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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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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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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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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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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Social 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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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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Mutually assured construction : resurrecting the West Texas missile silos [PDF]
, 2016 A group of enthusiasts near Abilene, Texas are turning decommissioned, Cold War-era nuclear missile silos into homes, doomsday shelters, historical monuments and businesses, offering a unique glimpse into the blue-collar, do-it-yourself psyche of a ...
East, Andrew Joseph
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Threats by artificial intelligence to human health and human existence
BMJ Global Health, 2023 While artificial intelligence (AI) offers promising solutions in healthcare, it also poses a number of threats to human health and well-being via social, political, economic and security-related determinants of health.
David McCoy +4 more
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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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