Documents tagged with nuclear nonproliferation

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Ridding the World of Doomsday Machines

Could doomsday machines be a rational response to short-term economic drivers? Is it profitable to build doomsday machines? Once they are built, is it institutionally profitable to keep them in pla...
  • lbrecht published this 09 / 17 / 2009
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Re-Orienting US-Iran Negotiations Into the US's Favor

A paper describing the lack of US-Iran negotiations and why the US needs to change its Iran policy quickly, as Iran has been strengthening its negotiating position for the last two decades.
  • Volscio published this 05 / 05 / 2009
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Thinking Strategically About Nuclear Nonproliferation

if proliferation proceeds apace, the probability of a nuclear accident or nuclear terrorist attack or nuclear exchange between countries (“a nuclear event”) approaches certainty (P < 1.00) during p...
  • lbrecht published this 03 / 19 / 2009
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Nuclear Proliferation, Terrorism, and the Tragedy of the Commons

After 50 years of nonproliferation efforts and many billions spent, it is has become apparent that nonproliferation, as presently developed, is not a winning strategy. Why? I propose that nonprolif...
  • lbrecht published this 03 / 10 / 2009
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Was Mutual Assured Destruction a Good Strategy?

Why Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) is important today as barrier to economic recovery, addressing climate change, and nonproliferation efforts: One of the foundational policy decisions made at th...
  • lbrecht published this 03 / 09 / 2009
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Investing in Nonproliferation - Managing Systemic Risks

Despite extensive funding for the war on terrorism, nuclear threats from privatized terrorist organizations or rogue states today are highly probable, more likely than at any time in the past, and ...
  • lbrecht published this 01 / 05 / 2009
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2007 Peace Action Scorecard

This Scorecard for the 2007 Congress is a tool to inform you and to help you take action. Far too often narrow political calculations guide representatives when they vote on life and death foreign ...
  • peaceactionwest published this 06 / 30 / 2008
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