if nuclear weapons are used again, health services will be unable to respond in any significant way One could be forgiven for not noticing, but there has been groundbreaking activity going on that is headed in the direction of a ban on the world’s most destructive weapons. This year, 2015, could see the start of negotiations for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons, which were first used 70 ye...

In this paper we propose and study the performance of optimizing weapons/targets pairing based on an auction algorithm. The weapons/targets pairing problem can be considered as an assignment optimization problem in mathematics. Hence, there are number of optimal algorithms that can solve it. We show that for practical weapons/targets pairing a well-known in the literature auction algorithm shou...

Technologies play a crucial role in both war and peace. Technologies designed for violence, namely weapons, range from handguns to nuclear weapons. Important characteristics of weapons include their destructive power, centralized control, offensive capacity, and ease of use. Technologies valuable for a peaceful society include those used in agriculture, construction, and transport. They can als...