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Insect‐specific viruses used in biocontrol of mosquito‐borne diseases
Insect‐specific RNA viruses (ISRVs) are involved in a wide range of families including Flaviviridae, Bunyaviridae, Negeviruses, Togaviridae, Reoviridae, Mesoniviridae, and Rhabdoviridae, which cannot infect vertebrates, including humans. However, ISRVs can infect and replicate in mosquitoes, interfering with the replication of mosquito‐borne viruses ...
Jiating Chen+2 more
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Does the Weapon of Mass Destruction Impact Masses Equally? Examining the Disproportionate Impacts of Nuclear Weapons [PDF]
Regarded as the most powerful weapon ever created, the nuclear weapon is associated with mass destruction and even total annihilation. This thesis aims to answer the question: does the weapon of mass destruction impact masses equally?
Barnhart, Carley
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BLOCKING THE “NUCLEAR ALLERGY” SYMPTOMS: A BRIEF HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGY OF MULTILATERAL NUCLEAR AFFAIRS CONCERNING NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREE-ZONE ESTABLISHME [PDF]
Since the horrific 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the abnormal phenomenon known as “nuclear allergy” began to initially manifest in Japan, simultaneously reflecting ambivalent strategies and international relations with both nuclear ...
STOJCHEVSKA, Stefani
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The Role of Small States in Promoting International Security: The Case of Mongolia
Multilateralism and preventive diplomacy are essential in productively addressing common interests and challenges, including issues related to nuclear security.
Enkhsaikhan Jargalsaikhan
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“Permanence with Accountability”: An Elusive Goal of the NPT
The slogan “permanence with accountability” emerged at the NPT’s 1995 Review and Extension Conference as a way of characterizing the outcome of that conference – the indefinite extension of the treaty coupled with enhanced means of ensuring ...
Paul Meyer
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Seventy-four years have passed since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Approximately 210,000 victims died, and another 210,000 people survived.
M. Tomonaga
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The Nuclear System-of-Systems Capabilities Analytic Process [PDF]
This work includes the first known capabilities-based vulnerability analysis process able to evaluate a system of systems exposed to nuclear weapon environments: the Nuclear System-of-Systems Capabilities Analytic Process (NuSCAPTM).
Gilbreath, Robert Boone
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A National Pragmatic Safety Limit for Nuclear Weapon Quantities
This study determines the nuclear pragmatic limit where the direct physical negative consequences of nuclear weapons use are counter to national interests, by assuming all unknowns are conservatively optimistic.
Joshua M. Pearce, D. Denkenberger
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Prospects of nuclear proliferation, or of transition to a nuclear-weapon-free world
We first provide a terse review of the status and prospects of nuclear-weapon proliferation, and we then discuss the present perspective of a future transition to a Nuclear-Weapon-Free ...
Calogero F.
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