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Securing Our Survival (SOS)
The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention
This update of the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention, first published in 1997 by a panel of experts, examines the major political and social changes that have since affected the broader context in which nuclear weapons can be eliminated.
An Illusion of Protection
The Unavoidable Limitations of Safeguards on Nuclear Materials
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Security and Survival
The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention
An international team of scientists, lawyers, and disarmament specialists drafted and released a Model Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC) in April 1997.
This model was submitted by Costa Rica to the United Nations as a discussion draft in November 1997.
The responses and developments that have followed since then have led to the collaborative publication of a revised version of the Model NWC, together with comments and discussion on critical political, legal, and technical questions essential to complete nuclear disarmament.
Nuclear Weapons Convention Monitor
A series of periodic bulletins exploring progress on and challenges to a Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC) - a treaty to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons under a verifiable international regime.
The opinions and analysis presented address political, legal, and technical questions critical to the future course of nuclear disarmament.
The NWC Monitor is a continuation of the discussion surrounding the model NWC drafted by a non-governmental team of lawyers, scientists, and disarmament specialists and distributed by the United Nations as a discussion document in 1997.
A revised and annotated version of the model NWC is contained in 'Security and Survival: The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention'.
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Human Factor
and the risk of Nuclear War
Adapted from a lecture presented at the conference “Risks of Accidental War: The Human Factor,” Stockholm, Sweden, 10-11 November 2000.
Nuclear Wastelands:
Nuclear weapons production worldwide and its environmental and health effects
Edited by Arjun Makhijani, PhD, Howard Hu, MD, and Katherine Yih, PhD, Nuclear Wastelands gathers the work of numerous contributors with expertise in nuclear medicine, epidemiology, environmental medicine, occupational health, chemical engineering, and journalism.
The book reviews the entire process of nuclear weapons production, from uranium mining and milling through plutonium processing and weapons assembly.
It identifies the major pollutants resulting from these processes, presents a country-by-country review of the major nuclear weapons production sites, and reviews all available information on their emissions and health and safety records.
Radioactive Heaven and Earth:
The health and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing in, on, and above the earth
The first report of IPPNW's Commission assesses the legacy of nuclear testing and examines the consequences of the testing programs in each of the major declared nuclear powers.
Rethinking Nuclear Energy and Democracy
After September 11, 2001
This IPPNW Global Health Watch Report collects a number of talks by speakers at the 2002 Basel symposium after which the publication is titled.
Their analysis and evaluations should give the reader a better knowledge of the security and safety issues involved with nuclear power plants.
Nuclear policies in several European countries and in Japan, as well as some phaseout scenarios advocated by civil society groups are discussed side by side with descriptions of some recent, serious accidents within power plants such as Tokai-mura in Japan and Chernobyl in the Ukraine. "Probabilistic risk analysis" is assessed and questioned.
Flight paths and their shocking proximity to large nuclear power plants in England are illustrated.
Mechanisms are described through which accidents or assaults with airplanes could lead to catastrophic plant failures.
The liabilities of nuclear plant operators and insurance alternatives such as risk pooling are explained.
The role of the military in relation to the nuclear industry in a country such as France, as well as the role of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in terrorism protection are described.
Democratic decision making on nuclear issues in countries with a so-called direct democracy as Switzerland is explained and, lastly, the options of NGO's in nuclear policy making are outlined.
Bombing Bombay?
Effects of Nuclear Weapons and a Case Study of a Hypothetical Explosion
M.V. Ramana
IPPNW, 1998.
Part of the Global Health Watch series, this report describes the effects of nuclear explosions and the possible consequences of a hypothetical nuclear detonation over the Indian city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay).
Is Everything Secure?
Myths and Realities of Nuclear Disarmament
Despite the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear war remains with us, as evidenced by the recent nuclear tests in India and Pakistan. This documentary record of the evolving nuclear threat makes it clear that supporters of the abolition of nuclear weapons must redouble their efforts.
Fast Track to Zero Nuclear Weapons
The Middle Powers Initiative
This briefing book, written by retired British Navy Commander Robert D. Green, is the first publication of the Middle Powers Initiative, an IPPNW-cosponsored campaign to mobilize key non-nuclear weapons states in the effort to encourage the leaders of the nuclear weapons states to commit themselves to the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Crude Nuclear Weapons
Proliferation and the Terrorist Threat
The first report in a new IPPNW information series, Global Health Watch.
The authors, IPPNW Executive Director Dr. Gururaj Mutalik, defense analyst and arms control expert Dr. Frank Barnaby, and scientific consultants Peter Taylor and David Sumner analyze the availability of fissile materials to terrorist groups, the capabilities of such groups to construct crude nuclear weapons, the destruction such weapons could cause, and the policy initiatives required for prevention of nuclear terrorism.
Last Aid
The Medical Dimensions of Nuclear War
Edited by Eric Chivian, MD, Susanna Chivian, Robert J. Lifton, MD, John E. Mack, MD and with a Foreword by Lewis Thomas, M.D., Last Aid is a seminal work exploring the medical, psychological, and environmental consequences of nuclear war.
The effects of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are presented in detail, as are the overwhelming effects of a catastrophic nuclear war, which would make any meaningful medical response impossible.
Plutonium
Deadly Gold of the Nuclear Age
Many countries continue to extract plutonium - one of the most toxic radioactive substances on Earth.
While tons of plutonium are being stockpiled annually, most allegedly for use in nuclear power plants, only a few pounds are needed to make a nuclear weapon and even less to make a radioactive bomb.
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