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Parent topics
- Social movement [r]: Contentious performances, public displays and advocacy campaigns by ordinary people to assert collective claims for attention, redress of grievances and change, and the voluntary associations, formal organizations and emergent institutions that coordinate and direct them. [e]
- Nuclear weapon [r]: A weapon that produces extremely powerful explosions from principles involving subatomic particle reactions, rather than the chemical reactions among atoms that power conventional explosives [e]
- Nuclear power [r]: The energy produced from controlled (non-explosive) nuclear reactions. Commercial nuclear power plants currently use the heat energy derived from nuclear fission reactions to generate steam, which in turn is used to generate electricity or other energy. [e]
Subtopics
Actions & organizations
- Anti-nuclear protest [r]: Protest demonstrations in support of the anti-nuclear movement, more about a general opposition to nuclear engineering than to specific technologies; sometimes tied to even more general antiwar and other protest [e]
Weapons
- Strategic strike [r]: Use of kinetic (i.e., physically destructive) and nonkinetic (e.g., information operations deep into enemy territory, affecting military forces in the homeland, or population, industry, and infrastructure. [e]
- Strategic bombing [r]: Strategic strike attacks against the homeland military forces, population and industry of a nation, conducted by manned bomber aircraft [e]
- Nonproliferation [r]: An aspect of arms control that focuses on the dissemination of technology and materials from nations acknowledged to have them, to those national and non-national actors who do not. [e]
- Arms control [r]: Treaties and implementation agreements to restrict the development, production, deployment, or transfer of specified weapons or weapons technologies. [e]
- Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [r]: The principal worldwide agreement for controlling the spread of nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons technology, without inhibiting the peaceful use of nuclear energy [e]
- National technical means of verification [r]: Euphemism principally for imagery intelligence satellites and other means of strategic arms control verification, principally because the Soviet Union did not want its public to know that they could not prevent Western observation of the state [e]
- START I [r]: Add brief definition or description
- START II [r]: Add brief definition or description
Nuclear power
Nuclear waste
- Deterrence [r]: A set of policies and actions that prevent an opponent from taking an undesired action [e]
- Compellence [r]: A set of decisions, policies and actions intended to force an opponent to take some action, as opposed to deterring the adversary not to take a different action. [e]
- Greenpeace [r]: An organization devoted to environmental activism, founded in the United States and Canada in 1971. [e]
- Chernobyl Disaster [r]: A nuclear reactor accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, in 1986, considered to be the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history and the only level 7 instance on the International Nuclear Event Scale. [e]
- Precision-guided munition [r]: A powered or unpowered weapon that adjusts its flight path to hit a specific target, with a circular error probability in the low number of meters, often less than the radius of destruction [e]
- Protests against the Iraq War [r]: International protest movement against the U.S-led invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003. [e]
- Vietnam, war, and the United States [r]: The interactions of the Vietnam War with United States domestic politics and public opinion, and, in turn, how domestic considerations affected the military situation [e]