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Effects of radiological weapons
HNPS Proceedings, 2019 An investigation of radiological weapons effects is performed by employing computerized simulation methods and various mathematical models. The study covers all major DU ammunitions that are used in modern warfare and calculates the expected cancer mortality as a function of weapon and battle conditions.
T. Liolios
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A weapon too far: The British radiological warfare experience, 1940–1955 [PDF]
War in History, 2021 Between 1940 and 1955, Britain explored controversial radiological weapons. Keen to discover further military uses for atomic energy, defence officials and scientists initially approached the field with much hope and optimism. However, technical difficulties, economic costs, public and political aversion, competition from other controversial weapons ...
William H. King
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Radiological Weapons: How Great Is The Danger? [PDF]
, 2003 One of the underlying purposes of this paper is to provoke thinking about the interplay between the regulation of radioactive materials and the risk of their use in an radiological weapon (RW). Also considered in this paper are the types of RWs that a terrorist might use, the nature of the threat and danger posed by the various types of RWs, the ...
George M. Moore
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Radiological Weapons (Excerpts from the History of Ban Talks)
Diplomatic Ukraine, 2020 Abstract. The article highlights the history of radiological weapons ban negotiations. In 1948, the United Nations Commission on Conventional Armaments identified radiological weapons as WMD. Since as early as the 1960s, some states have put forward proposals to ban radiological weapons at the international level as potentially threatening human lives ...
Yurii Kostenko
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Nuclear, radiological and chemical weapons, radiation and chemical accidents [PDF]
, 2021 The monograph is intended both for the general public and especially for the needs of students of the study programme entitled Population Protection. It can also be used for the needs of other university students as a supplementary textbook. Where appropriate, it can also be used for educating members of individual basic and other components of the ...
Dušan Vičar +3 more
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Radiological weapons: what type of threat? [PDF]
Critical care (London, England), 2005 Mapstone, James, Brett, Stephen
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Remediation of the areas contaminated by depleted uranium ammunition [PDF]
Vojnotehnički Glasnik, 2021 Introduction/purpose: The consequences of the NATO aggression on the Republic of Serbia (then part of FR Yugoslavia) in 1999 are still being considered, especially from the aspect of the use of illicit means such as cluster and graphite bombs ...
Dejan R. Inđić
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Radiological Safety and Security Threats in Modern Conditions
Вестник войск РХБ защиты, 2023 The lecture is intended to prepare military specialists in the field of nuclear and radiation safety and security for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, as well as to train officials responsible for organizing and ensuring radiation safety in ...
E. V. Vasilkovsky +5 more
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A modeled radiological dispersive device release and the impact to decision-making in an urban environment [PDF]
Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection, 2020 A radiological dispersion device is a weapon that combines radioactive material with conventional explosives for spreading radioactive material across an inhabited area.
Oliveira Paulo U.N. +6 more
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Diagnostics, 2022 Dismemberment is characterized by the fragmentation of the body into anatomical sections. It can occur because of a murder, suicide, or accident. In the literature, there are no cases of patricide perpetrated by a daughter in which the offender performed
Isabella Aquila +8 more
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