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Nuclear Disarmament without the Nuclear-Weapon States: The Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty [PDF]
Daedalus, 2020 The 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (tpnw) represents a daring act of self-empowerment: nuclear have-nots produced an international disarmament treaty without the involvement of the nuclear-weapon states or their allies. In this essay, we assess how the new treaty relates to the existing nuclear order and its four central norms ...
Müller, Harald, Wunderlich, Carmen
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Regulation of Microbiota by Vitamin D Receptor: A Nuclear Weapon in Metabolic Diseases. [PDF]
Nucl Receptor Res, 2018 Metabolic syndrome is a multi-faceted disease. The microbiota, as a newly discovered organ, contributes to the pathogenesis and progression of metabolic syndrome.
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Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2019 The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons requires nuclear-armed states that join the treaty while still possessing “nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices” to “destroy them as soon as possible but not later than a deadline to be ...
Moritz Kütt, Zia Mian
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Reducing the risks of nuclear war; the role of health professionals [PDF]
Babcock University Medical Journal, 2023 According to the United Nations, the risk of nuclear weapons use is higher than at any time since the Cold War: "The Russian Federation’s recent announcement of plans to station non-strategic nuclear weapons in Belarus represents the first 'nuclear ...
Chris Zielinski
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Vulnerability of populations and the urban health care systems to nuclear weapon attack--examples from four American cities. [PDF]
Int J Health Geogr, 2007 BackgroundThe threat posed by the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) within the United States has grown significantly in recent years, focusing attention on the medical and public health disaster capabilities of the nation in a large scale crisis ...
Bell WC, Dallas CE.
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The Effects of Nuclear Weapons [PDF]
, 1964 This handbook prepared by the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project of the Department of Defense in coordination with other cognizant government agencies and published by the United States Atomic Energy Commission, is a comprehensive summary of current knowledge on the effects of nuclear weapons.
Samuel Glasstone
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International Collective Responsibility of Nuclear-Weapon States for Omission: Scrutinizing ILC Articles 2001 and NPT [PDF]
پژوهشنامه حقوق تطبیقی, 2023 Nuclear-weapon states are under obligation to cooperate with non-nuclear-weapon states to transfer peaceful nuclear technology and have equal access to this technology for all states parties to NPT. The present paper has sought to deal with international
Mohamad Setayeshpur
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IRAN’S NUCLEAR POLICY: NATURE, AMBITION, AND STRATEGY
Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, 2022 Nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons represent the biggest danger to humanity. During the Cold War, the US and USSR provided ‘umbrella protection’ to convince allies not to acquire nuclear weapons.
Violet B. Eneyo +3 more
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Irreversibility and Nuclear Disarmament: Unmaking Nuclear Weapon Complexes
Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2023 This article develops a framework for examining “irreversible nuclear disarmament” by drawing on Science and Technology Studies (STS). It argues that maximising the irreversibility of nuclear disarmament is about the “unmaking” of a nuclear weapons ...
Nick Ritchie
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Journal of Radiological Protection, 2022 This study examines the mortality and cancer incidence experience among men who took part in the United Kingdom’s atmospheric nuclear weapon tests between 1952–67. A cohort of 21 357 servicemen and male civilians from the UK who participated in the tests
M. Gillies, R. Haylock
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