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Nuclear Weapons Law : Where Are We Now?
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ISBN: 9781316511428 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 

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This book examines the law relating to the possession, threat or use of nuclear weapons. By addressing in logical sequence the law regarding sovereignty, the threat or use of force, the conduct of nuclear hostilities, neutrality, weapons law and war crimes, the book illustrates the topics that an effective national command, control and communications system for nuclear weapons must address. Guidance is given on intractable issues, such as the responsibilities of remote submarine commanders. The continuing relevance of the ICJ's Nuclear Advisory Opinion is assessed, and the prospects for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons are discussed. The book has been written in an accessible style so that it will be equally useful to lawyers and practitioners, including relevant commanders, politicians, policy staffs and academics. The objective is to state the law accurately and to explain its implications and provide practical guidance in this most sensitive area.


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Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb : Ambitions, Politics, and Rivalries.
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ISBN: 1647122325 1647122309 1647122317 9781647122324 9781647122300 9781647122317 Year: 2022 Publisher: Washington : Georgetown University Press,

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"Mansoor Ahmed's Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb reveals a new history of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program and the bureaucratic competition that shaped it from its inception in 1956 until the 1998 nuclear tests and beyond. While the enduring security dilemma from India was the chief driver for the country's quest for the bomb, heated domestic rivalries within the country's technocratic community influenced the direction and growth of the nuclear program in equal measure. Ahmed offers a revisionist assessment of the role of Dr. A. Q. Khan, the giant of Pakistan's nuclear program. He reveals the competition between Khan Research Laboratories and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, how A. Q. Khan was able to build a cult of personality that inflated his role in the public mind, and how Khan was able to build a fiefdom largely outside of state control that proliferated nuclear technology abroad. Drawing on elite interviews and previously untapped primary-source documents, this book sheds light on the process by which Pakistan became a nuclear power"--


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Nuclear weapons
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ISBN: 9780262543316 0262543311 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press

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"A basic understanding of the science and history of nuclear weapons, including attempts to control, limit, and use them, and the prospects for eliminating them completely"--


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Des bombes en Polynésie : les essais nucléaires français dans le Pacifique
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ISBN: 9782363583819 Year: 2022 Publisher: Paris : Vendémiaire,

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"Sous la présidence du général de Gaulle, la France se dote de la force de dissuasion convoitée depuis le début de la Ve République : des bombes bien plus puissantes que celle déployée à Hiroshima. A quel prix ? Les 193 essais nucléaires réalisés de 1966 à 1996 en Polynésie dans les atolls de Fangataufa et Moruroa ont bouleversé l'existence de l'ensemble des Polynésiens, contaminant certains par les retombées toxiques, dégradant des écosystèmes fragiles dans lesquels des déchets radioactifs ont été hâtivement jetés à la mer. Au long de cette gigantesque entreprise qui a mobilisé une centaine de milliers d'hommes et des milliards de francs, le mode de vie des habitants s'est trouvé transformé, des Marquises à Bora-Bora. Depuis les hésitations des décideurs politiques métropolitains sur le choix du lieu - on a envisagé la Corse ou le Massif central pour les tirs souterrains, la Réunion et la Nouvelle-Calédonie pour les essais aériens - jusqu'aux conséquences sanitaires, environnementales et socio-économiques, en passant par le récit des oppositions, des contestations mais aussi des cohabitations et des rencontres, cet ouvrage, fruit de la collaboration de 15 chercheurs, historiens, géographes et anthropologues, lève le voile sur une période de l'histoire polynésienne et de l'histoire post-coloniale française trop longtemps demeurée sous le signe du secret."


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Near-peer advancements in space and nuclear weapons : hearing before the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventeenth Congress, first session, hearing held February 23, 2021.
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Washington : U.S. Government Publishing Office,

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Near-peer advancements in space and nuclear weapons : hearing before the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventeenth Congress, first session, hearing held February 23, 2021.
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Seeking the Bomb : Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation 
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ISBN: 9780691172613 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Much of the work on nuclear proliferation has focused on why states pursue nuclear weapons. The question of how states pursue nuclear weapons has received little attention. This is the first book to analyze this topic by examining which strategies of nuclear proliferation are available to aspirants, why aspirants select one strategy over another, and how this matters to international politics. Looking at a wide range of nations, from India and Japan to the Soviet Union and North Korea to Iraq and Iran, the author develops an original typology of proliferation strategies - hedging, sprinting, sheltered pursuit, and hiding. Each strategy of proliferation provides different opportunities for the development of nuclear weapons, while at the same time presenting distinct vulnerabilities that can be exploited to prevent states from doing so. The author delves into the crucial implications these strategies have for nuclear proliferation and international security. Hiders, for example, are especially disruptive since either they successfully attain nuclear weapons, irrevocably altering the global power structure, or they are discovered, potentially triggering serious crises or war, as external powers try to halt or reverse a previously clandestine nuclear weapons program. As the international community confronts the next generation of potential nuclear proliferators, this book explores how global conflict and stability are shaped by the ruthlessly pragmatic ways states choose strategies of proliferation.


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L'île au bonheur : hommes, atomes et cécité volontaire
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ISBN: 2746525569 9782746525566 Year: 2022 Publisher: Paris: Le Pommier,

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Le Bronx, 1945. Par une moite après-midi d'août, un gamin dont la famille a fui le nazisme écoute la radio. Surgit la voix du président Truman : une seule bombe, « atomique », a rasé Hiroshima. « Le plus grand succès de la science organisée de toute l'histoire. » De cet événement, le petit garçon retiendra notamment la photo d'une absence?: un homme retiré de son ombre par la déflagration. Adulte, le gamin deviendra physicien : ancien directeur de laboratoire au CNRS, Harry Bernas est aujourd'hui un scientifique reconnu dans le domaine des nanosciences, et son histoire n'a cessé de croiser celle de la science nucléaire. Jusqu'à Fukushima. Fruit d'un programme nucléaire ayant occulté les risques d'un tsunami pourtant documentés, le drame de 2011 a agi comme un révélateur de la cécité volontaire des hommes sur les conséquences de leurs choix techniques et sociaux. Dans ce captivant récit qui entremêle souvenirs personnels et réflexions scientifiques, Harry Bernas tente de comprendre d'où vient cet aveuglement délibéré. Lucidement, mais sans aucun fatalisme, il met au jour comment, du projet Manhattan aux réacteurs GEN-IV en passant par la politique « Atomes pour la paix » d'Eisenhower, on en est venu à modifier insensiblement la finalité même de la science, dont l'objet ne consiste plus à connaître le monde, mais à la rendre perméable au pouvoir. Ou comment Newton et Einstein ont été supplantés par Jeff Bezos et Elon Musk. Nous pensions vivre paisiblement sur l'île au Bonheur. En japonais, « île au Bonheur » se dit Fukushima...


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Nuclear weapons law : where are we now?
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ISBN: 1009052632 1316511421 1009059831 1009059637 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book examines the law relating to the possession, threat or use of nuclear weapons. By addressing in logical sequence the law regarding sovereignty, the threat or use of force, the conduct of nuclear hostilities, neutrality, weapons law and war crimes, the book illustrates the topics that an effective national command, control and communications system for nuclear weapons must address. Guidance is given on intractable issues, such as the responsibilities of remote submarine commanders. The continuing relevance of the ICJ's Nuclear Advisory Opinion is assessed, and the prospects for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons are discussed. The book has been written in an accessible style so that it will be equally useful to lawyers and practitioners, including relevant commanders, politicians, policy staffs and academics. The objective is to state the law accurately and to explain its implications and provide practical guidance in this most sensitive area.


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Atomic Steppe : How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb
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ISBN: 1503629937 1503628469 1503632431 Year: 2022 Publisher: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press,

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Atomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the marginalized Central Asian republic suddenly found itself with the world's fourth largest nuclear arsenal on its territory. Would it give up these fire-ready weapons—or try to become a Central Asian North Korea? This book takes us inside Kazakhstan's extraordinary and little-known nuclear history from the Soviet period to the present. For Soviet officials, Kazakhstan's steppe was not an ecological marvel or beloved homeland, but an empty patch of dirt ideal for nuclear testing. Two-headed lambs were just the beginning of the resulting public health disaster for Kazakhstan—compounded, when the Soviet Union collapsed, by the daunting burden of becoming an overnight nuclear power. Equipped with intimate personal perspective and untapped archival resources, Togzhan Kassenova introduces us to the engineers turned diplomats, villagers turned activists, and scientists turned pacifists who worked toward disarmament. With thousands of nuclear weapons still present around the world, the story of how Kazakhs gave up their nuclear inheritance holds urgent lessons for global security.

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