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Chemical Weapons: Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Needs Comprehensive Plan to Correct Budgeting Weaknesses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is responsible for implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention, which bans the use of chemical weapons and ...
United States. General Accounting Office.
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Ceramic Production and Geodiversity in Iron Age Iberia: An Archaeometric Study of Pottery from Castrejón de Capote (SW Spain)

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The hillfort of Castrejón de Capote is one of the best investigated settlements of Late Iron Age southwest Iberia. Located in the territory that the classical sources attributed to the Celtici, it was occupied between the early 4th and the 1st centuries bce.
Beatrijs de Groot   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The chemical weapons prohibition regime

open access: yes, 2011
Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, unter welchen Voraussetzungen multilaterale Abrüstungsregime erfolgreich operieren können. Als Beispiel hierfür wird das internationale Chemiewaffenverbot-Regime, welches von vielen Experten als das ...
Kröll, Patricia
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Chemical weapons in university curricula - A way to safer society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Chemistry has been used as a tool of war for thousands of years. The earliest tools were poisoned arrows, Greek fire, water poisoning by hellebore plant extracts, etc. Apart from the chemicals used in the early wars, the modern chemical weapons (CW) were
Vajs, Vlatka   +2 more
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Arab despots and the chemical weapons taboo

open access: yes, 2022
Weapons norms matter, and are a major reason why despots in the Arab world have not deployed chemical ...
N.A.J. Taylor (13087353)
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Navigating the Flames: Comparative Analysis of Cremation Practices in the Roman and Early Medieval Periods at Gbely‐Kojatín (SK) and Přítluky (CZ)

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cremation became the dominant funerary practice in the Middle Danube Region during the Roman Period (RP) (1st–4th century) and reappeared in the Early Medieval Ages (EMA) (6th/7th–8th century). This study aims to reconstruct differences in cremation conditions from the Gbely‐Kojatín site (Slovakia, RP and EMA) and the Přítluky site (Czech ...
Katarína Hladíková   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

State violence against protesters

open access: yesTorture
Introduction: In recent years mass protest movements have taken to the streets in many countries across the world. Despite strong international and domestic legal protections for the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and other fundamental human ...
Matthew McEvoy   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Yet the Problem Remains”: Why Genetic Determinism Still Haunts Biomedical Research

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After the horrors of the Holocaust and its connections to eugenics were revealed to the world, many post‐war population geneticists sought to establish rhetorical distance from the Nazi's state‐led campaigns, without abandoning their belief that actively shaping the population's genetics would produce a prosperous society.
Christopher R. Donohue, Ian A. Myles
wiley   +1 more source

Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo‐Italian productivity gap in the late 1930s

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents new estimates of Anglo‐Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing in the late 1930s, derived using the standard single‐deflation approach. The findings confirm a substantial productivity gap between Italy and the United Kingdom at the aggregate level, alongside pronounced intersectoral heterogeneity.
Tancredi Salamone
wiley   +1 more source

Chemical weapons attacks: the end of anonymity: organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons to identify perpetrators [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
On 27 June 2018, the majority of Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) States Parties adopted a decision to expand the mandate of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Meier, Oliver
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