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Author | : Alexander Lanoszka |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2018-11-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1501729209 |
Do alliances curb efforts by states to develop nuclear weapons? Atomic Assurance looks at what makes alliances sufficiently credible to prevent nuclear proliferation; how alliances can break down and so encourage nuclear proliferation; and whether security guarantors like the United States can use alliance ties to end the nuclear efforts of their allies. Alexander Lanoszka finds that military alliances are less useful in preventing allies from acquiring nuclear weapons than conventional wisdom suggests. Through intensive case studies of West Germany, Japan, and South Korea, as well as a series of smaller cases on Great Britain, France, Norway, Australia, and Taiwan, Atomic Assurance shows that it is easier to prevent an ally from initiating a nuclear program than to stop an ally that has already started one; in-theater conventional forces are crucial in making American nuclear guarantees credible; the American coercion of allies who started, or were tempted to start, a nuclear weapons program has played less of a role in forestalling nuclear proliferation than analysts have assumed; and the economic or technological reliance of a security-dependent ally on the United States works better to reverse or to halt that ally's nuclear bid than anything else. Crossing diplomatic history, international relations, foreign policy, grand strategy, and nuclear strategy, Lanoszka's book reworks our understanding of the power and importance of alliances in stopping nuclear proliferation.
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Author | : International Atomic Energy Agency |
Publisher | : IAEA |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Medical |
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This publication contains information on the implementation of quality assurance and quality control programmes for measuring radioactivity relating to the practice of nuclear medicine, covering standards at both the end user (clinic) and secondary radioactivity standards laboratory levels. It is based on the QA principles in ISO/IEC 17025 which describes requirements that testing and calibration laboratories must meet to demonstrate that they have a quality system in place and are technically competent.
Author | : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy |
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Total Pages | : 884 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Nuclear fuels |
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Author | : James L. Nolan |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2020-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674248635 |
An unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas faced by physicians who took part in the Manhattan Project. After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather’s role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been a significant figure. A talented ob-gyn radiologist, he cared for the scientists on the project, organized safety and evacuation plans for the Trinity test at Alamogordo, escorted the “Little Boy” bomb from Los Alamos to the Pacific Islands, and was one of the first Americans to enter the irradiated ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Participation on the project challenged Dr. Nolan’s instincts as a healer. He and his medical colleagues were often conflicted, torn between their duty and desire to win the war and their oaths to protect life. Atomic Doctors follows these physicians as they sought to maximize the health and safety of those exposed to nuclear radiation, all the while serving leaders determined to minimize delays and maintain secrecy. Called upon both to guard against the harmful effects of radiation and to downplay its hazards, doctors struggled with the ethics of ending the deadliest of all wars using the most lethal of all weapons. Their work became a very human drama of ideals, co-optation, and complicity. A vital and vivid account of a largely unknown chapter in atomic history, Atomic Doctors is a profound meditation on the moral dilemmas that ordinary people face in extraordinary times.
Author | : A. G. Mojtabai |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1997-10-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780815605089 |
This text studies America and its habits of nuclear accommodation through the city of Amarillo, the home of Pantex - the final assembly plant for all nuclear weapons in the USA. It provides narratives from the people working at Pantex or living in Amarillo, which reveal their hopes and fears.
Author | : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy |
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Total Pages | : 803 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Liability for nuclear damages |
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Author | : Fred McGoldrick |
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Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Nuclear weapons industry |
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Author | : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission |
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Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Nuclear energy |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy |
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Total Pages | : 974 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Nuclear energy |
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