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Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program and Implications for US National Security. [PDF]

, 2010
This article analyzes Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program and the characteristics of the environment in which the program is nested. These characteristics include Pakistan’s history of internal and external instability; nuclear saber rattling during ...
Tkacik, Michael
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Adaptive Weapon-to-Target Assignment Model Based on the Real-Time Prediction of Hit Probability

IEEE Access, 2019
Weapon-to-target assignment (WTA), which minimizes the damage to our forces by launching interceptor missiles (weapons) against ballistic missiles of the enemy (targets), is a critical decision-making problem of ballistic missile defense missions.
Jaeyeon Jang, Hyui Geon Yoon, Jeong Cheol Kim, Chang Ouk Kim   +3 more
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The ISCIP Analyst, Volume XIV, Issue 4 [PDF]

, 2007
This repository item contains a single issue of The ISCIP Analyst, an analytical review journal published from 1996 to 2010 by the Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and ...
Adami, Fabian, Cavan, Susan, Dynkin, Alexey, Henderson, Creelea, Lynch, Tammy, McGann, Melissa, Northrup, Lt. Col. Carol, Shepherd, Monika   +7 more
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Links between traumatic brain injury and ballistic pressure waves originating in the thoracic cavity and extremities

, 2008
Identifying patients at risk of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is important because research suggests prophylactic treatments to reduce risk of long-term sequelae.
Alexander MP, Amy Courtney, Bruton C, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Cernak I, Cernak I, Courtney M, Courtney M, Herrmann M, Krave U, Kushner DS, Kushner DS, Lowenstein DH, Margerison JH, Mayorga MA, Michael Courtney, Newgard K, Scott SG, Shaw NA, Stalnacke BM, Suneson A, Suneson A, Suneson A, Thompson HJ, Toth Z, Treib J, Trudeau DL, Vanderploeg RD, Vink R, Wang Q   +29 more
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Parallelized Particle Swarm Optimization on FPGA for Realtime Ballistic Target Tracking. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel), 2023
Park J, Lee H, Kwon HH, Hwang Y, Choi W.
europepmc   +1 more source

Historical review of missile aerodynamic developments [PDF]

The development of missiles from early history up to about 1970 is discussed. Early unpowered missiles beyond the rock include the spear, the bow and arrow, the gun and bullet, and the cannon and projectile.
Spearman, M. Leroy
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An Overview of Sensors for Long Range Missile Defense. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel), 2022
Fontana S, Di Lauro F.
europepmc   +1 more source

Cracks in the Foundation: NATO's New Troubles [PDF]

, 2008
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is beginning to fracture. Its members, sharing the triumphalism that underpinned U.S. foreign policy after the Cold War, took on burdens that have proved more difficult than expected.
Stanley Kober
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Ballistic Missile Defense: New Plans, Old Challenges

Journal of Strategic Security, 2010
On September 17, 2009—the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 that marked the beginning of World War II—the Obama Administration announced its intention to shelve plans for the U.S.
Elizabeth Zolotukhina
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Does the US program of Conventional Prompt Global Strike threaten Russian national security?

Международная аналитика, 2016
The article analyses a concept of Conventional Prompt Global Strike aimed at developing weapons systems that can deliver a conventional warhead anywhere in the world within an hour as a prioritized part of the US military strategy.
E. Zvedre
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