The process to negotiate and adopt the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has already had significant impacts on nuclear weapon law, politics, economics, and social and academic discourse. While the full range of effects of the nuclear ban is not yet known, economic divestment and ...
Current public indifference and skepticism toward nuclear power contrasts with earlier optimism. Following World War II, US policymakers sought to promote commercial nuclear power globally, distinguishing the “peaceful atom” from the weapons used in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Cold War arms race with...
Once nuclear weapons were introduced into a US-Russian conflict, there would be little chance that a nuclear holocaust could be avoided. Theories of “limited nuclear war” and “nuclear de-escalation” are unrealistic.[ix] In 2010 the Bush administration modified US strategic doctrine from a ret...
AUKUS aims Australia buy existing US military nuclear reactors in second-hand N-Subs that are to be up to 10-12 years old, loaded with intractable US origin High-Level nuclear wastes that are also weapons usage fissile materials – and remain as Bomb Fuel long after decommissioning. AUKUS w...
And there are new fears, stoked by the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, that Russian President Vladimir Putin could deploy nuclear weapons against the West. During a February 24 address to Moscow, Putin warned other countries that any attempt to intervene would lead to “consequences you have never ...
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 ...
[Joseph Rotblat] was a towering figure in the search for peace in the world, who dedicated his life to trying to rid the world of nuclear weapons, and ultimately to rid the world of war itself. — M. S. Swaminathan Speaking as president of the Pugwash Conferences. As quoted in ...
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 ...
It calls attention to the very wide range of impacts that nuclear weapons would have on a complex industrial society, and to the extent of uncertainty regarding these impacts. Several years ago, OTA convened a panel of distinguished scientists to examine the effects of a limited nuclear war. ...
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