Britain’s Safety Arguments: French Nuclear Testing in Algeria duringNigerian Decolonisation (1959-60) by Chloë Mayoux

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Compaction and pore-collapse of chalky limestones from Mururoa atoll by Aubry, Jérôme, Bollinger, Laurent, Schubnel, Alexandre, Deldicque, Damien, Fortin, Jérôme

“…Between 1975 and 1996, the Centre d’Expérimentation du Pacifique (CEP) carried out French underground nuclear tests under the atoll of Mururoa (French Polynesia). …”
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JAPANESE DIPLOMACY WITHIN ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM (ARF): SOME ASPECTS OF THE REGIONAL SECURITY by O. V. Lebedeva

“…One of the first subjects for discussion at ARF was China nuclear activity and nuclear tests. The issues of constant concern remain territorial disputes in East China Sea and South China Sea. …”
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Assessment of contamination of natural waters with radionuclides and heavy metals the case of Karabulak creek at the Semipalatinsk Test Site. by Madina Dyussembayeva, Almira Aidarkhanova, Azhar Tashekova, Yerbol Shakenov, Vladimir Kolbin, Alyona Merkel, Fail Zhamaldinov, Natalya Larionova, Igor Gorlachev, Pavel Kharkin, Sergey Lukashenko, Yelena Yevlampiyeva

“…The environmental situation around Karabulak Creek at the «Degelen» site-at which underground nuclear tests have been conducted-was found to be unique and attributed to the combined effect of man-made radiation and natural factors and, in particular, to geochemical features of the region.…”
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Événement et trauma dans Doctor Atomic de John Adams by Mathieu Duplay

“…John Adams’s 2005 opera Doctor Atomic, written in collaboration with Peter Sellars, is a case in point, not only because it deals with one of the most violent traumas in 20th‑century history—namely the nuclear test conducted at Los Alamos prior to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—but also because, in addition to offering a potent meditation on the unthinkable, it reveals that all events, be they historical or aesthetic, call for new and as yet unformulated modes of thought ; as psychoanalysis suggests (sometimes in spite of itself), this is a clear sign of their traumatic nature.…”
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Estimation on the Underwater Explosion Equivalent Based on the Threshold Monitoring Technique by Yan Wang, Xiaoming Wang, Zhehan Liu, Wei Tang, Jian Li, De Nan, Shiya Zou

“…Underwater nuclear explosions can be monitored in near real-time by the hydroacoustic network of the International Monitoring System (IMS) established by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), which could also be used to monitor underground and atmospheric nuclear explosions. …”
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Relationship Between Rupture Length and Magnitude of Oceanic Transform Fault Earthquakes by Guilherme W. S. deMelo, Ingo Grevemeyer, Dietrich Lange, Dirk Metz, Heidrun Kopp

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APPROACHES TO THE SETTLEMENT OF THE NUCLEAR CRISIS ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA: AN ECONOMIC ASPECT by L. V. Zakharova

“…Since the 1990s the DPRK has been offered economic benefits in return for an agreement to abandon its nuclear program. After the first nuclear test in 2006 the international community led by the USA has emphasized imposing economic restrictions on North Korea. …”
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Analysis of Nuclear Explosion Detection Capability of IMS Hydroacoustic Network by Yan Wang, Wei Tang, Zhehan Liu, Jian Li, Xiaoming Wang, Shiya Zou

“…The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) organization has established a hydroacoustic network to ensure the effective detection of nuclear explosions in the vast ocean and in the atmosphere over it in order to effectively guarantee the implementation of the treaty. …”
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Modeling the impact of extreme weather events and future climate on the radiologically contaminated sites of Enewetak Atoll by Lakshitha Premathilake, Saikat Ghosh, Rajiv Prasad, Sourav Taraphdar, Taiping Wang, Tarang Khangaonkar, Bruce Napier, Tracy Ikenberry, Lai-yung Leung

“…Abstract Enewetak Atoll underwent 43 historical nuclear tests from 1948 to 1958, including the first hydrogen bomb test, resulting in a substantial nuclear material fallout contaminating the Atoll and the lagoon waters. …”
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