BACKGROUND The Fukushima nuclear disaster has generated worldwide concern on the risk of exposure to nuclear radiations. In Europe, health authorities had to issue statements about the lack of usefulness of iodine based preventive treatments within their borders. However a lack of confidence in official messages has developed in various European countries due to recent perceived failures in man...

The neutron spin structure function, g1n, has been of considerable interest recently in connection with the Bjorken sum rule and the proton spin crisis. Work on this problem has concentrated on measurements at low-x. We recall the important, non-perturbative physics to be learnt by going instead to larger values of x and especially from a determination of the place where the expected sign chang...

A magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami originating off the east coast of Japan triggered the explosive release of radioactive isotopes from one of four nuclear power plants in the affected area. This event has been compared with the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl, the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the intervening era of atmospheric nuclear weapons testing. The credibili...

Soviet and American leaders learned during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 that inadequate communication raised perilous risks dangers in nuclear age. The US–Soviet Hotline was cre...

We present a 21-year-old woman with an oculogyric crisis following the administration of clebopride. Based on the temporal relationship of the administration of clebopride to the occurrence of the event and the absence of other possible etiologies, clebopride is implicated as the cause of this acute oculogyric crisis, despite the fact that a cause-and-effect relationship cannot be confirmed.

psychoeducational workshop that was rapidly developed and disseminated to an affected community in response to the attack on the World Trade Center (WTC). The workshop provided conceptually, empirically, and experientially grounded training to community and educational personnel on responses to disaster and trauma, resilience, tolerance, and compassion fatigue. [Brief Treatment and Crisis Inter...

Nationalist populists as leaders of states that possess nuclear weapons undermine the order and increase dangers in novel, significant, persistent ways. Such talk differently about weapons; they can put policy making crisis management disarray; weaken international alliances multilateral institutions. The rise nationalist nuclear-armed states, including some five nuclear-weapon recognized under...