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Women: The Secret Weapon of Modern Warfare?

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2008
The images from wars in the Middle East that haunt us are those of young women killing and torturing. Their media circulated stories share a sense of shock. They have both galvanized and confounded debates over feminism and women's equality. And, as Oliver argues in this essay, they share, perhaps subliminally, the problematic notion of women as both ...
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Modern Weapons and the Sino-Soviet Estrangement

The China Quarterly, 1964
Among the most significant polemical fall-out of the past year has been the increasing indication that modern weapons questions lie near the heart of Sino-Soviet estrangement. Whether or not the recent Chinese Communist charge is true, that the Russians later reneged on a 1957 “advanced technology” commitment, Soviet and Chinese behaviour since 1957 ...
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Biological Weapons and Modern Warfare

1991
Abstract : Biological warfare, or the intentional use of living organisms or their toxic products in a destructive manner, has always been a subject of considerable discussion. This paper reviews the history of the development and use of biological agents and their toxins, with specific reference to the U.S. biological warfare program.
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Modernizing Confidence-Building Measures for the Biological Weapons Convention

Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science, 2011
The Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention in December 2011 provides an opportunity to modernize the treaty to better address the challenges of the 21st century. The key to this modernization is to redesign the treaty's Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs), the only formal mechanism for increasing transparency and demonstrating ...
Gregory D, Koblentz, Marie Isabelle, Chevrier   +1 more
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Modern Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict

2015
Dave Wallace, Shane R. Reeves
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The Role of Nuclear Weapons in the Modern World

2008
Deterrence policy was officially acknowledged as a constituent part of national policy after the advent of nuclear weapons and therein became a main instrument of military confrontation. The role of nuclear weapons as a means of deterring aggression will be preserved for the foreseeable future.
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Medicalized weapons & modern war.

The Hastings Center report, 2010
"Medicalized" weapons--those that rely on advances in neuroscience, physiology, and pharmacology--offer the prospect of reducing casualties and protecting civilians. They could be especially useful in modern asymmetric wars in which conventional states are pitted against guerrilla or insurgent forces.
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Real-time Java in modernization of the aegis weapon system

Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on High integrity language technology, 2012
The U.S. Navy's Aegis system, considered to be the "shield of the fleet", provides area air defense for a carrier battle group in addition to providing long-range ballistic missile defense. A typical Aegis deployment consists of about 100 computers, many of which have multiple cores.
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An ancient weapon for the modern physician

British Homeopathic Journal, 1947
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Leveraging Autonomous Weapon Systems: Realism and Humanitarianism in Modern Warfare

Technology in Society, 2023
Mirko Farina, Andrea Lavazza
exaly