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Non-strategic nuclear weapons: the next step in multilateral arms control [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper by Crispin Rovere and Kalman A Robertson addresses the many barriers to including tactical nuclear weapons in disarmament talks. It considers the difficulty of bringing other emerging powers such as China into the nuclear arms control equation.
Crispin Rovere, Kalman A Robertson
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Nuclear Disarmament Verification via Resonant Phenomena

open access: yes, 2017
Nuclear disarmament treaties are not sufficient in and of themselves to neutralize the existential threat of the nuclear weapons. Technologies are necessary for verifying the authenticity of the nuclear warheads undergoing dismantlement before counting ...
Danagoulian, Areg, Hecla, Jake J.
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Electrical Breakdown Analysis of Emerging Oil–Paper Insulation Systems

open access: yesHigh Voltage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This investigation addresses the effect of particulate additives on the electrical breakdown strength of the oil impregnated insulation paper system. The morphological complexity is addressed by converting data from scanning electron microscope images to a data set suitable for numerical simulation analysis. Then, by using the conventional oil‐
Yue Xu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collaborating in future states—Contextual instability, paradigmatic remaking, and public policy

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Collaboration is ubiquitous in public policy life, with its presence and profile determined by prevailing governance conditions. Commitments to globalisation and marketisation in the latter part of the 20th century marked the onset of an era defined by collaboration, between and across tiers and spheres of government, with non‐state actors ...
Helen Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Undiversity, inequity, and exclusion in supply chains: The unintended fallout of economic sanctions and consumer boycotts

open access: yesProduction and Operations Management, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Economic sanctions and consumer boycotts are common tools to punish organizations for undesirable behavior and attempt to coerce them to change their actions. However, these tools occasionally spill over beyond the intended recipients and affect guiltless supply chain members, jeopardizing the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion in ...
Timofey Shalpegin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Radiation tolerant silicon nitride insulated gate field effect transistors [PDF]

open access: yes, 1969
Metal-Insulated-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor /MISFET/ device uses a silicon nitride passivation layer over a thin silicon oxide layer to enhance the radiation tolerance.
Newman, P. A.
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The importance of Nuclear Weapons Free Zones [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Some say that it is nothing but an illusion to think of a world totally without nuclear weapons. This might be true. Nonetheless, although the total abolition of nuclear weapons seems, at present, to be quite difficult, promoting Nuclear Weapons Free ...
Mukai, Wakana
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Dangerous Deference: What the British Public Think about Civil‐Military Relations

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Accepted norms of democratic civil‐military relations aver, regarding the use of force, that military officers may not substitute civilians’ judgement with their own and that civilians should not follow their guidance blindly. These theories often rest on the presumption that three critical actors—government, armed forces, and the public ...
David Blagden   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nuclear Weapons Don’t Belong on Our Planet

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
In January 2024, the newly appointed Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Melissa Parke, visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the first time, where she met with atomic bomb survivors (hibakusha), officials ...
Melissa Parke
doaj   +1 more source

A reappraisal of the Middle to Later Stone Age prehistory of Morocco Réévaluer la préhistoire du Maroc, du Middle Stone Age au Later Stone Age

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Over the last 25 years, perceptions of the early prehistory of Northwest Africa have undergone radical changes due to new fieldwork projects and a corresponding growth in scientific interest in the region. Much of this work has been focused in Morocco, known for its extremely rich fossil and archaeological records in caves and rock shelters.
Nick Barton   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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