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The Vaccination Cold War [PDF]
Hastings Center Report, 2021 AbstractSurveying the early responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic among nation states, one finds a veritable babel of responses, some predictable and some not. Would these results have been different half a century or more ago, when smallpox was eradicated and hopes were high that international cooperation would yield similar results for other infectious ...
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Temperature, 2017 As researchers for the Defence Research and Development Canada, attending field trials, military exercises and operations for data collection purposes is a common and exciting part of the job.
Len Goodman, Wendy Sullivan-Kwantes
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Weak Keys and Cryptanalysis of a Cold War Block Cipher [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 T-310 is a cipher that was used for encryption of governmental communications in East Germany during the final years of the Cold War. Due to its complexity and the encryption process,there was no published attack for a period of more than 40 years until 2018 by Nicolas T. Courtois et al. in [10].
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Between Pacifism and Nuclear Energy (1930-1955) [PDF]
arXiv, 2007 The atomic bomb American program known as Manhattan Project has been studied in detail. Historians argue that the beginning of this program is rooted in the letter Einstein sent to American President Roosevelt in the summer of 1939. This article examines Einstein's activities before 1933 as radical pacifist in favor of the principles of universal ...
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Temporal Analysis of Worldwide War [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Analysis of wars and conflicts between regions has been an important topic of interest throughout the history of humankind. In the latter part of the 20th century, in the aftermath of two World Wars and the shadow of nuclear, biological, and chemical holocaust, more was written on the subject than ever before. Wars have a negative impact on a country's
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The Roots of the Religious Cold War: Pre-Cold War Factors [PDF]
Social Sciences, 2018 The article is an examination of the roots of the amalgam of complex forces that informed the ‘religious cold war’. It looks at the near and the more distant past. Naturally this includes consideration of the interwar years and those of the Second World War.
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The Universe, the Cold War, and Dialectical Materialism [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 Ideological considerations have always influenced science, but rarely as directly and massively as in the Soviet Union during the early Cold War period. Cosmology was among the sciences that became heavily politicized and forced to conform to the doctrines of Marxism-Leninism.
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University of Toronto Quarterly, 2008 Careful analysis of the historical context in which the first (1953) volume of Yale's magisterial edition of Milton's prose works, ‘Yale I,’ was produced reveals how the Milton it represents was shaped by current events – specifically, how Cold War developments threatened editor Don Wolfe's very American vision of what a liberal society should be. The
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The Economic Consequences of Being Widowed by War: A Life-Cycle Perspective [PDF]
Journal of Public Economics, 239 (2024)Despite millions of war widows worldwide, little is known about the economic consequences of being widowed by war. We use life history data from West Germany to show that war widowhood increased women's employment immediately after World War II but led to lower employment rates later in life. War widows, therefore, carried a double burden of employment
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Spontaneous coalition forming: a model from spin glass [PDF]
arXiv, 1999 In this paper a simple model is proposed to decribe the spontaneous formation of coalitions among a group of actors like countries. The basic ingredients are from the physics of disorder systems. It is the interplay of two different spin glass models with respectively random bond and random site disorders which is instrumental in the present approach ...
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