{"title":"How does the birth of the universe relate to the threat of nuclear war? From the Big Bang to the uranium mines at Shinkolobwe.","authors":"Frank Boulton","doi":"10.1080/13623699.2025.2558410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13623699.2025.2558410","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article describes the geological origin of uranium and related actinides from the time of the primordial singularity also known as the 'Big Bang', focussing on their historical, sociological, civilian and military industrial aspects and applications, with additional material providing an astronomical and historical context to actinide nucleosynthesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":53657,"journal":{"name":"Medicine, Conflict and Survival","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145234155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A systematic scoping review of Posttraumatic Growth following armed conflict-induced trauma.","authors":"Irfan Fayaz, Pulkit Khanna, Manjushree Palit, Kulpreet Kaur","doi":"10.1080/13623699.2025.2563505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13623699.2025.2563505","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Posttraumatic growth (PTG) is a relatively new field of study that focuses on the positive psychological changes that can occur because of traumatic events. A change in mindset has taken place, moving away from solely concentrating on the damaging effects of trauma and towards examining the possibility for positive outcomes. Mostly PTG has been well-documented across different types of traumas, such as calamities and serious illnesses, but the specific mechanisms by which it occurs in the context of armed conflict are not yet fully understood. Therefore, the current scoping review findings present an overview of PTG that is associated primarily with the aftermath of armed conflict. However, there may be a lack of consensus on how to define and measure PTG, which makes it difficult to compare findings across studies. Despite these limitations, the extant research suggests that exposure to armed conflict is a risk factor for PTG and that interventions and support for individuals affected by armed conflict may be necessary to promote resilience and recovery from trauma. The present study findings have important implications for trauma-based therapy and can potentially impact mental health professionals for a better understanding of PTG.</p>","PeriodicalId":53657,"journal":{"name":"Medicine, Conflict and Survival","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145187457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohammed Y Khanji, Naomi Green, Nadia Khan, Shehla Imtiaz-Umer, Mohammed Ejaz Faizur Rahman, Peter Hopkins, Tarek Younis, Yasmin Kader
{"title":"Well-being impact, freedom of expression, censorship and Islamophobia experienced by Muslim healthcare professionals during the current Gaza genocide.","authors":"Mohammed Y Khanji, Naomi Green, Nadia Khan, Shehla Imtiaz-Umer, Mohammed Ejaz Faizur Rahman, Peter Hopkins, Tarek Younis, Yasmin Kader","doi":"10.1080/13623699.2025.2561529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13623699.2025.2561529","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Israeli government has publicly expressed genocidal intent and conducted systematic attacks on civilians of Gaza and wider Palestine, following decades of illegal occupation and apartheid. Tens of thousands of Palestinian women, men and children have been killed; over 2-million people forcefully displaced and starved. The humanitarian catastrophe has been compounded by systematic destruction of healthcare facilities, schools, and places of worship. An online survey was conducted between 10th November and 5 December 2023 to assess UK healthcare professionals (HCPs) and students' experiences of censorship, Islamophobia and their well-being following the attacks on Palestinian civilians. Of the 651 respondants, >90% felt it was very important for them to be able to express their legitimate concerns regarding the genocide in Gaza; 93% felt censored. Overall, 69% experienced Islamophobia, a 37% increase between October and December 2023 (including verbal and physical abuse). Well-being was adversely impacted in 97%; only 12% felt their institution had offered culturally sensitive support. The wholesale assault on Gaza and wider occupied Palestine has had a significant adverse impact on the well-being of HCPs and students. Censorship and Islamophobia are widespread and rising. Urgent collective action is needed to tackle these intersecting issues and prevent further catastrophic consequences.</p>","PeriodicalId":53657,"journal":{"name":"Medicine, Conflict and Survival","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145114842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The scientific foundation of the movements to eliminate nuclear weapons and to address the climate crisis.","authors":"John Loretz, Molly McGinty","doi":"10.1080/13623699.2025.2559336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13623699.2025.2559336","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Over several decades, scientific research published in peer-reviewed journals has informed activists working for nuclear disarmament by describing and providing the evidence for the health and environmental damage nuclear weapons have inflicted, even when they are not used in war. During the Cold War of the 1970s and 1980s, books, research articles, and independent studies about the effects of nuclear weapons were published around the world. Nuclear disarmament campaigning based upon this scientific evidence and humanitarian concerns reached a peak during this period. In the mid-2000s, a renewed focus on the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons emerged. All of the existing scientific evidence about the health and environmental impacts of nuclear weapons was gathered together and brought into the service of what would ultimately become the HINW (Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons) process, leading to the negotiation and adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in 2017. A new generation of activists, which recognizes the threat of nuclear war as intrinsically connected to the climate crisis, has emerged. A growing number of health and peace organizations have made explicit connections between the climate crisis, nuclear disarmament, and public health.</p>","PeriodicalId":53657,"journal":{"name":"Medicine, Conflict and Survival","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145114845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"But I could be wrong. Observations on the dangers of polarised thought using the nuclear power question.","authors":"John Hutchins","doi":"10.1080/13623699.2025.2562386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13623699.2025.2562386","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53657,"journal":{"name":"Medicine, Conflict and Survival","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145114903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dealing with a radioactive past: the pursuit of nuclear justice by Kazakh youth. Case study of Steppe Organization for Peace (STOP): Qazaq Youth Initiative for Nuclear Justice.","authors":"Marzhan Nurzhan","doi":"10.1080/13623699.2025.2556092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13623699.2025.2556092","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53657,"journal":{"name":"Medicine, Conflict and Survival","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145088276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From crisis to cooperation: IPPNW Europe's blueprint for peace.","authors":"Bimal Khadka, Lena Gedat","doi":"10.1080/13623699.2025.2558317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13623699.2025.2558317","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53657,"journal":{"name":"Medicine, Conflict and Survival","volume":" ","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145082286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The climate effects of nuclear war.","authors":"Tilman A Ruff","doi":"10.1080/13623699.2025.2560274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13623699.2025.2560274","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nuclear weapons pose the most acute existential threat to humankind and the biosphere. Both qualitatively and quantitatively, they are uniquely destructive. Their incendiary effects are likely to exact the greatest toll: the largest cause of acute casualties in nuclear war would be from fires; the greatest cause of long-term casualties would be agricultural collapse and global famine from decade-long worldwide cooling, darkening and drying under a blanket of millions of tons of sooty smoke from burning cities. Only about 2% of current nuclear weapons, exploded on cities, would abruptly cause ice age temperatures, putting over 2 billion people at risk of starvation in just the following 2 years. A nuclear war involving a substantial fraction of the global arsenal would decimate the vast majority of the human population, risk human extinction and that of many other species, and catastrophically disrupt the Earth systems on which the biosphere, including humans depend. The evidence on nuclear winter and famine is the most consequential scientific evidence of the nuclear age. This article reviews the history and status of research on the climate and food production impacts of nuclear war, draws lessons and describes new UN and WHO initiatives on nuclear war effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":53657,"journal":{"name":"Medicine, Conflict and Survival","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145082300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Weapon to woe: historiographical debates on the development, use and legacy of the atomic bomb.","authors":"Tom Duurland","doi":"10.1080/13623699.2025.2555797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13623699.2025.2555797","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The debate over the atomic bomb's development and use has persisted for more than 80 years, underscoring its complexity and the enduring controversy it inspires. Engaging with orthodox, revisionist and post-revisionist perspectives, this article provides an overview of the institutional, strategic and ideological factors that led to the development and use of the atomic bomb, as well as the conflicting historical interpretations they generated. The article concludes by examining how the experiences of Hiroshima influenced post-war perspectives on the morality and role of nuclear weapons, highlighting the contrast between scientists who warned against their devastating effects and strategists who sought to incorporate them into the Cold War power struggle.</p>","PeriodicalId":53657,"journal":{"name":"Medicine, Conflict and Survival","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145042258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}