Nuclear Weapons

A nuclear weapon (also called an atom bomb, nuke, atomic bomb, nuclear warhead, A-bomb, or nuclear bomb) is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb). Both bomb types release large quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter. The first test of a fission ("atomic") bomb released an amount of energy approximately equal to 20,000 tons of TNT (84 TJ). The first thermonuclear ("hydrogen") bomb test released energy approximately equal to 10 million tons of TNT (42 PJ). Nuclear bombs …

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Council of Canadians · 17 May 2023 English

• A member of the Resolutions Committee will read the “Therefore, be it resolved” clause; • A representative of the submitters will be invited to describe the resolution’s purpose and …

reprocessing (2021); • REFUSE: any role in nuclear weapons manufacture or proliferation (2016, 2011, 2003


Wilson Center Canada · 4 May 2023

A dearth of necessary expertise hinders the IC’s ability to meet the reality of the The most comprehensive description of ODNI’s complex implications of Arctic change. [...] intelligence agen- cies …

Chinese homeland. By this logic, every from nuclear weapons. In February 2023, Russia state in the world


Wilson Center Canada · 3 May 2023 English

The Context The Committee for State Security attached to the Council of Ministers of the USSR (the full name of the KGB) was formally founded on March 13, 1954.4 As …

Efforts to Acquire Nuclear Technology and Nuclear Weapons Evidence from Russian and Hungarian Archives


PollutionWatch · 1 May 2023 English

The scope of this submission is to assess whether renewing the licences for the Key Lake and McArthur River would cause any undue risk to people and the environment; and …

products to contribute to the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Considering these and other factors that affect


PollutionWatch · 1 May 2023 English

The lack of full, documentary disclosure remains a systemic barrier to meaningful participation before the CNSC and is contrary to one of its core statutory objectives, which is to “to …

products to contribute to the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Considering these and other factors that affect


RI: Rideau Institute · 19 April 2023 English

It is time to put commercial priorities to the side and take a pause Catelijne Muller, President of ALLAI, Member of the EU High Level Expert Group on AI for …

cannot control. Insisting on nuclear power and nuclear weapons. sensible precautions is not anti-industry


PollutionWatch · 18 April 2023 English

The government of Canada, in its recently released radioactive waste policy, stated that “Reprocessing, the purpose of which would be to extract fissile material from nuclear fuel waste for further …

where possible, prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons capabilities. Reprocessing nuclear waste results where possible, prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons capabilities. This objective is in line with reprocessing in Canada. Since all existing nuclear weapons require either highly enriched uranium (HEU) necessary step if the world wants to achieve a nuclear weapons free world. He told the General Assembly that government of Canada will undermine the global nuclear weapons non-proliferation regime that Canada has done


PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 6 April 2023 English

The Fight Between the Old and the New Is Raging All over the world, the fight between the Old and the New is raging, taking different forms based on the …

with the use of chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons, a major concern of the German people is the Most importantly, Russian threats of using nuclear weapons in the war against Ukraine have raised concerns Russia would be able to doctrinally employ nuclear weapons. Those conditions would be to defend against


RI: Rideau Institute · 31 March 2023 English

formally tr. [...] “Russia’s deployment of however, that is a contemptuous sleight of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus directly hand that runs “against the letter and the spirit violates the constitution Review assume the non-nuclear state status expressed Conference in. [...] Veteran observer of nuclear weapons, Hans Kristensen of the Federation of Similar munitions were used by the UK and the American

indications Russia is preparing stationing of nuclear weapons in Belarus to use a nuclear weapon”. Lungescu for the United States, which unilaterally nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory (and withdrew from significant domestic and prohibit all transfers of nuclear weapons international pressure for the United States com/world/2023/mar/25/russia-to-station-tactical-nuclear-weapons-in-belarus https://www.reuters.com/world/e com/world/europe/belarus-says-it-decided-host-russian-nuclear-weapons-after-nato-pressure-2023-03-28/ https://twitter


PollutionWatch · 22 March 2023

Maintain and update its legislative and regulatory regime, centered on an independent radioactive waste management and decommissioning agency and an independent nuclear regulator, to oversee and regulate radioactive waste management …

that reprocessing spent nuclear fuel creates nuclear weapons proliferation risks and international relations


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