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Shake & Bake: Dual-Use Chemicals, Contexts, and the Illegality of American White Phosphorus Attacks in Iraq [PDF]
, 2007 [Excerpt] “On November 29, 2005, in a Department of Defense press conference with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Gen. Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Pace stated that white phosphorus “is a legitimate tool of the ...
Tessier, Joseph D.
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Genome Editing and Defense against Its Misuse
Вестник войск РХБ защитыHuman genome editing methods (“genetic scissors“) may be possibly used for biological attacks of various biological targets, including humans.We should set up an international surveillance scheme to control the use of this method and to detect cases of ...
J. Lakota
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Cues derived from facial appearance in security-related contexts:a biological and socio-cognitive framework [PDF]
, 2013 Failures in the security process can have profound costs for both the individual and organizations (e.g., fraud costs the British economy approximately £72 billion; NFA, 2012).
Watkins, Christopher D.
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Research on Enryo Hojo, Core Member of Unit 731 and Bacteriological Warfare
Yixue yu zhexueAfter World War Ⅱ, in order to avoid war crimes prosecution, the Unit 731 members handed over their research materials to the United States. Enryo Hojo, a figure who left a dark mark in the history of Japanese biological warfare, has largely remained ...
Wenjing GONG, Pengying LI
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Francisella tularensis Transmission by Solid Organ Transplantation, 2017
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019 In July 2017, fever and sepsis developed in 3 recipients of solid organs (1 heart and 2 kidneys) from a common donor in the United States; 1 of the kidney recipients died.
Christina A. Nelson +27 more
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Forgotten Biological War on the Korean Peninsula – Technical Details
Вестник войск РХБ защиты, 2020 The use of biological weapons (BW) by the American army during the war on the Korean Peninsula (25.06.1950–27.07.1953) is an almost forgotten episode in the military history of the twentieth century.
M. V. Supotnitskiy
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Assessing Simulations of Imperial Dynamics and Conflict in the Ancient World [PDF]
, 2019 The development of models to capture large-scale dynamics in human history is one of the core contributions of cliodynamics. Most often, these models are assessed by their predictive capability on some macro-scale and aggregated measure and compared to ...
Colavizza, Giovanni +4 more
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California medicine, 2003 The use of biological agents as controlled weapons of war is practical although uncertain. Three types of agents are feasible, including pathogenic organisms and biological pests, toxins, and synthetic hormones regulating plant growth. These agents may be chosen for selective effects varying from prolonged incipient illness to death of plants, man and ...
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Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences, 2010 Among the Weapons of Mass Destruction, chemical warfare (CW) is probably one of the most brutal created by mankind in comparison with biological and nuclear warfare.
Vijayaraghavan R, Ganesan K, Raza S
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The Jurisprudence of Non-Proliferation: Taking International Law Seriously [PDF]
, 1992 This essay is about the power of the international law of nonproliferation- its mounting power in the world today and its properly augmented power in an enlightened future.
Koplow, David A
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