Nuclear War

Nuclear warfare (sometimes atomic warfare or thermonuclear warfare) is a military conflict or political strategy which deploys nuclear weaponry. Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction; in contrast to conventional warfare, nuclear warfare can produce destruction in a much shorter time and can have a long-lasting radiological result. A major nuclear exchange would have long-term effects, primarily from the fallout released, and could also lead to a "nuclear winter" that could last for decades, centuries, or even millennia after the initial attack. Some analysts dismiss the nuclear winter hypothesis, and calculate that even with nuclear weapon stockpiles at Cold War …

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Mackenzie Institute · 24 April 2024 English

The F-35A Joint Strike Fighter has been certified to carry thermonuclear weapons as tensions between...


Mackenzie Institute · 7 February 2024 English

In a world where geopolitical tensions simmer on the edge of a precipice, the specter...


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 30 November 2023 English

Clearing the Fog: The Grey Zones of Space Governance 1 The term “grey zone” is used by militaries to of grey zones in outer space by better defining indicate the …

activities on Earth (Pekkanen 2022). How to nuclear war (Acton and MacDonald 2021). data is used and


Mackenzie Institute · 20 October 2023 English

(Originally printed here, reposted with permission.) No one wants to think about a nuclear crisis...


RI: Rideau Institute · 13 September 2023 English

In addition, Ukraine and The damage too to the collective capacity for Croatia agreed on 31 July to the possibility of global governance at a time of multiple rising using …

whether the counteroffensive had On the risk of nuclear war 17 failed, but said Ukraine was "progressing Morawiecki claimed on 3 August that on the risk of nuclear war below). A day later, Wagner fighters were being Warning on 'Very Real' Threat of On the risk of nuclear war Wagner Attacks on NATO Turf, Newsweek, 5 August com/articles/a-dangerous-moment-in-ukraine-kharkiv-surge-putin-nuclear-war-jfk-khrushchev-west-biden-nato-11663007072? https://www s-west-needs-continual-reminder-of-risks-of-nuclear-war https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/01/ru


ICP: Institute for Community Prosperity · 5 September 2023 English

This year’s in the competition are evaluated based not on a winning campus student team, advancing to the ‘solution’ to a problem, but rather on the breadth and Canadian Final, …

other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war”, we think that getting the “social purpose of


CGAI: Canadian Global Affairs Institute · 1 September 2023 English

Table of Contents Introduction Technology and Defence in the 21st Century: The Nature of the Threat Technology and Defence in South Korea Technology and Defence in Canada Conclusion: Overlaps and …

(Winter 2020): 18–46; James Johnson, “‘Catalytic Nuclear War’ in the Age of Arti�cial Intelligence & Autonomy:


RI: Rideau Institute · 25 August 2023 English

The increasing frustration of the non-nuclear weapons states parties to the NPT was further exacerbated by the continuing deadlock of the Geneva-based Conference on Disarmament, bound as that forum was …

the overriding risk of escalation to all-out nuclear war. The actions of the USA and NATO – that is their flexible response and to the absurd notion of nuclear war-fighting with so-called tactical nuclear weapons reaffirmed by Putin - “that a nuclear war cannot be won; a nuclear war must never be fought” - has been fought because of the danger of escalation to nuclear war. This brings me to the recent statements by the mutually-assured destruction (or even worse, the lunacy of nuclear war- 7 https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/


RI: Rideau Institute · 2 August 2023 English

example assessments of the risk of nuclear war in a much-changed global technological and political context, the human fatalities and environmental effects of nuclear war, and the social effects of the detonation Content 1 Nuclear risk 11 1.1 Assessing the risk of nuclear violence 13 Probabilistic analysis of nuclear war 14 Assessing the effectiveness of nuclear deterrent threats 16 Risk and nuclear numbers 18 1.2 decades of the Cold War, the very real risk of inadvertent nuclear detonations and potentially nuclear war, and the embedding of the ‘The Bomb’ in an organisational and cultural nuclear ‘Doomsday Machine’

Clock's experts started to assess the risk of nuclear war in 1947. In such a precarious situation of heightened happen, for example assessments of the risk of nuclear war in a much-changed global technological and political human fatalities and environmental effects of nuclear war, and the social effects of the detonation a single three increasingly unassailable conclusions: • Nuclear war would be a catastrophe with cascading consequences collapse of human civilisation. • The risk of nuclear war is non-zero, becoming more complex, and claims


RI: Rideau Institute · 7 July 2023

to move away from the nightmare of mutually-assured destruction (or even worse, the lunacy of nuclear war-fighting) toward the vision of sustainable. [...] The actions of the USA and NATO – that is their military restraint - put the lie to NATO’s doctrine of flexible response and to the absurd notion of nuclear war- fighting with so-called tactical nuclear weapons. [...] So the immediate work is for Canada to

because of the risk of escalation to all-out nuclear war. The research on my introductory comments on mutually-assured destruction (or even worse, the lunacy of nuclear war-fighting) toward the vision of sustainable peace the overriding risk of escalation to all-out nuclear war. The actions of the USA and NATO – that is their flexible response and to the absurd notion of nuclear war- fighting with so-called tactical nuclear weapons Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) - “that a nuclear war cannot be won; a nuclear war must never be fought” - has been


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