Tyler, Rosalie
proliferation of nuclear weapons(Iran and North Korea) epidemics: drug-resistant strains of various diseases, AIDS, malaria, the threat of bird and swine fluthe growing economic power of India and China(and the loss of jobs in the U.S.) U.S.-China relations China-Taiwan relations the econo...
For example, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), founded in 1956, gradually expanded its tasks from low-key technical assistance to the extraordinary legal powers of inspections developed under the auspices of the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The safeguards system ...
but with the dawn of the nuclear age and the threats of theCold War, it became clear that defining national security in a context of conventional military warfare had become a thing of the past. Today, U.S. government policymakers struggle to balance the demands of several ...
Certain sub-areas within biosecurity … are highly neglected. For example, the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) of 1972, which is the main disarmament treaty of its kind and is considered to have established a near-universal norm against the use of biological weapons, has been run since 2006...
Three examples are taken from an extended study of controversies surrounding the US Department of Energy's nuclear weaponsof FukushimaKinsella, W. J. (2012). Environments, risks, and the limits of representation: Examples from nuclear energy and some implications of Fukushima. Environmental ...
Satellite Communication:Satellites provide communication links for the world. They are used for many things like sending TV signals, tracking weather patterns, controlling nuclear weapons, etc. These satellites use radio waves, which are in the form of electromagnetic radiation. They are useful for wi...
More recently, the United States supplied weapons to groups attempting to overthrow theautocraticregime of Syrian PresidentBashar al-Assadand launched air attacks against the ISIS terrorist group. However, PresidentBarack Obamawas unwilling to deploy American ground troops. Following the November 13, 2015...
Those provisionsincludethereference to the Final Document (resolution S-10/2)ofthefirst special sessionoftheGeneral Assembly devoted to disarmament (SSOD-I); NAM summitstatements;theadvisory opinionoftheInternational CourtofJustice; thegoalofeliminating nuclear weapons within a specified frameworkoftime;...
Recent Examples on the WebSince 2018, Iran has significantly advanced its nuclear program, and while there is no evidence of nuclear-armed missiles, officials are concerned aboutmetallurgyand computer modeling research related to weapons, according to The Wall Street Journal.— ...