Opinion: How fear of nuclear winter has helped save the world, so far [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2023 The direct effects of nuclear war would be horrific, with blasts, fires, and radiation killing and injuring many people. But in 1983, United States and Soviet Union scientists showed that a nuclear war could also produce a nuclear winter, with ...
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Measuring Very Low Radiation Doses in PTFE for Nuclear Forensic Enrichment Reconstruction [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Every country that has made nuclear weapons has used uranium enrichment. Despite the centrality of this technology to international security, there is still no reliable physical marker of past enrichment that can be used to perform forensic verification of historically produced weapons.
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Experimental demonstration of an isotope-sensitive warhead verification technique using nuclear resonance fluorescence [PDF]
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 115 (17) 4363-4368 (2018), 2017 Future nuclear arms reduction efforts will require technologies to verify that warheads slated for dismantlement are authentic without revealing any sensitive weapons design information to international inspectors. Despite several decades of research, no technology has met these requirements simultaneously. Recent work by Kemp et al.
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Science4Peace in difficult times [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The war on Ukraine has affected significantly scientific cooperation and communication in particle physics and also in many other fields of scientific, cultural and educational exchange. Immediately after the war in February 2022, many scientific institutions paused or banned scientific cooperation and exchange with Russian and Belorusian institutes ...
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The TPNW Conference of Parties: What Is to Be Discussed?
Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2020 The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is one of the most important developments of the modern era. This paper addresses the question posed, of what issues are to be discussed at the 1st Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty ...
Kennedy Graham
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'I still cannot get over it' 75 years after Japan atomic bombs, a nuclear weapons ban treaty is finally realised [PDF]
, 2020 The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will finally come into force after the 50th country (Honduras) ratified it over the weekend. The treaty will make the development, testing, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons illegal for those ...
Gwyn McClelland
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An international treaty to implement a global compute cap for advanced artificial intelligence [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 This paper presents an international treaty to reduce risks from the development of advanced artificial intelligence (AI). The main provision of the treaty is a global compute cap: a ban on the development of AI systems above an agreed-upon computational resource threshold.
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Measurement of 37Ar to support technology for On-site Inspection under the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty [PDF]
Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A652:58-61,2011, 2010 On-Site Inspection (OSI) is a key component of the verification regime for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Measurements of radionuclide isotopes created by an underground nuclear explosion are a valuable signature of a Treaty violation. Argon-37 is produced from neutron interaction with calcium in soil, 40Ca(n,{\alpha})37Ar.
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Freedom from Nuclear Weapons? IHRL And IHL Perspective vs the State-Centred Approach
Age of Human Rights Journal, 2020 23 years after the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, a general treaty prohibiting the use of nuclear weapons has been adopted. It may be anticipated that the TPNW will probably not enter into force very soon,
Julia Kapelańska-Pręgowska
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60th anniversary of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: a firts step towards disarmament [PDF]
, 2023 El Tratado de prohibición parcial de los ensayos nucleares (TPPEN) se firmó en 1963 como respuesta al impacto ambiental de las pruebas nucleares. La amplia adhesión a este tratado constituyó un paso decisivo en la prohibición de este tipo de armamentos y
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