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International Physicians fot the Prevention of Nuclear War
Nobel Peace Prize Winners.
The two cardiologists, Bernard Lown and Yevgeny Chazov, saw it as a straightforward procedure: clog the arteries of support for nuclear weaponry until the heart of the atomic arms race stopped beating. Although the operation was not yet fully completed, in 1985 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), a worldwide federation of medical doctors and health professionals founded in 1980. Its founders and copresidents, Lown, a professor of cardiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Massachusetts, and Chazov, director general of the Cardiology Research Center in Moscow, first bumped into each other in an elevator in New Delhi in 1960. Soon they began corresponding about medical matters and visited each other's medical facilities. In 1961 Lown became interested in the medical aspects of nuclear war...
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