Search Results

You are viewing all 11 results.

Sort Results by:

Senator Nunn on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

July 23, 2001

Senator Nunn was part of a panel of experts who discussed President Bush's meeting with Russian President Putin and their talks regarding missile defense and nuclear weapons.

Transcript | Cold War Era, Deterrence, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Arms Control, Disarmament, Nuclear Weapons Effects, Safeguards
Senator Nunn interviewed on The Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio

May 1, 2001

Senator Nunn interviewed on The Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio

Transcript | Biological Terrorism, Dismantlement, Enforcement, Nuclear Weapons Effects, Nuclear Weapons Production, Safeguards, Tactical/Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism, Verification and Monitoring, Warning and Decision Time
Scientists Say Bunker-Busting Nuclear Weapons Would Be Unreliable

May 4, 2004

Bunker-buster nuclear weapons would be more likely to cause tens of thousands of deaths above ground than to destroy underground facilities, two scientists told the National Academies of Science, Defense News reported yesterday (see GSN, April 29).

GSN Article | Nuclear Weapons Development, Nuclear Weapons Effects, Tactical/Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons
High-Altitude Nukes Still a Danger, Report Finds

July 15, 2004

A high-altitude explosion of a nuclear weapon could cause damage to the U.S. electronic infrastructure that might take years to repair, according to a report set to be released next week by a congressional commission (see GSN, Oct. 21, 2002).

GSN Article | Nuclear, Nuclear Weapons Effects
N. Korea, Iran May Hope To Generate EMP, Report Says

July 23, 2004

North Korea and Iran may be looking to generate an “electromagnetic pulse” with a high-altitude nuclear explosion to disable U.S. computer systems, a congressional task force said Thursday (see GSN, July 15).

GSN Article | Nuclear, Nuclear Weapons Development, Nuclear Weapons Effects, Nuclear Weapons Programs
Pentagon Conducts Nuclear Accident Exercise

Sept. 14, 2004

The U.S. Defense Department yesterday began a three-day exercise at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana to simulate a nuclear weapon transportation accident and its subsequent cleanup, according to the Great Falls Tribune (see GSN, Aug. 26).

GSN Article | Nuclear Weapons Effects, Nuclear Weapons Programs, Preparedness and Response, Nuclear
Plausibility of EMP Threat Classified, Expert Says

Sept. 24, 2004

WASHINGTON — Questions about the plausibility of an alleged special electromagnetic pulse nuclear weapon that could to someday wipe out modern U.S. society by damaging or destroy its electrical system cannot be publicly addressed because the answers are classified, a U.S. expert said Wednesday (see GSN, July 23).

GSN Article | Nuclear Weapons Effects, Threats of Nuclear Terrorism
Study Warns of Nuclear War's Environmental Effects

April 8, 2008

A South Asian nuclear war would have global environmental consequences that could persist for a decade after the immediate carnage, according to a study published yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (see GSN, June 5, 2002).

GSN Article | Nuclear Weapons Effects
U.K. Must do More to Prepare For EMP Attack, Lawmakers Say

Feb. 22, 2012

British lawmakers called on their government do more to prepare for the possibility that terrorists or an enemy nation could detonate a nuclear bomb high in the atmosphere in an attack that could have disastrous ramifications for the country, the BBC reported on Wednesday.

GSN Article | Nuclear, Nuclear Terrorism, Nuclear Weapons Effects, Preparedness and Response, Nuclear
South Asian Nuclear War Would Upend World Food Supply: Analysis

April 25, 2012

A nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan would produce airborne debris that would poison distant crop fields with radioactive material and curb worldwide precipitation and heat levels, disrupting global agriculture and potentially causing the starvation of more than 1 billion people, according to an independent analysis issued on Tuesday.

GSN Article | Nuclear Weapons Effects
Electromagnetic Pulse Could Knock Out U.S. Power Grid

Sept. 13, 2012

WASHINGTON -- U.S. power grids and other civilian infrastructure are not prepared for electromagnetic pulses that could result from weapons or violent space weather, according to testimony at a congressional subcommittee hearing Wednesday.

GSN Article | Nuclear Weapons Effects, Preparedness and Response, Nuclear

Search Results

Senator Nunn on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

Senator Nunn interviewed on The Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio

Scientists Say Bunker-Busting Nuclear Weapons Would Be Unreliable

High-Altitude Nukes Still a Danger, Report Finds

N. Korea, Iran May Hope To Generate EMP, Report Says

Pentagon Conducts Nuclear Accident Exercise

Plausibility of EMP Threat Classified, Expert Says

Study Warns of Nuclear War's Environmental Effects

U.K. Must do More to Prepare For EMP Attack, Lawmakers Say

South Asian Nuclear War Would Upend World Food Supply: Analysis

Electromagnetic Pulse Could Knock Out U.S. Power Grid

Filter by

Displaying results for

Refine Results by

Search Results

Filter by

Displaying results for

Refine Results by

Topic

Country/Region

Type

People