‘ Terrace medical health officer David Bowering was one of over 2,000 doctors attending the Montreal conference, ‘Healing our planet: A global prescrip- tion’ put on by the Interna- tional Physicians for the Preven- tion of Nuclear War in early June. - In areport to interested com- munity members June 20, Bowering said it was an inspiring and memorable conference. He said he grew up in the shadow of the bomb, having been born one year after the bombs were drop- ped on Hiroshima and Naga- saki. “I remember air raid drills in Grade five in Victoria, where we hid under our desks and talk- ed about bomb shelters.’’ With renewed peace activism in the 1960s and later his concern over the well-being of his own family, his interest in disarmament grew. The health effects of nuclear bombs includes not only the ob- vious disaster of war, but also the more subtle psychological ef- fects stemming from people ac- tually having: the capability to destroy the world many times over. ‘‘If we had an experiment in which rats were given the ability and knowledge to an- nihilate themselves, the scientists wouldn’t be surprised to see high stress in this rat society, to see a high rat crime rate, to observe them using chemicals to numb themselves, or to see problems with the rats’ reproductive and sexual lives.’” The °88 conference theme, ‘Healing our planet: A global prescription’ refers to the fact that medicine can not adequate- ly deal with the effects of a nuclear war. Since treatment is not possible, only prevention will be effective. The medical prescription of the IPPNW reads: ‘‘The nuclear arms race threatens the health and the very existence of every human being on our planet, Because medicine can offer no meaningful response to the. horrors of nuclear war, physicians world- wide have acknowledged their professional responsibility to work for the prevention of this final epidemic.’ Bowering showed a slide presentation prepared by Swedish IPPNW members which focused both on the hopes that disarmament can bring — we have a lot of beautiful things to preserve — and on the destruction nuclear fire power can bring. One particularly effective graphic showed a gridwork filled with dots, one dot representing the total fire power of World War Two. The countless dots filling the screen represented the world’s assembled nuclear arsenal as of 1985. Eight dots represent one Trident missile, or eight times the fire power of the second world war. Another slide was a cartoon of a child chained to a large ball representing TNT — for each child, woman and man on the planet there is 4 tons of TNT, It takes as little as 15 grams of the stuff to kill a per- son. Other graphs and _ statistics presented showed that every sec- ond, one child dies or is per- manently damaged from a preventable condition. Every second, $25,000 is spent on arm- aments. Military expenditures now top $500 billion, foreign economic aid $30 billion. To counter the argument that having nuclear weapons pre- vents war, the statistic of 16,359,000 people killed in wars since 1945 was used. About half _of these people, 8,914,000, were civilians. The effects of atomic, hydrogen, and neutron bombs were described. In such an ex- plosion, the. series of events in- 2 - OS : | - Terrace Review — Wednesday, June 29, 1988 23 - Local health officer recounts meeting on ~~ health effects of nuclear arms tension cludes first, the blast, which can travel faster than sound, crush buildings, and destroy toxic chemical storage tanks; then the thermal wave, with its ultra- violet radiation and firestorms; then lingering radiation, with its continuing destruction of life, contaminated water and the resulting ‘nuclear winter’. Nightmarish photographs of Japanese victims of the 1945 bombings illustrated detailed descriptions of burns, malignant tumours, effects. on fetuses. When Hiroshima was bombed, 270 out of 298 physicians were killed or injured, as were 1,500 nurses. Facts about destruction of life and foodstuffs were also gleaned from the nuclear acci- dent at Chernobyl. The Swedish doctors conclud- ed that management of such casualities could not be done through first aid, nor through evacuation or appropriate care: only through prevention. “But the sense of paralysis has lifted,’ * Bowering said. ““Organizations have formed, action can be taken. The stress resulting from the threat of nuclear war can be used in a positive way.” The slide presentation con- cluded on an optimistic note, us- ing the example of small pox asa terrible world health problem that has been solved. ‘‘You can do something,’? IPPNW urges us: ‘“‘Listen, communicate, cooperate, stimulate interna- tional thinking, reconsider your priorities, maintain life on earth.” Everyone welcome. The Terrace Friends and Families of Schizophrenics is a support group that meets once per month. Meetings are the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at the Psych. Conference Room at Mills Memorial Hospital. One aim of the group is to provide community education about this Illness. Anyone wishing to learn more or become part of this group Is weicome to attend the meetings. Please call 638-3325 for further information. The Terrace Duplicate Bridge Club meets every Wednes- day at 7:15 p.m. at Caledonia Senior Secondary in the cafeteria. Anyone Interested in playing please coritact Ellen Smith at 635-4096 or May McFarland at 635-2875. CLASSIFIED _ AUTOMOTIVE ~ $159, for 25 w BLANKET CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING BUSINESS BUSINESS These Ads appear in the more than 75 Newspapers of the B.C. and Yukon Community Newspapers Association and reach more than 1,000,000 homes and a potential two miltion readers. ords ($3. per each additional word) Cail The Terrace Review at 635-7840 EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY HELP WANTED Buy/lease any gas, diesel car or truck, new or used. Direct from volume factory dealer. Call for pre-approv- ed credit. Call collect 464- 0271. 05231. $1 Down leases a new car or truck. Seven year warranty. Payments from $139./Mo. O.A.C. 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