This chapter starts with grounding in the science of nuclear weapons, how they work, and the damage they are capable of causing. Readers are given an introduction to the basics of nuclear weapons and "what makes them go bang", including an explanation of nuclear fission and fusion, and the...
What Are Nuclear Weapons and Why Are They So Powerful? This chapter starts with grounding in the science of nuclear weapons, how they work, and the damage they are capable of causing. Readers are given an introduction to the basics of nuclear weapons and "what makes them go bang", includin...
but it seems the guy who's now vying to be the most powerful man in the world didn't get the memo about why nuclear war is a bad thing. so here's a primer. first, american security before we get around to the ethics of deploying nuclear weapons on entire civilizations and the plane...
Lundquist and her lab colleagues study these effects so that, in the event of a nuclear crisis, they would be able to "know where the radiological particles are to correctly predict fallout and then provide guidance on consequence management that would protect public health." While the threat of...
President Ronald Reagan saw the proposed Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) as a safeguard against the most terrifying Cold War outcome—nuclear annihilation. When Reagan first announced SDI on March 23, 1983, he called upon the U.S. scientists who “gave us nuclear weapons to turn their great...
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), in order to explore possible routes toward verifiable elimination — though so far little has come of this; a preliminary meeting is said to have demonstrated how little the Russian and Chinese laboratories, in particular, are presently interested in ...
more powerful weapons and sanctions would mark a change in the degree of aid, but not its kind. And this week, facing Ukrainian success, Russia paused the campaign in the north, rather than escalate. For all those reasons, the best deterrence is for NATO to stand up to Mr. Putin’s ve...
Rockets are used to launch satellites and Space Shuttles into space. Their powerful engines allow spacecraft to be blasted into space at incredible speeds,
Whydosomestatesseektoacquireweaponsofmassdestruction,inparticular,nuclearweapons?DuringhispresidencyGeorgeW.Bushsaid‘freenationsdon'tdevelopweaponsofmassdestruction.’(2005)Thisisperhapsanironicjudgement,butoneofgreatsignificancetointernationalrelations.WeaponsofmassdestructionorWMD’saresimplydefinedasweaponscapableof...
Later, in the 1980s, the US set up the $200m Space Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (SNTP) programme, which sought to develop nuclear-powered rockets that would be twice as powerful as traditional chemical rocket engines. SNTP was part of the US Strategic Defense Initiative, which President Ronald ...