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@ DavidDelaune: Thanks for reverting the changes "| condition_effective = Ratification by the Soviet Union," to "... Russia" and "| depositor =Governments of ... the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" to "... Russian Federation".
Might it be appropriate to split the difference, e.g.:
and
This would make the text more accessible, I think, to people aren't old enough to remember when it was the Soviet Union. Thanks, DavidMCEddy ( talk) 07:49, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
@ NPguy: You reinstated a flag {{dubious|date=September 2011}} on the following:
What's "dubious" about this?
I do not have access to Benjamin K. Sovacool (2011). Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power. ISBN 978-981-4322-75-1. OCLC 741924362. OL 28470617M. Wikidata Q5165159., so I cannot directly evaluate whether "Several high-ranking officials within the United Nations have said" what is claimed. However, I've "looked inside" the book on Amazon. It looks like a reasonable work of scholarship with substantive notes at the end of each chapter and a section on "weapons proliferation" in chapter '6. Political and social concerns: "Broken Plowshare"', which sounds to me like it could easily contain such a claim.
The book was deemed sufficiently notable to merit its own Wikipedia article, and the author "is an American academic who is director of the Danish Center for Energy Technology at the Department of Business Development and Technology and a professor of social sciences at Aarhus University ... [And] is editor-in-chief of Energy Research & Social Science", according to the Wikipedia article on him. The Wikipedia article mentions that the possession of nuclear reactors makes it much easier to get nuclear weapons, though United Nations is not mentioned in that Wikipedia article.
I found the other book, Thomas C. Reed; Danny B. Stillman (2009), The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and its Proliferation, Zenith Press, Wikidata Q111270086, in the Internet Archive. The page cited, 144, does NOT directly mention "Several high-ranking officials within the United Nations", but does initiate a discussion that includes a discussion of problems with the 2005 NPT Review Conference: 'The conference chairman described the event as "a failure."' (p. 145)
Do we really need a close analysis of Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power to support that exact verbiage?
??? Thanks, DavidMCEddy ( talk) 04:19, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
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was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).The new map is OK, but makes a distinction that is not very important and potentially confusing, namely the distinction between states that ratified and those that acceded. It may be of slight historical interest, but there is no practical current difference. I recommend dropping this distinction, merging the light and dark blue, and merging the dark and light green. NPguy ( talk) 22:32, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
On 2022-06-30T02:17:33 User:GreenC bot replaced
in Cho, Adrian (28 January 2016). "Ridding research reactors of highly enriched uranium to take decades longer than projected". Science. Retrieved 13 April 2020..
SADLY, neither of those URLs discuss highly enriched uranium (HUE).
Fortunately, I was able to find a copy of the article on the Internet Archive: Adrian Cho (28 January 2016). "Ridding research reactors of highly enriched uranium to take decades longer than projected". Science. ISSN 0036-8075. Wikidata Q112808574.. I've migrated the reference to Wikidata, where it's actually more complete (e.g., which "Adrian Cho"?) and more easily maintained. DavidMCEddy ( talk) 04:29, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
The article currently has this sentence:
The 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was held at the United Nations in New York from 27 April to 22 May 2015
but there isn't anything on the next Review Conference. It was scheduled for 2020 but it is finally happening in 2022. Would someone please find one or more suitable sources and edit this article accordingly? Oaklandguy ( talk) 04:08, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
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Oaklandguy ( talk) 04:39, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
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A section on Ukraine has been added. The section is problematic because it relies entirely on one article, which is mostly an opinion article, though couched as an academic paper. This paper is not representative of scholarship on the subject (Mariana Budjeryn an d Steve Pifer would be more reliable and balanced sources) and makes highly questionable assertions, most notably that Ukraine possessed the nuclear weapons that were deployed on its territory in 1994. NPguy ( talk) 02:33, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
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@ DavidDelaune: Thanks for reverting the changes "| condition_effective = Ratification by the Soviet Union," to "... Russia" and "| depositor =Governments of ... the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" to "... Russian Federation".
Might it be appropriate to split the difference, e.g.:
and
This would make the text more accessible, I think, to people aren't old enough to remember when it was the Soviet Union. Thanks, DavidMCEddy ( talk) 07:49, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
@ NPguy: You reinstated a flag {{dubious|date=September 2011}} on the following:
What's "dubious" about this?
I do not have access to Benjamin K. Sovacool (2011). Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power. ISBN 978-981-4322-75-1. OCLC 741924362. OL 28470617M. Wikidata Q5165159., so I cannot directly evaluate whether "Several high-ranking officials within the United Nations have said" what is claimed. However, I've "looked inside" the book on Amazon. It looks like a reasonable work of scholarship with substantive notes at the end of each chapter and a section on "weapons proliferation" in chapter '6. Political and social concerns: "Broken Plowshare"', which sounds to me like it could easily contain such a claim.
The book was deemed sufficiently notable to merit its own Wikipedia article, and the author "is an American academic who is director of the Danish Center for Energy Technology at the Department of Business Development and Technology and a professor of social sciences at Aarhus University ... [And] is editor-in-chief of Energy Research & Social Science", according to the Wikipedia article on him. The Wikipedia article mentions that the possession of nuclear reactors makes it much easier to get nuclear weapons, though United Nations is not mentioned in that Wikipedia article.
I found the other book, Thomas C. Reed; Danny B. Stillman (2009), The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and its Proliferation, Zenith Press, Wikidata Q111270086, in the Internet Archive. The page cited, 144, does NOT directly mention "Several high-ranking officials within the United Nations", but does initiate a discussion that includes a discussion of problems with the 2005 NPT Review Conference: 'The conference chairman described the event as "a failure."' (p. 145)
Do we really need a close analysis of Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power to support that exact verbiage?
??? Thanks, DavidMCEddy ( talk) 04:19, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
References
tcr2009
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).The new map is OK, but makes a distinction that is not very important and potentially confusing, namely the distinction between states that ratified and those that acceded. It may be of slight historical interest, but there is no practical current difference. I recommend dropping this distinction, merging the light and dark blue, and merging the dark and light green. NPguy ( talk) 22:32, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
On 2022-06-30T02:17:33 User:GreenC bot replaced
in Cho, Adrian (28 January 2016). "Ridding research reactors of highly enriched uranium to take decades longer than projected". Science. Retrieved 13 April 2020..
SADLY, neither of those URLs discuss highly enriched uranium (HUE).
Fortunately, I was able to find a copy of the article on the Internet Archive: Adrian Cho (28 January 2016). "Ridding research reactors of highly enriched uranium to take decades longer than projected". Science. ISSN 0036-8075. Wikidata Q112808574.. I've migrated the reference to Wikidata, where it's actually more complete (e.g., which "Adrian Cho"?) and more easily maintained. DavidMCEddy ( talk) 04:29, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
The article currently has this sentence:
The 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was held at the United Nations in New York from 27 April to 22 May 2015
but there isn't anything on the next Review Conference. It was scheduled for 2020 but it is finally happening in 2022. Would someone please find one or more suitable sources and edit this article accordingly? Oaklandguy ( talk) 04:08, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
[1]
Oaklandguy ( talk) 04:39, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
References
A section on Ukraine has been added. The section is problematic because it relies entirely on one article, which is mostly an opinion article, though couched as an academic paper. This paper is not representative of scholarship on the subject (Mariana Budjeryn an d Steve Pifer would be more reliable and balanced sources) and makes highly questionable assertions, most notably that Ukraine possessed the nuclear weapons that were deployed on its territory in 1994. NPguy ( talk) 02:33, 20 March 2023 (UTC)