Nuclear Status and Issues

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Nuclear Status and Issues

• Dennis Silverman
• Department of Physics and Astronomy
• U. C. Irvine
• Course Website http//www.physics.uci.edu/silver
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• copenhagen.html

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Nuclear Weapons Issues

• Copenhagen focuses on the moral questions of the
  development of nuclear weapons.
• Today, we are faced with the dangers of new
  nuclear nations.
• We also have questions of limiting or expanding
  our own nuclear weapons.
• We are also rapidly constructing an ABM system.
• New agreements on limitation and treaties have
  been made.
• Is it time for more public concern and discussion
  on these nuclear issues?

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Nuclear Power Issues

• We will examine the dramatic growth of nuclear
  power reactors since the events of Copenhagen.
• Faced with global warming from fossil fuels in
  this century, or their shortages, we examine the
  possible role of nonpolluting nuclear power.
• We will also examine other new power solutions.

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Schedule

• Introduction to Nuclear Status and Issues
• Nuclear Arsenals
• Nuclear Treaties
• Discussion
• Break
• Nuclear Reactors
• Nuclear Reactors and Global Warming Solutions
• Discussion
• Analysis of the course by John Bush