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Postcard from a Canadian Supporter to Geraldine Ferraro [PDF]
, 1984 Postcard from a Canadian supporter to Geraldine Ferraro. Author is concerned about nuclear weapons. Postcard has handwritten notes.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_correspondence_1984_international/1227/thumbnail ...
Ferraro, Geraldine
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The critical vulnerabilities of civilian nuclear operations [PDF]
, 2005 The exploitation for peaceful purposes of nuclear knowledge and nuclear technology is inevitably connected to the exploitation of the same phenomena for military purposes.
Smith, Ron C.
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The potential stigmatizing effect of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
The Nonproliferation Review, 2018 On July 7, 2017, seventy-two years after the start of the nuclear era, 122 states concluded the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW, or “ban treaty”).
Tom Sauer, Mathias Reveraert
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Early synapsids neurosensory diversity revealed by CT and synchrotron scanning
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Non‐mammaliaform synapsids (NMS) represent the closest relatives of today's mammals among the early amniotes. Exploring their brain and nervous system is key to understanding how mammals evolved. Here, using CT and Synchrotron scanning, we document for the first time three extreme cases of neurosensory and behavioral adaptations that probe ...
J. Benoit +6 more
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Abdus Salam: A Reappraisal. Part II Salam's Part in the Pakistani Nuclear Weapon Programme [PDF]
arXiv, 2011 Salam's biographies claim that he was opposed to Pakistan's nuclear weapon programme. This is somewhat strange given that he was the senior Science Advisor to the Pakistan government for at least some of the period between 1972 when the programme was initiated and 1998 when a successful nuclear weapon test was carried out.
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Plutonium was discovered and first synthesized in the early 1940's. Several isotopes of plutonium are used in nuclear technologies, 238Pu for heat generation and 239Pu for energy production and weapons. Both isotopes emit alpha particles, which pose a significant radiation hazard when incorporated into the body.
Scott C. Miller
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Re-examining the 1996 ICJ Advisory Opinion: Concerning the Legality of Nuclear Weapons
Cadmus, 2012 The primary objections raised against total elimination of nuclear weapons are built around a few arguments mostly of non-technical nature.Nuclear weapons and the strategies for their use have resulted in the establishment of a vicious circle within ...
Jasjit Singh
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From the lab to the battlefield? Nanotechnology and fourth generation nuclear weapons [PDF]
Disarmament Diplomacy, No. 67 (October-November 2002) 3-6, 2005 The paper addresses some major implications of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) engineering and nanotechnology for the improvement of existing types of nuclear weapons, and the development of more robust versions of these weapons, as well as for the development of fourth generations nuclear weapons in which nanotechnology will play an essential ...
arxiv
Nuclear opportunism: A theory of how states use nuclear weapons in international politics
, 2019 How do states use nuclear weapons to achieve their goals in international politics? Nuclear weapons can influence state decisions about a range of strategic choices relating to military aggression, the scope of foreign policy objectives, and relations ...
Mark S. Bell
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Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2019 The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons requires States Parties to designate a “competent international authority or authorities” for negotiating and verifying the irreversible elimination of nuclear-weapons programs.
Tamara Patton +2 more
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