Abstract For the last five decades, states parties to Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) have come together every 5 years at Review Conferences explore how they can advance Treaty’s goals, including pursuit of nuclear disarmament. Despite lengthy negotiations, failed reach a consensus final document as many times succeeded and even when has been agreed it contained few tangible gains for th...

Psychiatric consultants to city and county jails are confronted with the challenge of preventing jailhouse suicides, a problem of national scope. Suicide prevention programs in jails must emphasize screening and identification, psychological support, observation, disarmament, clarity and consistency, and diagnosis, treatment, and/or hospitalization. Exactly how these principles are formulated a...

The 10th Annual Conference on New and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, held in Urbana, Illinois, USA, April 19– 20, 2007, featured 6 speakers and >30 posters. This year the conference was sponsored by the Conservation Medicine Center of Chicago and by the following units of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: the Center for Zoonoses Research; the Department of Pathobiology; the Envi...

In their efforts to prevent suicides, psychiatrists who consult to jails face a terrible dilemma. Placing a suicidal inmate in a single cell to restrict access to harmful materials and instruments is a common practice. Yet, mental health authorities argue that isolating a suicidal inmate only fuels the flames of his self-destructive impulses. It behooves mental health professionals to advocate ...

Chemical weapons, like all military technology, are associated with activities of scientists and engineers. However, chemical weapons differ from any other military technology because they were invented, and their first mass use directly developed by famous chemists. The active contribution of engineers and scientists and their organisations in the negotiations on chemical disarmament, includin...

Over many years of professional and personal contact, my family and I got to know the Harsanyi family John, Anne, and Tom quite well. We met frequently at workshops and conferences notably the Jerusalem Game Theory workshop in 1965, where we first started to hear about games of incomplete information; the Berkeley conference in 1970, organized by John; the Bad Salzuflen conference in the early ...

Abstract First published in International Affairs 96: 5, September 2020, pp. 1387–1403