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From:Humanist in Canada (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBadrinath Rao is a writer and is finishing his doctoral program in Sociology at the University of Alberta. The eleven nuclear explosions that reverberated throughout South Asia last year signalled the dreaded...
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From:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol. 49, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedSome believe nuclear test bans will eliminate quality assurance of nuclear weapons. The existing weapons supply has already been tested, however, and does not need further testing. There are also non-nuclear quality...
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From:Science (Vol. 229) Peer-ReviewedParis. Whatever the domestic political fallout from the sinking last month of the Greenpeace organization's boat "Rainbow Warrior" in Auckland harbor, the affair has hardened attitudes on both sides to the continued...
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From:The Contemporary Pacific (Vol. 23, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEndeavors to preserve esoteric domains of cultural knowledge in Oceania face severe challenges. Paradoxically, revitalization projects risk recontextualizing specialized knowledge and this weakens its cultural...
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From:The Contemporary Pacific (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMy paper was originally written for a scholarly journal specializing in international relations (Revue d'Histoire Diplomatique). Most of the readers of that journal are Francophone (if not Francophile). My paper was...
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From:East Asia: An International Quarterly (Vol. 34, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAfter North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test in January 2016, China's response was stern enough for certain China analysts to posit that the Middle Kingdom's approach to its Cold War ally was changing. In...
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From:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol. 57, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAS THE FALLOUT FROM THE FLORIDA PRESIDENTIAL VOTE COUNT settles, you, Mr. President, should heed another tally: the number of nuclear test explosions worldwide. At the end of the twentieth century that total stands at...
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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. 139, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn October 2006, some 50 years after North Korea began its nuclear journey, it detonated a nuclear device and declared itself a nuclear power. A second explosion, in May 2009, erased lingering doubts about its ability...
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From:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol. 54, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedChalk one up for the comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Opponents of the pact have tried since August to paint a small earthquake near Russia's former test site at Novaya Zemlya as a secret nuclear explosion. The Russians,...
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From:Science (Vol. 230) Peer-ReviewedGAO Finds Errors in A-Bomb Test Data When an Army-Navy task force set off the first peacetime atomic blasts in the South Pacific in 1946, radiation safety was not the fastidious business it is today. According to a...
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From:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAdvocates of the Comprehensive Test Ban treaty covering nuclear weapons are supporting the Dept. of Energy's (DOE) request for funding to conduct non-nuclear tests on the weapons. The DOE sees its new role as being the...
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From:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol. 50, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBoley Caldwell was sent to the Pacific to participate in the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests in 1946. He and fellow crew members were given very little information about the testing, and little regard was taken...
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From:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedStatistics of known nuclear weapons tests by the five countries that acknowledge their participation are presented in a year-by-year chart. Analysis of the data, the types of tests and changes in the countries' policies...
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From:Nature (Vol. 491, Issue 7425) Peer-ReviewedDuring September 1961, immediately following the resumption of nuclear testing, when there was widespread public concern that the amount of iodine-131 in human thyroids might reach significant proportions, it was...
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From:Oceanus (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedKen Buesseler climbed the highest peak on Enewetak Atoll and peered out over the expanse of paradise below. Offshore lay an azure lagoon inked with a dark-blue circle at its center. But this hole wasn't natural. It was...
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From:Science (Vol. 298, Issue 5595) Peer-ReviewedMany atmospheric nuclear tests were conducted in the 1950s. These tests produced a wide spectrum of radiogenic pollutants, some of which, such as carbon-14, have had useful second lives as tracers for understanding...
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From:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol. 56, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFOUR BILLION DOLLARS DOESN'T LOOK like much from 3,000 feet: a building complex, hangars, houses, satellite dishes, and radar domes perched alongside an airfield and a golf range, surrounded on all sides by crashing...
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From:Nature (Vol. 484, Issue 7393) Peer-ReviewedNorth Korea has continued its plans to launch a long-range rocket in defiance of international pressure not to break a ban on missile testing. With a launch planned for between 12 and 16 April, the rocket (which North...