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Smarter US modernization, without new nuclear weapons

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2019
The current US nuclear modernization program departs in several major ways from longstanding US nuclear policy: It elevates the role of nuclear weapons in US national security strategy, includes pl...
Andrew Weber, Christine Parthemore
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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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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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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
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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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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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Modernization of nuclear weapons: Aspiring to “indefinite retention”?

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2012
Currently, all nations with nuclear weapons are modernizing their arsenals, delivery systems, and related infrastructure. These programs have serious implications for nuclear disarmament. By investing in the extension, upgrading, and reinforcement of their arsenals and capacities, the author writes, these governments are investing in the future of ...
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Information Weapons: Forms and Technologies of Modern Information Wars

Contributions To Political Science, 2023
Oleksandr V Radchenko, Ivan Shkurat, Jaroslav Chmyr   +2 more
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V. Modern Fashion’s Secret Weapon

2023
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Modern Weapon Systems

Science & Technology Libraries, 1985
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