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Computable Rationality, NUTS, and the Nuclear Leviathan [PDF]

, 2018
This paper explores how the Leviathan that projects power through nuclear arms exercises a unique nuclearized sovereignty. In the case of nuclear superpowers, this sovereignty extends to wielding the power to destroy human civilization as we know it ...
Amadae, S. M.
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Bioterrorism in the literature of the nineteenth century: The case of Wells and The Stolen Bacillus

Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2016
This article analyzes H.G. Wells’ The Stolen Bacillus, one of the first works of fiction to deal with bioterrorism. Although the use of biological agents by armies in warfare is probably as old as mankind, since the last Iraq War, the fear of biological ...
Helena Costa, Josep-E Baños
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Real-time analysis and classification of bioaerosols based on optical scattering properties [PDF]

Biuletyn Wojskowej Akademii Technicznej, 2017
The size and shape of biological particles are important parameters allowing discrimination between various species. We have studied several aerosols of biological origin such as pollens, bacterial spores and vegetative bacteria.
Miron Kaliszewski, Elżbieta Anna Trafny, Maksymilian Włodarski, Rafał Lewandowski, Małgorzata Stępińska, Mirosław Kwaśny, Jerzy Kostecki, Krzysztof Kopczyński   +7 more
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The Catastrophe of Images [PDF]

, 2016
A review of:Allen MeekBiopolitical Media: Catastrophe, Immunity and Bare LifeRoutledge, Abingdon, 2016ISBN 9781138887060 RRP £90.00 ...
Randell-Moon, Holly
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An Integrated Portable Multiplex Microchip Device for Fingerprinting Chemical Warfare Agents

Micromachines, 2019
The rapid and reliable detection of chemical and biological agents in the field is important for many applications such as national security, environmental monitoring, infectious diseases screening, and so on.
Karolina Petkovic, Anthony Swallow, Robert Stewart, Yuan Gao, Sheng Li, Fiona Glenn, Januar Gotama, Mel Dell’Olio, Michael Best, Justin Doward, Simon Ovendon, Yonggang Zhu   +11 more
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Technology and Biological Weapons: Future Threats [PDF]

, 2004
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Davison, N., Millett, P., Nixdorff, K.
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THE TWENTIETH CENTURY DEVELOPMENT OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF BACTERIAL, BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS AND THE PRESENT CAPABILITIES OF NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT IN THIS RESPECT

Scientia Militaria, 2012
Over the last twenty years increased attention has been focused on the military uses of Bacterial, Biological and Chemical agents (BBC weapons). This phenomenon can be attributed to a number of reasons.
A.L.S. Hudson
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Metabolic network analysis-based identification of antimicrobial drug targets in category A bioterrorism agents. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
The 2001 anthrax mail attacks in the United States demonstrated the potential threat of bioterrorism, hence driving the need to develop sophisticated treatment and diagnostic protocols to counter biological warfare.
Yong-Yeol Ahn, Deok-Sun Lee, Henry Burd, William Blank, Vinayak Kapatral   +4 more
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Rapid Non-Contact Detection of Chemical Warfare Agents by Laser Photoacoustic Spectroscopy

Sensors, 2023
Nerve agents have recently been used in battlefield operations, espionage wars, and terrorist attacks. These compounds, like some pesticides, cause organophosphate poisoning.
Luca Fiorani, Claudio Ciceroni, Isabella Giardina, Fabio Pollastrone   +3 more
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The Danger to the Chemical Weapons Convention from Incapacitating Chemicals [PDF]

, 2003
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Dando, Malcolm R.
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