Radiation and the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Updated 7/2/2014 Anti-Nuclear Movement With the citizens of Japan in an uproar after the events of Fukushima, the Anti-Nuclear movement has received a significant amount of publicity recently....
View ArticleDisarmament Disarmed: The Stagnation of the Conference on Disarmament
Updated 7/2/2014 The Conference on Disarmament (CD) was established in 1979 out of the 1978 Special Session on Disarmament in the United Nations General Assembly. The UN heralds the conference as “the...
View ArticleCaring about Sharing: A Review of Nuclear Weapons Sharing
Updated 7/2/2014 By all official counts, eight countries currently possess nuclear weapons. The United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China are recognized by the Nuclear...
View ArticleGermany: to Phase Out or Not to Phase Out?
Updated 7/2/2014 Germany’s decision to phase out the use of nuclear energy in 2000 was an important milestone for the anti-nuclear movement in that country. The movement started at the beginning of the...
View ArticleGermany: The birth of the Nuclear Dilemma
Updated 7/2/2014 Germany’s decision to eliminate the use of nuclear energy has been closely associated with the Fukushima accident, to the point where it is often been considered hasty or extreme....
View ArticleNuclear Proliferation in Iran
Updated 7/2/2014 The Start of a Nuclear Program: It all started with a hopeful American idea: “The atomic age has moved forward at such a pace that every citizen of the world should have some...
View ArticleGlobal Zero: Recent Developments in U.S. Arms Reductions
Updated 7/3/2014 Standing before a crowd in Hradčany Square, Prague, in April 2009, President Barack Obama announced his vision of the United State’s role in the future: “As the only nuclear power to...
View ArticleStuxnet: Tool of Nonproliferation or Pandora’s Box
Updated 7/3/2014 At just over 1.5MB in size, Stuxnet is smaller than an MP3 of a single song. Packed into this small amount of data is a complex and sophisticated code capable of infecting hundreds of...
View ArticleA Nuclear Family: India and Pakistan Since the Bomb
Updated 7/3/2014 The relationship between India and Pakistan can be described simply as one of the fiercest national rivalries in the world. Despite the shared cultural, historic, geographic, and...
View ArticleNuclear Battleground: The Marshall Islands Revives the Nuclear Debate
By Asha Banerjee, Columbia College, Class of 2017 Asha Banerjee (CC ’17), Autumn Bordner (CC ’14), Danielle Crosswell (CC ’17), and Professor Emlyn Hughes with Toni deBrum, Foreign Minister of the...
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