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Unveiling the complexity of post-Roman polity formation using ancient DNA

open access: yes
Tian Y   +28 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Modern Weapons: Possibilities and Limitations

2020
In this chapter, we demonstrate that one of the main reasons behind the phenomenon of viruses and Trojans as main components of cyberweapons are the significant limitations and disadvantages of the absolute majority of modern weapons, including both classical types (chemical, nuclear, biological and space weapons) as well as all the types of exotic ...
Anatoly Belous   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Drugs as Chemical Weapons: Past and Perspectives

open access: yesToxics, 2023
The emergence of modern chemical weapons and chemical warfare is traditionally associated with World War I, but the use of poisons in the military has its roots deep in the past.
Zdenek Hon
exaly   +2 more sources

Modern European flint weapons

Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1884
exaly   +2 more sources

Modern Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict

2015
Dave Wallace, Shane R. Reeves
exaly   +2 more sources

Rape as a weapon of war in modern conflicts

BMJ, 2010
Families and communities are victims, as well as individuals Rape is deployed as a weapon of war in countries throughout the world, from Bosnia to Sudan, Peru to Tibet.1 Rape includes lack of consent to sex as well as provision of sex to avoid harm and obtain basic necessities.
Coleen, Kivlahan, Nate, Ewigman
openaire   +2 more sources

Modern Weapons and the Small Power

International Journal, 1958
this study of the effect of contemporary weapons on Canada's international position, a Small Power is defined as one which lacks nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them; it is a category into which every country in the world except Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom can fit.
John Gellner, James Jackson
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Nuclear weapons modernizations

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2014
This article reviews the nuclear weapons modernization programs underway in the world's nine nuclear weapons states. It concludes that despite significant reductions in overall weapons inventories since the end of the Cold War, the pace of reductions is slowing - four of the nuclear weapons states are even increasing their arsenals, and all the nuclear
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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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Public Relations as a weapon of modern warfare

Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, 1991
Public relations today is an essential part of modern warfare, and the recent war in the Persian Gulf provides an excellent public relations case study of its successful use. The author argues that in the war either history's most impressive use of military weapons, or history's most thorough use of words and images as weapons of war, or both were ...
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