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The South Pacific Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone

, 1986
T HE WORLD NOW HAS a second treaty requiring military denuclearization of an inhabited area in perpetuity, the Treaty of Rarotonga.' The pact was signed on August 6, 1985, the fortieth anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, by eight of the fourteen ...
Paul F. Power
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Nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War

Journal of Strategic Studies, 2006
Abstract This article analyzes why US leaders did not use nuclear weapons during the Vietnam War. To date, there has been no systematic study of US decision-making on nuclear weapons during this war. This article offers an initial analysis, focusing on the Johnson and Nixon administrations.
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Terrorist Nuclear Weapon Construction: How Difficult?

, 2006
The likelihood of a nuclear terrorist attack depends in part on the ability of terrorist groups to acquire, construct, and detonate a nuclear device.
M. Bunn, A. Wier
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Greece and Nuclear Weapons

1982
Recently there has been considerable debate in Greece regarding the advisability of equipping the Greek defence forces with nuclear weapons. There has been much debate but little technical analysis of the costs, benefits and the scale of magnitude of the resources — natural, human, and manufacturing — required for such an effort.
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Nuclear weapons modernizations

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2014
This article reviews the nuclear weapons modernization programs underway in the world's nine nuclear weapons states. It concludes that despite significant reductions in overall weapons inventories since the end of the Cold War, the pace of reductions is slowing - four of the nuclear weapons states are even increasing their arsenals, and all the nuclear
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A Nuclear Weapons Convention: Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World

2017
The weak international legal norm against nuclear weapons complicates efforts to prevent state and nonstate actors from acquiring nuclear weapons. The political stability necessary for the controlled maintenance of nuclear weapons cannot be guaranteed in the long run. A nuclear weapon-free world, which not only removes nuclear weapons but also the main
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High-mobility group box 1 protein (HMGB1): nuclear weapon in the immune arsenal

Nature reviews. Immunology, 2005
M. Lotze, K. Tracey
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Is There Future Utility in Nuclear Weapons Nuclear Weapons Save Lives

2014
Abstract : The debate over the future of nuclear weapons has become more prominent each year since the end of the Cold War. The United States leadership is faced with a decision regarding the future of the nuclear weapons program in the face of worldwide proliferation concerns and threats.
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Biochemical and Nuclear Weapons

2021
For young people, the threat posed by biochemical or nuclear weapons might feel abstract. But there are many Americans still alive who lived, at least as children, in the time of the Cold War. They remember being marched into hallways and sitting cross-legged with their hands over their necks and heads almost to the floor in a protective position ...
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Chapter Seventeen. Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones And Maritime Transit Of Nuclear Weapons

2010
This Chapter addresses efforts by the states that have formed nuclearweapon-free zones (NWFZ) to exclude nuclear weapons and nuclear powered ships from their territorial and adjacent waters. It outlines the provisions of the existing NWFZs that could impact the deployment of sea-based nuclear weapons or nuclear powered ships.
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