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The Obama Administration's Nuclear Weapon Strategy: The Promises of Prague

, 2013
This book comprehensively outlines and evaluates the key Obama nuclear weapons policies, developments and initiatives from 2008-2012. Beginning with the Administration's vision and goals posited in the 2009 Prague Speech and reaffirmed in the National ...
A. Warren
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WHEN DOES A STATE BECOME A “NUCLEAR WEAPON STATE”?

, 2010
When does a state become a “nuclear weapon state”? How we choose to answer this question has significant implications for proliferation assessment, analysis, and policy.
J. Hymans
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Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World

, 2010
Apocalypse Never illuminates why we must abolish nuclear weapons, how we can, and what the world will look like after we do. The twenty-first century has ushered in a world at the atomic edge. The pop culture days of Dr. Strangelove have been replaced by
T. Daley
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Nuclear weapons and the law*

Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 1999
The history of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is summarized, with a discussion of some of its earlier Advisory Opinions. The Advisory Opinion on the legality of nuclear arms is considered in the light of the principles of international humanitarian law and a review of nuclear weapons effects.
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Nuclear Weapons

2009
Abstract This chapter analyses how the law of armed conflict applies to the possession and use of nuclear weapons, noting that no law of armed conflict treaty has been adopted which either prohibits or restricts the development, stockpiling, transfer, possession, or use of such weapons, or threats to use nuclear weapons.
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RECONSTRUCTION OF EXTERNAL DOSE FROM BETA RADIATION SOURCES OF NUCLEAR WEAPON ORIGIN

Health Physics, 2006
In response to requests from the Department of Veterans Affairs, a methodology was developed to assess the external dose accrued by personnel in the vicinity of beta radiation sources of nuclear weapon origin. This methodology has been applied in support
N. M. Barss, R. Weitz
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Nuclear‐weapon‐free zones: A history and assessment

, 1997
The Nonproliferation Review/Spring-Summer 1997 18 Jozef Goldblat has been involved in arms control negotiations in Geneva and New York for nearly 40 years, including service for the United Nations.
J. Goldblat
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A Nuclear Weapon-Free Southeast Asia and its Continuing Strategic Significance

, 2005
2005 marks the tenth year since the ten countries of Southeast Asia declared the region a nuclear weapon-free zone. Under the new and fast evolving strategic environment, is the original purpose of establishing the zone still valid?
M. Abad
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Einstein and the Politics of Nuclear Weapons

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1979
(1979). Einstein and the politics of nuclear weapons. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 5-16.
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South Africa's nuclear weapon program: Lessons for U.S. nonproliferation policy

, 1995
Frank V. Pabian, an International Assessments Analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has been following the South African nuclear program for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for over 20 years.
F. Pabian
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