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Weapons of mass destruction and their effects on animals

open access: yesНауковий вісник Львівського національного університету ветеринарної медицини та біотехнологій імені С.З. Ґжицького: Серія Ветеринарні науки, 2022
Unfortunately, in the 21st century, humanity is pondering the devastating consequences that weapons of mass destruction can inflict on us. The reason for this is the inevitable severe damage to animals and people in this case and the first steps of ...
N. M. Slobodyuk
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Preparing at the Local Level for Events Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction [PDF]

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2002
Marna L. Hoard   +5 more
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Weapons of Mass Destruction [PDF]

open access: yesJAMA Internal Medicine, 2013
While our national leaders agonize about the threats in the Middle East from missiles, bombs, and automatic weapons that might fall into terrorist hands, they have remained eerily silent about the unlimited access to weapons of mass destruction in our own backyard.
openaire   +2 more sources

Buddhism And Weapons Of Mass Destruction: An Oxymoron? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
One of the most enduring principles of Buddhist ethics is the teaching of nonviolence (ahimsa), and the first of the five basic moral precepts is not to take the life of a sentient being.
Swearer, Donald K.
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A Holistic Assessment of the Risks and Benefits of the Synthesis of Horsepox Virus

open access: yesmSphere, 2018
The re-creation of horsepox virus, an extinct orthopoxvirus with similarity to smallpox virus, has caused concerns in the biosecurity and biodefense communities that the technical capabilities achieved could advance the re-creation of smallpox virus by ...
Diane DiEuliis, Gigi Kwik Gronvall
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Protection against weapons of mass destruction. Technical and functional solutions for sub-units of the Territorial Defense Forces — collective protection [PDF]

open access: yesBiuletyn Wojskowej Akademii Technicznej, 2018
This material characterises the defense against weapons of mass destruction, as a system of security forces in case of risks of contamination (infections) in functional and performance-oriented terms.
Władysław Harmata, Marek Witczak
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Humanizing the Victims: A Middle East Zone (MEZ) Free of Nuclear Weapons and the Historical Necessity of Including “Other Weapons of Mass Destruction”

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2022
With five nuclear-weapon-free-zones (NWFZ) in place, the Middle East Zone (MEZ), still undergoing negotiations, is the first NWFZ to include “other weapons of mass destruction” in its deliberations.
Zhenkai Tong
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New Chemical Weapons Destruction Technologies as the Key to Successful Completion of Chemical Weapons Disarmament Process

open access: yesВестник войск РХБ защиты, 2022
The fulfillment of international obligations of the Russian Federation under the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction required the development and the creation of ...
V. P. Kapashin   +4 more
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Options for Synthetic DNA Order Screening, Revisited

open access: yesmSphere, 2017
Gene synthesis providers affiliated with the International Gene Synthesis Consortium (IGSC) voluntarily screen double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) synthesis orders over 200 bp to check for matches to regulated pathogens and to screen customers.
Diane DiEuliis   +2 more
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Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient Near East

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023
Many early accounts of unconventional attacks remain unknown to the public, and they are reported inaccurately in modern publications. The result is misinformation, which contributes to misperception of threats and misplaced fear.
Zenobia S. Homan
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