Five years after forming the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the organization's U.S. and Soviet founders met last week in Geneva, the city of its birth, to plan future activities. They had barely begun to talk before they got exhilarating news: the IPPNW had been awarded the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.
The announcement from Oslo was a personal triumph for Bernard Lown of Boston and Yevgeni Chazov of Moscow, the cardiologists who have presided over the antiwar organization from its beginning. The two met in 1960 and got to know each other at international professional conferences over the...
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