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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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