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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
K. Hain +10 more
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The Russia-Ukraine War and Nuclear Weapons: Evaluating Familiar Insights
Journal for Peace and Nuclear DisarmamentThis article examines the nuclear dimension of the war in Ukraine. It makes two arguments. First, our knowledge of the nuclear world is fundamentally limited and so any inferences we draw from the war in Ukraine should be tentative.
Mark S. Bell
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Potential Use of Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons in a Korean Context
Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2022 This report explores the potential uses of low-yield nuclear weapons in the context of a possible conflict on the Korean Peninsula. It starts with a definition of low-yield weapons – typically, weapons with yields of ten kilotons or less that are ...
Eva Lisowski
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A hegemonic nuclear order: Understanding the Ban Treaty and the power politics of nuclear weapons
Contemporary Security Policy, 2019 The notion of a “global nuclear order” has entered the lexicon of nuclear politics. The 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has prompted further questions about how we understand it.
Nick Ritchie
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Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2020 This section covers von Hippel’s first engagement with nuclear-weapons issues, starting with a review of a US Secretary of Defense’s claim that a Soviet nuclear first strike on US nuclear weapons would kill only 15,000–25,000 people, through his efforts ...
Frank von Hippel, Tomoko Kurokawa
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International Affairs, 2019 The recently adopted Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has caused much debate and controversy in global nuclear politics. Given that the stated goal of the TPNW supporters (states and NGOs alike) is to embed the treaty in the ...
L. Considine
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Vojnotehnički GlasnikIntroduction/purpose: The paper provides an overview of international regimes and agreements that aimed to halt the spread of nuclear weapons. For each regime, its impact on nuclear weapons proliferation is presented, as well as its significance in ...
Srećko D. Ilić +2 more
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Proliferating Bias? American Political Science, Nuclear Weapons, and Global Security
Journal of Global Security Studies, 2019 This article examines whether there is a US bias affecting how American political scientist study nuclear weapons and their effects. US dominance in the production and dissemination of political science literature on nuclear weapons is reflected in ...
Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer
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Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 2021 Research on public opinion and international security has extensively examined attitudes toward nuclear weapons, but the diffusion of basic knowledge about nuclear weapons among the everyday citizens has nevertheless been mostly missed.
Fabrício M. Fialho
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Nuclear Weapons and Intergenerational Exploitation [PDF]
Security Studies, 2007 Nuclear weapons’ defenders claim that they lower the risk of war, at the price of devastation if war breaks out. But sooner or later, on a realist analysis, catastrophic nuclear war is almost sure to come. Nuclear deterrence thus buys us a better chance of dying in bed, while each post-holocaust generation will have to pick up the pieces.
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