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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Unconventional nuclear weapons

IEEE Spectrum, 2001
Of the countless scenarios of terrorist mayhem, none quickens the pulse quite like the menace of a nuclear bomb. In light of the low-tech but catastrophic attacks on the World Trade Centre, building a nuclear bomb suddenly seems an unnecessarily difficult and risky proposition.
G. Zorpette, S. Miller
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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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