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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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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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Obstacles to understanding the emergence and significance of the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons

The 2017 Nuclear Ban Treaty, 2018
This article examines the emergence of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons from a critical perspective, including how and to what degree efforts to alter states’ framing of nuclear weapons was a factor in the treaty's emergence and ...
John Borrie, Michael Spies, Wilfred Wan
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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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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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An international monitoring system for verification to support both the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons and the nonproliferation treaty

The 2017 Nuclear Ban Treaty, 2018
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons calls for states to meet regularly to consider measures for the verified, time-bound and irreversible elimination of nuclear weapon programs.
Tamara Patton
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Verification and security of transformation to a nuclear-weapon-free world: the framework of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

The 2017 Nuclear Ban Treaty, 2018
The United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons presents complex challenges, including issues of verification and security. Verifying the transformation to a nuclear-weapon-free world (NWFW) is an adaptive, multi-stage process, involving ...
J. Scheffran
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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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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

The Nuclear Ban Treaty, 2021
Vladimir Baranovsky
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