Is There A Global Nuclear Power Revival?
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Chaim Braun, CISAC Fellow
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FSI researchers consider international development from a variety of angles. They analyze ideas such as how public action and good governance are cornerstones of economic prosperity in Mexico and how investments in high school education will improve China’s economy.
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Oil and War
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Amos Nur, Stanford University Earth Sciences Department
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Uncertainties Associated With Biological Weapons Attacks
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The expected number of people infected by an atmospheric release of a biological agent depends on the physical and pathogenic properties of the agent, the amount of agent released, the mechanism by which it is dispersed, atmospheric transport processes, environmental degradation of the agent, and the protection afforded by being inside a building, for those who happen to be inside of buildings, when the plume passes by outdoors. Using anthrax as a test case, this research examined each of these factors in detail, determining nominal values for representative parameters and, more importantly, assessed the range of uncertainty or the lack of scientific knowledge regarding these parameters. The dominant factors affecting the outcome of hypothetical bioterror attacks are the weather, the precise urban area in which the release occurs, the exact form of the dose-response relationship for inhalation anthrax in humans, and the magnitude of the source term.
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Dean Wilkening, CISAC
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Nuclear Terrorism
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William Potter
Monterey Institute for International Studies
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Medical Logistics for Bioterrorist Attacks
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Irit Talmor, CISAC Science Fellow
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High-Tech Approaches To Low-Tech Threats: Understanding and Countering Terrorist Technology Strategies
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Ekaterina Drozdova, CISAC Science Fellow
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Stronger Measures Needed to Prevent Proliferation
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An updated Atoms for Peace program is needed to help solve problems of national and international security brought about by increased civilian use of nuclear energy.
Coherent and consistent leadership from the United States and other states is essential if the programs needed are to go forward with adequate speed.
The world's governance and enforcement machinery must be updated and strengthened if it is to be equal to the challenges.
Important leverage can be provided if the countries that have or readily could have nuclear power can reach broad agreement that nuclear terrorism must be prevented.
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Fifty Years After: The Balance Sheet on Nuclear Weapons
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Gen. William Burns
Maj. General, Ret., U.S. Army
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War in Chechnya as a Paradigm of Russian State-Building Under Putin, The
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Gail Lapidus writes that the war in Chechnya has played a complex and highly negative role in Russia's political development. It served in some respects as a testing ground for policies that would be expanded to embrace the Russian Federation more broadly. It has been a major obstacle to the progress of reform and democratization in Russia, and has rather elicited and strengthened the more coercive and authoritarian impulses within the Russian elite. It has equally been a barometer of broader trends in Russian state-building and is highlighting many of the dramatic new departures this process is taking under President Putin.
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