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A Physician's View

André Bruwer, MD

JAMA. 1985;254(5):657-658.

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AS A physician I am intrigued by the brilliant logic of the idea of a bilateral nuclear weapons freeze by the nuclear superpowers. It offers the promise of an inspiring start to a scaling down of the nuclear arms race, unencumbered by intellectually contorted strategies such as the so-called build-down proposal or by the frantic addition of more and more missiles so their elimination may be negotiated.

The language of the freeze proposal calls on the leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States to work toward the adoption of an immediate, verifiable, mutual freeze of the testing, production, and deployment of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems.

Why does such a concept appeal to a physician? Let me try to explain.

Politicians are fond of using medical metaphors. We have heard about bombing another country with "surgical precision." We have been urged to "quarantine" an unfriendly nation. We . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to 4122 E Sixth St, Tucson, AZ 85711-1918 (Dr Bruwer).

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