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Nuclear Weapons and Intergenerational Exploitation [PDF]
Security Studies, 2007 Nuclear weapons’ defenders claim that they lower the risk of war, at the price of devastation if war breaks out. But sooner or later, on a realist analysis, catastrophic nuclear war is almost sure to come. Nuclear deterrence thus buys us a better chance of dying in bed, while each post-holocaust generation will have to pick up the pieces.
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Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry, EarlyView.Abstract Over the past 10 years, nanotechnology has emerged as a very promising technique for a wide range of biomedical applications. Green synthesized metal and metal oxide nanoparticles (NPs) are cheap, easy to produce in large quantities, and safe for the environment.
Kaan Şendal +6 more
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Taking the Law Seriously: The Imperative Need for a Nuclear Weapons Convention [PDF]
, 2011 Jonathan Swift famously said, Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Swift was no doubt referring to the propensity of the law to shrink from prosecuting the lords of the realm, while going ...
Weiss, Peter
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Kazakhstan’s Irreversible Disarmament
Journal for Peace and Nuclear DisarmamentKazakhstan presents an interesting and important real-life case of disarmament irreversibility. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Kazakhstan inherited the fourth largest nuclear arsenal in the world – more than a thousand nuclear warheads, dozens of heavy
Togzhan Kassenova
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Physicists and the 1945 Decision to Drop the Bomb [PDF]
CERNCour.42N9:28739,2002, 2002 In 1943 fear that the German war machine might use atomic bombs was abating and among physicists another fear was taking its place - that of a postwar nuclear arms race with worldwide proliferation of nuclear weapons. Manhattan Project scientists and engineers began to discuss uses of nuclear energy in the postwar world.
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Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the context of the rural public sphere as reflected in residents' consciousness of their volunteering potential. To this end, a qualitative study was conducted in two rural settlements belonging to the same regional municipality in northern Israel: one Jewish and the other Arab. The 32 interviewees who participated in the
Yasmin Aboud‐Halabi +1 more
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The complex associations between scientific reasoning and advanced theory of mind
Child Development, Volume 94, Issue 1, Page e18-e42, January/February 2023., 2023 Abstract This 6‐wave longitudinal study (2014–2018) of 161 German 5‐ to 10‐year‐olds from a midsized city and rural area in southern Germany (89 females, 72 males; predominantly White; mostly middle class) found that scientific‐reasoning abilities first develop at 6 years.
Christopher Osterhaus, Susanne Koerber
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How Useful Are Nuclear Weapons in Practice? Case-Study: The War in Ukraine
Journal for Peace and Nuclear DisarmamentThe debate about nuclear weapons has been based on abstract notions. The war in Ukraine is a fascinating case-study for testing these decades-old abstract theories.
Tom Sauer
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Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2020 Arms control treaties have served admirably to control and limit nuclear weapons for several decades. The provisions and limits, however, have proven to be inflexible, often limited in scope to specific systems and countries, and difficult and time ...
William M. Moon
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The B61-based "Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator:" Clever retrofit or headway towards fourth-generation nuclear weapons? [PDF]
arXiv, 2005 It is scientifically and technically possible to build an earth penetrating device that could bury a B61-7 warhead 30 meters into concrete, or 150 meters into earth, before detonating it. The device (based on knowledge and technology that are available since 50 years) would however be large and cumbersome.
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