The enormous destructive power of present stocks of nuclear weapons poses the greatest threat to public health in human history. Technical changes in weapons design are leading to an increased emphasis on the ability to fight a nuclear war, eroding the concept of deterrence based on mutually assured destruction and increasing the risk of nuclear war. Medical planning and civil defence preparati...

The name "Wampanoag" means "Eastern People" or "People of the First Light" in the local dialect of the Algonquian language. Once extensively populating the coastal lands and neighboring islands of the eastern United States, the Wampanoag people now consist of two federally recognized tribes, the Aquinnah and Mashpee, the state-recognized Seaconke Wampanoag tribe, and a number of bands and clans...

This research project was designed to investigate cultural and cognitive issues related to the work of nuclear power plant operators during their time on the job in the control room and during simulator training (emergency situations), in order to show how these issues impact on plant safety. The modeling of the operators work deals with the use of operational procedures, the constant changes i...

Increasingly, renewable energy comprises a larger share of global energy production. Across the western United States, public lands are being developed to support renewable energy production. Where there are conflicts with threatened or endangered species, translocation can be used in an attempt to mitigate negative effects. For the threatened Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii), we sou...

The Sleeping Beauty problem has spawned a long debate between Thirders and Halfers which centers on their conflicting answers to the question “What is Sleeping Beauty’s credence in the event that the coin lands Heads?” In this paper, we show that the conflicting answers that Thirders and Halfers provide are the results of conflicting assumptions that each group makes. We lay out those assumptio...

This paper motivates and sketches a set of nuclear-use cases involving conflict on the Korean peninsula. The reflect wide range ways that nuclear weapons might be brandished or used in crisis. We identify possible by using two different lenses: “logical” taxonomic lens decisionmaking asks how an actual national leader decide to use first. then select from space possibilities usefully. consider ...

one of the ways to be informed on the extent of activities in various industries is to measure the rate of nominal protection. this paper tries to calculate the nominal and effective protection in order to examine the exchange rate unification impacts on the protection of pulp and paper industries with the aim of performing the exchange rate unification policy. therefore, nominal protection rat...

Much of the conflict between intelligence community (IC) and political leaders in wake 2007 NIE on Iranian nuclear program could have been avoided by closer contacts two groups before was complete. Such contact inhibited bitter disputes that followed invasion Iraq, itself led to a further deterioration relations IC policy-makers.