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Nuclear Weapons

2015
This chapter faces the realization that the same atoms that can produce life-saving electricity can also be used to construct weapons of mass destruction. Some facilities, such as enrichment and reprocessing, in the nuclear fuel cycle can also serve dual uses when considering proliferation.
Raymond L. Murray, Keith E. Holbert
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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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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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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 Strangelove have been replaced by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

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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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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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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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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