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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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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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Scanning of Vehicles for Nuclear Materials [PDF]
, 2013 Might a nuclear-armed terrorist group or state use ordinary commerce to deliver a nuclear weapon by smuggling it in a cargo container or vehicle? This delivery method would be the only one available to a sub-state actor, and it might enable a state to make an unattributed attack.
Katz, J. I.
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Nuclear Disarmament Verification via Resonant Phenomena [PDF]
Nature Communications 2018, 2017 Nuclear disarmament treaties are not sufficient in and of themselves to neutralize the existential threat of the nuclear weapons. Technologies are necessary for verifying the authenticity of the nuclear warheads undergoing dismantlement before counting them towards a treaty partner's obligation. This work presents a novel concept that leverages isotope-
Danagoulian, Areg, Hecla, Jake J.
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Sensitivity of seismically cued antineutrino detectors to nuclear explosions [PDF]
Phys. Rev. Applied 10, 024014 (2018), 2017 We evaluate the sensitivity of large, gadolinium-doped water detectors to antineutrinos released by nuclear fission explosions, using updated signal and background models and taking advantage of the capacity for seismic observations to provide an analysis trigger.
Bernstein, Adam +2 more
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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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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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Nuclear Ban Treaty and the Southern Asian ‘Nuclear Troika’ [PDF]
International Journal of Nuclear Security, 2019 Of late, nuclear weapons have been multilaterally outlawed similar to the other weapons of mass destruction. But the nuclear weapon states, barring North Korea, and the sole victim of nuclear weapons Japan, have remained outside the treaty process.
Sitakanta Mishra
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