Living conditions in concentration camps were harsh and often inhumane, leading many prisoners to commit suicide. We have reviewed this topic in Nazi concentration camps (KL), Soviet special camps, and gulags, providing some preliminary data for our research. Data show that the incidence of suicide in Nazi KL could be up to 30 times higher than the general population and was also much higher th...

Recently opened archives in Central Asia have allowed historians to debunk several myths about the Soviet constitution in that region. Archival research has revealed that indigenous elites were associated with the process of territorial division in the 1920s and 1930s and many of their conflicts were echoed in the central ruling bodies in Moscow. Similarly, field research has undermined the ide...

Executive Summary The ability to differentiate adequately between true targets and false ones (discrimination) in the midcourse phase of attacking missiles 1 flight is a key requirement for a successful ballistic missile defense. This ability is of particular importance for the proposed initial configuration of the Strategic Defense System (SDS phase 1) because (1) the preponderance of the reen...