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Contemporary Security Policy, 2021 Treaties can be denounced and withdrawn from unilaterally and collectively. We ask when it would be legitimate to abandon the NPT, a treaty that 50 years ago committed states to nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, but still has not delivered on ...
Joelien Pretorius, Tom Sauer
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A theory of nuclear disarmament: Cases, analogies, and the role of the non-proliferation regime
Contemporary Security Policy, 2021 What might prompt a nuclear-armed state to give up its arsenal? Nuclear disarmament has provided a nominally shared goal for virtually all the world’s states for decades, yet surprisingly little effort has been devoted to systematically theorizing its ...
Kjølv Egeland
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The creation of a contagious H5N1 influenza virus: implications for the education of life scientists [PDF]
The Ukrainian Biochemical Journal, 2014 The paper contends that the ongoing controversy surrounding the creation of a contagious H5N1 influenza virus has already exposed the severe limitations of the possibility of preventing the hostile misuse of the life sciences by dint of oversight of ...
T. Novossiolova, M. Minehata, M. Dando
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Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2021 The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons provides a nuclear-armed state that joins the treaty with two options. One is to join after eliminating its weapons and nuclear-weapon program.
Pavel Podvig
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Does the Conference of Disarmament Have a Future?
Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2021 The Conference on Disarmament (CD) has been in a prolonged state of paralysis. Since its negotiation of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996, it has not produced any other agreement and has been unable even to agree on a Programme of Work ...
Paul Meyer
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An Introduction to the Special Feature on the Biden Nuclear Posture Review
Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2021 The US Biden administration is conducting its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR); the resulting report is expected to come out in early 2022. In this introductory essay to the special feature on the upcoming NPR and its implications for US Asian allies, the ...
Nobuyasu Abe
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Contemporary Security Policy, 2020 Whether and how Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) can and should be regulated is intensely debated among governments, scholars, and campaigning activists.
Elvira Rosert, Frank G. C. Sauer
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The NPT at Fifty: Successes and Failures
Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2020 The NPT succeeded in its initial task of preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons to the potential proliferators considered likely at the time of its entry into force in 1970.
Nobuyasu Abe
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Nuclear Disarmament without the Nuclear-Weapon States: The Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty
Daedalus, 2020 The 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (tpnw) represents a daring act of self-empowerment: nuclear have-nots produced an international disarmament treaty without the involvement of the nuclear-weapon states or their allies.
Harald Müller, Carmen Wunderlich
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Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.By harnessing chalcogen bonding (ChB) catalysis, an exclusive access into a highly stereoselective strain‐release C‐glycosylation pathway was discovered. This was surprisingly not replicable by the conceptually similar halogen bonding (XB) catalysis.
Hao Guo, Charles C. J. Loh
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