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August Nuclear Thoughts: the New Proliferation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Gavan McCormack
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It is 63 years since mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki ushered in the nuclear age. The attacks on the two cities are now solemnly commemorated on 6 and 9 August, when the two city mayors issue their messages calling on the world to disarm, messages as necessary as they are certain to be ignored by the powers.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 8 , August 2008 , e3
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Available in Korean: https://www.khan.co.kr/article/200808041812285

References

Notes

[1] Edwin Lyman and Frank N. von Hippel, “Reprocessing Revisited: The International Dimensions of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership,” Arms Control Association, April 2008.

[2] Emma Chanlett-Avery and Mary Beth Nikitin, “Japan's Nuclear Future: Policy debate, prospects, and U.S. Interests,” CRS Report for Congress, 9 May 2008, Washington: Congressional Research Service, p. 4.

[3] “Nuclear power for civilian and military use,” Le Monde Diplomatique, Planet in peril, Arendal Norway, UNEP/1GRID-Arendal, 2006, p. 16.

[4] One “senior US official” is quoted as saying that it would take between 1,000 and 2,500 new reactors by 2050 to reduce global carbon emissions by 50 per cent. Kiryu Hiroto, “Samitto o genpatsu suishin no ba ni shite wa ikenai,” Shukan kinyobi, 27 June 2008, pp. 28-29.

[5] For the current figure of 35 percent: Chanlett-Avery and Nikitin, cit.

[6] Mohammed Elbaradei, “Seven steps to revive world security,” The Financial Times, 2 February 2005. Japan took the position that its program was not new and was therefore exempt from the call for moratorium.

[7] Korea Herald, 4 June 2008.

[8] Quoted in Lyman and von Hippel, and see Senator Reid's home page.

[9] “EPA proposes radiation limits for Yucca Mountain,” Sciencenow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 10 August 2005.