Silencing the Bomb : : One Scientist's Quest to Halt Nuclear Testing /

Silencing the Bomb : : One Scientist's Quest to Halt Nuclear Testing / / Lynn R. Sykes.

In December 2016, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved their iconic "Doomsday Clock" thirty seconds forward to two and a half minutes to midnight, the latest it has been set since 1952, the year of the first United States hydrogen bomb test. But a group of scientists-geologists, enginee...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Sykes, Lynn R.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 40 b&w and 10 color illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. A HURRIED TRIP TO MOSCOW IN 1974 TO NEGOTIATE THE THRESHOLD NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY
  • 2. DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
  • 3. FROM THE EARLY NEGOTIATIONS TO HALT NUCLEAR TESTING TO THE LIMITED TEST BAN TREATY OF 1963
  • 4. ATTEMPTS TO HIDE NUCLEAR TESTS: THE BIG-HOLE EVASION SCHEME
  • 5. U.S. OVERESTIMATION OF SIZES OF SOVIET UNDERGROUND EXPLOSIONS: 1961-1974
  • 6. NEW METHODS TO IDENTIFY UNDERGROUND TESTS: 1963-1973
  • 7. CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ON A COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN
  • 8. PEACEFUL NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
  • 9. HEATED CONTROVERSIES OVER YIELDS OF SOVIET TESTS AND AN UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT AT A CTBT
  • 10. CONTINUED DEBATE ABOUT YIELDS, ACCUSATIONS OF SOVIET CHEATING ON THE THRESHOLD TREATY, AND ITS ENTRY INTO FORCE
  • 11. RENEWED INTEREST IN A CTBT, THE OTA REPORT, AND THE GROUP OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS: 1979-1996
  • 12. DEALING WITH "PROBLEM" OR "ANOMALOUS" EVENTS IN THE USSR AND RUSSIAN REPUBLIC: 1972-2009
  • 13. NEGOTIATING THE COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN: GLOBAL MONITORING, 1993-2016
  • 14. MONITORING NUCLEAR TESTS SITES AND COUNTRIES OF SPECIAL CONCERN TO THE UNITED STATES
  • 15. SENATE REJECTION OF THE CTBT IN 1999
  • 16. THE CTBT TASK FORCE AND THE 2002 AND 2012 REPORTS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
  • 17. STRATEGIC NUCLEAR WEAPONS: SOVIET AND U.S. PARITY
  • 18. NUCLEAR WAR, FALSE ALARMS, ACCIDENTS, ARMS CONTROL, AND WAYS FORWARD
  • Glossary and Abbreviations
  • References
  • Index

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