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How durable is the nuclear weapons taboo?

The Journal of Strategic Studies, 2018
The nuclear weapons taboo is considered one of the strongest norms in international politics. A prohibition against using nuclear weapons has seemingly shaped state behavior for nearly seven decades and, according to some observers, made nuclear use ...
Rebecca Davis Gibbons, Keir A. Lieber
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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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Nuclear Weapons

1997
Publisher Summary The testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere has been responsible for the largest quantities of man-made radionuclides released into the environment. The radioactive debris from nuclear explosions divides into three fractions, depending on the height of burst and explosive yield.
Merril Eisenbud, Thomas Gesell
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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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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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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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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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Revisiting Hiroshima in Iran: What Americans Really Think about Using Nuclear Weapons and Killing Noncombatants

International Security, 2017
Numerous polls demonstrate that U.S. public approval of President Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has declined significantly since 1945.
Scott D. Sagan, B. Valentino
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