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Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program and Implications for US National Security. [PDF]
, 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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Avoiding the Great Filter: A Simulation of Important Factors for Human Survival [PDF]
J Huma Soci Scie, 6(1), 33-54 (2023), 2022 Humanity's path to avoiding extinction is a daunting and inevitable challenge which proves difficult to solve, partially due to the lack of data and evidence surrounding the concept. We aim to address this confusion by addressing the most dangerous threats to humanity, in hopes of providing a direction to approach this problem.
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Securing guarantees : how nuclear proliferation can strengthen great power commitments [PDF]
, 2018 The number of states with nuclear weapons has grown at a much slower rate than many predicted during the early years of the Cold War. Yet the reasons for this slow rate of proliferation are not well understood.
Phillips, Julianne Nicole
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Temporal Analysis of Worldwide War [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Analysis of wars and conflicts between regions has been an important topic of interest throughout the history of humankind. In the latter part of the 20th century, in the aftermath of two World Wars and the shadow of nuclear, biological, and chemical holocaust, more was written on the subject than ever before. Wars have a negative impact on a country's
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Applications of Nuclear Physics [PDF]
Rep. Prog. Phys. 80 (2017) 026301, 2017 Today the applications of nuclear physics span a very broad range of topics and fields. This review discusses a number of aspects of these applications, including selected topics and concepts in nuclear reactor physics, nuclear fusion, nuclear non-proliferation, nuclear-geophysics, and nuclear medicine.
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For Slow Neutrons, Slow Pay: Enrico Fermi’s Patent and the US Atomic Energy Program, 1938-1953 [PDF]
, 2006 This essay focuses on the history of one of the “atomic patents.” The patent, which described a process to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactions, was the result of experimental research conducted in the 1930s by Enrico Fermi and his group at the ...
Turchetti, Simone
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Review essay: Disentangling feminisms from the cold war [PDF]
, 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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Images of survival, stories of destruction: Nuclear war on British screens from 1945 to the early 1960s [PDF]
, 2013 This article discusses a range of depictions and discussions of nuclear war, which appeared on British screens in the first half of the Cold War, in order to understand the changing way nuclear weapons were viewed within British culture.
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Lithic agency, Scottish modernism, and the politics of nuclear war [PDF]
, 2020 This paper argues that entangledness with inorganic agency, particularly that of stone, not only speaks to recent object-oriented and ecocritical thought, but also marks a constitutional division within the UK, since ‘thing power’ implies a scepticism ...
Gardiner, Michael, Stones, Andrew
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