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How a nuclear attack on North Korea would add to global cancer epidemic

  • Written by Andrew Marks, Professor of Physiology, Columbia University Medical Center
Visitors to Imjingak Pavilion in Paju, South Korea at the border of North Korea and South Korea on Jan. 1, 2018. AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

With tensions high between the United States and North Korea, there is the possibility that the U.S. would launch a “tactical” nuclear strike in the Korean peninsula. There would be consequences far...

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