Us Nuclear Weapons in Turkey: Yankee Go Home?

Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Reactors

This report addresses the tenuous link between nuclear power reactor development and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, particularly with respect to possible terrorist exploitation. Arguments are presented that contradict the popular image of nuclear weaponry as a "basement project". 4 CONTENTS

Effects of nuclear weapons

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August, 1945. The energy yields were equivalent to 12 500 tonnes and 20 000 tonnes of high explosive. Yields from thermonuclear weapons (H-bombs) range up to several megatons (Mt). Between 1945 and the signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996, over 2000 nuclear tests were carried out by the USA, USSR, Britain, France and China, plus one by India. Mo...

Mind the Gap healing the NATO rift over US tactical nuclear weapons in Europe

Introduction NATO has 28 members and aspires to welcome new ones, by its own standards a measure of extraordinary success in the two decades since the collapse of the Soviet empire; on the surface it is as strong as it ever has been. Yet the Alliance remains haunted by the ghosts of the past, as the members from “new Europe” bring with them their experience of the Soviet boot and their fears fo...

The Effects of Nuclear Weapons

A Prohibition on Nuclear Weapons