Nuclear weaponsforeign policyHow do nuclear weapons change the foreign policies of the states that acquire them? This paper offers a theory, labeled "nuclear pragmatism," that explains thedoi:10.2139/ssrn.2566293Mark S BellSSRN Electronic Journal...
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On 7 July, most of the world’s countries voted to ban nuclear weapons. None of them, however, actually have The Bomb. Countries that do – or rely on a nuclear weapons for defence – boycotted the vote. Despite this its backers argue that a treaty making nuclear...
An open secret when it comes toIsraelis the presence of nuclear weapons, he added. "They have them for sure, 100%. "No Israeli will ever confirm or deny." Mr Clarke says that Israeli military doctrine accounts for the use of nuclear weapons as a "final deterrent" in situations where the...
As such, both the atomic bomb and the hydrogen bomb are nuclear weapons. However, it’s interesting to point out that fusion bombs can still use fission with regards to detonating or triggering the bomb. So what could a nucl...
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, ...
The threat of a nuclear attack on the United States is higher than it’s been since Berlin had a wall down its center. But what would that attack entail? What kind of damage would a nuclear bomb cause, and what, if anything, could we do to get ready for it?
"We agreed that we will do the same - without violating our obligations, I emphasize, without violating our international obligations on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, we have already helped our Belarusian colleagues and equip their aircraft, aircraft of the Belarusian Air Force. 10...
By nearly common consent, the uncertainty over the status of nuclear forces in Northeast Asia is said to be the most dangerous feature of Asian-Pacific security. While most attention has been paid to the status of North Korea's nuclear program, too little attention has been paid to the way...
them to get a sense of the scale of the bombs. By allowing people to use arbitrarily picked geographical locations, I hope that people will come to understand what a nuclear weapon would do to places they are familiar with, and how the different sizes of nuclear weapons change the results....