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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Nuclear threat"”.
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Distorted Security Discourses. The ROK’s Securitisation of the Korean Nuclear Crisis, 2003–2013
South Korea’s security discourse on the nuclear threat posed by North Korea has been dichotomised by its position within the political spectrum between the progressives and conservatives. By drawing upon Securitisation Theory (ST), this study challenges the current security discourse in South …
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Propaganda and documentary filmmaking
… A Call For Survival: Personal Responses to the Nuclear Threat. The written thesis is an analysis of documentary filmmaking as a form of discourse. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, a French historian and philosopher, the two basic approaches to documentary filmmaking are explored: the …
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Nuclear diffusion: A rethinking of why nation-states "go nuclear"
Nuclear Diffusion: A Rethinking of Horizontal Nuclear Weapons Proliferation examines the spread of nuclear weapons throughout the nuclear age. What is pondered are the specific reasons why a state would pursue a nuclear weapons deterrent. For example, are there identifiable reasons or conditions …
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Systems-based analysis of a ship borne approach for the detection of fissile material concealed in cargo containers
… identified as a potential avenue of attack for nuclear terrorism. Currently envisioned and deployed defensive measures that seek to detect and interdict concealed fissile material once containers have already reached a U.S. port do not adequately protect against nuclear threats due to the unique …
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Japan's Security Interests, Policy, and Implementation
… Moreover, as represented by the increasing nuclear threat from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the security environment in the region is by no means in favor of Japan. Should Japan dramatically shift its traditional reactive defense policy, the key determinants for Tokyo's …
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Reconstructing the Atomic Number of Cargo X-ray Images using Dual Energy Radiography
To combat the risk of nuclear smuggling, the U.S. deploys scanning systems at ports of entry. Radiation portal monitors are capable of identifying unshielded nuclear or radiological threats by detecting radiation that is passively being emitted from a container. Radiography systems offer …
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British civil defence policy in response to the threat of nuclear attack 1972-1986
… policies aimed at mitigating the effects of a nuclear attack on the population of Britain. It tests the hypothesis that civil defence in Britain from 1972 until 1986 was shaped by three distinct influences; economic, ideological and external. It establishes in which ways and to what extent …
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Drawing Apocalypse: Architectural Representation in the Nuclear Age and the Imagination of the End
… world’s end was not only real but imminent; a nuclear apocalyptic cloud which permeated almost all facets of cultural production, including that of architecture. This dissertation examines the ways in which nuclear apocalyptic thinking, imagination, and discourse contaminated speculative …
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Cooperation on non-proliferation: An analysis of the Treaty of Tlatelolco and the Latin American and Caribbean Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (NWFZ)
… which created the Latin American and Caribbean Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (LAC-NWFZ). The Treaty was opened for signature in 1967, but only in 2002, it entered into force in the 33 states of the continent. Tlatelolco’s states parties undertook to prevent any form of possession of nuclear weapons, …