The Future of the U.S. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Force [PDF]
, 2014 The authors assess alternatives for a next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) across a broad set of potential characteristics and situations. They use the current Minuteman III as a baseline to develop a framework to characterize alternative classes of ICBMs, assess the survivability and effectiveness of possible alternatives, and ...
Caston, Lauren +4 more
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Put to the test: For a new sociology of testing. [PDF]
Br J Sociol, 2020 Abstract In an age defined by computational innovation, testing seems to have become ubiquitous, and tests are routinely deployed as a form of governance, a marketing device, an instrument for political intervention, and an everyday practice to evaluate the self.
Marres N, Stark D.
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For the Benefit of All Men: Oceanography and Franco-American Scientific Diplomacy in the Cold War, 1958-1970*. [PDF]
Ber Wiss, 2020 Abstract In the 1960s, the growing strategic importance of ocean exploration led the French government to develop greater capacity in marine scientific research, aiming to promote cooperative and diplomatic relations with the leading states in ocean exploration.
Martínez-Rius B.
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Reducing the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Alert Rate and the Impact on Maintenance Utilization
, 2007 Stephen M. Kravitsky
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Fault tree analysis improvements: A bibliometric analysis and literature review
Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 1639-1659, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Fault tree analysis (FTA) is one of the most popular failure analysis techniques that reveal the potential pathways leading to systems or components failure. It has been widely employed in numerous sectors to understand how a system fails and is improved.
Mohammad Yazdi +6 more
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Hawks in the making? European public views on nuclear weapons post‐Ukraine
Global Policy, Volume 14, Issue 2, Page 305-317, May 2023., 2023 Abstract In the past, the European public has not been enthusiastic about nuclear deterrence and the stationing of US American nuclear weapons in Europe. Has the Russian invasion of Ukraine changed that aversion? We conducted a unique study, surveying the same population of respondents at two points in time—in September 2020 and in June 2022.
Michal Onderco +2 more
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Scientific imaginaries and science diplomacy: The case of ocean exploitation
Centaurus, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 150-170, February 2021., 2021 Abstract As technologies of ocean exploitation emerged during the late 1960s, science policy and diplomacy were formed in response to anticipated capabilities that did not match the realities of extracting deep‐sea minerals and of resource exploitation in the deep ocean at the time.
Sam Robinson
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Boost-Phase Defense Against Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles [PDF]
Physics Today, 2004 An American Physical Society study concludes that disabling ICBMs before they release their munitions would be very difficult at best and, in some cases, impractical.
Daniel Kleppner +2 more
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U.S. Geopolitics and Nuclear Deterrence in the Era of Great Power Competitions
, 2021 Political Science Quarterly, Volume 136, Issue 1, Page 129-153, Spring 2021.
PETER RUDOLF
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The Peculiarities of the National Missile Defense
Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2018 The view of both Moscow and Washington on ballistic missile defense (BMD) for a long time rested on the principle, formulated in the late 1960s, which held that anti-missile systems for defense of the territories were destabilizing, therefore ...
A. G. Arbatov
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