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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.
Bakke D, Chatterjee I, Agrawal A, Dai Y, Sun J.   +4 more
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Setting the Deadline for Nuclear Weapon Destruction under the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

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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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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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, Jihad Talib, Frank Mbeh Attah, Eric Etim Offiong   +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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mortality and cancer incidence 1952–2017 in United Kingdom participants in the United Kingdom’s atmospheric nuclear weapon tests and experimental programmes

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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Setting the Deadline for Nuclear Weapon Removal from Host States under the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2022
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons requires that states which join the treaty while hosting nuclear weapons, “shall ensure the prompt removal of such weapons, as soon as possible but not later than a deadline to be determined by the first ...
Moritz Kütt, Zia Mian
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Identification Method of Source Term Parameters of Nuclear Explosion Based on GA and PSO for Lagrange-Gaussian Puff Model

Atmosphere, 2023
Many well-established models exist for predicting the dispersion of radioactive particles that will be generated in the surrounding environment after a nuclear weapon explosion.
Yang Zheng, Yuyang Wang, Longteng Wang, Xiaolei Chen, Lingzhong Huang, Wei Liu, Xiaoqiang Li, Ming Yang, Peng Li, Shanyi Jiang, Hao Yin, Xinliang Pang, Yunhui Wu   +12 more
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The Security of Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones: The Middle East as a Test Case for Unconditional Security Assurances

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2022
A just nuclear order based on voluntary abstinence by states and the promotion of nuclear weapon-free zones would require more credible negative security assurances than provided by the current non-proliferation regime.
Tarja Cronberg
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