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Chemical Warfare: A Primer on Agents, Munitions, and Defensive Measures

, 1981
The recent Department of Defense proposal to develop a capability to modernize and expand the current U.S. chemical warfare munition stocks with binary nerve agent munitions has focused attention on the subject of chemical warfare.
Kallis, E. M.
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Genomic interplay between deployment exposures and Gulf War illness in Million Veteran Program participants

Human Genomics
Veterans of the 1990–1991 Gulf War (GW) experienced an elevated burden of chronic health conditions, most notably Gulf War Illness (GWI). While the disease etiology remains unclear, it is hypothesized that both genetic susceptibility and deployment ...
Dan Qiu, Brenda Cabrera-Mendoza, Jun He, Lea Steele, Rachel Quaden, Kelly M. Harrington, Sarah T. Ahmed, J. Michael Gaziano, Elizabeth J. Gifford, Mihaela Aslan, Drew A. Helmer, Elizabeth R. Hauser, Renato Polimanti, the Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program #2006 and VA Million Veteran Program   +13 more
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Chemical Warfare Service: history of training, part 6, military training publications (1 July 1939 – 30 June 1944).

, 2008
This study deals with the development of the agency for preparing and coordinating the training doctrine in all tactical and technical publications and visual aids of the Chemical Warfare Service from 1 July 1939 to 1 July 1944.
Historical Branch, Chemical Warfare Service
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Political Recruitment and Pregnancy Resources: Anti‐Abortion Feminists Come to Campus, United States, 1990s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Feminists for Life's (FFL) rhetoric and activism on US college campuses in the 1990s as a case study into the complexities of organizing against abortion in a historical context whereby few supports existed for young pregnant women.
Isobel Bloom
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Detection Papers with Chromogenic Chemosensors for Direct Visual Detection and Distinction of Liquid Chemical Warfare Agents

Chemosensors, 2019
This work provides a summary of our results in the area of the experimental development of detection paper for the detection of liquid phase chemical warfare agents (drops, aerosol), the presence of which is demonstrated by the development of ...
Vladimír Pitschmann, Lukáš Matějovský, Kamila Lunerová, Michal Dymák, Martin Urban, Lukáš Králík   +5 more
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Chemical Warfare Service: history of training, part 5, training of units.

, 2008
The following study provides a description and analysis of the training of Chemical Warfare Service units, beginning with the emergency period before United States entry into WWII and proceeding through June 30, 1944.
Historical Branch, Chemical Warfare Service
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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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Closing U.S. Chemical warfare agent disposal facilities [PDF]

In 1997, the United States ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention Treaty and agreed to destroy its declared stockpile (approximately 30,500 tons) of chemical warfare agents by April 29, 2012 (revised date).

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One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences [PDF]

, 2017
Fritz Haber; Military-Industrial Complex; 1925 Geneva Protocol; Ethics of Chemical Warfare; Dual-use Problem; Anti-plant Chemical Warfare; Chemical Weapons During World War I; Chemical Weapons During World War II; Chemical Weapons in the Middle ...

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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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