Objectives The objective is to answer three research, policy, and strategy questions: 1. Is will be the NATO US of nuclear deterrence effective against Russia? 2. Can as supreme guarantee security have a lasting public acceptance in member states? 3. it necessary complement with another, also strong but different, security? Methods Qualitative methodology used. Offical documents scientific publ...

OBJECTIVE To report the prevalence of weapons involved in the victimization of youth with particular emphasis on weapons with a "high lethality risk" and how such exposure fits into the broader victimization and life experiences of children and adolescents. METHODS Data were collected as part of the Second National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence, a nationally representative telepho...

The Nuclear Notebook is researched and written by Hans M. Kristensen, director of the Information Project with Federation American Scientists, Matt Korda, a senior research associate project. column has been published in Bulletin Atomic Scientists since 1987. This issue’s examines Israel’s nuclear arsenal, which we estimate includes stockpile roughly 90 warheads. Israel neither officially confi...

T.V. Paul is Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He is the author of Asymmetric Conflicts: War Initiation by Weaker Powers (Cambridge University Press, 1994), and co-editor and contributor to the volumes The Absolute Weapon Revisited: Nuclear Arms and the Emerging International Order (The University of Michigan Press, 1998) and International Order an...

one of the important issues in the middle east country is trying to establish or revive nuclear program over the past few years. this subject can have peaceful or military dimension & components of power and security can be affected. the regional country insisted on its being non-nuclear by 2006. but from this time, gradually altered the traditional approach of these countries on the nuclear is...

INTRODUCTION TYPES OF NUCLEAR AND RADIOLOGICAL EXPLOSIVE WEAPONS MEDICAL EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR WEAPON DETONATION URBAN CASUALTY AND DESTRUCTION PATTERNS AFTER THE LOW-ALTITUDE NUCLEAR DETONATION AT HIROSHIMA CURRENT PROJECTIONS OF URBAN CASUALTY, DESTRUCTION, AND FALLOUT PATTERNS AFTER A GROUND-LEVEL NUCLEAR DETONATION PERSONAL PROTECTION AND LONG-TERM HEALTH RISKS FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE PERSONNEL...

© 2008 American Institute of Physics, S-0031-9228-0809-020-0 The most difficult step in building a nuclear weapon is the production of fissile material. One can either make plutonium-239 in a nuclear reactor or enrich uranium to increase the abundance of its fissile isotope uranium-235. Historically, enrichment has been the more obscure of the two routes, but the recent spread of one technology...

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