Nuclear weapons have existed for almost 80 years and many countries see them as a deterrent that continues to guarantee their national security. How many nuclear weapons does Russia have? All figures for nuclear weapons are estimates but, according to the Federation of American Scientists, Russia ...
1. The Link Between Peaceful and Military Nuclear Programmes 2. Nuclear Power in Electrical Energy Supply 3. The Plutonium Economy and Highly Enriched Uranium 4. The Components of Nuclear and Thermonuclear Weapons 5. Nuclear-Weapon Testing 6. Dismantling Nuclear Weapons 7. Disposing of Plutonium 8...
Nuclear-weapon-free zones in the 21st century With the extension of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Negotiations of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty much international attention has been devoted to multilateral non-proliferation and disarmament process. Universalit... PG Alves,DB Cipol...
R. Wilson, How to Have Nuclear Power Without Weapons Proliferation, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 33:\\, pp. 3 9 4 4 , 1977.Richard Wilson, ‘How to Have Nuclear Power Without Weapons Proliferation’, Bulletin of Atomic Scientist (November 1977), says one week is the critical time-span...
In How Nuclear Weapons Spread, Frank Barnaby examines the far-reaching effects - both beneficial and detrimental - of nuclear weapons. He looks in detail at the nuclear programmes of Third World countries, including India, Israel and Pakistan which have or could very rapidly acquire nuclear weapons...
Analysts have discovered more than 100 new missile silos in China. The silos are the largest expansion of China’s nuclear weapons program in recent history.
In How Nuclear Weapons Spread, Frank Barnaby examines the far-reaching effects - both beneficial and detrimental - of nuclear weapons. He looks in detail at the nuclear programmes of Third World countries, including India, Israel and Pakistan which have or could very rapidly acquire nuclear weapons...
The article offers a theory to explain why emerging nuclear powers use nuclear weapons to facilitate different foreign policies: becoming more or less aggressive; providing additional support to allies or proxies, seeking independence from allies; or expanding the state's goals in international politics...
Filed Under:china,nuclear weapons Arms Control Wonk: Leading Voices on Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Catherine Dill Melissa Hanham Michael Krepon Jeffrey Lewis Authors
Tactical nuclear weapons, by design, do not have as much radioactive fallout, since they are used against a specific target, but there is still some fallout. Nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein has built a simulation calledNukeMapto estimate the effects of nuclear strikes. According to NukeMap, ...