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Nuclear Weapons and Proxy Conflict
… to highlight the destabilizing effects of nuclear weapons through the concept of proxy conflict. Due to the fact that such arsenals aggravate the costs of direction competition between nuclear states, the desire for relative power within the international system forces states to compete …
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Nuclear weapons and foreign policy
… change their foreign policies when they acquire nuclear weapons? This question is central to both academic and policy debates about the consequences of nuclear proliferation, and the lengths that the United States and other states should go to to prevent proliferation. Despite this importance to …
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India's Nuclear Weapons: a Strategic Assessment
… May, 1998, after forty years of thinking about nuclear weapons, India tested five warhead designs and declared itself a nuclear weapons state. This in turn provoked Pakistan into testing its own nuclear warhead designs. These events create a new security environment on the sub-continent. …
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Ground Zero: Nuclear Weapons and Social Transformation
"This study is an analysis of the icons of nuclear war and nuclear weapons in American popular culture from 1945 to 1963. In this study, iconological analysis is applied to the depiction of nuclear icons in American popular culture during the period of the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons. …
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Mapping and analyzing nuclear weapons programs development
An in-depth review of the types of nuclear reactors and their relationship to the development of nuclear weapons was conducted in order to provide a better understanding of the intention of a state in the creation of an internal nuclear program. An analysis of countries that have developed nuclear …
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U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy: a Post-Soviet Reappraisal
… is international interest in the acquisition of nuclear weapons. Both Russia and China, among others, maintain and continue to modernize arsenals of nuclear weapons. The U.S. response to these security challenges has traditionally subordinated ballistic missile defense to nuclear deterrence. …
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An assessment of North Korea's nuclear weapons capabilities
… of 2013, North Korea conducted its third nuclear weapons test. Speculations are that this test was conducted to further develop a warhead small enough to fit on an intercontinental ballistic missile. This test further strained North Korea's relationship with the international community. …
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Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Options For the Twenty-First Century
Nuclear weapons will continue to form an essential element in the defense of the United States and its interests for the foreseeable future. In the past, U.S. tactical neclear weapons have provided a variety of unique capabilities, both on the battlefield and for deterraence. As the United States …
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Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and U. S. Naval Operations
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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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Nuclear weapons material control : verification of tritium production limitations
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1989.
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The political utility of nuclear weapons in nuclear war termination
… with a discussion of the theoretical aspects of nuclear war termination. Specifically, the objective of war termination, the requirements necessary to meet that objective, and the unclassified guidance available on war termination. As a more practical matter, the Soviet view of war termination is …
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Canadian-American Relations and the Nuclear Weapons Controversy, 1958-1963
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Direct verification of nuclear weapons and the secrecy-certainty spectrum
… verification mechanisms. Increasingly, direct nuclear weapons verification proves relevant to future arms control treaties. I therefore explore the epistemology of direct nuclear weapons verification through interviews, reports, and publications on potential verification systems. I argue that …
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Nuclear Weapons: Prospects For Deterrence and Proliferation in the Modern Era
Since the success of the Manhattan Project the nuclear weapon has dominated the international politics and strategies of the great powers. The ending of the Cold War seemed to promise a lessening of the importance of nuclear weapons. However, a dominating feature of this time has been concern over …
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The use of nuclear weapons under the doctrine of self-defence
The lawful use of nuclear weapons in self-defence sits in a precarious and fraught position amongst lawyers, states and scholars, primarily due to their indiscriminate destructive nature. The use of nuclear weapons is the biggest threat to peace and security yet they exist under obscurity in …
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