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Are Small Modular Reactors Harbingers of Nuclear Renaissance?<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

By Leonam dos Santos Guimar\u00e2es<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*The writer is a nuclear and naval engineer (Ph.D.) and a member of the Brazilian National Academy of Engineering. CEO of Eletronuclear S.A. Coordinator, Brazilian Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

RIO DE JANEIRO | 17 December 2023 (IDN) \u2014 The new generation of small modular reactors (SMR) is expected to provide greater safety, lower costs, easier financing, better compatibility with limited-sized national power grids, and reduced design risks, which could improve social acceptance and attract private investment.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Suicidal Fallout of a Nuclear Attack in the Middle East<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

By Thalif Deen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UNITED NATIONS | 16 December 2023 (IDN) \u2014 When a junior minister proposed dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza as \u201cone way of dealing with the threat of Hamas\u201d, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instantly shot down the proposal and took the unusual step of suspending the politically far-right minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The End of An Era?<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Case for a New UN General Assembly Special Session on Disarmament<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Sergio Duarte<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The writer is an Ambassador, a former High Representative of the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs<\/a>., and President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil | 7 December 2023 (IDN) \u2014 Seventy-eight years ago, when World War II was about to end, the fear of an armed clash between the main powers that emerged as leaders of a significant part of the international community began to grow as the two rivals developed nuclear capabilities.(<\/em>P27)\u00a0 JAPANESE<\/a> |\u00a0PORTUGUESE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How the US Has Darkened the Nuclear Cloud Over Humanity<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

By Norman Solomon*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article was originally published by <\/em>The Nation<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SAN FRANCISCO | 6 December 2023 (IDN) \u2014 Forty years ago, across a dozen pages of\u00a0The Nation\u00a0<\/em>magazine, I was in a debate with the English historian E. P. Thompson about the US-Soviet nuclear arms race, the relative culpability of both governments and how activists should approach it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nuclear Deterrence: An Unproven Gamble that Risks Humanity<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
By Thalif Deen<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

UNITED NATIONS | 3 December 2023 (IDN) \u2014 Is it justifiable for a country to go nuclear\u2014on the grounds that it is doing so to protect itself from nuclear attacks?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The argument is based on the concept of \u201cnuclear deterrence\u201d: a widely-challenged theory that\u00a0nuclear weapons are intended to deter nuclear attacks prompting the question: would the Russians have invaded Ukraine if it was a nuclear power? (<\/em>P26)\u00a0CHINESE<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0JAPANESE<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0SWEDISH\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forty Years After \u2018The Day After\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

By Daryl G. Kimball<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The writer is the Executive Director of the Arms Control Association (<\/em>ACA<\/em><\/a>). The following article appears as the Focus of the December 2023 issue of Arms Control Today<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WASHINGTON, D.C. | 2 December 2023 (IDN) \u2014 On Sunday, Nov. 20, 1983, I left my college dorm to visit my parents\u2019 home in the suburbs of Oxford, Ohio. That evening, along with some 100 million other Americans, we witnessed two hours of stunning television that would mobilize the nation, as well as some of its leaders, to take meaningful steps to reduce the nuclear danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Are Small Modular Reactors Harbingers of Nuclear Renaissance? By Leonam dos Santos Guimar\u00e2es *The writer is a nuclear and naval engineer (Ph.D.) and a member of the Brazilian National Academy of Engineering. CEO of Eletronuclear S.A. Coordinator, Brazilian Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program. RIO DE JANEIRO | 17 December 2023 (IDN) \u2014 The new generation of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newsletter-beyond-nuclear-non-proliferation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6613,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions\/6613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}