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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"nuclear development"”.
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Role of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in hypothalamic nuclear development
… and projections. This dissertation looks at the development of three of these cell groups, the ventromedial nucleus (VMN), the paraventricular nucleus (PVN), and the arcuate nucleus (ARC). The VMN and PVN have a unique pattern of GABA expression in elements surrounding the nuclei, with a void of …
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Nuclear Proliferation: Assessment of the Nuclear Capabilities to the Year 2000 Among Selected Nth Countries--India, Pakistan, Iran and North Korea
Preventing the spread of nuclear weapons by additional countries has been a fundamental objective of U.S. foreign policy since the end of the second world war. The overlap of technologies for peaceful nuclear power and nuclear weapons creates a dilemma of how to avert weapons proliferation while …
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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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Environmental transfer of radionuclides in a Sub-Saharan Africa setting
In the last two decades, interest in the development of nuclear programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has increased. To ensure that the potential human and environmental ionising radiation exposure from nuclear developments within SSA can be adequately assessed, knowledge of radionuclide transfer …
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Elite Perception and Biased Strategic Policy Making : The Case of India's Nuclear Build-up
… account of the motives and dynamics of India's nuclear policy making. Within the model, structural conditions of India's regional security environment were permissive to India's nuclear development but not sufficient to make India's nuclearisation imperative for maintaining its …