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Nuclear Weapons Nonproliferation [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2007
The United States is considering the development and deployment of new nuclear weapon designs, the objective being to sustain the nation9s ultimate deterrent for the foreseeable future.* These initiatives are presented as supporting the highest U.S. security priorities, which include countering the threats of terrorism and the proliferation of nuclear ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Pandemic Futures and Nuclear Weapon Risks: The Nagasaki 75th Anniversary pandemic-nuclear nexus scenarios final report

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2021
This report is an outcome document of the Nagasaki 75th Anniversary Pandemic-Nuclear Nexus Scenarios Project, an international initiative aimed at exploring how the far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 pandemic (and future pandemics) could alter the ...
Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA)   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender and the nuclear weapons state : a feminist critique of the UK government's white paper on Trident [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This article enquires into the connections between gender and discourses of the nuclear weapons state. Specifically, we develop an analysis of the ways in which gender operates in the White Paper published by the UK government in 2006 on its plans to ...
Duncanson, Claire, Eschle, Catherine
core   +1 more source

The Future of the Nuclear Taboo: Framing the Impact of the TPNW

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2021
How might the Treaty on the Prohibition on Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) help prevent the use of nuclear weapons? Since the adoption of the TPNW in 2017, much has been said about the Treaty’s impact on nuclear disarmament.
Magnus Løvold
doaj   +1 more source

De Novo Design of High‐Affinity Miniprotein Binders Targeting Francisella Tularensis Virulence Factor

open access: yesAngewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Hybrid physics and deep‐learning enabled design methods identified miniprotein binders to Flpp3 (Francisella‐like lipoprotein), a key virulence factor from Francisella tularensis. Multiple candidates with nanomolar to picomolar binding affinities were obtained using yeast surface display screening and further experimental optimization.
Gizem Gokce‐Alpkilic   +18 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Reducing or Exploiting Risk? Varieties of US Nuclear Thought and Their Implications for Northeast Asia

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2022
This article argues that there is no monolithic “United States perspective” when it comes to theories of nuclear stability, either structurally or during a crisis.
Van Jackson
doaj   +1 more source

India and the Policy of No First Use of Nuclear Weapons

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2018
One of the cornerstones of India’s official nuclear policy is No First Use (NFU) of nuclear weapons, which has a long history in Indian nuclear debates and discussions.
Kumar Sundaram, M. V. Ramana
doaj   +1 more source

Crystal Structures and Intermolecular Interactions in α$\alpha$‐ and β$\beta$‐phosgene

open access: yesAngewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Despite its notorious reputation as a war gas, phosgene (COCl2${\rm COCl}_2$) is one of the most important intermediate chemicals in industry. In this study, we present the crystal structures of two phosgene polymorphs as deduced from powder neutron diffraction and show which intermolecular interactions stabilise the different modifications.
Sven Ringelband   +6 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Reducing the risks of nuclear war—the role of health professionals

open access: yesKhyber Medical University Journal, 2023
In January, 2023, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward to 90 seconds before midnight, reflecting the growing risk of nuclear war.1 In August, 2022, the UN Secretary-General ...
Kamran Abbasi   +17 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Nuclear deficit : why nuclear weapons are natural, but Scotland doesn’t need nature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article argues that millennial Scottish culture has been animated in large part by a push to overcome a historiographical compulsion built into the modern British state’s understanding of nature.
Gardiner, Michael
core   +1 more source

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