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Nuclear Weapons Nonproliferation [PDF]
Science, 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 ...
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Journal 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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Reducing the risks of nuclear war—the role of health professionals
Khyber 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
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Journal 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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The Future of the Nuclear Taboo: Framing the Impact of the TPNW
Journal 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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On the reduction of nuclear weapons [PDF]
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1981 The United States, in 1946, proposed that an international authority be formed to control the dangerous parts of atomic energy. The proposal met with very little success, except to lead to the conclusion that there was no apparent reason why it was not technically feasible.
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Nuclear Weapons and the Court [PDF]
AJIL Unbound, 2017 Although caution must be exercised in attributing a policy to the International Court of Justice, it is difficult not to see the Marshall Islands judgments as part of a longer trend of the Court using formalistic reasoning to decline cases concerning nuclear weapons.
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Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2023 The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022, and the ongoing (as of this writing) conflict that has followed, has prompted many of the actors responsible for determining military and nuclear weapons strategy and policy to rethink their approaches.
David von Hippel
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No First Use and Credible Deterrence
Journal 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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Journal 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
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