Late effects of use of nuclear and certain chemical weapons in man.

Abstract

Late biological consequences of the use of nuclear and chemical (herbicide and defoliant) weapons are compared. Attention is drawn to the incidence of certain malignancies in exposed persons; and differences in the localization of the increases among the victims of nuclear and chemical weapons are considered on a pathophysiological basis. The only prevention of these medical consequences of war is a ban on all weapons of mass destruction.