The Transmission of Gun and Other Weapon-Involved Violence Within Social Networks.
Epidemiologic Reviews, 2016 Fatal and nonfatal injuries resulting from gun violence remain a persistent problem in the United States. The available research suggests that gun violence diffuses among people and across places through social relationships.
Melissa Tracy, A. Braga, A. Papachristos
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Physicists and the 1945 Decision to Drop the Bomb [PDF]
CERNCour.42N9:28739,2002, 2002 In 1943 fear that the German war machine might use atomic bombs was abating and among physicists another fear was taking its place - that of a postwar nuclear arms race with worldwide proliferation of nuclear weapons. Manhattan Project scientists and engineers began to discuss uses of nuclear energy in the postwar world.
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Weapon Carrying Among Victims of Bullying
Pediatrics, 2017 In this study of a nationally representative sample of high school students, we investigate the risks of weapon carrying by victims of bullying who have additional indicators of peer aggression.
Tammy B. Pham +3 more
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The B61-based "Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator:" Clever retrofit or headway towards fourth-generation nuclear weapons? [PDF]
arXiv, 2005 It is scientifically and technically possible to build an earth penetrating device that could bury a B61-7 warhead 30 meters into concrete, or 150 meters into earth, before detonating it. The device (based on knowledge and technology that are available since 50 years) would however be large and cumbersome.
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II.—On some Egyptian bronze weapons in the collections of John Evans, Esq., and the British Museum [PDF]
, 1892 E. A. Wallis Budge
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Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons: Military effectiveness and collateral effects [PDF]
arXiv, 2005 The paper begins with a general introduction and update to Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons (FGNW), and then addresses some particularly important military aspects on which there has been only limited public discussion so far. These aspects concern the unique military characteristics of FGNWs which make them radically different from both nuclear ...
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The Oil Weapon: Myth of China's Vulnerability [PDF]
, 2006 The geopolitical canvass on which China plots its strategy for energy security displays a ubiquitous presence of one country: the United States. Chinese energy security planners must reckon with America's ravenous consumption of imported oil, its ...
Bruce G. Blair, Chen Yali, Eric Hagt
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A Novel Two-Staged Decision Support based Threat Evaluation and Weapon Assignment Algorithm, Asset-based Dynamic Weapon Scheduling using Artificial Intelligence Techinques [PDF]
IJCSIS June 2009 Issue, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2009 Surveillance control and reporting (SCR) system for air threats play an important role in the defense of a country. SCR system corresponds to air and ground situation management/processing along with information fusion, communication, coordination, simulation and other critical defense oriented tasks. Threat Evaluation and Weapon Assignment (TEWA) sits
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The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments of Great Britain [PDF]
, 1898 openalex +1 more source