Scientists against nuclear weapons — a list

WHO reveals its shopping list for weapons against Zika.

If viruses had ears, Zika virus would be in bad shape after listening to a WHO official describing the armamentarium the world is getting ready to launch against it. “Based on our experience with research and development during the west Africa Ebola epidemic, WHO’s [R&D] response is proceeding very quickly for Zika”, Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO Assistant Director-General, Health Systems and Innovati...

A Prohibition on Nuclear Weapons

Interdicting a Nuclear-Weapons Project

A “proliferator” seeks to complete a first small batch of fission weapons as quickly as possible, whereas an “interdictor” wishes to delay that completion for as long as possible. We develop and solve a max-min model that identifies resourcelimited interdiction actions that maximally delay completion time of the proliferator’s weapons project, given that the proliferator will observe any such a...

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

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...