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“A hazy world seen through smoke”: Threshold Effects in Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke
Angles, 2022 This article proposes to analyse Mohsin Hamid’s first novel Moth Smoke (2000) through the motif of the threshold. Moth Smoke tells the story of a crime and its judgment through a multiplicity of voices. The novel takes place in spring 1998, as Pakistan’s
Maëlle Jeanniard du Dot
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Nuclear war as false memory [PDF]
The 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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, 2021 This article revisits the Cold War-era concept of ‘catalytic nuclear war,’ considered by many as unworkable, and reconceptualizes it in light of technological change, as well as improved understand...
James Johnson
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Storicamente, 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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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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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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How Britain’s railways prepared for nuclear war
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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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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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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Nature Energy, 2023 Russia has faced sanctions on its fossil energy exports since invading Ukraine, yet its nuclear industry has largely been overlooked. To explore Russia’s potential for influence through this sector, Szulecki and Overland analyse Russian nuclear power ...
Kacper Szulecki, Indra Overland
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