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Overall View of Chemical and Biochemical Weapons
Toxins, 2014 This article describes a brief history of chemical warfare, which culminated in the signing of the Chemical Weapons Convention. It describes the current level of chemical weapons and the risk of using them.
Vladimír Pitschmann
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Biological Weapons and Modern Warfare
1991Abstract : 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, 2011The 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 ...
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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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The Role of Nuclear Weapons in the Modern World
2008Deterrence 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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Modern Weapons and the Sino-Soviet Estrangement
The China Quarterly, 1964Among 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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Real-time Java in modernization of the aegis weapon system
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on High integrity language technology, 2012The 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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Information Weapons: Forms and Technologies of Modern Information Wars
Contributions To Political Science, 2023Oleksandr Radchenko +2 more
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An ancient weapon for the modern physician
British Homeopathic Journal, 1947openaire +2 more sources