The Nation - News from June 15, 1986
About 200 white-coated doctors from more than a dozen states held a “Code Blue” rally on the Capitol steps in Washington, urging Congress to save lives by cutting off money for nuclear weapons testing. “Code Blue means human life is at risk and immediate intervention is necessary,” said Dr. Jack Geiger, a New York internist who recently returned from the Soviet Union, where he saw victims of severe radiation burns from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. A nuclear war would be “Chernobyl magnified not a million times but a hundred million times,” Geiger said at the rally.
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