Impact of Providing Off-Site Economic Development Funds to Dependent Regions Surrounding the U.S. DOE's Major Nuclear Weapons Sites

A rational strategy for the employment of nuclear weapons is a contradiction in terms. The enormity of the destruction, either executed or threatened, severs the nexus of proportionality between means and ends which used to characterize the threat and use of force. This does not mean, however, that all nuclear strategies are equally irrational. The nuclear policy of the Reagan administration—which is essentially the same as that of the Carter administration and which has its roots in developments initiated by even earlier administrations—is particularly ill-formed. As I will demonstrate, the basic reason for this is that the strategy rests on a profound underestimation of the impact of nuclear weapons on military strategy and attempts to understand the current situation with intellectual tools appropriate only in the pre-nuclear era.American strategy for the past several years—the “countervailing strategy”—has been based on the assumption that what is crucial is the ability of American and allied military forces to deny the Soviets military advantage from any aggression they might contemplate. The U.S. must be prepared to meet and block any level of Soviet force. The strategy is then one of counterforce—blocking and seeking to destroy Soviet military power. The goal is deterrence. Although it is concerned with how the U.S. would fight many different kinds of wars, both nuclear and non-nuclear, it is not correct to claim that the strategy seeks to engage in wars rather than deter them.

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Maritime unions and the U.S. merchant marine

Journal of Transportation Management ◽

10.22237/jotm/936144180 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 16-24

Author(s):

Richard L Clarke

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Economic Development ◽

Labor Unions ◽

Union Membership ◽

Union Wage ◽

The United States ◽

The Political ◽

Political Forces ◽

Historical Role ◽

The U.S

U.S. maritime unions have played a vital historical role in both the defense and the economic development of the United States. The economic and the political forces that helped shape and promote the growth of U.S. seafaring labor unions changed dramatically in the 1990s. Maritime union membership in the United States has fallen by more than 80 per cent since 1950. Inflexible union work rules and high union wage scales have contributed to this decline. Recent regulatory and industry changes require a new union approach if U. S. maritime unions are to survive the next decade.

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Framing the Bomb in the West

Cinema's Military Industrial Complex ◽

10.1525/california/9780520291508.003.0012 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Susan Courtney

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

Air Force ◽

Nuclear Weapons ◽

American Exceptionalism ◽

Test Site ◽

Nevada Test Site ◽

Nuclear Weapons Testing ◽

Screen Space ◽

The Military ◽

The U.S

Focused on the period of atmospheric (above-ground) nuclear weapons testing in the continental United States, from 1945 to 1963, this chapter, written by Susan Courtney, does two things. First, it describes some of the basic conditions and infrastructure that shaped the proliferation of films of nuclear weapons tests, including the U.S. government’s secret military film studio dedicated to this work in the hills above Los Angeles, known as Lookout Mountain Air Force Station or Lookout Mountain Laboratory. Second, it turns to the representational legacy that resulted, which was by no means limited to films made by or for the military. More specifically, it considers how footage of atomic tests in New Mexico and at the Nevada Test Site helped to shape the filmic record of nuclear weapons—and popular cultural memory—by framing the bomb in the desert West, arguably the screen space of American exceptionalism.

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From The Hague to Arusha to Kansas Federal Court

Black Panther in Exile ◽

10.5744/florida/9780813066394.003.0010 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 171-177

Author(s):

Paul J. Magnarella

Keyword(s):

Nuclear Weapons ◽

Federal Court ◽

Former Yugoslavia ◽

Wrongful Conviction ◽

Court Records ◽

Trial Transcript ◽

The Hague ◽

Constitutional Protections ◽

The U.S

Paul Magnarella describes his legal work with the UN Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and his travel to Arusha, Tanzania, to work with the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He describes meeting the O’Neals and agreeing to become Pete O’Neal’s attorney. After examining Pete’s court records and trial transcript, Magnarella concludes that the presiding judge, Arthur J. Stanley, made a number of crucial errors that resulted in Pete’s wrongful conviction. Magnarella examines Judge Stanley’s previous famous case involving George John Gessner, a private first-class nuclear weapons specialist. Judge Stanley’s court found Gessner guilty of communicating restrictive data to a foreign nation. Federal appellate judges overturned the conviction, ruling that the U.S. military had coerced Gessner’s confession and the Stanley court had suspended Gessner’s constitutional protections to satisfy the needs of government.

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Does wage reflect labor productivity? A comparison between Brazil and the United States

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy ◽

10.1590/0101-35172018-2764 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 38 (4) ◽

pp. 629-649 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

ALEXANDRE GORI MAIA ◽

ARTHUR SAKAMOTO

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Economic Development ◽

Labor Productivity ◽

Wage Differentials ◽

The United States ◽

Occupational Groups ◽

Economic Cycles ◽

Productivity Differentials ◽

The Relationship ◽

The U.S

ABSTRACT The study compares the relationship between wages and labor productivity for different categories of workers in Brazil and in the U.S. Analyses highlight to what extent the equilibrium between wages and productivity is related to the degree of economic development. Wages in the U.S. has shown to be more attached to labor productivity, while Brazil has experienced several economic cycles were average earnings grew initially much faster than labor productivity, suddenly falling down in the subsequent years. Analyses also stress how wage differentials, in fact, match productivity differentials for certain occupational groups, while for others they do not.

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The Nonproliferation Treaty: An Impossible Alliance?

Worldview ◽

10.1017/s0084255900012201 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 12-14

Author(s):

Frederick C. Thayer

Keyword(s):

Nuclear Weapons ◽

International Peace ◽

Significant Step ◽

The U.S

The Treaty on the Nonprolrferahon of Nuclear Weapons (N.P.T) has been in effect since March of 1970, the debate over its wisdom has quietly passed into history, and we seem to be living comfortably with the notion that its ratification was a significant step toward international peace. I want to suggest here that we have yet to face up to the problems which almost inevitably lie ahead.The N.P.T. as Alliance. The N.P.T. concept dates from a time when most of us looked upon the nuclear world as truly bipolar. Both the U.S. and USSR felt that it would be better to deal with the certainties of this bipolarity than with the uncertainties of proliferation.

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