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International security regimes in preventing the spread of nuclear armaments and their global significance

open access: yesVojnotehnički Glasnik
Introduction/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
doaj   +1 more source

Implications of the 2022–2023 Situation in Ukraine for Possible Nuclear Weapons Use in Northeast Asia

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Phosphate and fluoride removal options for Hanford high‐level waste sludge processing

open access: yesEnvironmental Progress &Sustainable Energy, EarlyView.
Abstract High‐phosphate and high‐fluoride sludges represent some of the most challenging waste streams within the Hanford High‐Level Waste (HLW) inventory due to solubility constraints, impacts on glass loading, and corrosion risks during vitrification.
A. M. Westesen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cooperative Security in the Post-Cold War International System: The Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Process [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The thesis explores cooperative security efforts between the United States and Russia in the framework of the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Programme and other non-proliferation programmes, which were established in the aftermath of the Soviet ...
Kassenova, Togzhan O
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Knowledge sourcing, geopolitics, and FDI: An empirical analysis on the US green and digital sectors

open access: yesGlobal Strategy Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This paper examines how foreign direct investment (FDI) shapes firms' sourcing of knowledge in the digital and green domains under rising geopolitical frictions. We assemble a firm–country dyadic panel (2013–2020) linking US patent backward citations to firms' FDI, enriched with bilateral geopolitical distance and host‐country
Alberto Maria Radici
wiley   +1 more source

Tiny carriers, big impact: How Fusobacterium nucleatum extracellular vesicles drive oral diseases and beyond

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Medicine, EarlyView.
This review explores how Fusobacterium nucleatum extracellular vesicles drive local oral diseases and distal pathologies via sophisticated cross‐compartment cross talk. It highlights the transformative potential of these “tiny carriers” as next‐generation molecular intermediaries for advanced health monitoring and innovative bio‐interventions by ...
Rongyang Ma   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nuclear-armed submarines in Indo-Pacific Asia: stabiliser or menace? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This report examines the implications of sea-based nuclear weapons for strategic stability in the Indo-Pacific. This paper is part of a wider research and outreach project on nuclear stability in a changing Indo-Pacific Asia, supported by a grant from ...
Brendan Thomas-Noone, Rory Medcalf
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Nuclear injustice: Suggestions in support of a research agenda

open access: yes, 2023
This commentary is part of a roundtable on nuclear injustice.In their recent essay in the Bulletin, Frankiska Stärk and Ulrich Kühn reassess the “distribution of the costs and benefits of nuclear deterrence” and set up a research agenda about nuclear ...
Pelopidas, Benoît
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The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Crises: The Unending Challenge of Controlling Nuclear Weapons and Materials [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Book abstract: At the height of the Cultural Revolution a Chinese long-range nuclear missile is fired within the country, and the nuclear warhead it is carrying detonates. A French nuclear device is exploded in Algeria during a coup there.
Bunn, Matthew
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