Gulf War Illness (GWI) is a chronic multi-symptom illness not currently diagnosed by standard medical or laboratory test that affects 30% of veterans who served during the 1990-1991 Gulf War. The clinical presentation of GWI is comparable to that of patients with certain mitochondrial disorders-i.e., clinically heterogeneous multisystem symptoms. Therefore, we hypothesized that mitochondrial dy...

Today the applications of nuclear physics span a very broad range of topics and fields. This review discusses a number of aspects of these applications, including selected topics and concepts in nuclear reactor physics, nuclear fusion, nuclear non-proliferation, nuclear-geophysics, and nuclear medicine. The review begins with a historic summary of the early years in applied nuclear physics, wit...

A nuclear leakage or tactical weapon use in a limited war could cause immense and long-lasting ecological consequences beyond the direct site of exposure. We call upon all scientists to communicate importance environmental impacts such an event life forms on Earth, including humankind. Changes ecosystem structure functioning species extinctions would alter biosphere for unknown time frame. Radi...

This paper focuses on the conditions under which United States might use nuclear weapons during a war Korean Peninsula. It identifies several circumstances that trigger such decision, purposes of US strike, and plausible targets. Attention is focused roles continue to play in military operations foreign policy strategy despite steps reduce their salience since end Cold War. I argue would only c...

Prior to taking an academic position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the rank of full professor I was the Assistant for Weapons Technology in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. In that job, it was my duty to identify technical issues that have policy implications in both Navy and National nuclear weapons programs. Because I supported the Chief in his role as a member o...

Against the background of increased tensions between West and Russia, this article assesses prospects for continued peace in Europe. The end East-West conflict upended Cold War rules game Europe’s east, creating an enduring source conflict. Balanced against this, however, are a range factors which act as powerful bulwarks war: European balance power best characterised modified bipolarity, pacif...

The energy needs of our society are becoming a challenge. One energy source, nuclear power, is entirely dependent on uranium. Increasingly, physicians are opposing the mining of uranium. In the 1980s, family physician Dr Robert Woollard led a task force that resulted in a provincial moratorium on uranium mining in British Columbia.1 In autumn 2009 in Sept-Îles, Que, more than 20 physicians thre...

An active public strongly opposed to the nuclear arms race may offer the best hope to prevent weapons escalation and thereby decrease the risk of nuclear war. In spite of Marxist interpretations to the contrary, this paper argues that the peace movement is necessary and potentially powerful in creating social change. Some possible applications of behavioral psychology to the peace movement are ...

The Japanese plutonium program continues to dwell on the minds of nuclear nonproliferation watchers. Japan remains the only non-nuclear weapon state that is operating uranium enrichment and reprocessing plants, all of which are technically capable of producing fissile materials for nuclear weapons. The magnitude of these projects exceeds those of other nations that have either abandoned or post...

This report is a preprint of a manuscript that has been submitted for possible journal publication. It should not be quoted or referenced without contacting the author to ensure it remains current. The author may be contacted at penelson@ne. The possibility of adapting risk analysis to events deemed to have infinite consequences is illustrated in the context of a simple dynamic two-event model....