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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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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Radiological weapons: what type of threat? [PDF]
Critical care (London, England), 2005 We are currently living through a period of substantial political uncertainty, and many of us are facing an unquantifiable risk of terrorist action, but would however have to deal with the consequences of any such action. Terrorists have demonstrated a sophisticated ability to produce high mortality "spectaculars", thus far with conventional weaponry ...
James Mapstone, Stephen J. Brett
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The Role of Forensic Investigation in an Unusual Case of Patricide by a Schizophrenic Woman Involving Dismemberment of a Decomposed Body [PDF]
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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Broken Arrows: Radiological hazards from nuclear warhead accidents (the Minot USAF base nuclear weapons incident) [PDF]
arXiv, 2009 According to numerous press reports, in 2007 at Minot US Air Force Base six AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles mistakenly armed with W80-1 thermonuclear warheads were loaded on a B-52H heavy bomber in place of six unarmed AGM-129 missiles that were awaiting transport to Barksdale US Air Force Base for disposal. The live nuclear missiles were not reported
Theodore E. Liolios
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The effects of using Cesium-137 teletherapy sources as a radiological weapon (dirty bomb) [PDF]
arXiv, 2009 While radioactive sources used in medical diagnosis do not pose a great security risk due to their low level of radioactivity, therapeutic sources are extremely radioactive and can presumably be used as a radiological weapon. Cobalt-60 and Cesium-137 sources are the most common ones used in radiotherapy with over 10,000 of such sources currently in use
Theodore E. Liolios
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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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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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Tendency of using chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons for terrorist purposes [PDF]
Vojnotehnicki glasnik, 2017 Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) terrorism is a serious problem, and its threat and use lead to a new era of terrorism: the epoch much more dangerous than any of the previous periods and the terrorism no one yet knows how to cope with.
Marko Krstić
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