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Author:   Ilkka Taipale (United Nations University, USA) ,  Vappu Taipale (United Nations University Council)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.294kg
ISBN:  

9781138899100

ISBN 10:   1138899100
Pages:   96
Publication Date:   13 May 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Nuclear exit – in our lifetime 2. The importance of rejecting the Gollum’s ring of nuclear power: speech to the nuclear exits conference, Helsinki, 18 October 2013 3. Initial inventory negotiations between the IAEA and the Republic of South Africa, 1991: personal reflections on a nuclear exit 4. The Middle East as a weapons of mass destruction-free zone 5. Forgoing the nuclear option: states that could build nuclear weapons but chose not to do so 6. Scholarly research on nuclear exits: the role of civil society 7. From nuclear weapons acquisition to nuclear disarmament – the Swedish case 8. The Swiss nuclear bomb dream 9. Nuclear-enmeshed Australia: an obstacle to nuclear weapons eradication

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Vappu Taipale is a child psychiatrist, former minister of health and social affairs in Finland. She is also a member and chair of the United Nations University Council, Honorary President, International Society for Gerontechnology, co-president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) 2008-2012 and chair, of the Union for Senior Services in Finland. Ilkka Taipale is a social psychiatrist. He was a member of Parliament in 1971-75 and 2000-07, and of Helsinki City Council 1969–80 and from 1993 onwards. He has edited books on peace, war and social medicine. Titles include War or Health (2001), and One Hundred Social Innovations from Finland, in English (2007). His works have been published in no less than twenty languages.

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