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scientificactivistprofile.gif An Oxford graduate student by day and a scientific activist by night, Nick Anthis isn't letting his Ph.D. research in protein structure get in the way of defending scientific and social progress.

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The Purpose of Nuclear Test Bans

New developments in nuclear testing simulations may allow the US to sidestep current limits on nuclear testing imposed by the Nuclear Test Ban Treaties. However, although limiting nuclear testing is alone a means in itself, the fundamental purpose of the various Nuclear Test Ban Treaties was to encourage nuclear disarmament, in hopes of opening the door to a more peaceful and reasonable society.

Ask a ScienceBlogger: The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty as a Science Policy Success

One success of science influencing policy in a good way that might not be so obvious was the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which was largely influenced by the work of one scientist, Linus Pauling.

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