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How Nuclear Weapons Spread: Nuclear-Weapon Proliferation in the 1990s

, 1993
1. The Link Between Peaceful and Military Nuclear Programmes 2. Nuclear Power in Electrical Energy Supply 3. The Plutonium Economy and Highly Enriched Uranium 4. The Components of Nuclear and Thermonuclear Weapons 5. Nuclear-Weapon Testing 6. Dismantling
F. Barnaby
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The legal status of U.S. negative security assurances to non‐nuclear weapon states

, 1997
Has the United States committed itself not to use nuclear weapons against countries that forswear them? This article summarizes the gradual change in how this question has been answered from the 1960s, when the United States would not even say that it ...
G. Bunn
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A Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in the Middle East: Problems and Prospects

, 1988
Preface Introduction NWFZs: An Historical Comparative Survey NWFZs: Plans and Proposals The Dangers of Nuclear-Weapon Proliferation in the Middle East: The Israeli Case The United Nations and the Establishment of a NWFZ in the Middle East: Patterns of ...
M. Karem
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The Use of SIMS and SEM for the Characterization of Individual Particles with a Matrix Originating from a Nuclear Weapon

Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2007
The application of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) for characterization of mixed plutonium and uranium particles from nuclear weapons material is presented.
Y. Ranebo, M. Eriksson, G. Tamborini, N. Niagolova, O. Bildstein, M. Betti   +5 more
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Nuclear Weapons

1997
Publisher Summary The testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere has been responsible for the largest quantities of man-made radionuclides released into the environment. The radioactive debris from nuclear explosions divides into three fractions, depending on the height of burst and explosive yield.
Merril Eisenbud, Thomas Gesell
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A study of using electronics for nuclear weapon detonation safety

, 1998
Sandia National Laboratories has the responsibility for the system integration of safety for the United States' nuclear weapon stockpile. Over the last several decades, Sandia has developed a methodology and a formal process to design and assess the ...
M. Caldwell, P. D'Antonio
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Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water

American Journal of International Law, 1963
The Test Ban Treaty of 1963 prohibits nuclear weapo ns tests "or any other nuclear explosion" in the atmosphere, in outer space, and under water. Wh ile not banning tests underground, the Treaty does prohibit nuclear explosions in this env ironment if ...

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The Problem of Nuclear Weapons

1958
Though it has impinged on many of the issues we have discussed in the preceding chapters, one major question — probably the most portentous issue facing the world today — still remains for separate examination on its own account: the tremendous problem raised by the invention of nuclear weapons.
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ARE WE DYING FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS?

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1986
In a recent budget, the President propossibly even survived, sacrificing the mestic spending are clear: Internationposed spending $320 billion for napublic's health becomes a tragic paraal analysts have found that as a nation tional defense-four times the $70 bildox, with most nations of the world spends more for defense, the economy lion for Medicare,
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The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

2018
Since the end of the cold war, the global landscape of weapons of mass destruction has changed considerably. Three additional states have openly acquired a nuclear capability—India, Pakistan, and North Korea—and a fourth, Iran, may be trying to do the same.
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