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Part of a broader investigation concerned with developing practical antineutrino detectors for use against nuclear submarines and rockets, communication by means of neutrino radiation, and a system for monitoring nuclear weapons.
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This paper, which appears in slightly different form and under the title Some things to Think and Some to Do in the April 1981 issue of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, is adapted and condensed from Mr. Katz's portion of a public debate on Disarmament and Security held in Santa Barbara, Calif., in April 1960. The author argues that there are several roads to, and several kinds of, disarmanent.
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A 1960 attempt to determine when China might obtain an independent atomic bomb capability. The discussion is based on the fact that the research reactor purchased by the People's Republic of China from the Soviet Union became operative in mid-1958 a...
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Part of a broader investigation on the objectives of the general and limited war forces of the United States and on the relationship of these objectives to force composition. This study examines one kind of conflict situation, that of limited war. Th...
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Another in a series of studies concerned with the general theory of air strategy in a nuclear age. The present study deals with some of the peculiar and historically novel requirements of a deterrence posture.
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The concluding chapter of a proposed book on Soviet atomic policy. Based on publicly available materials, this research memorandum describes the progress of the USSR atomic energy program: its organization and the nuclear research institutes ...
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An appraisal of the deterrence concept as a policy of the United States. Our deterrence to date has been weakened by the lack of a comprehensive, positive political strategy. Only by conducting a sustained political-ideological offensive against the weaknesses of the Communist system can the United States keep her foes off balance and prevent their constant encroachments in the free world.
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A continuation of RM-1711, The Soviet Union and the Atom: The Early Years. The present study discusses the virtual abandonment of Soviet atomic research during World War II and the renewal of this research in 1943.
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A discourse on such aspects of the nuclear revolution as its decisiveness, the effect of its development, and the employment of massive retaliation and graduated deterrence. The author concludes that we must follow a path of enlightened self-interest...
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A composite of two lectures, one presented before the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island, February 6, 1956, and the other before the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, February 20, 1956. This paper examines the problems aris...
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A discourse on the roles of strategy and tactics in a world that possesses both thermonuclear weapons and the experience of almost unlimited war. The author states that the defense problem is more likely to be solved by strategy and national policy t...
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An appraisal of the military importance of thermonuclear weapons. The author attempts to indicate the present or future transportability of thermonuclear weapons in existing types of aircraft, their energy yield or probable range of yields, and their...
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