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US Navy nuclear test, Bikini Atoll.

Public awareness of ‘nuclear winter’ too low given current risks, argues expert

14 Feb 2023

Survey study of awareness in UK and US populations also shows that brief exposure to latest data on ‘nuclear winter’ deepens doubts over nuclear...

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Opinion: Obama's Nobel-winning vision of 'world without nuclear weapons' is still distant

27 Oct 2016

Despite his best intentions, Barack Obama will leave office with his dream of nuclear disarmament seemingly just as distant as it was at the...

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North Korea – Pyongyang

North Korea unveils its nuclear ‘treasured swords’ to the world again

21 Sep 2015

Robert Winstanley-Chesters, Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Beyond the Korean War Project, discusses the motivations behind North Korea's relaunch of it...

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Gareth Evans

I’m a glass half-full kind of person: Gareth Evans gives public talks on war and peace

06 May 2013

In a series of public talks over the next ten days, the distinguished Australian politician and university chancellor Gareth Evans will look at some...

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An early, thorium-based molten salt reactor, pictured in the 1960s.

Proliferation warnings on nuclear wonder-fuel

05 Dec 2012

Thorium is being touted as an ideal fuel for a new generation of nuclear power plants, but in a piece in this week’s Nature, researchers suggest it...

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