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Disarming proposals: controlling nuclear, biological and chemical weapons by Andy Butfoy [PDF]
, 2005 Review of Andrew Butfoy, Disarming Proposals: Controlling Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons. Apart from the centrality of terrorism and the 2003 Iraq War (not to mention the question of North Korea), disarmament is of great interest to the wider ...
Gehrmann, Richard
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Exploding Bridgewire (EBW) Detonators: An Example of Synergistic Multiphysics
Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Exploding bridgewire (EBW) detonators are highly temporally reproducible explosive devices that require the rapid discharge of a high‐voltage capacitance to operate and so are immune to most of the accidental hazards associated with traditional electric detonators.
P. J. Rae +3 more
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Kazakhstan’s Irreversible Disarmament
Journal for Peace and Nuclear DisarmamentKazakhstan presents an interesting and important real-life case of disarmament irreversibility. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Kazakhstan inherited the fourth largest nuclear arsenal in the world – more than a thousand nuclear warheads, dozens of heavy
Togzhan Kassenova
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Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
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Disentangling the Nexus of Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change—A Research Agenda
International audienceGlobal warming and nuclear war are frequently described as the world's greatest threats. Both challenges could be understood as expressions of modern science and technology, and both present tough collective action problems.
Egeland, Kjølv
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper draws on over five decades of experience in educating and developing systems thinking practitioners at the Open University (OU) UK to explore the opportunities and challenges in the professionalisation of systems thinking in practice (STiP).
Ray Ison
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Formal Approach to Safety‐Driven Dynamic Procedure Modeling
Systems Engineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ensuring the safety of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) is a growing concern as the number of UAS grows increasingly fast. Regulatory bodies are in the process of tackling this problem by issuing standards and recommendations to be met by UAS designers.
Jean‐Charles Chaudemar +3 more
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The Remaining Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe
, 2014 The purpose of this workshop will be to discuss the rationale behind the presence of tactical nuclear weapons in five non-nuclear-weapon countries in Europe, as well as the feasibility of their potential removal.
Kibaroğlu, Mustafa
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Staging concept for aging management: Definition, mechanism, and coping strategies
VIEW, EarlyView.We divided the overall aging stage into “pre‐aging”, “aging compensation”, and “aging disability”. For each stage, we delineate the clinical presentations, biological phenomena, theoretical underpinnings, and key management priorities. Abstract Aging, as a gradual and largely irreversible biological process, characterized by declining organismal ...
Zhonghan Wang +6 more
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Electrical Breakdown Analysis of Emerging Oil–Paper Insulation Systems
High Voltage, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This investigation addresses the effect of particulate additives on the electrical breakdown strength of the oil impregnated insulation paper system. The morphological complexity is addressed by converting data from scanning electron microscope images to a data set suitable for numerical simulation analysis. Then, by using the conventional oil‐
Yue Xu +9 more
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