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Israel and Nuclear Weapons
Israel is currently one of the world’s nine nuclear powers; but it is the only nuclear-armed power that has neither openly tested its nuclear weapons... -
Abolition, not arms control: against reinforcing nuclear weapons through “reform”
Despite decades of persistent threats and harms caused by nuclear weapons, arms control continues to be the dominant paradigm through which to...
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The Anti-Nuclear Weapons Movement
The anti-nuclear weapons movement during the Cold War encompassed a wide variety of intellectuals, grassroots membership, activists, political... -
Nuclear Weapons
The phrase “weapons of mass destruction” encompasses, among others, nuclear, atomic or radioactive weapons. This chapter deals with pertaining legal... -
Prospects for Limiting Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons
AbstractThe continuation of the treaty process of interaction between Russia and the United States in the reduction and control of nuclear weapons...
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Post-9/11 US thinking and approaches to nuclear deterrence: the Bush Doctrine and the role of nuclear weapons in US deterrence strategy
Charting a course through US administrations from the late 1990s to the present day, this article considers the George W. Bush administration’s...
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Sustaining social license: nuclear weapons and the art of legitimation
Several observers have in recent years discussed the prospects for advancing arms control and disarmament through determined efforts at...
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Nuclear Weapons in 2122: Disaster, Stability, or Disarmament?
Writing from a Swiss Alps monastery, we reconstruct how our world was turned into a radioactive ruin and consider whether some alternative was... -
Nuclear Weapons and Cancer
In August of 1945 the first and second nuclear weapons were used in warfare and devastated the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Following these... -
A Korean Peninsula Free of Nuclear Weapons Perspectives on Socioeconomic Development
This book focuses on three main subjects: the DPRK's inability to survive as a nuclear state; the importance of China’s role in encouraging...
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Represented but not always heard: an analysis of the progress of gender equality at the United Nations through the lens of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Gender inequality has always been a structural problem at the United Nations. The voices of women as well as those of non-binary people and...
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The Contours and Limits of Environmental Remediation Under the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
The entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in January 2021 has sparked analysis of the so-called ‘positive...
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Nuclear Weapons and the Militarization of AI
This contribution provides an overview of nuclear risks emerging from the militarization of AI technologies and systems. These include AI... -
Ending nuclear weapons before they end us: current challenges and paths to avoiding a public health catastrophe
The United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)—an important planetary health good—entered into legal force in January 2021....
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Measuring public knowledge on nuclear weapons in the post-Cold War: dimensionality and measurement invariance across eight European countries
Research on public opinion and international security has extensively examined attitudes toward nuclear weapons, but the diffusion of basic knowledge...
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Injuries from Conventional Explosive Weapons
Explosion is an extremely quick process of physical or chemical energy release. In other words, it is the transformation of energy from one form into... -
Ending the ‘Perpetual Menace’ of Nuclear Weapons: The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty
On 16th July 1945, at 05:29 AM, the secrets of the atom were unlocked by detonating the world’s first nuclear explosive device dubbed “The Gadget”. -
Rethinking the beginning of the ‘nuclear age’ through telling feminist nuclear stories
Bringing a feminist perspective to the global politics of nuclear weapons not only allows us to expand who and what counts as worthy of study in...
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Performing Nuclear Weapons How Britain Made Trident Make Sense
This book investigates the UK’s nuclear weapon policy, focusing in particular on how consecutive governments have managed to maintain the Trident...