Nuclear in UK Law
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A nuclear South Korea?
After North Korea’s third nuclear test in February 2013, South Koreans are once again debating whether to go nuclear. Some advocates of South Korean nuclear possession argue that nuclear weapons ar...
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A new “nuclear normalcy”?
This article focuses on a part of the “nuclear condition” that is often overlooked in philosophical discussions: that of materiality. Connecting the spheres of nuclear weapons (and associated secur...
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Nuclear energy.
...The leak of radioactive material from Japan's tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant has been a blow for the industry. Governments in countries such as Germany and Italy have come 0 under increased pressure to roll back their investment plans ......
- Nuclear Proliferation
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American Nuclear Hegemony in Korea
The author draws on Cox and Schurmanns' differing conceptions of hegemony to analyze the exercise of American nuclear power in the Pacific. American hegemony was nuclear because strategic weapons w...
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Does the Nuclear Arms Race Matter?
In The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn't Matter - and What Does, William A. Schwartz and Charles Derber present a provocative critique of the near universal assumption that the nuclear a...
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The Quirks of Nuclear Deterrence
From 1945 to 1949 the USA was the world’s only nuclear power. Although the nuclear arsenal was overestimated both in terms of size and readiness by the US military in its war plans, atom bombs came...
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Nuclear Pacifism as Collective Action
Nuclear pacifism as a social movement has received inadequate attention from North American sociolo gists. The author analyzes the growth and crisis phases of contemporary nuclear pacifism using th...
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Critique of Nuclear Extinction
The idea that global nuclear war could kill most or all of the world's population is critically examined and found to have little or no scientific basis. A number of possible reasons for beliefs ab...
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The Probability of Nuclear War
A theoretical analysis of the probability of nuclear war is developed that assumes a starting probability and an annual reduction factor. Whatever the starting probability is, a constant reduction ...
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