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The Nuclear Gamble
"... Almost everyone agrees that nuclear weapons cannot be used to advantage because to do so would be suicide. But the policy of nuclear deterrence requires that those weapons always be ready for use. Deterrence is therefore a gamble that what we are always ready to do, we will not ever do. The gamble h ..."
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of chance. (1) From there it was a short leap to expected losses, as in insurance or medicine, and finally to diverse applications from communications satellites to quality control. This paper expands the area of application to the most serious issue of all time — preventing a nuclear holocaust. But
Iran and the Nuclear Conundrum A War in Waiting?
, 2012
"... Fresh economic sanctions and the isolationist strategy of the West- the US and Europeans are once again driven by their dispute with Iran over its clandestine nuclear weapons programme. Despite the series of talks and negotiations over a decade both at multilateral and bilateral levels, the issue re ..."
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are preoccupied with the approach to resolve this nuclear stalemate amicably, which otherwise has the potential to cause a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East. The nuclear impasse between the West and Iran has gathered clouds of war over the Middle East recently. It has also instigated anxiety among
Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios
- Journal of Evolution and Technology
"... Because of accelerating technological progress, humankind may be rapidly approaching a critical phase in its career. In addition to well−known threats such as nuclear holocaust, the prospects of radically transforming technologies like nanotech systems and machine intelligence present us with unprec ..."
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Because of accelerating technological progress, humankind may be rapidly approaching a critical phase in its career. In addition to well−known threats such as nuclear holocaust, the prospects of radically transforming technologies like nanotech systems and machine intelligence present us
Br. J. Cancer (19!78) 37, 448 PRE-CANCERS AND LIABILITY TO OTHER DISEASES
, 1977
"... Cancers and related sources have shown that when cancers originate in the reticuloendothelial system (RES neoplasms) they are liable to cause loss of immunological competence before they are clinically recognizable. Since these early effects may have lethal consequences, the true prevalence of RES n ..."
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neoplasms is difficult to identify, especially in infection-sensitive age groups and populations with high death rates from infection. An inevitable consequence of a nuclear holocaust is a high infection death rate. Therefore, a population of A-bomb survivors is a totally unsuitable one for studying
Table of Contents
"... I originally wrote You Will Survive Doomsday in the 1980's. So far as I know, everything is still current and up to date. Recently, Fred Walter, through great effort, scanned it in and turned it into HTML, so that you can read it here, or copy it off onto your own computer. You Will Survive Doo ..."
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the effects of a nuclear holocaust for as many people as we can reach, and to locate as many people as we can who are willing and able to join our nuclear survival group.
MYTH The Communication Dimension to the African American Mind
"... Western technological society murders the traditional African myth; science is no longer merely theoria, it is profoundly practical in ways that destroy the traditional myth. Only in the most passionate rhetoric of African Americans do we still find the pathos which accompanies muthos into the twent ..."
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of nuclear holocaust, a danger that has enthroned anxiety permanently in contemporary minds. Therefore it is fitting that we should discuss the nature of myth in African American thought as a way to discover the values of a spiritual, traditional, even mystical rhetoric as it confronts a technological
Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards
"... Because of accelerating technological progress, humankind may be rapidly approaching a critical phase in its career. In addition to well-known threats such as nuclear holocaust, the prospects of radically transforming technologies like nanotech systems and machine intelligence present us with unprec ..."
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Because of accelerating technological progress, humankind may be rapidly approaching a critical phase in its career. In addition to well-known threats such as nuclear holocaust, the prospects of radically transforming technologies like nanotech systems and machine intelligence present us
U. S. A.Existential Risks Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards
"... Because of accelerating technological progress, humankind may be rapidly approaching a critical phase in its career. In addition to well-known threats such as nuclear holocaust, the prospects of radically transforming technologies like nanotech systems and machine intelligence present us with unprec ..."
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Because of accelerating technological progress, humankind may be rapidly approaching a critical phase in its career. In addition to well-known threats such as nuclear holocaust, the prospects of radically transforming technologies like nanotech systems and machine intelligence present us
1 The End of the World and Architecture
"... Sustainability is defined as meeting our current needs without compromising the needs of future generations. The question remains, however, how far into the future must we plan for? Our universe is almost 14 billion years in age, and scientists predict that it will live on at least another 14 billio ..."
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, and collisions with asteroids to earth-bound disasters such as nuclear holocaust, natural resource depletion, and biological/genetically engineered pathogens, humanity is indeed in danger of becoming extinct. Maybe our fate is inevitable and such events are simply too large for us to comprehend, and simply
CONSCIENCE, ARROGATION AND THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS
"... The 50th anniversary of the atomic era will take place in a world twice removed from the events themselves. The scientists who created the bomb during a hot war, and saw it manufactured in the tens of thousands during a Cold War, are about to be appraised, once more, in a novel period of post-Cold W ..."
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destroy cities and, perhaps, civilization. How did they fulfill their personal moral responsibility to prevent that nuclear holocaust which, inevitably, they were the first to perceive?
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