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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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América Latina Hoy, 2011 El objetivo de este artículo es explicar las posiciones adoptadas por Brasil bajo la administración Lula (2003-2010) sobre la no proliferación, el desarme y el control de las armas nucleares.
Diego Santos Vieira de JESUS
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History of US nuclear weapon safety assessment: The early years [PDF]
, 1996 From the beginnings of the U.S. nuclear weapons program, military and civilian dual- agency judgment has been fundamental to achieving nuclear weapon and weapon system safety. This interaction was initiated by the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, which created
Spray, S.D.
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'Never a credible weapon': Nuclear cultures in British government during the era of the H-bomb [PDF]
, 2012 This article explores British 'nuclear culture' by examining how individuals and groups within British government tried to comprehend nuclear weapons after the advent of the hydrogen bomb in 1952.
Maguire, Richard
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Different Frontier, Same Legal Script? On the Course of Replicating Earth's Patterns in Space
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.As states and private actors expand their activities in outer space, the international legal framework governing this domain risks extending longstanding structures of global inequality beyond Earth. This article examines how international space law, shaped by a broader disciplinary pattern of reactive legal development, is poised to reproduce ...
Sivan Shlomo‐Agon, Michal Saliternik
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Is the NPT Still Relevant? – How to Progress the NPT’s Disarmament Provisions
Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2019 The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is the cornerstone of the global non-proliferation regime. However, the question is the NPT still relevant? may suggest that the importance of NPT has been forgotten.
John Carlson
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Keefektifan Konvensi NPT Alam Menangani Negara Pengguna Senjata Nuklir
Journal of Islamic World and Politics, 2018 Tulisan ini mencoba mengkaji bagaimana kesuksesan Non-proliferation Treatyatau disingkat NPT dalam menangani masalah keamanan senjata nuklir di dunia. Senjata nuklir dipahami secara global merupakan senjata pemusnah massal.
Paulino Saldanha
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Bernard Brodie and the bomb: at the birth of the bipolar world [PDF]
, 2015 Bernard Brodie (1910-1978) was a leading 20th century theorist and philosopher of war. A key architect of American nuclear strategy, Brodie was one of the first civilian defense intellectuals to cross over into the military world.
Zellen, Barry
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Reducing Proliferation Risks with High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium Fuels in Reactors with Coated-Particle (TRISO) Fuels [PDF]
The use of graphite-matrix tri-structural-isotropic (TRISO) fuels in high-temperature reactors with high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) can significantly reduce nuclear weapons proliferation risks relative to other fuels and reactor types.
Kadak, Andrew, Forsberg, Charles
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