January 2025
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Science
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January 2025
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Science
June 2024
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Science
Recent promotion of new reactor technologies appears to disregard decades-old concerns about nuclear proliferation
March 2023
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The United States is in a developing military confrontation with China over Taiwan. China has built long-distance precision strike missiles to prevent US Navy task forces from participating effectively. The early Cold War confrontation between the Soviet Union and United States over West Berlin provides a relevant precedent. There is a significant probability a war between China and the United States could escalate to nuclear threats or even use. Recently, China has launched a major buildup of its nuclear forces. It is urgent that the two countries launch talks on nuclear arms control, both to prevent a nuclear arms race and to reassure each other that both want to avoid a nuclear conflict. Citizens should reengage with their governments to urge alternatives to a new nuclear arms race, and US scientists should brainstorm with their Chinese counterparts about nuclear risks and risk reduction.
October 2018
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The chapter analyses the issues of advanced weapons on earth and in space and their implications for arms control. Such technological developments are seen as extremely dangerous and capable of opening the way to very threatening security scenarios with high levels of instability and uncertainty. The technical and political dimensions of a possible arms control regime for space are thoroughly discussed and solid arguments are advanced that a ban on actual space weapons and on anti-satellite weapons is both essential and feasible.
April 2018
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Physics Today
With the end of the Cold War, most physicists turned their attention away from the nuclear threat. It is now time for us to reengage in the debate over how to reduce the dangers from nuclear weapons.
September 2017
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Physics Today
September 2016
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September 2014
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September 2014
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May 2014
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This paper partially reviews and updates the potential for monitoring and verification of nuclear weapons, including verification of their destruction. Cooperative monitoring with templates of the gamma-ray spectrum are an important tool, dependent on the use of information barriers.
... So it has more time to recognize and interception. And it is regarded as the key phase of missile defense [1]. Lately modeling of micro-motion target and characteristics analysis has brought comprehensive attention. ...
April 2000
... HALEU is still classified as low-enrichment fuel (as opposed to the highly enriched uranium used to make nuclear bombs), but that distinction is misleading, Lyman says. In June, he and his collaborators -including physicist Richard Garwin, who led the design of the first hydrogen bomb -warned in a Science article that a bomb could be built with a few hundred kilograms of HALEU, with no need for further enrichment 1 . ...
June 2024
Science
... Kroenig believes these benefits rationalize the United States' robust nuclear force posture that it has maintained for several decades. However, many analysts consider this posture excessive (Fetter et al., 2018) because adversaries would still be incapable of preempting massive retaliation by the United States at lower deployment levels, and dangerous because it increases the chances of triggering a nuclear war-or alternatively, the catastrophic consequences in the event of one-and may have adverse consequences for the proliferation of nuclear weapons and prevention of nuclear terrorism. ...
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Pushing Theory Beyond the Brink
April 2018
Physics Today
... Não se pode alegar que o trabalho de Noddack não chegou ao conhecimento dos cientistas interessados. Ao que tudo indica, quase todos os grupos importantes -o de Fermi, na (Hook, 2007;Seaborg, 2007;Alvarez, 1987). Algumas de suas críticas foram endereçadas em trabalhos posteriores de Fermi, como a exclusão do polônio como possível produto daquela reação (Fermi et al., 1934;Amaldi et al., 1935). ...
December 1987
Physics Today
... One widely discussed countermeasure is decoy warhead (Sessler et al. 2000). One incoming missile could carry and release one or a few real warheads plus many decoy warheads. ...
April 2000
... rakesh sharma became the first indian astronaut to fly to space with a soviet space module in 1984, marking another high point in science diplomacy. as part of its space diplomacy efforts with friendly countries, the soviet Union originally suggested to india in 1980 that it might launch an indian astronaut to the salyut 7 space station (Braunschvig et al., 2003). the plan was to use space power to extend russia's area of influence. in august 1981, india accepted the offer and collaborative plans were set up. on 3 april 1984, sharma was launched into space alongside two other soviet cosmonauts. ...
July 2003
Foreign Affairs
... Whereas the condition of mutual vulnerability associated with the possession of nuclear weapons can in theory-by creating a military stalemate-enhance deterrence (Waltz 1990;Jervis 1984),the fear that states might develop strike capabilities that threaten the survivability of others' strategic capabilities-and the concern that an adversary might do so in the future-helps explain why the proliferation of nuclear weapons has continued: as a hedge against technological breakthroughs. This dynamic has been apparent from the Cold War era to the present day (Bracken 1983;Gottfried and Blair 1988). ...
May 1987
Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
... Satellites of the U.S. Satellite Data System are also in such orbits to facilitate communication with forces in the Arctic. [9] Because the apogee of such orbits is high over the Northern Hemisphere, satellites can be within contact range of ground stations for up to 8 hours of a 12 hour orbital period. Semisynchronous orbits will be used for the new, highly accurate global nav-igation systems of the U.S. such as the Global Positioning System (GPS). ...
June 1984
Scientific American
... Therefore, Iran's missile and nuclear issue is one of the issues in this document [10] .The traditional concern about Iran's ability to carry nuclear weapons includes a ballistic missile that could reach the United States from Iran. [5] The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), failed to address Iran's missile developments and Iran's relations with militant groups. As a result, the UAE, despite its historical differences with Iran, has redoubled its efforts to engage with Iran through health diplomacy during the Covid-19 era. ...
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Unexpected prediction
May 2008
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Gravitational-wave experiment in Russia
September 1974
Physical Review Letters