions and the possible consequences of a hypothetical nuclear detonation over the Indian city of Bombay (Mumbai). The author, M. V. Ramana, holds an SSRC-MacArthur postdoctoral fellowship on International Peace and Security at Princeton University.

The immense scale of these effects, and that too resulting from just a single fission weapon with a low yield, should make it clear that the possible use of such weapons would lead to a major catastrophe. The only guarantee that such a tragedy would never occur is complete elimination of nuclear weapons, both from the region and from the world, and the means to manufacture them.

-- from the Conclusion

Published by IPPNW; 1999
Available only as PDF file

New Steps For a Mine-Free Future
Report on the First International Conference on Landmines in Russia and the CIS
Moscow, May 27-28, 1998

IPPNW and ICBL

Presented in this report are the proceedings of the First International Conference on Landmines in Russia and the CIS, including speeches, addresses, and responses of conference participants.

It has become obvious that anti-personnel landmines are a weapon of mass annihilation similar in some respects to the nuclear bomb. While the nuclear bomb causes immediate, countless deaths, the deaths and injuries caused by anti-personnel mines are prolonged, because mines endanger peoples' lives for a lifetime.

-- Sergei Kolesnikov, Past Co-President, IPPNW; Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences

Published by IPPNW/ICBL; 1999
U.S. $10.00 (see order form for shipping/handling charges)

Is Everything Secure? Myths and Realities of Nuclear Disarmament

IPPNW

Despite the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear war remains with us, as evidenced by the recent nuclear tests in India and Pakistan. This documentary record of the evolving nuclear threat makes it clear that supporters of the abolition of nuclear weapons must redouble their efforts.

"To the suggestion that nuclear abolition is a utopian dream, I say 'nonsense.'...The challenge is to imagine -- and to create -- opportunities now to move towards the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons. The path can take many directions, but the destination matters enormously and must be made unequivocable."

-- from the Foreword by General Lee Butler, USAF (Ret.)

Published by IPPNW; 1998
42 pp. (softcover)
U.S. $10.00 (see order form for shipping/handling charges)

Fast Track to Zero Nuclear Weapons

The Middle Powers Initiative

This briefing book, written by retired British Navy Commander Robert D. Green, is the first publication of the Middle Powers Initiative, an IPPNW-cosponsored campaign to mobilize key non-nuclear weapons states in the effort to encourage the leaders of the nuclear weapons states to commit themselves to the elimination of nuclear weapons.

"The purpose of this briefing book, therefore, is to help transform this overwhelming wish to get rid of nuclear weapons into political movement. It highlights the deepening nuclear weapons crisis, discusses the feasibility and desirability of rapid nuclear disarmament, and explores the role that middle power governments, supported by civil society, can play in advancing such a goal."

-- from the Preface

Published by the Middle Powers Initiative; 1999 (revised)
88 pp. (softcover)
U.S. $10.00 (see order form for shipping/handling charges)

A Russian- language edition is also available. Contact the IPPNW Russia affiliate for ordering information.

Landmines: A Global Health Crisis

IPPNW

The second IPPNW Global Health Watch report assembles the most comprehensive collection to date of information about the worldwide landmines crisis.

The report presents both a global overview and detailed country studies of anti-personnel mine-affected countries. It also provides a guide to treatment, care, and rehabilitation of the survivors of landmine injuries.

"As Landmines: A Global Health Crisis eloquently demonstrates, landmines are only incidentally a weapon of war. IPPNW has done an enormous service in collecting what we know about the devastation landmines bring to civilians after war has ended and in explaining how health professionals can help bring about an end to this carnage through a ban on their production."

-- Leonard S. Rubenstein, JD
Executive Director
Physicians for Human Rights

Published by IPPNW
95 pp. Softcover; 1997
US$10.00 (see order form for shipping/handling charges)

Crude Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation
and the Terrorist Threat

IPPNW

The first report in a new IPPNW information series, Global Health Watch. The authors, IPPNW Executive Director Dr. Gururaj Mutalik, defense analyst and arms control expert Frank Barnaby, and scientific consultants Peter Taylor and David Sumner analyze the availability of fissile materials to terrorist groups, the capabilities of such groups to construct crude nuclear weapons, the destruction such weapons could cause, and the policy initiatives required for prevention of nuclear terrorism.

Published by IPPNW; 1997
60 pp. Softcover
U.S. $10.00 (see order form for shipping/handling charges)
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Abolition 2000: Handbook for a World Without Nuclear Weapons

IPPNW

The Handbook is designed as a practical tool to aid physician-activists worldwide as they undertake concrete actions that will lead to the successful achievement of IPPNW's Abolition 2000 Campaign, which was launched in 1995. An overview of the first 50 years of the of the atomic age and the partial arms control victories achieved by citizens is followed by a detailed description of the "dialogue approach to change" prepared by the Oxford Research Group. A series of addenda provide useful facts and figures about arms control and disarmament agreements, the medical effects of nuclear weapons, and the health and environmental consequences of nuclear weapons testing, production, and disposal.

Published by IPPNW; 1995
175 pp. Softcover
US$10.00 (see order form for shipping/handling charges)

Last Aid: The Medical Dimensions of Nuclear War

IPPNW

Edited by Eric Chivian, MD, Susanna Chivian, Robert J. Lifton, MD, John E. Mack, MD and with a Foreword by Lewis Thomas, M.D., Last Aid is a seminal work exploring the medical, psychological, and environmental consequences of nuclear war. The effects of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are presented in detail, as are the overwhelming effects of a catastrophic nuclear war, which would make any meaningful medical response impossible.

"Last Aid is a no-nonsense description of the horrifying medical consequences of nuclear war from the leading experts in the field. This invaluable and timely work should be read by everyone who cares about the future of humanity."

-- Coretta Scott King, President
The Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Non-Violent Social Change

Published by W.H. Freeman and Co. 1982
338 pp. Illus. Softcover ISBN 0-7167-1435-3
US$10.00 (see order form for shipping/handling charges)

From the International Commission to Investigate the Health and Environmental Effects of Nuclear Weapons Production

Nuclear Wastelands: Nuclear Weapons Production Worldwide and Its Environmental and Health Effects

IPPNW and Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)

Edited by Arjun Makhijani, PhD, Howard Hu, MD, and Katherine Yih, PhD, Nuclear Wastelands gathers the work of numerous contributors with expertise in nuclear medicine, epidemiology, environmental medicine, occupational health, chemical engineering, and journalism. The book reviews the entire process of nuclear weapons production, from uranium mining and milling through plutonium processing and weapons assembly. It identifies the major pollutants resulting from these processes, presents a country-by-country review of the major nuclear weapons production sites, and reviews all available information on their emissions and health and safety records.

"An astonishing...collection of research on nuclear weapons....This voluminous book is a kind of Baedeker of the Bomb. It meticulously gathers together every piece of public information about the nuclear cycle, some of it leaked, some of it dragged out thanks to court cases, some published in specialist commissions but little noticed at the time. No future research into nuclear weapons will be credible unless it refers to this study."

-- Jonathan Steele
Guardian

Published by MIT Press. 1995
666 pages. Illus. Hardcover: ISBN 0-262-13307-5
US$55.00
New Paperback Edition!
Available from IPPNW (See order form)

Plutonium: Deadly Gold of the Nuclear Age

The Cold War is over, yet many countries continue to extract plutonium -- one of the most toxic radioactive substances on Earth. While tons of plutonium are being stockpiled annually, most allegedly for use in nuclear power plants, only a few pounds are needed to make a nuclear weapon and even less to make a radiation bomb.

"Deadly Gold is the first truly comprehensive account of the legacy of threats that the continuing production of plutonium bequeaths to the next one hundred thousand years."

-- Daniel Ellsberg

Plutonium: Deadly Gold of the Nuclear Age examines the huge risks posed to human health, the environment, and international security by the global accumulation of plutonium. It also proposes policy initiatives that can be undertaken now to end the plutonium era.

Published by International Physicians Press. 1992
78 pages. Illus. Softcover: ISBN 0-9634455-0-2
US$10 (see order form for shipping/handling charges)

Radioactive Heaven and Earth: The health and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing in, on, and above the earth

IPPNW and IEER

The first report of IPPNW's Commission assesses the legacy of nuclear testing and examines the consequences of the testing programs in each of the major declared nuclear powers.

Published by Apex Press/Zed Books. 1991
193 pages. Illus. Softcover: ISBN 1-85649-020-3
US$10 (see order form for shipping/handling charges)

War and Public Health

edited by Barry S. Levy, MD and Victor W. Sidel, MD

War and Public Health, published by Oxford University Press in cooperation with the American Public Health Association, is the first book that comprehensively describes the relationship of war and public health. It both documents the impact of war on public health and describes what health professionals can do to minimize the consequences of war and to help prevent war.

War and Public Health is co-edited by Victor Sidel, MD, former Co-President of IPPNW and Barry Levy, MD. Many of the chapters are written by IPPNW leaders throughout the world, among them Mary-Wynne Ashford (Canada), H. Jack Geiger (US), Robert Gould (US), Ernesto Kahan (Israel), Alan Lockwood (US), Joanna Santa Barbara (Canada), and Kenjiro Yokoro (Japan). The foreword is written by former US President Jimmy Carter.

War and Public Health covers the effects of war on health, human rights, and the environment. The chapters on the health effects of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons systems discuss their public health consequences and the methods by which public health professionals can work for their abolition. The book deals with both the direct consequences of the use of conventional weapons and the role of the international arms trade, including the diversion of resources that could otherwise be used for health and human welfare. Separate chapters cover especially vulnerable populations, including women, children, and refugees.

War and Public Health may be ordered directly from Oxford University Press. The cost is US $55. In the US, credit card orders may be placed toll free at 800-451-7556 or by fax at 919-677-1303. The toll free number in Canada is 800-387-8020. Orders may also be mailed, with complete name, address, and credit card information, to: Order Department, Oxford University Press, 2001 Evans Road, Cary, NC 27513 USA.

Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment

Ted Schettler, MD; Gina Solomon, MD; Maria Valenti; Annette Huddle

Generations at Risk presents compelling evidence that human exposure to some toxic chemicals can have lifelong and even intergenerational effects on human reproduction and development.

Health care personnel are often ill equipped to recognize, much less treat, illnesses with environmental causes, since medical education pays inadequate attention to the relationship between human health and the environment. A comprehensive awareness of that relationship requires an understanding that illness is not just an individual condition but also a public health concern.

-- from the Introduction

Published by MIT Press. 1999
417 pages. ISBN 0-262-19413-9

Generations at Risk is available at bookstores and may also be ordered from Amazon.com.

Never Whisper in the Presence of Wrong: Selections from Speeches on Nuclear War and Global Survival

Bernard Lown, MD

At the 11th World Congress of IPPNW, Dr. Lown, for the last time, addressed us in the role of IPPNW Co-President. In these brief excerpts from addresses at prior congresses can be found the vision and passion of a unique leader.

Reprints

Reprints of the following articles, written by IPPNW physicians and published by leading medical journals, are also available. See Order Form for prices.

Accidental Nuclear War -- A Post-Cold War Assessment

Lachlan Forrow, MD, Bruce G. Blair, PhD, Ira Helfand, MD, et al.
The New England Journal of Medicine, April 30, 1998

Medicine and Nuclear War: From Hiroshima to Mutual Assured Destruction to Abolition 2000

Lachlan Forrow, MD, Victor W. Sidel, MD
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), August 5, 1998, Vol. 280, No. 5

An Appeal for Nuclear Sanity -- An Open Letter to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee of India, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan

Bernard Lown, MD, Eugene I. Chazov, MD, William H. Foege, MD, Dr. Saeed-Ul Majeed, Dr. R. Jayachandra Reddy
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), August 5, 1998, Vol. 280, No. 5