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Weaponizing and De-weaponizing Antiracist Discourse
International Journal of Literacy, Culture, and Language Education, 2022 Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and Trump’s branding of the virus as the “China” or “Wuhan” virus, anti-Asian sentiment has swept through the United States, resulting in developments involving antiracist discourse. Our commentary draws upon these events and other recent incidents in the United States to demonstrate the power that words ...
De Costa, Peter I. +2 more
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Quantity versus quality in the Soviet market for weapons [PDF]
, 2007 Military market places display obvious inefficiencies under most arrangements, but the Soviet defense market was unusual for its degree of monopoly, exclusive relationships, intensely scrutinized (in its formative years) by a harsh dictator.
Harrison, Mark, Markevich, Andreĭ
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Study of relationship between motion of mechanisms in gas operated weapon and its shock absorber
Defence TechnologyThe article deals with the motion of the breech block carrier and the weapon casing of an automatic weapon mounted on a flexible carriage and the base of the weapon.
Jiri Balla +4 more
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Nuclear weapons: the state of play [PDF]
, 2013 The Crawford School of Public Policy’s Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (CNND) this week launched in Geneva a major book-length report authoritatively documenting the unhappily diminishing global enthusiasm for nuclear disarmament ...
Ramesh Thakur, Gareth Evans
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Multi-UAV Obstacle Avoidance and Formation Control in Unknown Environments
DronesTo address the issues of local minima, target unreachability, and significant formation disruption during obstacle avoidance in the conventional artificial potential field (APF), a control approach that integrates APF with optimal consensus control which
Yawen Li +5 more
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Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism
, 2008 The creation of the Commission, which was established by House Resolution 1, implements a key recommendation of the independent, bipartisan 9/11 Commission to address the grave threat that the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction poses to our ...
Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism (U.S.)
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, 2017 This illustrated document details personal weapons, harassing agents, incendiaries, automotive attack, explosives, firing devices, and ...
Special Weapons and Devices Research and Development Branch, Office of Strategic Services
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Pharmacological treatment of chemical and biological weapons
, 2023 Chemical and biological weapons will always pose a serious threat. There is constant modifications of these weapons by rogue groups, to evade the detection, increase its abusive and dangerous effects along with discovery of more variations of the same ...
Jacob, Joel
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AerospaceDetailed knowledge regarding the thermophysical properties and electrical conductivity of the combustion products derived from solid propellants is essential for the optimized design and operation of solid-fuel rocket engines employing ...
Chunlin Chen +5 more
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A Scenario Based Methodology for the Selection of Non-Lethal Weapons [PDF]
, 1998 A paper submitted to Non-Lethal Defense III, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, by the Naval Postgraduate School's Non-Lethal Weapons System Engineering Study Team, February 1998.The allocation of finite resources to develop non ...
Coppernoll, Margaret-Anne +8 more
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