Nuclear Weapons and Warfare

Public Health Preparedness for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Weapons — Dec 31, 2008

Presents a broad overview of the U.S. public health response system, recent efforts to improve preparedness, challenges faced, and options for moving forward.

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• Public Safety Research Area

Denying Armageddon: Preventing Terrorist Use of Nuclear Weapons — Dec 31, 2005

Outlines the broad contours of a national preventative strategy for reducing the likelihood of a nuclear terrorist attack on the United States.

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• National Security Research Area

Rethinking the role of nuclear weapons — Dec 31, 1997

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PGMs: Changing Weapon Priorities, New Risks, New Opportunities — Dec 31, 1975

Discusses questions raised by the new wide availability of precision guided munitions (PGMs). Nonnuclear PGMs make smaller states and NATO more defensible, thus short-run stability is increased. PGMs will play an important part in making or countering a threat to use limited nuclear force.

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Good Disarmament -And Bad — Dec 31, 1960

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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• International Affairs Research Area