Search Results for nuclear weapons

...Dong-Yeon Koh During the last decade, the DMZ (demilitarized zone) has emerged as one of the most popular tourist attractions for both domestic and international travelers—despite continued conflicts over nuclear weapons under Jungun Kim’s administration as well as ongoing landmine problems...

... I Djansugurova Leila B. Tankimanova Maira K. Mamyrbaeva Zaure Zh. Mustonen Riitta Lindholm Carita Hulte Maj Salomaa Sisko . 2002 . “ Nuclear Weapons Tests and Human Germline Mutation Rate .” Science 295 : 1037 . Dubrova Yuri E. Nesterov Valeri N...

... a “coalition of the willing” made up of, among others, Eritreans and Solomon Islanders. Administra- tion insistence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, up to and including nuclear weapons, joined a collective memory of how World...

..., the production and use of nuclear weapons becomes possible. This means that human beings basically exist in a state of danger from each other, as Hobbes describes it in Leviathan. To cut through a rather difficult problem, in modern times the term human...

... York : Telos . Tannenwald Nina . 2007 . The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-use of Nuclear Weapons since 1945 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Taylor Philip . 2001 . Fragments of the Present: Searching for Modernity in Vietnam’s South . Honolulu...

... weapons and nuclear power. They were contained in a book titled Hiroshima- Nagasaki, edited by Tsutomu Iwakura (whom I later sought out and met), a book thick with photographs and paintings depicting the atomic bomb- ings of Hiroshima...

... on terrorism, the arms race has thrived under conditions of mutually assured destruction. Guaranteeing the elimination of the human species and sentient life on earth, its rationale leads to windfall profits for the gigantic military- industrial complex. The manufacture of mis- siles and nuclear weapons...

... by the most destructive weapons ever known to mankind. The excuse put forward by the American government states that the Iraqi regime has been developing weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons) that threaten international...

... race of the Cold War)? We must ask if this apparent acting out of trauma affords any possibilities for working through it. This question remains urgent. With many nuclear weapons still poised for launch and with a gradual breakdown...

... because this war turned the DPRK into an eter- nal sworn enemy, and now, one with nuclear weapons. In Philip Roth’s Korean War novel, Indignation, the protagonist gets kicked out of college for taking part in a panty raid and ends up in Korea...

... War was soon repressed in the United States as well as in Japan. For both countries, yesterday’s foe became today’s friend. The demonstration of the unprecedented power of the nuclear weapons detonated in Hiroshima and Nagasaki...

... millennium. If we say that nuclear weapons are the fruition of the evil of modern civilization, then suicide bombs (literally, “body bombs,” renti zhadan) are unique to post- modern civilization. In the new millennium, the body (renti) is mysteriously...

... tolerate them? Why do we tolerate these men who use nuclear weapons to blackmail the entire human race?” I was in Nagasaki in June this year and thought of the pilot who flew overhead that day in 1945. In an interview, Captain Sweeney used the word...

... politics that sustains it, function as a bulwark against the consolidation of democracy in South Korea. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 division system Korean War National Security Law nuclear weapons state violence Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Korea war politics...

... showing physical and human damage in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and general observations about the subsequent development of the atomic age and nuclear-weapons proliferation.3 Let us begin by examining two strikingly similar, yet...

...,” that is, it might have made some of us use our imagination of the Hiroshima victims to picture what might lie in store for everyone today, when we are all still universally menaced by even more powerful nuclear weapons. To “remember” the future may...

... to weapons of mass destruction, he revealed to Britain’s Sunday Times news- paper information about the plant, which is at the heart of Israel’s nuclear weapons program. Fleeing abroad, Vanunu was kidnapped by Israeli agents on a street...

... dealing with the Cold War. At its core, it was predicated upon the maintenance of a massive nuclear capacity and the strengthening of over- seas nuclear weapons bases. On the other hand, it required that the US increase the military power of allied countries and to strengthen their ability to respond...

... talks on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, Mr. Bush told reporters in Washington that Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader, was a ‘dangerous person’ who ran ‘huge concentration camps.’ ”52 For a time following Bush’s reading of the memoir...

... was manifest in the nuclear field, when during the 1970s and 1980s, the U.S. government invested heavily in an arsenal of “first-strike” weapons, which were partly justified by the need to head off an impending Soviet missile attack. Despite domestic...