Sowing nuclear misconceptions
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It is important to consider the role of the directors of the three US nuclear weapons laboratories in the US Senate's decision to reject ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). The directors all indicates that ratification at this point would be tantamount to relying on unproven technologies. In fact, it can be argued that, because the US has significant strategic advantages over all potential proliferators of nuclear weapons, the benefits of the CTBT are much greater than the small danger that not testing nuclear weapons will produce a loss of confidence in US nuclear weapons resources.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2000
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Moral calculus and the bomb: targeting civilians, not using atomic weapons, was the moral watershed
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Had the nuclear bomb which fell on Hiroshima during World War II been used earlier in the war and in a different location, the lives of many thousands of people could have been saved. Some scientists believe that a year was lost in the bomb's development because the US failed to build upon basic work carried out in England in 1940. If the bomb had ended the war in Europe in December 1944, tens of millions would have escaped 44 years of Soviet occupation and many of those who died in Nazi death camps would have been saved.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
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Henry W. Kendall (1926-99)
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Physicist Henry W. Kendall gained a mathematics degree from Amherst College before obtaining his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1954. He joined the Stanford University physics department in 1956, establishing a long-term collaborative relationship with Richard Taylor and Jerome Friedman. He moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty in 1960 to 1961, and led collaboration with the Stanford Linear Accelerator. He gained a strong reputation as a talented mountaineer.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
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