Commentary: Transparency for nuclear weapons test sites

Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Reactors

This report addresses the tenuous link between nuclear power reactor development and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, particularly with respect to possible terrorist exploitation. Arguments are presented that contradict the popular image of nuclear weaponry as a "basement project". 4 CONTENTS

Nuclear Waste and Public Worries: Public Perceptions of the United States’ Major Nuclear Weapons Legacy Sites

We surveyed 1351 residents who lived near six U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) former nuclear weapon sites using random digit dialing and stratified random sampling in order to determine which risks most worried them and the predictors of their worries. Respondents’ greatest concerns were threats to their drinking water, transportation accidents, and worker exposures. The strongest predictors of...

Effects of nuclear weapons

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August, 1945. The energy yields were equivalent to 12 500 tonnes and 20 000 tonnes of high explosive. Yields from thermonuclear weapons (H-bombs) range up to several megatons (Mt). Between 1945 and the signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996, over 2000 nuclear tests were carried out by the USA, USSR, Britain, France and China, plus one by India. Mo...

Colour transparency: a novel test of QCD in nuclear interactions

Lectures delivered at: 1. XXVII Winter School on Nuclear and Particle Physics of the St-Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, 18-23 February 1993, Zelenogorsk near St-Petersburg. 2. XX Winter School on Elementary Particle Physics, of the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 25 February 2 March 1993, Beliye Stolby near Moscow. To be published in: Surveys in High Energy Physics, Ha...

The Effects of Nuclear Weapons