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Defensive Weapons and Star Wars: A Supergame with Optimal Punishments [PDF]

open access: yes
We model the perspective faced by nuclear powers involved in a supergame where nuclear deterrence is used to stabilise peace. This setting allows us to investigate the bearings of defensive weapons on the effectiveness of deterrence and peace stability ...
G. Giacomello, L. Lambertini
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Radiation tolerant silicon nitride insulated gate field effect transistors [PDF]

open access: yes, 1969
Metal-Insulated-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor /MISFET/ device uses a silicon nitride passivation layer over a thin silicon oxide layer to enhance the radiation tolerance.
Newman, P. A.
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Climate Change and Energy Security Risk: Do Green Patents, Institutional Quality, and Human Capital Make a Difference?

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change poses a significant threat to global energy security, yet the mechanisms through which this relationship unfolds—and the factors that buffer their adverse impacts—remain underexplored. This study examines the link between climate change, proxied by CO2 emissions, and energy security risk (ESR), with a particular focus on the ...
Mohamed Sami Ben Ali   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biological Threat Deterrence by Denial: Implications for Japan’s Nuclear Disarmament Vision

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
Japan, a proponent of nuclear disarmament, is facing criticism for adopting “nuclear deterrence” as its foreseeable security policy without providing a clear strategy for transitioning away from it.
Kazuko Hikawa
doaj   +1 more source

Taking the Law Seriously: The Imperative Need for a Nuclear Weapons Convention [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Jonathan Swift famously said, Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Swift was no doubt referring to the propensity of the law to shrink from prosecuting the lords of the realm, while going ...
Weiss, Peter
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From Membrane Composition to Antimicrobial Strategies: Experimental and Computational Approaches to AMP Design and Selectivity

open access: yesSmall, EarlyView.
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are promising candidates for next‐generation antibiotics, acting through mechanisms such as membrane disruption and intracellular targeting. This review examines how variations in bacterial membrane composition critically influence AMP activity.
Paolo Rossetti   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

LEGAL PROTECTION FROM NUCLEAR WEAPONS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

open access: yesZbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Splitu, 2008
Nuclear weapons can be the reason for much dangerous pollution of the environment. The consequences of nuclear testing, explosion of atom bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and various nuclear accidents all bear witness to this. Nuclear weaponry falls into
Jerolim Ostojić
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TOWARDS FULFILLMENT OF FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF HUMANITARIAN LAW IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY

open access: yesBRICS Law Journal, 2016
The Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is an international treaty that should be implemented during both peace and wartime. However, the obligations included in the treaty are dependent upon states' attitudes regarding other issues.
s. Bagheri
doaj   +1 more source

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