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Regulation of Microbiota by Vitamin D Receptor: A Nuclear Weapon in Metabolic Diseases. [PDF]

open access: yesNucl 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   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Irreversibility and Nuclear Disarmament: Unmaking Nuclear Weapon Complexes

open access: yesJournal 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

open access: yesJournal 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Vulnerability of populations and the urban health care systems to nuclear weapon attack--examples from four American cities. [PDF]

open access: yesInt 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.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Global food insecurity and famine from reduced crop, marine fishery and livestock production due to climate disruption from nuclear war soot injection

open access: yesNature Food, 2022
Atmospheric soot loadings from nuclear weapon detonation would cause disruptions to the Earth’s climate, limiting terrestrial and aquatic food production. Here, we use climate, crop and fishery models to estimate the impacts arising from six scenarios of
L. Xia   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A Summary of the Human Consequences, 1945-2018, and Lessons for Homo sapiens to End the Nuclear Weapon Age

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2019
Seventy-four years have passed since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Approximately 210,000 victims died, and another 210,000 people survived.
M. Tomonaga
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Role of Small States in Promoting International Security: The Case of Mongolia

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2018
Multilateralism and preventive diplomacy are essential in productively addressing common interests and challenges, including issues related to nuclear security.
Enkhsaikhan Jargalsaikhan
doaj   +1 more source

Impurity Diffusion at Instantaneous Outburst from a Point Source in Worst-Case Emergency Scenario Realization

open access: yesГлобальная ядерная безопасность, 2022
The article studies the emergency development accompanied by an explosive item explosion (burning) which contained in nuclear weapon and by a scattering nuclear fissile material into the environment.
O. A. Gubeladze, A. R. Gubeladze
doaj   +1 more source

“Permanence with Accountability”: An Elusive Goal of the NPT

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2020
The slogan “permanence with accountability” emerged at the NPT’s 1995 Review and Extension Conference as a way of characterizing the outcome of that conference – the indefinite extension of the treaty coupled with enhanced means of ensuring ...
Paul Meyer
doaj   +1 more source

A National Pragmatic Safety Limit for Nuclear Weapon Quantities

open access: yesSafety, 2018
This study determines the nuclear pragmatic limit where the direct physical negative consequences of nuclear weapons use are counter to national interests, by assuming all unknowns are conservatively optimistic.
Joshua M. Pearce, D. Denkenberger
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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