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How to Write History?

open access: yesStoricamente, 2023
78 years after the annihilation of Hiroshima, a G7 summit is scheduled to take place in Hiroshima. That both representatives/heirs of the victims and the victimisers of the first nuclear strike in human history will sit there around the same table is ...
Florian Coulmas
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Nuclear war as false memory [PDF]

open access: yesThe Open Arts Journal, 2014
In this paper Timberlake outlines aspects of his creative practice as an artist, explaining his fascination for the ‘fictions of nuclear war’ – a war that never happened and so became the subject of ‘false memory’.
John Timberlake
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Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program and Implications for US National Security. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article analyzes Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program and the characteristics of the environment in which the program is nested. These characteristics include Pakistan’s history of internal and external instability; nuclear saber rattling during ...
Tkacik, Michael
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A New Ocean State After Nuclear War

open access: yesAGU Advances, 2022
Nuclear war would produce dire global consequences for humans and our environment. We simulated climate impacts of US‐Russia and India‐Pakistan nuclear wars in an Earth System Model, here, we report on the ocean impacts. Like volcanic eruptions and large
Cheryl S. Harrison   +15 more
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Review essay: Disentangling feminisms from the cold war [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Feminist thinkers have long argued for the centrality of sexuality, gender and women to the Cold War. They have critiqued the sexual language of ‘deep penetration’ and ‘orgasmic whumps’ used to describe nuclear arms race technology and argued that ...
Bellows-Blakely, Sarah
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Economic incentives modify agricultural impacts of nuclear war

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2022
A nuclear war using less than 1% of the current global nuclear arsenal, which would inject 5 Tg of soot into the stratosphere, could produce climate change unprecedented in recorded human history and significant impacts on agricultural productivity and ...
Gal Hochman   +6 more
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The Key Elements of the Draft Treaty Establishing Northeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone

open access: yesThe Mongolian Journal of International Affairs, 2011
DOI: 10.5564/mjia.v0i14.23 Mongolian Journal of International Affairs No.14 2007 pp.51 ...
Kumao Kaneko
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How Britain’s railways prepared for nuclear war

open access: yesScience Museum Group Journal, 2023
As a nationalised industry during the Cold War, Britain’s railways were required to undertake civil defence work to prepare for a future conflict. Civil engineers that engaged with civil defence work were required to understand the destructive capacity ...
Lucy Slater
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Space and the Atom: On the Popular Geopolitics of Cold War Rocketry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper considers the imbricated domains of space exploration and Cold War geopolitics by following the trajectory of the 'Corporal', the world's first guided missile authorised to carry a nuclear warhead.
MacDonald, Fraser
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From Just War to Nuclear Pacifism: The Evolution of U.S. Christian Thinking about War in the Nuclear Age, 1946–1989

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2018
During the Cold War, two basic schools of thought emerged among U.S. Christian leaders and ethicists concerning the implications of the nuclear revolution for the use of force by the United States.
Stephen R. Rock
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