The Civilian-Military Contingency Hospital System: Medical Planning for War
- 16 September 1982
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 307 (12) , 751-753
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198209163071212
Abstract
To the Editor: It is noteworthy that the Department of Defense, while denying that the civilian-military hospital contingency system (CMCHS) is designed for nuclear war, has not offered an alternative plan for such a war — this despite the facts that tactical nuclear weapons exist on both sides and that the United States is on record as stating that it would use nuclear weapons to repel an overwhelming conventional attack by the Soviets and, most recently, that we would retaliate with nuclear weapons in the event of a Soviet chemical-warfare attack.From a purely medical perspective, the CMCHS plan seems . . .Keywords
This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Medical Care in Modern WarfareNew England Journal of Medicine, 1982
- The Civilian-Military Contingency Hospital SystemNew England Journal of Medicine, 1982
- Medical Problems of Survivors of Nuclear WarNew England Journal of Medicine, 1981