How Britain’s railways prepared for nuclear war [PDF]
Science 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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Civil Defence Policy in Cold War Britain, 1945-68 [PDF]
, 2006 PhDThis thesis investigates how successive postwar British Governments formulated a civil defence policy aimed at ameliorating the effects of an enemy attack in the cold war.
Grant, Matthew
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North Korea: Peace? Nuclear War?: Foreward, Overview
, 2019 Willliam H. Overholt is Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. The book is funded by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and ...
Overholt, William
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Cooperative Security in the Post-Cold War International System: The Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Process [PDF]
, 2004 The thesis explores cooperative security efforts between the United States and Russia in the framework of the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Programme and other non-proliferation programmes, which were established in the aftermath of the Soviet ...
Kassenova, Togzhan O
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A New Ocean State After Nuclear War
AGU 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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Economic incentives modify agricultural impacts of nuclear war
Environmental 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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Nuclear Weapons in Russia’s War against Ukraine [PDF]
, 2023 Western concern about Russian nuclear weapons’ potential deployment continues to suffuse policy responses to the Ukraine war, inhibiting relief efforts. Russia’s rhetoric and past exercises contribute to the pervasive Western belief that Russia might use
Blank, Stephen
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The Key Elements of the Draft Treaty Establishing Northeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone
The 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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Leveraging Intellectual Property to Prevent Nuclear War
Safety, 2022 Although international law forbids nuclear attacks, only nine states have mutually assured destruction available to prevent direct attacks against themselves, while non-nuclear states have few substantive options to deter a nuclear attack.
Joshua M. Pearce
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Breaking the Myth of Nuclear Power Omnipotence in the Cold War era: Discourse on Nuclear Power and the Movement against the Construction of Nuclear Power Plants in South Korea in the 1980s and early 1990s [PDF]
International Journal of Korean History, 2023 In South Korea, the frontline of the Cold War in East Asia, an active anti-nuclear movement could not emerge until the 1970s due to the effects of Korean War, national division, and the Cold War culture.
Sangrok Lee
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