Abolishing the threat of nuclear war requires the outlawing of nuclear weapons and dismantling current nuclear weapon stockpiles, but also depends on eliminating access to fissile material (nuclear weapon fuel). The near-universal use of weapons-grade, highly enriched uranium (HEU) to produce radiopharmaceuticals is a significant proliferation hazard. Health professionals have a strategic oppor...

This paper addresses the role of US expert community in shaping nuclear risk reduction policy during Cold War. The authors examines two ways interaction between experts and authorities: direct (through participation various specialized committees commissions, preparing analytical reports, so on) through communication with civil society (publication studies, forming public opinion on weapons. pa...

The existence of thermonuclear arsenals capable of destroying much of humanity takes its origins from, and has an influence on, processes that are largely psychological. The threat to use a single nuclear bomb to resolve contemporary conflict is an anathema in part because complex nation-states did not evolve with surviving a nuclear war in mind. The atomic arms race has proceeded apace because...

to an apogee of mass murder, with widespread killing of military personnel and civilians; the indiscriminate aerial bombing of cities such as London, Dresden, and Tokyo; and the detonation of single bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These nuclear bombs caused some 200,000 deaths immediately and hundreds of thousands of injuries, many resulting in death in succeeding months and in permanent phy...

This remarkable collection of essays by twenty authors provided a history of military strategy from Machiavelli to the present age. Published in the middle of World War II, the volume analyzed and described the ideas of the major military thinkers and strategists, ranging from engineers such as Vauban to soldiers such as Frederick the Great; from the statesmen Alexander Hamilton, Lloyd George, ...

We give a detailed account of the recent retrieval of a consistent amount (about 600 pages) of documents written by Enrico Fermi and/or his collaborators, coming from different sources previously unexplored. These documents include articles, patents, reports, notes on scientific and technical meetings and other papers, mainly testifying Fermi’s activity in the 1940s about nuclear pile physics a...