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Given the scientific and technological complexity of the nuclear issues, it is more than trivial how important the role of scientific community is. This is not only through for nations being nuclear, irrespective of how developed they are, but also for those nations in the developing of less developed countries looking forward to their future civil and defensive needs. This makes the role of the scientific community much more broad and within a very wide spectrum of activities than the politicians may like.
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A recent book has been particularly enlightening on this subject: Eric Schlosser, Command and Control The Penguin Press 2013.
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It significant that the new US Posture Review declares that US nuclear weapons will not be used against non-nuclear States that are in “good standing” with the NPT. This represents progress with respect to the previous US position, although the US still keeps the right to decide which state is in good standing and which is not, and the use of nuclear weapons is not unconditionally excluded against non-nuclear-weapon states.
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At the end of the Cold War, Russia found itself in a condition of conventional inferiority vis a vis the West and abandoned the no-first-use posture, accepting the idea that nuclear weapons could be meaningfully used to countervail a conventional inferiority.
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34th IAEA General Conference: Resolution adopted during the 332nd plenary meeting on 21 September 1990: “prohibition against all armed attacks against nuclear installations devoted to peaceful purposes whether under construction or in operation”.
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Mansouri, R., Janssens, W., Rabinovici, E., Cotta-Ramusino, P. (2016). Scientific Community Actions to Shape Enhanced Nuclear Safeguards and Non-proliferation Policies. In: Maiani, L., Abousahl, S., Plastino, W. (eds) International Cooperation for Enhancing Nuclear Safety, Security, Safeguards and Non-proliferation. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 172. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24322-1_5
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