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Establishing Nuclear Weapons Obligations for a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2021
The United Nations General Assembly in 2019 held its first annual conference with the “aim of elaborating a legally binding treaty establishing a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction”.
Zia Mian
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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

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
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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
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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
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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
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No First Use and Credible Deterrence

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2018
Despite progress in reducing the number of nuclear weapons in the largest arsenals, a number of states are now looking to increase their reliance on nuclear weapons not only for deterrence, but also for coercion or war fighting.
Steve Fetter, Jon Wolfsthal
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Letter from an Australian Anti-Nuclear Weapons Activist to Geraldine Ferraro [PDF]

open access: yes, 1984
Letter from an anti-nuclear weapons activists to Geraldine Ferraro, detailing the supposed capabilities of nuclear weapons and tactics.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_correspondence_1984_international/1015/thumbnail ...
Ferraro, Geraldine
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Grain Boundary Space Charge Engineering of Solid Oxide Electrolytes: Model Thin Film Study

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study demonstrates unprecedented control of grain boundary electrical properties in solid electrolytes. Selective diffusion of cations through grain boundaries in thin films enables 12 orders of magnitude variation in ionic resistance, proving that systematic chemical modification of grain boundary electrical properties is feasible.
Thomas Defferriere   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Power and Nuclear Weapons: The Case of the European Union

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2020
For the European Union, nuclear weapons are a taboo. But the more the EU takes steps towards defense integration, the closer the moment comes that the role of the French nuclear weapons has to be discussed. This article hopes to clarify that debate.
Tom Sauer
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