Author: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 116
Book Description
"This book describes several weapons of mass destruction and examines the extent and duration of environmental damage to be expected from them"--Jacket.
Author: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 272
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"Among the crucial problems that confront mankind today are those associated with a degraded environment. This book examines the extent to which warfare and other military activities contribute to such degradation. The military capability to damage the environment and to cause ecological disruption has escalated, and there is no sign that the level of conflict in the world is decreasing. The military use and abuse of each of the several major global habitats -- temperate, tropical, desert, arctic, insular, and oceanic -- are evalusated separately in the light of the civil use and abuse of that habitat"--Dust jacket.
Author: Sipri Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000371409 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 110
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The effects of weapons of mass destruction cannot be contained, either spatially or temporally, are unpredictable, discriminate poorly between combatants and civilians, and are highly disruptive of ecosystems. This book, first published in 1977, examines several WMD and analyses the extent and duration of environmental damage to be expected from them. Chapters are devoted to the ecological impacts of nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapons, and geophysical and environmental weapons.
Author: Vitaly Fedchenko Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198736649 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 310
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Nuclear material changes its form and properties as it moves through the nuclear fuel cycle, from one facility to another. Each step of the fuel cycle or each use of the material will inevitably leave its mark. The science of determining the history of a sample of nuclear material through the study of these characteristics is known as nuclear forensics. While nuclear forensic analysis has normally been associated with investigations and prosecutions in the contextof trafficking of nuclear materials or nuclear terrorism, it had wider applications in in national security contexts, such as nuclear non-proliferation, disarmament, and arms control. The New Nuclear Forensics is the first book to give a definitive guide to this broader definition of nuclear forensic analysis. This book describes the various methods used in nuclear forensics, giving first a broad introduction to the process followed by details of relevant measurement techniques and procedures. In each case, the advantages and limitations are outlined. To put these methods in context, the book also recounts the history of the discipline anddescribes the diverse contemporary applications of nuclear forensics.
Author: Associate Professor of Environmental Change the Department of Thematic Studies Eva Lövbrand Publisher: SIPRI Research Reports ISBN: 9780198787303 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 160
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This volume asks what security means in the Anthropocene era and what political innovations are needed to chart a more sustainable path for global development in the decades to come.
Author: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Publisher: Sipri Monograph ISBN: 9780198291435 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 332
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This book examines the question: Is the elimination of nuclear weapons feasible? Individual chapters address the major conceptual, technical, and economic issues in the design of a non-nuclear security regime. Other chapters explore more specialized issues as they relate to the feasibility of the elimination of nuclear weapons: elite perceptions and the decision-making process, verification, nuclear proliferation, fissile materials and warheads, alliance and regional hegemonies, and deterrence.
Author: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000199568 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 154
Book Description
The debate on no-first-use of nuclear weapons has been conducted on a number of fronts. First use of nuclear weapons has come under challenge from many different directions: from church synods, from international lawyers, in debates at the United Nations, and from strategic thinkers. Originally published in 1984, this book takes stock for and against no-first-use and examines the political, military and arms control implications of such a commitment.
Author: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Author: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Author: SIPRI
Author: Sipri
Author: Vitaly Fedchenko
Author: Associate Professor of Environmental Change the Department of Thematic Studies Eva Lövbrand
Author: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Author: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Author: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Author: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute