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Catalysis Science in China: From Traditional Techniques to Modern Innovations
Natural Sciences, EarlyView.The discipline of catalysis arrived at China in 1860s. The country started immediately to employ catalytic technologies to produce traditional sulfuric acid, for example, the Cylinder‐Tower Method during World WarII. Interestingly, the first Chinese term Cui Hua of catalysis appeared much late in 1930s. In recent years, however, China has become one of
Zhiliang Li, Xianbiao Fu
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Non-strategic nuclear weapons: the next step in multilateral arms control [PDF]
This paper by Crispin Rovere and Kalman A Robertson addresses the many barriers to including tactical nuclear weapons in disarmament talks. It considers the difficulty of bringing other emerging powers such as China into the nuclear arms control equation.
Crispin Rovere, Kalman A Robertson
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Re-nuclearization or Disarmament: A Fateful Choice for Humanity [PDF]
, 2004 In light of the real possibility that terrorists could acquire and use nuclear weapons to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people, never has the need to eliminate the threat posed by nuclear weapons been more urgent.
Douglas Roche
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The ThinkerAfrica’s role in nuclear debates and in opposing nuclear weapons is at once consequential and overlooked. Since the 1996 Treaty of Pelindaba, the African continent has been a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (NWFZ), providing a powerful example of opposition ...
Anna-Mart van Wyk +2 more
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Sustaining social license: nuclear weapons and the art of legitimation. [PDF]
Int Polit (Hague), 2023 Egeland K.
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The origin of Iraq's nuclear weapons program: Technical reality and Western hypocrisy [PDF]
arXiv, 2005 This report is based on a series of papers written between 1980 and 2005 on the origin of Iraq's nuclear weapons program, which was known to one of the authors in the late 1970s already, as well as to a number of other physicists, who independently tried without success to inform their governments and the public.
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Phytochemical Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction The SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic has revealed a deficiency in antiviral agents. Plants, traditionally used for respiratory infections, are valuable sources of antiviral compounds. Such a plant is the Sideritis L. taxa (mountain tea), traditionally used against cold and cough.
Ekaterina‐Michaela Tomou +5 more
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A Descriptive Analysis of the Use of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Weapons by Violent Non-State Actors and the Modern-Day Environment of Threat. [PDF]
Prehosp Disaster Med, 2023 Tin D +6 more
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Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This study aims to identify different frontline emergency response workforce's perceived knowledge of hazards and their willingness and motivations to go to work during them. An online version of the “Fight or Flight” survey was distributed and collected from Norwegian emergency personnel during the spring of 2023.
Jarle L. Sørensen +9 more
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International Law and the Problem of Change: A Tale of Two Conventions [PDF]
, 2018 Extensive efforts have been made in the modern period to suppress the possession and use of both chemical and nuclear weapons. However, progress towards the abolition of these two types of weapons presents a rather sharp contrast, as this case study ...
Crawford, James
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