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Nuclear Threat Initiative
Nonprofit•Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States•
About: Nuclear Threat Initiative is a nonprofit organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Public health & Global health. The organization has 15 authors who have published 21 publications receiving 851 citations.
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TL;DR: Correlations: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS) as mentioned in this paper is a non-governmental platform to transform dialogue among public health, veterinary and wildlife professionals from multi-country infectious disease surveillance networks.
Abstract: We describe a new trust-based global health security initiative known as CORDS: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance. Initiated and managed by the Nuclear Threat Initiative with support of The Rockefeller Foundation, Fondation Merieux and the Skoll Global Threats Fund. CORDS is a non-governmental platform to transform dialogue among public health, veterinary and wildlife professionals from multi-country infectious disease surveillance networks. It also links with the World Health Organization, World Organization for Animal Health and other global partners in managing cross-border emerging infectious disease threats and building disease surveillance capacity. The public–private partnerships of CORDS create a global social fabric and continuity of disease experts based upon trust.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present four hypothetical nuclear crises to illustrate this point and suggest a series of steps that, if taken, could help prevent each crisis, and suggest that we are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe and the global threat is outpacing our response.
Abstract: Nuclear terrorism is the greatest national security threat facing the United States. This is a point on which few disagree, yet the effort to reduce the global nuclear threat falls short in terms of speed, resources, and level of effort. This article presents four hypothetical nuclear crises to illustrate this point and suggests a series of steps that, if taken, could help prevent each crisis. We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the global threat is outpacing our response. We must act now.
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01 Jan 2002TL;DR: The authors summarized the history of India's nuclear-weapons development program and the central factors that shaped it and concluded that after a fifty-year epoch, in which India took a singular approach to nuclear weapons, Indian strategists and officials are now on a slippery slope toward convergence with the dominant, realpolitik conception and management of nuclear weapons.
Abstract: This chapter summarizes the history of India’ nuclear-weapons development program and the central factors that shaped it. The history is divided into four somewhat distinct phases, with the third culminating in the nuclear tests of May 1998. The chapter then chronicles unusually dramatic events of the fourth phase, beginning in 1999—the Lahore summit; the Kargil War; the draft nuclear doctrine. The chapter suggests that these events indicated some of the difficulties India would have adjusting to the benefits and liabilities of overtly possessing nuclear weapons. The chapter concludes by noting that after a fifty-year epoch, in which India took a singular approach to nuclear weapons, Indian strategists and officials are now on a slippery slope toward convergence with the dominant, realpolitik conception and management of nuclear weapons, which India always had derided as irrational, immoral, and excessively dangerous.
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TL;DR: A comprehensive approach to catastrophic terrorism requires that we manage both the supply and demand for weapons of mass destruction, and nonproliferation strategies that focus solely on supply are merely buying us time as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: We live in an age when the supply of weapons and materials of mass destruction easily meets the demand of Islamist extremists all too willing to use them. It is essential but not enough to reduce and secure the supply of weapons and materials of mass destruction. A comprehensive approach to catastrophic terrorism requires that we manage both the supply and demand for weapons of mass destruction. Nonproliferation strategies that focus solely on supply are merely buying us time.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Corey Hinderstein | 5 | 10 | 125 |
Elizabeth Cameron | 4 | 6 | 63 |
Margaret Hamburg | 3 | 4 | 716 |
Louise Gresham | 3 | 3 | 56 |
Michelle Nalabandian | 2 | 3 | 15 |
Jessica Bell | 2 | 3 | 28 |
Jacob L. Jordan | 2 | 2 | 10 |
Andrew Newman | 2 | 2 | 13 |
Sam Nunn | 1 | 1 | 9 |
Charles B. Curtis | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Beverly Trayner | 1 | 1 | 13 |
George Perkovich | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Andrew M. Hebbeler | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Jill Hruby | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Pengfei Xiao | 0 | 1 | 0 |