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From:World Affairs (Vol. 173, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThere are many specters haunting our world, but one is of our own making--the utopian vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, the dream that has come to be called "global zero." The vision of the total elimination...
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From:Global Governance (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHE YEAR 2015 WILL BE A MEMORABLE YEAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE TREATY on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). It will be forty-five years since this unique treaty--with 189 states parties, the most widely...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 138, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedInterest in nuclear disarmament has grown rapidly in recent years. Starting with the 2007 Wall Street Journal article by four former U.S. statesmen--George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, William Perry, and Sam Nunn--and...
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From:Science (Vol. 263, Issue 5153) Peer-ReviewedThe threat of nuclear terrorism is increasing despite the end of the Cold War. One security problem is the risk of theft of the 40,000 nuclear warheads from dismantled Russian weapons. Another is the plutonium produced...
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From:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol. 49, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe CIS has the same number of strategic weapons at the end of 1992 as it had a year earlier. Under the terms of the START II Treaty, the CIS will destroy all SS-18 missile silos and all but 105 SS-19 silos. By 1994 the...
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From:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol. 50, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedExperimenting with the provisions of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at the conference on its extension would be a mistake. The treaty has successfully controlled proliferation since 1970, and it encourages...
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From:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAmerica's nuclear weapons engineers were very proud of the work that they did at national laboratories throughout the Cold War. Congressional budget cuts in the 1990s are ending the careers of many of these people and...
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From:Policy Studies Journal (Vol. 26, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWe undertake three key objectives in addressing the issue of plutonium disposition at the end of the Cold War. First, we estimate the total global inventory of plutonium both from weapons dismantlement and civil nuclear...
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From:Journal of International and Global Studies (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn 7 July 2017, the "Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty" (NWPT) to ban nuclear weapons in general was adopted in the United Nations General Assembly. The Japanese government, however, voted against the NWPT while...
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From:International Law Update (Vol. 23, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe following case involves an attempt by the Republic of the Marshall Islands ("the Marshall Islands"), a chain of volcanic islands and coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean with approximately 54,000 inhabitants, to force...
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From:Nature (Vol. 558, Issue 7708) Peer-ReviewedResearchers must improve ways to verify weapons declarations and collaborate on nuclear power, argues R. Scott Kemp. Researchers must improve ways to verify weapons declarations and collaborate on nuclear power, argues...
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From:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol. 53, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Russian strategic nuclear weapons arsenal has declined considerably in the 1990s. Russia's store of nuclear missiles includes 180 operational SS-18s, 369 operational SS-25s, and 112 SS-N-23 submarine-launched...
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From:Georgetown Journal of International Law (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn the same vein, countries cannot reasonably contemplate abolition of their nuclear weapons without pondering the roles, missions, and capabilities of their non-nuclear forces. For the United States--surrounded by...
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From:World Policy Journal (Vol. 23, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn the debate over how to stop nuclear proliferation, both sides make increasingly untenable assumptions. The advocates of "regime change" in North Korea and Iran underestimate the staying power of the political systems...
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From:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol. 56, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHE NUCLEAR POWERS PREACH NONPROLIFERATION but practice nuclear deterrence. This is a reality of life in the Nuclear Age. Not a single country that had nuclear weapons when the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was...
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From:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol. 56, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIF YOU THOUGHT THE SENATE'S rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) was an historic tragedy, wait. It could get a lot worse. The battle over the test ban is part of a larger war over the future of the...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 138, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe first 40 years of the nuclear age, dominated by the Cold War, witnessed the staggering buildup of nuclear weapons in U.S. and Russian arsenals. In 1987 the arsenals reached a combined total of about 70,000. U.S....
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From:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol. 54, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe United States needs a new approach to controlling the spread of nuclear weapons. Something I call "strategic escrow" could be a start. During the Cold War, the United States worried about the Soviet Union's...
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From:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol. 49, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThe UK has significantly reduced its nuclear arms supply since the end of the Cold War. It has 200 nuclear missiles, compared to 350 in the mid-1970s. The Navy will not carry nuclear weapons on ships and will destroy...
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From:International Security (Vol. 19, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA cutoff in the production of fissile material holds the best chances for nuclear non-proliferation, formal dismantling of nuclear stockpiles of both Russia and the US, control existing nuclear weapon supplies of China,...