Nuclear Weapons
A nuclear weapon (also called an atom bomb, nuke, atomic bomb, nuclear warhead, A-bomb, or nuclear bomb) is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb). Both bomb types release large quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter. The first test of a fission ("atomic") bomb released an amount of energy approximately equal to 20,000 tons of TNT (84 TJ). The first thermonuclear ("hydrogen") bomb test released energy approximately equal to 10 million tons of TNT (42 PJ). Nuclear bombs …
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PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 18 April 2024
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were limited to the military field, notably nuclear weapons and Space. The USSR succumbed to a large extent …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 April 2024 English
economist. Yet as classical military theory struggled to come to terms with the implications of nuclear weapons, Thomas Sche …
to come to terms with the implications of nuclear weapons, Thomas Schelling found innovative and stimulating …
CAPS: Centre for Air Power Studies · 15 April 2024 English
Starmer has said his commitment to the is widely revered in the party as the father of the UK’s nuclear weapons is “unshakeable” and NHS and much of the rest of the welfare state. [...] His foreign “changed” …
and certify novel designs. Even systems from nuclear weapons and US President more disappointing has been … management, reprocessing and disposal AI in nuclear weapons systems. This is concerning – if the real potential … Science: When people Nuclear Weapons Systems? think of AI in the context of nuclear weapons, they may imagine … and launches a pivotal year for automated nuclear weapons massive global nuclear strike. Perhaps they … AI-based targeting will systems capable of make nuclear weapons independent thought would The kind of artificial …
SGR: Scientists for Global Responsibility · 11 April 2024 English
The enormous explosion arises as a small amount of matter is converted into energy as defined by the famous equation e = m x c2 where e is the energy …
Nuclear weapons: a beginner’s guide to the threats Dr Philip Webber, SGR, summarises the key scientific … technological information on the current threat from nuclear weapons. Latest update: 20 July 2023 Full references … can be found at: www.sgr.org.uk/resources/nuclear-weapons-beginner-s-guide-threats ______________ Contents … 2 2. Nuclear weapons: the basic science ………………………………………………………… 3 3. How many nuclear weapons are there … Introduction Governments across the world agree that nuclear weapons pose a very severe risk. In January 2022, the …
RAND Corporation · 10 April 2024 English
RAND's research and analysis address issues that affect families and communities around the world — such issues as health, education, national security, and public safety. RAND's 2023 Annual Report describes …
barrier to developing chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons. Such models could be disastrous if accessed … States respond if Russia started to mobilize nuclear weapons to use against Ukraine? Researchers turned …
RAND Corporation · 10 April 2024 English
Rivalries, especially with China, promise to define U.S. foreign policy and national security challenges for decades. The authors identify historical modes of strategic success and failure in great power rivalries …
proposition. All great powers today possess nuclear weapons or have an alliance with a nuclear-armed state …
CAPS: Centre for Air Power Studies · 10 April 2024 English
The concept of CMF comes from China, where the terminology was used to describe comprehensive civil-military coordination to reinforce China’s ambitions of becoming an economic, technological, and military superpower.2 The …
leadership alone can authorise the use of nuclear weapons.6 The knowledge gap also exists on the military …
RAND Corporation · 9 April 2024 English
The report examines how U.S. military veterans describe their endorsement of extremist groups and beliefs, their experiences in the military and transition to veteran status, and their path to their …
all of the stupid things—like we guard our nuclear weapons with Master Locks and I became very mistrustful …
BASIC: British American Security Council · 8 April 2024 English
The key argument of the report is that, in the India- Pakistan nuclear dyad, there is mutual confidence that the other can be relied upon to show restraint in times …
and crisis management, as well as exploring nuclear weapons from humanitarian and gender perspectives. … occur, ensure that the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons. Such decision-makers have available a menu … solemnly that we will not be the first to use nuclear weapons, but rather it is from those who refuse to … escalation”9 – all too easily leading to the use of nuclear weapons. The key argument of this report is that the … rationality. It depends on fear. To create fear, nuclear weapons are the best possible means.”12 There were …
CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 8 April 2024 English
The current focus is on the strategic Russia and China, as well as the implications importance of satellite ground stations in the of the involvement of the North Atlantic Treaty …
nature and ability to be simultaneously on nuclear weapons but does not provide clear commissioned for …