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Emergency and First Aid in Cases of the Use of Chemical, Biological, Radiation, and Nuclear Weapons

open access: yesEurasian Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2016
Chemical, biological, and radioactive substances purposely, accidentally, or after a natural disaster cause a lot of harmful effects on people and the environment.
Erdal Tekin, Şahin Aslan
doaj   +1 more source

Chemical Weapons in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) Iraq Preparing for Chemical War

open access: yesВестник войск РХБ защиты, 2023
The Iraqis became the first nation to use chemical weapons on the modern battlefield during the IranIraq War (1980-1988). There are no general reviews and research available on this issue in Russian.
M. V. Supotnitskiy   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Help‐Seeking and Substance Use Among Police Staff After the 2018 Strasbourg Christmas Market Attack

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The use of mental health services by police staff is usually low. After the 2018 attack on the Strasbourg Christmas market, police officers exposed to psychotraumatic risks were found to have a higher PTSD risk. This study aims to describe the help‐seeking and substance use by police staff after the attack.
Nathalie Nourry   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
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The Statute of Limitations of Actions of Victims of the Use of Chemical Weapons during Iran-Iraq War [PDF]

open access: yesFaṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒Umūmī, 2016
Statute of limitations is an obstacle to sue and prosecute crimes. According to the nature of the actions, nature, purpose, effects and rules governing statute of limitations will be different.
مهین سبحانی
doaj   +1 more source

Introduction: The Path Forward to a WMD Free Zone in the Middle East

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2022
The idea of a weapons of mass destruction-free zone (hereafter WMDFZ, or simply “zone”) in the Middle East is decades old and was first proposed by Egypt in 1990 with support from Iran.
Emad Kiyaei
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First Attempts to Ban Chemical Weapons

open access: yesВестник войск РХБ защиты, 2023
First attempts to ban chemical weapons (CW) as a method of warfare have been made since the second half of the XIX century. At the beginning of the XX century, several legal documents – declarations, protocols and conventions, forbidding the use of ...
N. I. Shilo
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Drivers of tail evolution in squamates and their implications for the fossorial origin of snakes

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The axial skeleton serves as the primary structural support in all vertebrates and is subdivided into five distinct regions: cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and caudal. Relaxation of constraints acting on the terminal end of the axial skeleton has led to remarkable variation in caudal vertebrae number across Squamata.
Olivia Binfield   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

History of U.S. Chemical Weapons Elimination [PDF]

open access: yes
From World War I to 1968, the United States produced chemical weapons as a deterrent against use of similar weapons by other countries. Though never used in battle, these U.S.weapons are now obsolete and deteriorating with age.In 1997, the United States ...

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Nature's Chemical Weapons: Beetle Defenses

open access: yesCHIMIA, 2019
The defense chemicals secreted by beetles are very diverse. They are exemplified by those of members of the families Carabidae (ground beetles) and Coccinellidae (ladybirds).
Catherine E. Housecroft
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