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Nuclear Weapons

Known as: Nuclear Weapon, Weapon, Nuclear, Weapons, Nuclear 
A weapon that derives its destructive force from nuclear fission and/or fusion.
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2013
2013
Atoms for Terror? Nuclear Programs and Non-Catastrophic Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism
Bryan R. Early, Matthew Fuhrmann and Quan Li British Journal of Political Science / FirstView Article / March 2013, pp 1 ­ 22 DOI… 
2013
2013
Pakistan's Tactical Nuclear Nightmare: Déjà Vu?
In October last year, the world marked the fiftieth anniversary of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. But for policymakers in South… 
2006
2006
Spatial 137 Cs distribution in forest soil
This work presents the distribution of radioactive caesium in several types of forest soil originating from the Lesisko reserve… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
Nuclear Inertia: Us Nuclear Weapons Policy After the Cold War
The first book to study post-Cold War U.S. nuclear weapons policy. It is based on extensive original research with dozens of the… 
2003
2003
The Korean Nuclear Crisis
  • Gary Samore
  • 2003
  • Corpus ID: 153523538
As the world focuses on Iraq, North Korea is seeking to expand its nuclear arsenal as quickly as possible. By summer 2003… 
1996
1996
Confronting the nuclear legacy--Part III. Can nuclear waste be stored safely at Yucca Mountain?
In 1987 the federal government narrowed to one its long-term options for disposing of nuclear waste: storing it permanently in a… 
1985
1985
Mortality among workers at the Pantex weapons facility.
We compared total and cause-specific mortality for workers at the Pantex nuclear weapons assembly facility employed between 1951… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
The Effects of Nuclear War
measures of strategic power into more comprehensible terms. ” The study examines the full range of effects that nuclear war would… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Further studies of plutonium and americium at Thule, Greenland.
Eleven years after the accidental loss of nuclear weapons in 1968, the fourth scientific expedition to Thule occurred. The… 
1978
1978
Multinational Corporations and the Emerging World Order