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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"nuclear disarmament"”.
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European Nuclear Disarmament: a study of transnational social movement strategy
… help create a transnational movement against the nuclear arms race and the Cold War in the 1980s. The attempt began with the drafting and launch of the Appeal for European Nuclear Disarmament in early 1980. The thesis describes and analyses the work of the British group, European Nuclear …
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Data processing and inference methods for zero knowledge nuclear disarmament
It is hoped that future nuclear arms control treaties will call for the dismantlement of stored nuclear warheads. To make the authenticated decommissioning of nuclear weapons agreeable, methods must be developed to validate the structure and composition of nuclear warheads without it being possible …
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Pillars for Nuclear-Weapon States to Make Material Progress on Nuclear Disarmament
<p>The nuclear arms race in the twenty-first century hinders progress towards disarmament and greatly increases the risk of nuclear catastrophe. Nuclear disarmament is a global issue that is necessary not only to reduce the risk of war but also to strengthen world peace and security, and to prevent …
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From the Humanitarian Impact Initiative to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: A Novel Approach to Nuclear Disarmament
… present thesis analyzes current developments in nuclear disarmament, specifically the humanitarian impact initiative that culminated in the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW, the Treaty) by 122 members of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in July 2017. …
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Fluorescence Imaging for Nuclear Arms Control Verification
Nuclear disarmament is a highly debated subject. Proponents argue that political conditions for nuclear disarmament are ripe. Opponents reason that dismantlement could create instability leading to a higher probability of nuclear war or large-scale conventional war. Verification of disarmament can …
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Nuclear Armament/Disarmament as a Topic in Decision-Making Models in Secondary Social Studies Classrooms
… sought to determine the current status of the nuclear armament/disarmament issue as a topic for the moral decision-making model in secondary social studies curriculums and to establish guidelines for its inclusion in future lessons. A review of the relevant literature provided the basis for a …
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Assessing differential scanning calorimetry as a retrospective dosimetry method for the verification of uranium enrichment activities
… that it has all been accounted for in a nuclear disarmament scenario. Physical signatures from the uranium enrichment process can support and validate declared production. This thesis proposes a method to measure the signature from radiation effects in uranium enrichment equipment, using …
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Just War Theory in the Nuclear Age
… theory is still applicable to questions in the nuclear age. The principles of jus ad bellum and jus in bello can be applied to the use of nuclear weapons – both for employment during warfare and for deterrence purposes. Pacifistic voices call for further reductions in the U.S. nuclear arsenal …
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Estimating warhead design properties from multiple resonances in physical cryptographic warhead verification
Further progress towards complete nuclear disarmament hinges upon the development of technologies that can reliably verify the authenticity of nuclear weapons without revealing classified information about their design. One recently developed approach makes use of isotope-specific nuclear resonance …
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Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy since Independence: A Small State From Order Taker to Order Maker (1991-2021)
… the ability to focus on regional integration and nuclear disarmament, considered an area of great power privilege. A small state like Kazakhstan demonstrates that order-making can be done in a specific issue area and the form of an issue corrector. Besides, post-independence behaviour does not …
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Palimpsest
… light ; Apotheosis ; A poem about God, sex, and nuclear disarmament ; A song for the stoic ; Winter dawn on the Gulf ; Gypsy flats flea market -- Meditations. Prairie winds ; Thymus vulgaris ; Moldy zinnias ; Notes on the fall ; November snow ; Winter tree ; Spring that ; Astral love ; Sacrifice …
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An investigation into the emergence of the anarcho-punk scene of the 1980s
… akin to groups such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Situationism. This debate will be further explored in chapter two. With particular attention to the music of the Sex Pistols, I wish to explore the extent to which the break down of the post-war consensus, and the resultant …
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“Professionals in a Soviet America” Federal Housing Policy, the Popular Front, and Architects in Los Angeles, 1919–1947
… the United States and the Soviet Union, global nuclear disarmament, and modern housing throughout California. As the second Red Scare accelerated in the postwar period, institutions like the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles intervened to provide meeting spaces for embattled organizations. …
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Cycles of protest in the post-war British peace movement
… peace movement organisation, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, provided and distributed vital selective incentives that motivated the existing clientele into protest activity. However, once the costs of non-achievement of policy goals add to the costs of protest activity (which are being …
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From ambivalence to activism: Australia and the negotiation of the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
… negotiation and early interpretation of the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), an instrument which remains the most important global nuclear arms control measure in international law. Using data from recently released Australian government documents, the study analyses the process by …
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Monitoring under the Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement : the prospects of antineutrino detection as an IAEA verification metric for the disposition of weapons-grade plutonium in the United States
… assured destruction between the world's largest nuclear weapon states was ever-present, and often provoked tense confrontations. Although fears of a nuclear holocaust significantly subsided after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the world faced a potentially more dangerous prospect: …
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Access to justice in environmental law: An investigation of the locus standi of environmental pressure groups in English law and the creation of an environmental court
… against our possession of astrategic nuclear deterrent, most of whom were members either of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament or Greenpeace. Their presence stimulated much discussion, far more I suspect than those standing outside would have imagined might have occurred in the …
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Attitudes to nuclear defence. An investigation of processes of change in elite and non-elite belief systems.
The recent developments in negotiations to reduce nuclear weapons in Europe mark a watershed in attitudes towards nuclear deterrence and security. On the one side lie all the old beliefs and assumptions about nuclear defence and security that have been common parlance for the last forty years and …
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A Moment of Failure: The Debate Surrounding the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks
… believed their leaders had narrowly avoided nuclear annihilation. In response to this crisis, however, American and Soviet citizens asked more questions about nuclear weapons and their spread than ever before, well into the 1970s, and toward the decade of détente, or “de-escalation” between …
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Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative and transatlantic relations, 1983-86
… exploits SDI’s position at the intersection of nuclear strategy, political ideology, Cold War diplomacy, and industrial politics to offer a multifaceted, multi-national, and primary source-based analysis of US-European relations during the Reagan Presidency. The picture of the transatlantic …
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