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Negotiating the draft Radiological Weapons Convention

open access: closedAdelphi Series, 2016
Relations between the United States and Russia today are beset by rivalry in almost every sphere, and mutual suspicion reigns. Both parties have shunned arms-reduction talks and are pursuing nuclear modernisation programmes; a new nuclear arms race looms.
Lesley Kucharski   +2 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Weapons of mass destruction: radiological, biological and chemical weapons

2018
Key themes • Weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) are treated as distinct from ‘conventional’ weapons, and their stockpiling and use are particularly controversial. • WMDs are divided into four general types: radiological, biological, chemical and nuclear weapons.
David Jordan   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Use of nuclear and radiological weapons by terrorists?

open access: closedInternational Review of the Red Cross, 2005
AbstractThere is great concern that terrorists could obtain nuclear or radiological weapons and detonate them in a large city. The authors analyse the technical requirements for and obstacles to obtaining such weapons. What difficulties would have to be surmounted? Could these problems be solved by a terrorist organization without direct support from a
Christoph Wirz, Emmanuel Egger
openaire   +2 more sources

RADIOLOGICAL WEAPONS

open access: closedThe Lancet, 1982
Richard Doll   +6 more
  +5 more sources

Antioxidants as a Bio-shield Against Radiological Weapons

2013
There are two types of radiological weapon, “dirty bomb,” and nuclear weapon (atom bomb). A dirty bomb can be made from one or more commercially available radioactive isotopes and it can be detonated using a conventional explosive, whereas an atom bomb consists of fissionable element, and it requires complex procedures for detonation.
K. Prasad
openaire   +2 more sources

Modeling Terrorist Attack Cycles as a Stochastic Process: Analyzing Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Incidents

, 2020
To further the research agenda on chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) attacks, we present a novel methodology for modeling a CBRN terrorist attack cycle as a stochastic process.
Tyler Clark, Thomas R. Guarrieri
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An update on romiplostim for treatment of acute radiation syndrome.

Drugs of Today, 2022
Detonation of an improvised nuclear weapon, or a radiological dispersal device by terrorists, or an unintended radiological/nuclear accident in populated areas would result in a mass casualty scenario with radiation exposures of different severities ...
Vijay K. Singh, T. Seed
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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