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Weapons of mass destruction: radiation [PDF]

open access: yesNeurosurgical Focus, 2002
The purpose of this review is to present a concise overview of the types of radiation, methods of dispersal, injury patterns, and treatment considerations in a scenario involving radiation-based weapons of mass destruction. Radiation-related casualties, although uncommon, are a potential threat because more nations and organizations are developing the ...
Chris J, Neal, Leon E, Moores
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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.
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Weapons of Mass Destruction

open access: yesCardiovascular Revascularization Medicine, 2022
The polemics of political rhetoric encourage the implementation of presupposed referents as though they were assumed and shared. This paper examines the presupposed referents employed by the White House, concerning the urgency of invading Iraq, and countered by the political left.
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Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (nerve agents) as weapons of mass destruction: History, mechanisms of action, and medical countermeasures.

open access: yesNeuropharmacology, 2020
Nerve agents are organophosphorus acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. Acute exposure to nerve agents can cause rapid death. In this review, we summarize the history of nerve agent development and use in warfare, the mechanisms by which these agents cause ...
V. Aroniadou-Anderjaska   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cheater's Dilemma: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Path to War

open access: yesInternational 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Religion, Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Expediters or Hindrances for Global Peace

open access: yesRandwick 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Forms of interaction between state and law enforcement agencies on the use of information on countering the financing of weapons of mass destruction

open access: yesBulletin of the Karaganda University "Law Series, 2020
The relevance of research. The relevance of the problem under study is due to the need to develop a national concept for the control of weapons of mass destruction, taking into account national legislation, in order to  develop a mechanism for monitoring
L. Arenova
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Issues of the legal concept on the mechanism for controlling the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their financing

open access: yesBulletin of the Karaganda University "Law Series, 2020
The scientific development of the problem of organizing activities to counter the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the Republic of Kazakhstan requires the development of a legal concept for a mechanism for controlling the ...
L. Arenova, G. B. Sultanbekova
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Buying and Selling Weapons of Mass Destruction from the Perspective of Islamic jurisprudence

open access: yesInternational Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding
The purchase and sale of weapons of mass destruction is the issue of this research, the main question of the research is, "What is the view of Islamic jurisprudence about the primary and secondary rulings of trading these types of weapons?" This research,
Saeed Taleghani, Mohammad Javad Nowrozi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Myc: a weapon of mass destruction.

open access: yesCell, 2004
Growth and proliferation potentiated by deregulated myc oncogene expression is balanced by myc-induced apoptosis. Abrogation of this apoptotic pathway in Myc overexpressing cells leads to cancer progression. Recent work has shown that cell clones in the Drosophila wing disc with higher dMyc expression levels act as supercompetitors to potentiate the ...
Secombe, Julie   +2 more
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