Nuclear Shadowboxing: Contemporary Threats from Cold War Weaponry; Volume 1: Cold War Redux, Volume 1DeVolpi, Inc., 2004 - 500 pages |
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... target area. What about the large inventories of fissile materials that were used, or could be used, to make weapons: Can these inventories be destroyed or safely managed? We contend that most of the inventories should be preserved for ...
... target area. What about the large inventories of fissile materials that were used, or could be used, to make weapons: Can these inventories be destroyed or safely managed? We contend that most of the inventories should be preserved for ...
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... targets ? Are there still 26,000 credible targets for the residual post - millennium arsenals , now that the icy conflict is over ? Half the weapons removed from deployment are still not dismantled , and the nuclear source material ...
... targets ? Are there still 26,000 credible targets for the residual post - millennium arsenals , now that the icy conflict is over ? Half the weapons removed from deployment are still not dismantled , and the nuclear source material ...
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... targets. New participants, notably India and Pakistan, are entering the long-range ballistic-missile arena, and other nations are standing by. Nuclear and other indiscriminate weapons — chemical, biological —seem to be becoming more ...
... targets. New participants, notably India and Pakistan, are entering the long-range ballistic-missile arena, and other nations are standing by. Nuclear and other indiscriminate weapons — chemical, biological —seem to be becoming more ...
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... targets located more than 1000 miles ( 1600 kilometers ) away from American bases in the Pacific . 18 Explosive Yields . The bomb ( Little Boy ) that destroyed Hiroshima had an estimated explosive yield of 13 kilotons ( TNT - equivalent ) ...
... targets located more than 1000 miles ( 1600 kilometers ) away from American bases in the Pacific . 18 Explosive Yields . The bomb ( Little Boy ) that destroyed Hiroshima had an estimated explosive yield of 13 kilotons ( TNT - equivalent ) ...
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... targets . Strategic policy is often contrasted with tactical operations , which have the aim of gaining a specific military end in immediate support of a given operation . Usually the weapons employed to achieve these goals are ...
... targets . Strategic policy is often contrasted with tactical operations , which have the aim of gaining a specific military end in immediate support of a given operation . Usually the weapons employed to achieve these goals are ...
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Page 43 - In the councils of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Page 102 - Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.
Page 98 - Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Page 46 - Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.
Page 44 - We have gone on piling weapon upon weapon, missile upon missile, new levels of destructiveness upon old ones. We have done this helplessly, almost involuntarily: like the victims of some sort of hypnotism, like men in a dream, like lemmings heading for the sea, like the children of Hamlin marching blindly along behind their Pied Piper.