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Columnists
27 September 2012
Biosecurity

The One Health solution

Laura H. Kahn

The popular press is finally recognizing the important connections among human, animal, and environmental health. Environmental destruction, global trade and travel, intensive agriculture, and other human activities all lead to the emergence of previously unknown microbes that can infect across species, causing zoonotic disease outbreaks like West Nile virus, avian influenza, hantavirus, HIV/AIDS, and others. No wonder the media is paying attention.

26 September 2012

A pesar de los reparos, los bancos de combustible son prometedores

Ramamurti Rajaraman (ES)

La idea de establecer un banco de combustible para uranio poco enriquecido (LEU, por sus siglas en inglés) fue concebida

Analysis
25 September 2012
Nuclear Energy

How to unsnag US-South Korea nuclear negotiations

Miles A. Pomper

With time running out before the expiration of the US-South Korea nuclear cooperation agreement that has governed the two countries' nuclear trade since 1972, negotiators remain far apart on the terms of a new pact. Failure to reach a deal would threaten billions of dollars in nuclear commerce between the two countries.

Columnists
25 September 2012
Climate Change

Fired up

Dawn Stover

-- White Salmon, Washington

"I smell smoke," I told my husband.

"Me too."

We ran outside and saw gray clouds billowing over the ridge to our west. Smoke was already visible in the air around us. We knew in an instant that it was a wildfire, and the wind was blowing it straight toward us.

24 September 2012

رغم المخاوف، بنوك الوقود تبشر بالخير

Ramamurti Rajaraman (AR)

ولدت فكرة إنشاء بنك الوقود لليورانيوم منخفض التخصيب منذ برنامج الرئيس دوايت أيزنهاور "الذرة من أجل السلام"

24 September 2012

虽存疑虑，燃料银行仍有希望

Ramamurti Rajaraman (CH)

建立低浓缩铀（LEU）燃料银行的构想早在艾森豪威尔总统提出"和平利用核能"方案时就产生了。当时的燃料银行背后的基本思想是鼓励各国采用民用核能计划。但由于冷战的紧张局势，直到千禧年开始前，燃料银行的建立都进展甚微。

Columnists
20 September 2012
Climate Change

Buying climate stability

Kennette Benedict

In the August issue of Rolling Stone ("Global Warming's Terrifying New Math"), Bill McKibben provides clarity about the amount of carbon dioxide in the coal, oil, and gas reserves currently owned by companies and countries worldwide. The key number is the 2,795 gigatons of carbon dioxide that will be emitted by burning these existing reserves over the next decades.

Opinion
20 September 2012
Nuclear Weapons

The astonishing National Academy of Sciences missile defense report

George N. LewisTheodore A. Postol

Just a few weeks ago, on September 11, the National Academy of Sciences issued a report titled "Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense: an Assessment of Concepts and Systems for US Boost Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives." It is an astonishing document, given that it purports to be the product of a respectable scientific institution. It contains numerous flawed assumptions, analytical oversights, and internal inconsistencies.

Opinion
20 September 2012
Nuclear Weapons

The astonishing National Academy of Sciences missile defense report

George N. LewisTheodore A. Postol

A recent National Academy report reaches flawed conclusions based on incorrect assumptions, analytical oversights, and internal inconsistency. It should undergo a comprehensive technical review before it is used in missile defense policy making.

17 September 2012

إلحاق الضرر بالآخرين يستوجب مساعدتهم

Hira Bahadur Thapa (AR)

أقرٌ جميع المشاركون  في هذه المائدة المستديرة بالمخاطر المرتبطة بالطاقة النووية، وناقشوا امكانية التوسع في استخدامها فيما يتعلق بالتحكم بالمخاطر. ومع ذلك فنحن جميعاً نتفق أن مثل هذا التوسع في استخدام الطاقة النووية تبرره المخاطر المرتبطة بتغير المناخ.

Columnists
17 September 2012
Nuclear Weapons

Prague, revisited

Kingston Reif

Few national security issues are as important to President Barack Obama as reducing the threat posed by nuclear weapons. Obama devoted his first major foreign policy speech as president to the subject in April 2009 in Prague, where he pledged America's commitment to work toward a world free of nuclear weapons. In particular, the president laid out a series of interim steps that the United States must take to reduce the risk of a nuclear catastrophe.

13 September 2012

La posibilidad de dañar conlleva la responsabilidad de ayudar

Hira Bahadur Thapa (ES)

Todos los participantes de esta Mesa Redonda reconocen el peligro asociado a la energía nuclear y han planteando la expansión de ésta en términos de riesgos controlables. No obstante, todos concordamos en que dicha expansión se justifica debido al peligro por el cambio climático.

13 September 2012

有能力造成伤害，就有责任提供帮助

Hira Bahadur Thapa (CH)

参与此次"圆桌讨论"的所有作者都认识到了与核能有关的危险，并从可控风险的角度讨论了核能的扩展。无论如何，我们都同意，由于气候变化的危险，扩展核能是合理的。鉴于本次"圆桌讨论"就核能所达成的共识，在我的最后一篇文章中，我想探讨像尼泊尔这样不可能发展自己核电的国家能为气候变化出力的方式，以及较富裕国家对尼泊尔和其他最不发达国家所承担的责任

11 September 2012

الأمن في العهد الجديد

Anthony Turton (AR)

احتلت قضية الأمن اهتماماً بارزاً في عدة مقالات بهذه المائدة المستديرة. وقد ناقش وانج هايبن نظرة الأشخاص من الطبقات الاقتصادية المختلفة إلى المخاطر التي تهدد الأمن الشخصي التي تفرضها قضايا تغير المناخ والطاقة النووية.

6 September 2012

新纪元的安全

Anthony Turton (CH)

本次"圆桌讨论"几篇文章中，一个突出的主题就是"安全"。Wang Haibin讨论了不同经济阶层的人看待气候变化与核能对个人安全带来风险的不同方式。Hira Bahadur Thapa详细阐述了南亚不稳定的安全局势对尼泊尔带来的威胁。而我则探讨了南非紧迫的水资源限制问题，我相信这个问题威胁国家的经济安全乃至生存。 而我也相信，这个问题是能够通过核电供能的海水淡化来缓解（也许使用钍作为燃料能减少核扩散的担忧）。

6 September 2012

La seguridad en una nueva época

Anthony Turton (ES)

La seguridad ha sido un tema que ha destacado en varios de los ensayos de esta Mesa Redonda. Wang Haibin ha hablado de cómo las personas de diferentes clases económicas perciben los riesgos a su seguridad personal, riesgos que provienen del cambio climático y la energía nuclear.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
6 September 2012
Asia

Ability to harm brings responsibility to help

Hira Bahadur Thapa

All participants in this Roundtable recognize the dangers associated with nuclear energy, and have discussed its expansion in terms of manageable risk. We all nonetheless agree that such an expansion is justified by the dangers of climate change.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
6 September 2012
Asia

La posibilidad de dañar conlleva la responsabilidad de ayudar

Hira Bahadur Thapa (ES)
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
6 September 2012
Asia

有能力造成伤害，就有责任提供帮助

Hira Bahadur Thapa (CH)
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
6 September 2012
Asia

إلحاق الضرر بالآخرين يستوجب مساعدتهم

Hira Bahadur Thapa (AR)
5 September 2012

الإنصاف عامل أساسي لنجاح بنك الوقود

Khaled Toukan (AR)

الفكرة الأساسية وراء إنشاء بنك دولي للوقود هو أنه سيعمل، بطريقة موثوق بها وغير تمييزية، على توفير إمدادات طارئة لليورانيوم منخفض التخصيب بسعر السوق للدول المشاركة فيه.

5 September 2012

公平对燃料银行而言是最重要的

Khaled Toukan (CH)

国际燃料银行背后的基本想法是，它会以可靠且不歧视的方式，为签署参加的国家紧急提供市场定价的低浓缩铀。选择燃料银行成员身份的国家将有更大的信心可获得不受干扰的反应堆级燃料。作为回报，这些国家也要放弃自己进行铀浓缩和乏燃料后处理的权利。这样的安排对一些国家是合适的；但对一些别的国家来说，可能就不那么理想了。

5 September 2012

Para un banco de combustible, la equidad es fundamental

Khaled Toukan (ES)

La idea fundamental detrás de un banco internacional de combustible es que pondría a disposición de los estados signatarios, de manera confiable y no discriminatoria, el abastecimiento de emergencia de uranio poco enriquecido a precio de mercado.

Opinion
5 September 2012
Climate Change

Global food security and "virtual water"

Joel Carr

Food production requires adequate soils, climate, and water. Roughly 70 percent of the freshwater appropriated by humans worldwide is used for food production. In the absence of trade, people rely on local freshwater resources to grow food. However, when water limitations constrain food production to the point that there is not enough food for everyone, the trade of food commodities provides a mechanism by which regions can compensate for inadequate local water resources.

Opinion
4 September 2012
Nuclear Energy

Japan’s culture: Culprit of the nuclear accident?

Toshihiro Higuchi

On July 5, an independent investigative commission established by the Japanese Diet issued its final report on the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Hailed as the definitive word on the subject thus far, the report points to what it calls the "fundamental causes" of the disaster, all of them cultural.

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