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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"nuclear policy"”.
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Chinese Nuclear Policy
Nuclear weapons are a critical element of the People's Liberation Army and China's core military strategies of active defense and anti-access/area denial. Chinese nuclear policy will play a pivotal role in the future of China as it struggles to reduce the military superiority of the United States …
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Force Requirements vs. Capabilities: United States Strategic Nuclear Policy in Transition, 1981-2001
United States' strategic nuclear policy has long been at the center of debate over military and foreign policy. The awesome power of strategic nuclear weapons (Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles, and long-range manned bombers) and the possibility of massive …
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Nuclear Belief Systems and Individual Policy-Makers: Duncan Sandys, Unmanned Weaponry, and the Impossibility of Defence
… experiences of the Second World War had on his policy preferences, and policy-making, in relation to British defence policy during his years in government. This is a significant period in British nuclear policy which began with thermonuclear weaponry being placed ostentatiously at the centre of …
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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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Enriquecimento de animosidades: o início da política nuclear brasileira.
… work aims to analyze the beginning of Brazilian nuclear policy through the decision-making processes that comprised the bilateral atomic agreements between Brazil and the United States, culminating in the decision for establishment of CPI Atomic Energy. We will also consider the impacts of this …
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The relevance of STS to peach research: the need for a third voice on nuclear strategy
… critical, normative study of the problems of the nuclear era. Peace research is an evolving discipline which attempts to form an integrated, critical analysis of problems posed by nuclear weapons. This thesis examines the response of peace research to the "scientization" of military strategy, i.e, …
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Soviet science under control: The struggle for influence
… Thus, I argue that science had an influence on policy-makers in the areas of nuclear policy and human rights although not to the same degree as the Party had on science. This dissertation also examines the relationship between the natural sciences and the political leadership in the post-Soviet …
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Политика Чернобыля в Беларуси в 1986-2008 годах: формирование и проявления дискурс-коалиций /
Despite the shutdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (1986) it still influences the social and political reality. Chernobyl appears in this research as the result of work of interpretation of the aftermaths of Chernobyl disaster by different actors: state bodies, political parties, NGO and …
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Ritual, Myth, And Symbol In The Field Of Nuclear Posturing
Since their inception, the actual use of nuclear weapons in conflict is extremely limited. There have been only two documented occurrences which were committed exclusively by the United States. By contrast, however, state posturing with nuclear weapons occurs with regularity transcending historical …
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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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‘Dancing among elephants’ : framing the rise of Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey (2000-2015) by applying analytic eclecticism to the concept of pivot state
… in BRICS and BASIC has shaped its foreign policy towards a closer relation to BRIC countries. Nevertheless, as demonstrated in this thesis, South Africa is trying to maintain its relations with other groupings / entities. Since the stagnation of the EU membership negotiation in 2009, Turkey …
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‘Dancing among elephants’ : framing the rise of Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey (2000-2015) by applying analytic eclecticism to the concept of pivot state
… in BRICS and BASIC has shaped its foreign policy towards a closer relation to BRIC countries. Nevertheless, as demonstrated in this thesis, South Africa is trying to maintain its relations with other groupings / entities. Since the stagnation of the EU membership negotiation in 2009, Turkey …
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Policy issue networks: Social network analysis case studies
… (SNA) can be a powerful, proactive tool for policy makers to understand the online policy networks in which they operate. It does so by undertaking SNA at two points in time to quantify the actor nodes of three Canadian public policy networks, comparing the network evolution over time, and …
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Gold Standard or Case-by-Case: Which Method Is Best for the Nonproliferation Regime?
With the Manhattan Project in the 1940s, U.S. nuclear technology created the first nuclear bombs, which promptly ended World War II. What to do with this new technology with regard to nuclear armaments never seemed hard to comprehend, as the world witnessed the advent of the nuclear arms race that …
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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 …
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Persia Rising: Iran's Nuclear Program
… knowledge, and capability to develop and build nuclear weapons. The purpose of this thesis is to examine Iran's nuclear program and potential U.S. policy responses to the threat of a nuclear Iran. An examination of Iran's history, strategic culture, religion, governmental structure and society …