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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… 
2011
2011
MICROORGANISMS AND PROCESSES LINKED TO URANIUM REDUCTION AND IMMOBILIZATION
This chapter focuses on the microorganisms and electron transfer processes that are likely to impact the reductive immobilization… 
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… 
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… 
1993
1993
How Nuclear Weapons Spread: Nuclear-Weapon Proliferation in the 1990s
1. The Link Between Peaceful and Military Nuclear Programmes 2. Nuclear Power in Electrical Energy Supply 3. The Plutonium… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Borovoye Geophysical Observatory, Kazakhstan
This is a story of surprises—of a geophysical observatory and a community of scientists who until about a year ago were unknown… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Soviet children and the threat of nuclear war: a preliminary study.
This study, the first undertaken by Western researchers with Soviet children on the subject of nuclear weapons, compared the… 
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
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Radiation exposures in Utah from Nevada Nuclear Tests.
The exposure of the population of Utah to external gamma-radiation from the fallout from nuclear weapons tests carried out… 
Review
1957
Review
1957
Thyroid radioactivity after nuclear weapons tests.
In 1954 it was shown that nuclear weapons tests had produced radioactive materials (primarily iodine-131) that were accumulated… 
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