and Russia could kill more than six billion people around the world in the following two years. The direct impacts of blast, radiation and fire on those attacked by nuclear weapons would be horrific, as we know from what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, but 10 to ...
Iran puts on show of force with war games ahead of Trump's second term Weeks before Trump's inauguration, Iran is preparing for potential threats to its nuclear facilities – and for the possible domestic reaction. Jan 9 Ukraine claims blast that killed head of Russia's chemical weapons unit...
nuclear weapons testingcultural impactenvironmental impactradiological impactrehabilitationrelocationFollowing the end of World War H, the U.S. Government decided to commence nuclear weapons testing and consequently searched for a suitable test site. Bikini and Enewetak Atolls in the Marshall Islands were ...
Somewhere in central Russia during the height of the Cold War lay an empty field that US intelligence agencies had determined could be used as a makeshift landing strip for Soviet bombers in the event that all their existing bases had already been destroyed by US nuclear weapons. In order to...
This chapter discusses whethernuclear power generationcontributes to or alleviates the risk fromnuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are now in the possession of several nations. During the “Cold War” (1950s to 1980s), there was a massive build-up of nuclear armaments, particularly by the United ...
NUCLEAR WEAPONS, ARMS CONTROL, and the THREAT OF THERMONUCLEAR WAR: SUPPLEMENT, 1981-1982 A Guide to NUCLEAR WEAPONS, ARMS CONTROL, and the THREAT OF THERMONUCLEAR WAR: SPECIAL STUDIES SUPPLEMENT, 1981-1982 Guide Compiled by Robert Lester Edited by Paul Kesaris A Microfilm Project of UNIVERSITY ...
The advent of nuclear weapons fundamentally altered both the nature of war and the relationship of the military with the rest of society. A 1995 study by John Pike, the director of the space policy project at the Federation of American Scientists, revealed that the cost of nuclear weapons has...
warhead levels simply by virtue of the number of nuclear weapons and facilities it retains. Some portion of the U.S. force, however, is used to target China. We found China to have a larger than expected role in U.S. nuclear war planning activities and targeting strategy. We examined ...
Nuclear weapons are now in the possession of several nations. During the “Cold War” (1950s to 1980s), there was a massive build-up of nuclear armaments, particularly by the United States and the Soviet Union. In the past 40 years, there have been strenuous international efforts to ...
The study is a useful step towards understanding the global food impacts of a regional nuclear war, says Deepak Ray, a food-security researcher at the University of Minnesota in Saint Paul. But more work is needed to accurately simulate the complex mix of how crops are produced around the wo...