Public health and nuclear winter : addressing a catastrophic threat
Vilhelmsson, Andreas LU
and Baum, Seth D.
(2023)
In Journal of Public Health Policy
44(3).
p.360-369
- Abstract
Despite the end of the Cold War, the world still has thousands of nuclear weapons and adversarial relations between the countries that possess them. A nuclear war could cause large and abrupt global environmental change known as nuclear winter, with potentially devastating public health consequences. A significant line of natural science research characterizes nuclear winter and its potential effect on global food security, but less has been done on the human impacts and policy implications. Therefore, this Viewpoint proposes an interdisciplinary research and policy agenda to understand and address the public health implications of nuclear winter. Public health research can apply existing tools developed for the study of other... (More)
Despite the end of the Cold War, the world still has thousands of nuclear weapons and adversarial relations between the countries that possess them. A nuclear war could cause large and abrupt global environmental change known as nuclear winter, with potentially devastating public health consequences. A significant line of natural science research characterizes nuclear winter and its potential effect on global food security, but less has been done on the human impacts and policy implications. Therefore, this Viewpoint proposes an interdisciplinary research and policy agenda to understand and address the public health implications of nuclear winter. Public health research can apply existing tools developed for the study of other environmental and military issues. Public health policy institutions can help build preparedness and community resilience to nuclear winter. Given the extreme potential severity of nuclear winter, it should be treated as a major global public health challenge to be addressed by public health institutions and researchers.
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- author
- Vilhelmsson, Andreas
LU
and Baum, Seth D.
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Climate change, Environment, Global catastrophic risk, Nuclear winter, Public health
- in
- Journal of Public Health Policy
- volume
- 44
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 360 - 369
- publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- external identifiers
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- pmid:37322225
- scopus:85161816682
- ISSN
- 0197-5897
- DOI
- 10.1057/s41271-023-00416-7
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s).
- id
- 038b3f43-8a58-420c-b899-45a76fa94a0f
- date added to LUP
- 2023-07-02 16:14:07
- date last changed
- 2024-04-19 23:12:00
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