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Disarming proposals: controlling nuclear, biological and chemical weapons by Andy Butfoy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Review of Andrew Butfoy, Disarming Proposals: Controlling Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons. Apart from the centrality of terrorism and the 2003 Iraq War (not to mention the question of North Korea), disarmament is of great interest to the wider ...
Gehrmann, Richard
core   +1 more source

SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL DETERMINANTS OF BIOLOGICAL WARS AND EPIDEMICS

open access: yesRozprawy Społeczne, 2019
This article describes the use of biological weapons from antiquity to the beginning of the 21st century and the importance of epidemics for the development and collapse of civilisations and states. It has been shown that both at a time when the etiology
Marcin Weiner, Karolina Tarasiuk
doaj   +1 more source

The Social Dimension of Technology: The Control of Chemical and Biological Weapons

open access: yesArtefactos, 2020
This paper deals with a number of conceptual issues that arise from attempts by governments and civil society to control the spread of chemical and biological weapons.
Brian BALMER
doaj   +1 more source

Problems of Biosafety in Current International Law

open access: yesМосковский журнал международного права, 2022
INTRODUCTION. The presented article is devoted to an extremely curious and, without exaggeration, urgent topic. The authors seek to understand the content and legal concept of biosafety in International Law.
A. A. Danalya, E. E. Gulyaeva
doaj   +1 more source

Historical Aspects of Bioterrorism: Factors Determining the Possibility of Using Pathogenic Biological Agents as Biological Weapons

open access: yesПроблемы особо опасных инфекций
Every year, the number of potentially life-threatening pathogenic biological agents (PBAs) is rapidly growing, which are represented by viruses, bacteria, rickettsia, chlamydia, protozoa, fungi, genetically engineered constructs and modified ...
M. A. Yudin   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Conceptual Model to Identify Intent to Use Chemical-Biological Weapons

open access: yesJournal of Strategic Security, 2017
This paper describes a conceptual model to identify and interrelate indicators of intent of non-state actors to use chemical or biological weapons. The model expands on earlier efforts to understand intent to use weapons of mass destruction by building ...
Mary Zalesny, Paul Whitney, Amanda White
doaj   +1 more source

Enforcing scenario-based training to enhance chemical defense and health service support capacities

open access: yesDi-san junyi daxue xuebao, 2020
Scenario-based training (SBT) is an effective means to improve the quality of military training.Chemical defense medicine, as an integral element in chemical, biological radiological and nuclear (CBRN) defense, plays a pivotal role in the organization ...
ZOU Zhongmin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Current status of book publishing in the field of biological weapons defense in China

open access: yesShanghai yufang yixue
ObjectiveTo provide scientific support for the compilation of high-quality anti-nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) medical textbooks in China by retrieving books in the field of biological weapons defense in China, summarizing the publication time ...
WANG Xuechun   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Threat of biological weapons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The biological weapons often is defined as ‘weapons of mass destruction poor’, because this is relatively cheap and easy in the production, hidden and relocation. The risk of the use biological weapons still seems to be very real.
Michailiuk, Bogdan
core   +1 more source

Organic Materials of Tomorrow: Horizons of Artificial Intelligence

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines machine learning techniques accelerating the discovery of organic semiconductors by linking molecular structure to properties. Key methods include graph neural networks, generative models, and active learning. Applications to organic photovoltaics demonstrate practical impact.
Harold Mena   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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