Nuclear winter: US arms control policy doubts

Monetary policy, doubts and asset prices

Asset prices and the equity premium might reflect doubts and pessimism. Introducing these features in an otherwise standard New-Keynesian model changes in a quite substantial way its normative conclusions. First, following productivity shocks, optimal policy should be very accommodative even to the point to inflate the equity premium. Second, asset-price movements improve the inflation-output t...

Nuclear Arms and WWII

Nuclear weapons are popularly regarded as the horror of the twentieth century. Yet, many argue that they promoted peace through the cold war. To examine the effect of nuclear weapons on international politics, this essay explores how nuclear arsenals could have stopped WWII or made it all the more horrifying. This essay first explains the relevant understanding of the use of nuclear force. It t...

Resource Letter PSNAC-1: Physics and society: Nuclear arms control

Resource Letters are guides for college and university physicists, astronomers, and other scientists to literature, websites, and other teaching aids. Each Resource Letter focuses on a particular topic and is intended to help teachers improve course content in a specific field of physics or to introduce nonspecialists to this field. The Resource Letters Editorial Board meets at the AAPT Winter ...

Tactical Nuclear Weapons Elimination: next Step for Arms Control

Dr. Nikolai Sokov began his career as a research fellow at the Institute of USA and Canada Studies in Moscow and at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), where he received his candidate of history degree in 1986. In 1987, he joined the Soviet Foreign Ministry and worked on disarmament issues and participated in the START I talks. In 1992, he took a leave of absence...

Human Rights in US Foreign Policy