On 11 March 2011 - as I was preparing to enter graduate school - a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and resultant tsunami caused a full meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant located on the island of Honshu, on the east coast of Japan. Within days the Vienna-based international organisation tasked with verifying the proposed moratorium on nuclear-weapons testing - the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization - issued a series of six technical…
