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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Nuclear Testing"”.
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Attitudes of American Magazines Toward Atmospheric Nuclear Testing, 1945-1965
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Torn Between Two Nations: Joint Anglo-American Nuclear Testing in Operation Dominic and International Compensation
… and the USA conducting a joint atmospheric nuclear testing operation, which was known as Operation Dominic. The thesis will also discuss the experiences of British servicemen who participated in this operation, as well as their struggle for recognition and monetary compensation from both the …
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The existence and formulation of international law relating to nuclear testing; and the lawfulness of such tests in light of their impact on the environment
… and attitudes, particularly with regard to the testing of nuclear weapons. The prolific expansion of environmental matters is perhaps unrivalled in international law. Environmental law is still at an embryonic stage of development. It is precisely this reason that marks every environmental act …
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: An Analysis of the Consequences of 20th Century American Imperialism and Nuclear Testing Upon the Marshall Islands and its Inhabitants
<p>This thesis could not have been accomplished without the support of my family, friends, and peers who have cheered me on the entire way throughout my tenure as a master’s student at Claremont Graduate University (CGU). I would especially like to thank my mother who has had the patience of a …
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Modeling the rates of lead and strontium uptake by zeolitized tuff from Rainier Mesa, Nevada Test Site, Nevada
… and transport of contaminants released during nuclear testing at the NTS are partly controlled by interactions of their aqueous species with mineral surfaces. It has been shown that retardation of contaminants in the subsurface may be controlled by intraparticle mass transfer rather than …
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Advocates For the People & the Test Ban
… issues and questions surrounding a comprehensive nuclear test ban have remained generally the same. Of these concerns, nine U.S. Administrations have debated the national security implications of one issue in particular: verifying a nuclear test ban. From 1981 to 1986, the scientific community …
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Unsettling epigenetics: contested understandings of trauma and evidence in settler colonial Australia
… in the 1984-85 Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia, a Royal Commission that sought to bring to light the ongoing, intergenerational impacts of the British nuclear testing program that occurred in South Australia in the 1950s-60s. By placing contemporary environmental …
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Dating of fallout in lacustrine sediment in southwestern Utah
… the highest fallout from Nevada Test Site (NTS) nuclear testing during the period 1951-1959. The reservoir was shown to have a constant sedimentation rate and to be relatively undisturbed. A 40 centimeter (cm) core taken from this reservoir contained sediment deposited after 1974 and did not …
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Soviet propaganda : a study of Soviet embassy press releases, 1959-1960.
… the U-2 incident and Summit conference, and nuclear testing and disarmament. Quantitative analysis illustrates chronologically how propaganda emphases were shifted in support of foreign policy objectives.
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A thousand suns : political motivations for nuclear weapons testing
Nuclear weapon testing is the final step in the nuclear development process, an announcement of ability and strength. The consequences of a nuclear test are far from easy to bear, however: economic sanctions can be crippling and nuclear capability automatically makes one a nuclear target. Why, …
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Examination of natural background sources of radioactive noble gases with CTBT significance
For verifying the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), different monitoring technologies (seismic, infrasound, hydroacoustic, and radionuclide detection) are combined. The monitoring of radioactive xenon isotopes is one of the principal methods for the determination of the nuclear nature …
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Aerial Empire: contested sovereignties and the American West
… navigable airspace from air rights in the 1920s. Nuclear science expanded atmospheric knowledge and smog undermined an approach to pollution based on dilution by 1950. As air pollution control shifted from a local to national issue, commercial and military jets increasingly crowded the skies. …
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Using Cesium 137 to Understand Recent in Cave Sedimentation in the Tongass National Forest, Southeast Alaska
… accumulation rates. Cesium 137 from open-air nuclear testing was is used to determine the age of the sediments in caves, surface karst features and undisturbed areas. Sediments generated from surface land disturbances and deposited in caves and karst features since 1954 may have positive …
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High-precision isotope ratio measurements of uranium and plutonium in the environment
… clearly reflect the yearly yields of atmospheric testing. A higher abundance of 235U can be linked to nuclear testing between 1950-1963. A higher abundance of 238U is found in the period 1970-80 in the grass, but not in the ice. The 240Pu/239Pu ratio is compared with Polar ice core and …
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The ratification of the first nuclear treaty: the test ban debate of 1963
The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was the proudest accomplishment of President Kennedy's one thousand days in the White House. It prohibited nuclear testing in the atmosphere, in space or under the oceans. The treaty was signed by more than one hundred nations, Red China and France notably excepted. Such …
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A Global History of Australian Women's Liberation, 1968-1985
… with Pacific and Indigenous women’s anti-nuclear networks reveals how both space and time were remade at these feminist encampments. Space was remade through ideas of spiritual feminism which highlighted the shared experience of women across the world and the possibilities of global, …