WMA STATEMENT ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS,
amended by the 66th WMA General Assembly, Moscow, Russia, October 2015
The WMA Declarations of Geneva, of Helsinki and Tokyo make clear the duties and responsibilities of the medical profession to safeguard the health of the patient and to consecrate itself to the service of humanity. The WMA considers that it has a duty to work for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Therefore the WMA:
– Condemns the development, testing, production, stockpilling, transfer, deployment, threat and use of nuclear weapons
– Requests all governments to refrain from development, testing, stockpilling, transfer, deployment, threat and use of nuclear weapons and work in good faith towards the eliminations of nuclear weapons
– Advises all governments that even a limited nuclear war would bring about immense human suffering and substantial death toll together with catastrophic effects on earth’s ecosystem, which could subsequently decrease the world’s food supply and would put a significant portion of the world’s polulation at risk of famine
– Requests that all National Medical Associations join the WMA supporting this Declaration, use available educational resources to educate general public and urge their respective governments to work towards the elimination of nuclear weapons
– Requests all National Medical Associations to join the WMA in supporting this Declaration and urge their respective governments to work to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons.
