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Sherlock Holmes Meets Rube Goldberg: Fixing the Entry-into-Force Provisions of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty [PDF]
, 2016 The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is widely heralded as the most important international legal instrument for arresting the nuclear arms race and impeding further nuclear proliferation.
Koplow, David A.
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) have the potential to dramatically alter modern warfare and reshape global power differentials. Despite the strong rationale for negotiating global rules, consensus on whether and how to regulate LAWS has yet to be reached.
Johannes Geith
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Inactivation of the Burkholderia Toxin Malleicyprol by Enzymatic Cyclopropanol Ring Opening
Angewandte Chemie, Volume 138, Issue 2, 9 January 2026.Burkholderia pseudomallei and Burkholderia mallei are dangerous pathogens that cause severe diseases with high mortality rates. Their virulence relies in part on malleicyprols, potent toxins containing a highly reactive cyclopropanol group. In this study, we identify BurK, a heme‐dependent oxidoreductase that neutralizes malleicyprols by enzymatically ...
Jonas Fiedler +4 more
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The Nuclear Ban Treaty and 2018 Disarmament Forums: An Initial Impact Assessment
Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2018 The July 2017 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will come into force when 50 UN Member States ratify it. The new treaty has been condemned by nuclear weapon states on the grounds of its claimed adverse impacts on Non-Proliferation ...
Michael Hamel-Green
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Nuclear Deterrence and Disarmament in a Polycentric World [PDF]
Современная ЕвропаThe experience of 60 years of nuclear arms control has been quite a success except one aspect – transition from a bilateral (the U.S.A. ‒ U.S.S.R/Russia) to a multilateral format of limitation and reduction of nuclear arsenals.
Alexey G. Arbatov
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South Africa: The Ambiguities of a Middle Power
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT South Africa represents an interesting species of a middle power. This derives from its inherited economic muscle as Africa's powerhouse and the liberation struggle against apartheid, both of which have shaped its democratic transition. The traditions of liberation and democracy, in turn, have profoundly influenced how South Africa has ...
Garth L. le Pere
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What Would Zero Look Like? A Treaty for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons [PDF]
, 2014 Nuclear disarmament-the comprehensive, universal, and permanent abolition of all nuclear weapons, pursuant to a verifiable, legally binding international agreement-has long been one of the most ambitious, controversial, and urgent items on the agenda for
Koplow, David A
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Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract ‘I have to share a bathroom’, I had so often murmured, almost with shame, as if I personally had been found unworthy of a bathroom of my own. Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (1952) For a single woman of a certain age, living alone in postwar London, austerity was more than a set of political and economic imperatives.
Charlotte Charteris
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INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSAL ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR DISARMAMENT AND ARMS CONTROL
Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна Серія: «Право», 2019 The article analyzes the legal and institutional framework for the United Nations in the field of disarmament and arms control. The competence of the main institutional organs of the United Nations – the General Assembly, the Security Council and the ...
Syroid Tetyana
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Let Nagasaki Be the Last! Nineteen Pandemic-Nuclear Nexus Policy Measures in Northeast Asia
Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2021 In October–November 2020, RECNA-Nagasaki University and Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN) with the support of Nautilus Institute convened the Nagasaki 75th Anniversary scenario workshop to address the pandemic-nuclear nexus. About fifty participants
Michael Hamel-Green +6 more
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