South Africa is the only country in world that successfully acquired a nuclear deterrent capability form of six devices and dismantled them completely. Extant explanations include strategic reasons, i.e.., its security conditions changed subsequent to removal Soviet threat after collapse 1989 an end superpower rivalry Africa; Africa’s increasing isolation on account apartheid; pressure from US,...

Abstract In this essay, I propose five principles to make U.S. nuclear deterrence policy more just and effective in the future: sever link between mass killing of innocent civilians by focusing targeting on adversaries’ military power senior political leadership, not their population; never use or plan a weapon against any target that could be destroyed neutralized conventional weapons; reject ...

This article examines whether and how the circumstances of Colombian ex-combatants with disabilities were recognized in disarmament, demobilization, reintegration (DDR) processes period following adoption 2016 peace agreement. Our results suggest severe procedural substantive shortcomings during drafting agreement implementation DDR that exacerbated exclusion from available opportunities for th...

The verification of nuclear disarmament will require the use of adequate measurement technologies. All will need to enable inspecting parties to trust the measurement chain leading to valid and correct results, while ensuring host countries that classified information–especially warhead-design information–remains secure. However, this seems particularly difficult with technologies that rely hea...

Classroom exercises have long been used in the teaching of graduate and undergraduate management and organizational behavior courses and have been found to be quite valuable in illustrating a variety of important concepts. The Moon Survival Kit (group decision making), the Disarmament Exercise (inter-group conflict) and the Tinkertoy Tower (effects of structure on performance and satisfaction) ...