Strategic Arms Limitation after SALT I

Deterrence, Influence, Cyber Attack, and Cyberwar

* Paul K. Davis is a senior principal researcher at the RAND Corporation and a professor of policy analysis in the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His early studies were in the hard sciences and he received a Ph.D. in theoretical chemical physics at M.I.T. After working on strategic technology and systems analysis at the Institute for Defense Analyses, he joined the U.S. government to work on stra...

National Collaborative Network on Applied Clinical Neuroscience in Iran Justifications, Limitation, Possible Architectures, Priorities, and Strategic Plans

Evidence for tertiary structure in natural single stranded RNAs in solution.

Binding isotherms (20 degrees C) of ethidium bromide to a number of tRNA species at various ionic strengths indicate that i) the number ni of intercalation sites is high 7 to 11 per molecule, in the low salt form III, but small, 2 to 1, at high Mg2+ or Na+ when form I predominates. ii) modification of tRNA at strategic positions for 3D folding prevents full expression of intercalation restricti...

Strategic Ambiguity and Arms Proliferation

A big power is facing a small power that may have developed weapons of mass destruction. The small power can create strategic ambiguity by refusing arms inspections. We study the impact of strategic ambiguity on arms proliferation and welfare. Strategic ambiguity is a substitute for actually acquiring weapons: ambiguity reduces the incentive for the small power to invest in weapons, which reduc...

Functional recombination of outer dynein arms with outer arm-missing flagellar axonemes of a Chlamydomonas mutant

A flagellar mutant of Chlamydomonas, oda, lacks the entire outer dynein arm but can swim at a speed of one third to half of that of the wild type. We found that the addition of a high-salt extract of wild-type axonemes to demembranated oda cell models restored up to 83% of the outer arms normally present on the outer-doublet microtubules of wild-type axonemes. Furthermore, when reactivated in t...