Judging by commentators’ reactions, Smallpox 2002 — Silent Weapon, screened by the BBC in the UK but to be shown in many countries, was an outstanding success in provoking fear and loathing over an epidemic triggered by a terrorist releasing the virus. One reviewer said that this was the programme to watch “if you want to be scared – and even made paranoid about everybody you meet in the street...

Extensive testing, at pressure "'evels from 3U to 758 MPa (5,000 to 110,000 PSI) was done at Aberdeen Proving Ground to evaluate 15 different types of electrical pressure transducers used in large caliber weapons. When using a given tvoe of transducer, the ability to consistently distinguish dynamic pressure variations as small as 0.2% was demonstrated. Yet different models of pressure transduc...

air defense is a crucial area for all naval combat systems. in this study, we consider a warship equipped with an air-defense weapon that targets incoming threats using surface-to-air missiles. we define the weapon scheduling problem as the optimal scheduling of a set of surface-to-air missiles of a warship to a set of attacking air threats. the optimal scheduling of the weapon results in an in...

Since its discovery and initial description in the 1960s, the penetrating lesion to the left ninth rib of the Shanidar 3 Neandertal has been a focus for discussion about interpersonal violence and weapon technology in the Middle Paleolithic. Recent experimental studies using lithic points on animal targets suggest that aspects of weapon system dynamics can be inferred from the form of the bony ...

in 1996. CGSR helps to enhance global security through analyzing and understanding the factors that could lead to reducing the threat associated with weapons of mass destruction and other advanced weapon types. Primary emphasis is on bridging the gap between the technology and policy communities by evaluating how technology can enhance the international security framework. Broad international p...