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Cheater's Dilemma: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Path to War
International Security, 2020 Between the 1991 Gulf War and the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, the Iraqi regime faced a cheater's dilemma: how much should it reveal of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) capabilities when each additional revelation made it less likely that the ...
Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer
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Buddhism And Weapons Of Mass Destruction: An Oxymoron? [PDF]
, 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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Weapons of Mass Destruction [PDF]
JAMA 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.
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Preparing at the Local Level for Events Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002 Marna L. Hoard +5 more
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A Holistic Assessment of the Risks and Benefits of the Synthesis of Horsepox Virus
mSphere, 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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Journal 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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Вестник 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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Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient Near East
Social 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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Religion, Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Expediters or Hindrances for Global Peace
Randwick International of Social Science Journal, 2020 The purpose of the study was to examine the validity of the argument indicating that the religious nature of the terrorist groups accounts for the increase in the violence of terrorist acts today.
Ghada M. Awada
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Options for Synthetic DNA Order Screening, Revisited
mSphere, 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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