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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Weapons of Mass Destruction"”.
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The Church, the Constitution, and Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Role of the Church of England in Developing British Weapons of Mass Destruction Policy
The Church of England (CoE) has multiple avenues to influence British policy regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). Constitutionally, the CoE is represented by the Lords Spiritual, in the House of Lords, who raise moral and ethical considerations with respect to British WMD policy. Outside of …
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Clausewitz and Counterproliferation: Defeating, Deterring and Disarming Rogues Possessing Weapons of Mass Destruction
… in the U.S. military, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to rogue states, which try to overthrow the status quo and threaten U.S. vital interests. Counterproliferation, understood herein as the non-cooperative reduction with military means of the threat from weapons of mass …
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Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Ballistic Missiles: a Case Study of Iran
… is known to have programs for the acquisition of ballistic missiles of increasing range and for various weapons capable of mass destruction. Foreign assistance has helped these programs substantially. Iran is a case study of how a country can acquire such capabilities without having to resort …
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Political Instability, Terrorism, and Proliferation in Algeria, Egypt and Libya
This thesis examines the nature of politics and government in Algeria, Egypt, and Libya, focusing on the interactions among the military establishment, Islamic fundamentalists, other political opposition forces, and the regimes in power. With this context and current political and social …
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Wounded Hegemon: The 2003 Iraq War and George W. Bush's Grand Strategy of Primacy
The 2003 Iraq War stands as one of the most consequential events in the post-Cold War period and yet its causes remain its least understood aspect. This project aims to add to existing discussions by providing a more comprehensive understanding of the war. Using neoclassical realism as its …
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Deadly Science: Biological Weapons and the Threat to America
In today’s security environment, the threat of terrorism is at an all-time high. The potential terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction has become a reality. The danger posed by biological weapons is real and the consequences of such an attack against America would be severe. This project is …
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Evaluating strategies for countering nuclear-armed terrorist groups
A number of recent studies have concluded that the United States is vulnerable to attack from terrorists armed with weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Depending on the circumstances, a terrorist attack with nuclear or radiological weapons could cause more destruction and casualties than one with …
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The Necessity of Active Measures in Counterproliferation
The proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) is a grave concern to the United States. In the post-911 world, transnational threats such as terrorism and WMD proliferation are the most pressing issues facing the United States. Both terrorist organizations and rogue states can use WMD as …
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America's Provocative Weakness: the U.S. Policy of Vulnerability to Ballistic Missile Attack
Ballistic missile attack presents one of the most dangerous and troubling threats to the United States' national security today. For many nations that may wish to threaten the United States, ballistic missiles provide an affordable, readily accessible, and reliable delivery system for payloads …
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Nuclear Weapons: Prospects For Deterrence and Proliferation in the Modern Era
Since the success of the Manhattan Project the nuclear weapon has dominated the international politics and strategies of the great powers. The ending of the Cold War seemed to promise a lessening of the importance of nuclear weapons. However, a dominating feature of this time has been concern over …
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Rads, Bugs, and Gas: the Threat of NBC Terrorism
The phenomenon of international terrorism is evolving. Terrorism is by no means a form of warfare unique to the present era. However, contemporary terrorism has become a global concern of expanding proportions. The emergence of transnational state-sponsored terrorist organizations whose members may …
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Mind the Gap: The Failure of the Central Intelligence Agency to Support U.S. National Interests
Throughout the history of the Central Intelligence Agency, effective covert action and accurate assessments of its adversaries have proved problematic. This has manifested itself in areas such as the soviet threat during the Cold War and towards the rogue nation of Iraq. Covert activities tended to …
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The Korean Peninsula: Perspectives on War and Proliferation
The Korean Peninsula is one of the last vestiges of the Cold War. It remains the setting for another war, and North Korea remains a source of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missiles. Currently South Korea continues its transformation to a free-market, democratic and open …
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Domestic Political Structure and Social Norms: Explaining Cooperation and Conflict Towards Regime -Based Global Governance
… their decision to cooperate or resist the impact of global governance regimes. Different countries have responded varyingly to the influence of global regimes. Some states have resisted cooperating with these regimes, while others have eagerly sought to join them. Still others have attempted to …
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Coordinated dynamic planning for air and space operations
Planners of military air and space operations in a battlefield environment seek to allocate resources against targets in a way that best achieves the objectives of the commander. In future conflicts, the presence of new types of assets, such as tactical space-based sensors and Operationally …
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Marketing the Iraq War: Manifest Content Analysis of US Executive Framing
This thesis explores the manifest content of the U.S. Executive framing effort intended to persuade the U.S. Congress, United Nations Security Council, and the American people that there was no greater threat to US national security than the continuing reign of Saddam Hussein\'s regime in Iraq. …
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A Review of the Government Sponsored Offensive Biological Programs, Weaponized Biological Pathogens and their Countermeasures
Since the beginning of the 20th century humanity’s capacity for warfare and death has evolved at an ever increasing rate. The horse was quickly replaced by the automobile and the rifle by the machine gun. The use of biological weapons (bioweapons) took the same leap forward from medics fighting …
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Contagious Discourse: Germs, Mass Media, and the Shaping of Reality
<p>Over the past two decades, mass media coverage of certain infectious diseases has become more abundant. News reports of many of these contagious illnesses invoke fear in many people, such as Ebola and pandemic influenza; multidrug-resistant strains of infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis; …
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Rethinking the meaning of a politically exposed person to promote substantive compliance of the financial action task force standards
… whether there is a need for a broader definition of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs). It aims to enhance the understanding of PEPs to improve countries' abilities to substantially comply with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards. The dissertation observes that the current definition …
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A review of optical diagnostic techniques used to identify uranium spectral signatures
Spectroscopic detection of signatures produced by Nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction (NWMD) is essential for maintaining national security and countering nuclear proliferation. Through non-invasive measurement techniques it is possible to remotely monitor an area and confirm or deny the use of …
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