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A National Pragmatic Safety Limit for Nuclear Weapon Quantities

Safety, 2018
This study determines the nuclear pragmatic limit where the direct physical negative consequences of nuclear weapons use are counter to national interests, by assuming all unknowns are conservatively optimistic.
Joshua M. Pearce, David C. Denkenberger   +1 more
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Synergistic Effects of Deterrence by Denial and Safeguards in the Biological Weapons Convention: Building on the History of International Nuclear Safeguards

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
The notion of deterrence by denial has been introduced in relation to biosecurity. The goal of deterrence by denial in biosecurity extends beyond dissuading attacks. It also encompasses the protection of citizens in the event of an attack.
Kazuko Hikawa
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Early radioactive fallout in Israel following the 1961 nuclear weapon tests [PDF]

, 1963
J.R. Gat, Y. Feige, N. Pazy, N. Rosintal
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Japan and the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty: The Wrong Side of History, Geography, Legality, Morality, and Humanity

The 2017 Nuclear Ban Treaty, 2018
By refusing to sign the new UN Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty, Japan has put itself on the wrong side of history, geography, legality, morality, and humanity.
R. Thakur
semanticscholar   +1 more source

LEGAL PROTECTION FROM NUCLEAR WEAPONS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Splitu, 2008
Nuclear weapons can be the reason for much dangerous pollution of the environment. The consequences of nuclear testing, explosion of atom bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and various nuclear accidents all bear witness to this. Nuclear weaponry falls into
Jerolim Ostojić
doaj  

A Study of China’s No-First-Use Policy on Nuclear Weapons

, 2018
China’s no-first-use policy implies that the country possesses nuclear weapons only to deter other states from a nuclear attack. It expresses the purely self-defensive nature of China’s nuclear strategy.
Zhe-yi Pan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

TOWARDS FULFILLMENT OF FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF HUMANITARIAN LAW IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY

BRICS Law Journal, 2016
The Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is an international treaty that should be implemented during both peace and wartime. However, the obligations included in the treaty are dependent upon states' attitudes regarding other issues.
s. Bagheri
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The size distribution of radioactive particles from nuclear weapon tests and their transport in the atmosphere [PDF]

, 1966
Y. I. Gasiev, S.G. Malakhov, L. E. Nazarov, A. N. Silantiev   +3 more
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Framing Norm Through Riskification: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Anti-Nuclear Weapons Norm

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
This article combines research strands on international norms, framing, and riskification to elaborate the framing methods used by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) to effect an anti-nuclear weapons norm around the Treaty for ...
Christian Harijanto
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Irreversibility in Nuclear Arms Control: Lessons from the US-Soviet/Russian Arms Control Process

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
The United States and Soviet Union/Russian Federation signed several arms control treaties that mandated reductions in their numbers of deployed nuclear weapons.
Amy F. Woolf
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