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Securing guarantees : how nuclear proliferation can strengthen great power commitments [PDF]
, 2018 The number of states with nuclear weapons has grown at a much slower rate than many predicted during the early years of the Cold War. Yet the reasons for this slow rate of proliferation are not well understood.
Phillips, Julianne Nicole
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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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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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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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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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Fallout from U.S. atmospheric nuclear tests in New Mexico and Nevada (1945-1962) [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 One hundred and one atmospheric nuclear weapon tests were conducted between 1945 and 1962 in the United States, resulting in widespread dispersion of radioactive fallout, and leading to environmental contamination and population exposures. Accurate assessment of the extent of fallout from nuclear weapon tests has been challenging in the United States ...
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Character education and the instability of virtue
Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 56, Issue 6, Page 889-898, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Character education in schools in England is flourishing. I give many examples of the enthusiasm for it as well as drawing attention to the UK government's new ambivalence towards it. Character education seems largely impervious to the many criticisms to which it has been subjected.
Richard Smith
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Nature Communications, 2020 Isotopic ratios of radioactive releases into the environment are useful signatures for contamination source assessment. Uranium is known to behave conservatively in sea water so that a ratio of uranium trace isotopes may serve as a superior oceanographic
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Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 827-837, October 2022., 2022 Abstract This article argues that one way to foreground and privilege women's perspectives on the Cold War is by re‐interpreting their historical experiences of food and drink. The article develops this argument by analysing one letter, from an unknown woman to the BBC, in the context of nuclear health concerns in early Cold War Britain.
Jessica Douthwaite
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