Indian nuclear tests prompt worldwide concern

Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War

Is Balamuthia mandrillaris a public health concern worldwide?

Balamuthia mandrillaris is an opportunistic, free-living amoeba that can cause skin lesions and the typically fatal Balamuthia amoebic encephalitis (BAE) both in immunocompromised and immunocompetent individuals. Available data for BAE cases indicate that this disease is difficult to detect because knowledge of predisposing factors is lacking, causing a challenge for diagnosing BAE. The number ...

Prompt photon production in nuclear collisions

The production of “hard” probes proves extremely successful to characterize the dense QCD medium – mostly its gluon density – formed in high energy heavy-ion collisions. By hard, we mean those processes with associated scales Q much larger than the typical scales of the medium (let it be the temperature of the saturation scale, Q ≫ T,Qs). Provided these scales are well separated, it is sensible...

Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War - - - Some Perspectives

An Impossible Game: Stable Nuclear Deterrence after the Indian and Pakistani Tests

Mario E. Carranza is Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A & M University-Kingsville. He has published articles in Asian Survey, The Journal of Peace Research, Latin American Perspectives, and International Politics, as well as a book (in Spanish) on the armed forces in Latin America. He has been a MacArthur postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [Editor’s Not...