Letter from an Australian Anti-Nuclear Weapons Activist to Geraldine Ferraro

Letter from an anti-nuclear weapons activists to Geraldine Ferraro, detailing the supposed capabilities of nuclear weapons and tactics.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_correspondence_1984_international/1015/thumbnail.jp

Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program and Implications for US National Security.

This article analyzes Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program and the characteristics of the environment in which the program is nested. These characteristics include Pakistan’s history of internal and external instability; nuclear saber rattling during crises; support for Islamic terrorism in order to advance state goals; indigenous production of many elements of its nuclear forces; possession of delivery and command and control systems with destabilizing characteristics; and finally, nuclear doctrine that appears to advocate first use of nuclear weapons. The article argues that the characteristics of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program generate threats to US national security interests. The article examines six interrelated and synergistic challenges for US national security: first, Pakistan is engaged in an arms race in Southwest Asia that has negative implications for Pakistan’s stability; second, the threat of nuclear proliferation from Pakistan continues; third, Pakistan’s arsenal characteristics make accidental and/or unauthorized nuclear war more likely; fourth, there is an ongoing possibility of war with India; fifth, Islamist influence is spreading through key sectors of Pakistani society; and finally, there is an increasing danger of state failure in Pakistan

Legislative Alert: 2013 National Defense Authorization Bill

[Excerpt] On behalf of the AFL-CIO, I write in opposition to provisions changing nuclear weapons worker health and safety programs that are included in the Ltouse Armed Services Committee\u27s 2013 National Defense Authorization bill. These changes would seriously weaken worker safety & health protections at Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear weapons complexes

Non-strategic nuclear weapons: the next step in multilateral arms control

This paper by Crispin Rovere and Kalman A Robertson addresses the many barriers to including tactical nuclear weapons in disarmament talks. It considers the difficulty of bringing other emerging powers such as China into the nuclear arms control equation. The study proposes a new arms control treaty that would ban outright the development and possession of a special kind of tactical nuclear weapon called \u27low-yield nuclear weapons\u27 that the authors argue carries an increasingly grave risk of starting a nuclear war. The paper says that Australia should take the lead in promoting a new treaty banning low-yield nuclear weapons. A longer discussion paper, which includes a more thorough exploration of the technical, strategic and legal issues, as well as many references for further reading is available below

The critical vulnerabilities of civilian nuclear operations

The exploitation for peaceful purposes of nuclear knowledge and nuclear technology is inevitably connected to the exploitation of the same phenomena for military purposes. Moreover, many of the key processes that are at the heart of the civilian nuclear industry (particularly, enrichment and reprocessing of spent fuel) are at the heart of a weapons production programme. If the problem is not to be disposed of by outlawing nuclear activities for any purpose, then the critical vulnerabilities of peaceful operations need to be identified and measures need to be adopted that offer the greatest assurance that such operations are not misused to produce weapons of any kind

Anglo-French defence cooperation in the age of austerity

This paper seeks to assess, from a predominantly UK perspective, the potential benefits of enhanced Anglo-French defence cooperation, not only to the two countries concerned but also to Western Europe and the USA. The paper will mainly focus on defence cooperation and not the subordinate agreement regarding limited cooperation on nuclear weapons, which addressed cooperation on the safety and security of nuclear weapons, stockpile certification and countering nuclear and radiological terrorism but seemed to be driven by "acute financial pressures, symptomatic of severe structural deficiencies"

Securing guarantees : how nuclear proliferation can strengthen great power commitments

The number of states with nuclear weapons has grown at a much slower rate than many predicted during the early years of the Cold War. Yet the reasons for this slow rate of proliferation are not well understood. What is maintaining the (predominantly non-nuclear) status quo? Other work takes external threats and the credibility of security guarantees as given, but I show how nuclear proliferation can shape and be shaped by both. This approach allows me to show how the decisions of proliferators, their allies, and their adversaries are intertwined. This leads to a previously unexplored effect of proliferation: in addition to the defensive and deterrent capability of nuclear weapons, nuclear possession can also cause great powers to tighten their alliance commitments. Great powers therefore have incentives to dissuade nuclear pursuit through threats of sanctions when they are capable of imposing them and through heightened security guarantees when they cannot.Governmen

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty\u27s Obligation to Transfer Peaceful Nuclear Energy Technology: One Proposal of a Technology

This Essay discusses the technology transfer provisions of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (“NPT”) and describes the Radkowsky Thorium Reactor, which is being developed as a peaceful nuclear energy technology

Postcard from a Canadian Supporter to Geraldine Ferraro

Postcard from a Canadian supporter to Geraldine Ferraro. Author is concerned about nuclear weapons. Postcard has handwritten notes.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/vice_presidential_campaign_correspondence_1984_international/1227/thumbnail.jp