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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, Vitali Saladukha
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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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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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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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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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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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