It is no doubt for the health effect of the radiation from the nuclear detonation from the destroyed nuclear power plant. Due to the present crisis in Japan, the public health concern on this issue should be raised. In pediatric neurology, there are some interesting reports on pediatric neurological disorder and its relationship to leaked radiation. In this specific brief article, the author he...

Kroenig (2013b) finds that in crises between nuclear-armed states, countries possessing nuclear arsenals larger than those of their opponents tend to be victorious. After correcting for coding errors in the dataset and for finite-sample bias in clustered standard error estimates, we show that the original conclusion is too over-confident. We further demonstrate that the association between nucl...