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Nuclear Weapons as Shields

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2009
What security benefits do nuclear weapons provide to their possessors? After accounting for two potential selection effects, the empirical evidence from all international crises from 1945 to 2000 indicates that opponents of nuclear-weapon states demonstrate restraint in turning to violent aggression.
Victor Asal, Kyle Beardsley
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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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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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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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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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Space Weapons and Nuclear Effects

Science, 1982
Harry A. Griffith, Robert S. Cooper
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Tactical Nuclear Weapons

Security and Human Rights, 2011
AbstractRussia and the US have significantly reduced their tactical nuclear weapons over the past twenty years. The remaining weapons have been moved from active service and stored separate from their delivery systems. However, both still keep tactical nuclear weapons available for eventual deployment, and Moscow maintains not only a larger but also a ...
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The Development of Nuclear Weapons

2012
The weapons to be discussed in this chapter differ in several important respects from those of the previous two chapters. First of all, and most obviously, nuclear weapons are far more destructive than small arms or catapults – any comparison with the latter in particular seems ridiculous.
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Nuclear Weapon A Necessity?

1994
Abstract : The aim of this paper is to discuss the important factors to be taken into account for each state in arriving at a broad framework of nuclear weapons requirements.
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