Political Viability of the Russia-North Korea-South Korea Gas Pipeline Project: An Analysis of the Role of the U.S. by Yusin Lee

“…This analysis demonstrates that North Korea’s fourth nuclear test in January 2016 changed the dynamic of the project. …”
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Russia's revocation of its ratification of the CTBT and the future of international nuclear security by Sorokin, Maksim

“…Russia’s decision to revoke its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty shook the global nuclear security agenda. …”
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Nuclear cardiology in Cuba by Amalia Peix González

“…This paper is a brief summary of the Nuclear Cardiology history in Cuba, mentioning the current main mortality causes, the usefulness and results of nuclear tests among the imaging techniques nowadays used in Cardiology, including gated-SPECT, PET and hybrid imaging combining anatomical and functional information. …”
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The Hydroacoustic Network of the CTBT International Monitoring System: Access and Exploitation by Steven J. Gibbons

“…ABSTRACTThe hydroacoustic network of the International Monitoring System for verifying compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty consists of six hydrophone array stations and five land-based seismic stations for recording T-phases. …”
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JAPANESE DIPLOMACY WITHIN ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM (ARF): SOME ASPECTS OF THE REGIONAL SECURITY by O. V. Lebedeva

“…One of the first subjects for discussion at ARF was China nuclear activity and nuclear tests. The issues of constant concern remain territorial disputes in East China Sea and South China Sea. …”
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Nuclear war as false memory by John Timberlake

“…Highlighting discontinued historical trajectories, the author shows how the cultural legacy of Britain’s nuclear test programme of the 1950s and ’60s may be explored meaningfully in paintings and photography resulting from his archival research at the Imperial War Museum in London.…”
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A photographer's date with a nuclear death by David Robie

“…President Jacques Chirac's controversial final round of nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls in 1995 unleashed an unprecedented storm of international protest. …”
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Speciation of Uranium and Plutonium From Nuclear Legacy Sites to the Environment: A Mini Review by Anna Yu. Romanchuk, Irina E. Vlasova, Stepan N. Kalmykov

“…Since the beginning of national nuclear programs and nuclear tests, many radioactively contaminated nuclear legacy sites, have been formed. …”
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Foreword by Lassina Zerbo

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PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS – IMMUNITY – HEALTH COMMUNICATION 1. RADIATION – STRESS – IMMUNITY - HEALTH FOR VETERANS OF SPECIAL RISK UNITS by V. M. Shubik, N. V. Alishev, B. A. Drabkin, O. V. Baranova, T. M. Koroleva, E. I. Puchkova

“…In further communications on the issue, we plan to justify this scheme by the analysis of health disorders for liquidators of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (ChNPP) accident, for the population of the territories contaminated with radionuclides after radiation accidents and nuclear tests, and for exposured professionals.…”
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Acquiring and managing the segment data of International Monitoring System by Hongmao Qiu, Juan Wang, Jian Li, Jie Shang, Lei Gai, Zhaoyang Xu

“…The data access from the International Data Center under Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization via AutoDRM is described and the method of requesting and acquiring the IDC’s segment data of waveform in the NDC’s processing is introduced in the paper. …”
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Solidification and stabilization of fly ash from mixed hazardous waste incinerator using ordinary portland cement by Agamuthu, Pariatamby, Takatsuki, H., Mizutani, S., Subramaniam, C.

“…The toxicity characteristics leaching procedure (TCLP), Japanese Leaching Test (JLT-13) and the American Nuclear Test 16.1 (modified) ANS 16.1 were used to gauge the leaching of heavy metals from the solidified matrixes. …”

“If the Neighborhood Catches Fire, One Will Also Come to Grief”: Chinese Attitudes toward North Korea’s Confrontational Acts, 2009-2014 by Bálazs Szalontai

“… This paper examines Chinese responses to North Korea’s confrontational acts in 2009-2014, such as the two nuclear tests, the three satellite launches, the Cheonan and Yeonpyeong incidents, and the various missile tests. …”
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MILITARY DOCTRINES OF INDIA AND PAKISTAN by M. S. Zaytsev

“…Since theIndependenceof the former members of the British Dominion in 1947 the sides consider each other as the main potential adversary. After nuclear tests conducted by both countries the conformation ofNew DelhiandIslamabadescalated to a new level, and the state of bilateral relations is a matter of reasonable concern all over the globe. …”
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Antineutrino Detectors Remain Impractical for Nuclear Explosion Monitoring by Foxe, Michael, Bowyer, Theodore, Carr, Rachel, Orrell, John, VanDevender, Brent

“…In this paper, we review several hypothetical use cases for antineutrino detectors as supplements to the seismic, infrasound, hydroacoustic, and airborne radionuclide sensors of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization’s International Monitoring System. …”
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Antineutrino Detectors Remain Impractical for Nuclear Explosion Monitoring by Foxe, Michael, Bowyer, Theodore, Carr, Rachel, Orrell, John, VanDevender, Brent

“…In this paper, we review several hypothetical use cases for antineutrino detectors as supplements to the seismic, infrasound, hydroacoustic, and airborne radionuclide sensors of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization’s International Monitoring System. …”
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“A hazy world seen through smoke”: Threshold Effects in Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke by Maëlle Jeanniard du Dot

“…The novel takes place in spring 1998, as Pakistan’s nuclear tests are about to be launched. In this novel, the notion of threshold unfolds thematically as an expression of Pakistani society’s inherent divisions. …”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on levels of deep-ocean acoustic noise by Stephen Robinson, Peter Harris, Sei-Him Cheong, Lian Wang, Valerie Livina, Georgios Haralabus, Mario Zampolli, Peter Nielsen

“…We report on a reduction of deep-ocean acoustic noise in three ocean basins in 2020, based on data acquired by hydroacoustic stations in the International Monitoring System of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. The noise levels measured in 2020 are compared with predicted levels obtained from modelling data from previous years using Gaussian Process regression. …”
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THE STATUS OF THE MINERAL RAW MATERIALS BASE OF PRECIOUS METALS OF RUSSIA AND THEIR ROLE IN THE MODERN ECONOMY by V. T. Borisovich, V. N. Ivanov, Z. M. Nazarova

“…They find their application in medicine and biomedicine, automotive, microelectronics, aerospace instrument making, the manufacturing of lasers and nuclear tests. It has been noted that in our country a great disadvantage is the weak industrial use of precious metals.…”
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Preface: Celebrating 70 years of “Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart” (<i>E&amp;G</i>) by F. Preusser, M. Fuchs, C. Thiel

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