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Academicians V.I. Vernadsky, A.T. Fersman and V.G. Khlopin are charged by the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR to outline measures to speed up work on the use of atomic energy.
25.06.1940
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Blog entries: Nuclear security
12.02.2015
The paper concludes that noteworthy changes in the international nuclear non-proliferation regime are hardly expected. Being useful for legal formalization of the non-nuclear weapon status of a state giving up nuclear military program and for further monitoring of related obligations, the NPT and non-proliferation regime overall can’t stop a development of nuclear weapons if a state decides to do so. In turn, the prospects of nuclear proliferation (or non-proliferation) depend on peculiarities of the strategic situation in a particular region and its evolution.