1. The Role of Nuclear Weapons in a Post Cold War World of Terr
... of the yield and wiping out more that an entire population in a city had no real value. Both nations concluded that distributing multiple warheads against multiple cities was far more effective; thus the small MIRV became the strategic tool of choice. Evidence of long term radiation effects in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also publicized during this period. During the 1960s research indicated that ... War II days in the nuclear weapons community.] It is the political science of nuclear weapons that is complex, not the physical science. The fields of nuclear engineering, nuclear physics a...
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