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is used to deliver nuclear, chemical, biological or conventional warheads ... and reflected the American nuclear warfare theory and military doctrines ...

Given its toxicity, hydrogen cyanide is listed as a chemical warfare ... Hydrogen cyanide is commonly listed amongst chemical warfare agents ...

encouraging the Shuar to abandon warfare and the production of shrunken ... shrunken heads (tzantza) as trophies of warfare, Shuar insisted that they ...

moderately threatening as an agent in warfare or terrorism (Lerner and ... and utility as an agent of chemical/biological warfare, it is extremely difficult ...

== Biological and environmental roles == state of matter, the roles of gases in biological and environmental roles ...

is limited to poisons produced via some biological function in nature, such ... to create nerve agents designed for biological warfare and biological terrorism ...

for centuries, but outright total warfare was first demonstrated in ... to the earth and humankind through nuclear warfare in the mid-twentieth century ...

weapons could be co-opted into their biological warfare program, much as they ... the establishment of an additional biological warfare development unit called ...

that "physicians and medical and biological researchers took a central ... had participated in chemical and biological warfare experiments on concentration ...

motivations, rather than purely biological factors. While polygyny ... sexual partners is a basic human biological instinct or need. Although ...

Geneva Protocol on the use of gas and biological weapons of 1925. They were ... provisions prohibiting certain methods of warfare and addressing issues of ...

(such as anthrax) is considered biological warfare rather than chemical ... Their use is classified as biological warfare. ====Designations==== ...

found and recovered from the Iraqi biological warfare program. ... sent Iraq 14 agents "with biological warfare significance," ...

by overexposure to pesticides and chemical warfare agents such as sarin and ... Some plants also are the focus of extensive biological study as model ...

city walls. From ancient times siege warfare dominated the conduct of ... over city walls in an early example of biological warfare. ...

study of humankind's cultural and biological evolution through all time ... for some time, but the idea of the biological evolution of species in ...

research include the Nazi human experiments; the biological and chemical warfare research of Unit 731, and the United States Public Health Services Tuskegee ...

of thought on this issue. One holds that warfare ... goes back at least to ... twentieth century. This latecomer view of warfare, espoused by Jared Diamond ...

between the races exist, be they biological, social, psychological ... to frame racism within the terms of biological difference among human ...

Rape, in the course of warfare, also dates back to antiquity, ancient ... C. T. Palmer, A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion ...

neurons. Also, the chloride-bicarbonate exchanger biological transport protein relies on the chloride ion to increase the blood's capacity for carbon ...

also to extreme pollution resulting from biological weapons testing during ... What is known is that in addition to biological weapons testing during ...

of chemicals, particulate matter, or biological materials that cause harm ... leak of anthrax spores from a biological warfare laboratory in the former ...

fit easily into any of the domains of biological classification and therefore ... viruses could be used as weapons in biological warfare. Further concern was ...

Death is the permanent end of the life of a biological organism. Death ... turn to "brain death" or "biological death": People are ...

from both conventional and guerrilla warfare. While both conventional ... Terrorism is a form of asymmetric warfare, and is more common when ...

decay, and the aftermath of nuclear warfare, in addition to quantum ... == Work on biological molecules == In the mid-1930s, Pauling decided ...

Seek & Strike: Sonar, anti-submarine warfare and the Royal Navy 1914 ... Modern naval warfare makes extensive use of sonar. The two types described ...

* Biological warfare * Dust * Global dimming * Global warming * Haze * Cloud * Fog == Notes == == References == * [http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/160 ...

which explored a theory of the mind as a biological counterpart of the body ... quot; to incite people toward class warfare, and anarchists applied ...

are able-bodied girls with living biological parents. Many abandoned ... between female infanticide and warfare suggests that there are ...

in the study of sexuality and the biological basis of the emotions to ... E. Origins of Child Abuse, Sex-Repression, Warfare and Social Violence in the ...

of any military force in ancient warfare. Hannibal successfully crossed ... he used one of the first examples of biological warfare--he threw cauldrons ...

the most recent examples of high altitude warfare in mountainous terrain, ... and reclaim high ground in a mountain warfare would require a far higher ...

The number of deaths caused by European-indigenous warfare has proven ... * Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange; Biological and Cultural ...

war crimes committed by Unit 731 (the biological and chemical warfare unit ... Controversy has also risen from the use of results of biological warfare ...

interest as a potential deadly agent for biological warfare. There are three main kinds of botulism: * Foodborne botulism is caused by eating ...

of them have proven to be highly effective for biological control. Wasps in the family Evaniidae are perhaps the most effective insect predators, as ...

In biological terms, a human being, or human, is any member of the ... Humans are classified in the biological order Primates, a group of ...

in such societies is often due to warfare. The third factor increasing ... such as the loss of men due to extended warfare. Such a situation was reported ...

weapons, military alliances, economic warfare and targeted trade embargos ... by a sudden and dramatic decline in total warfare, interstate wars, ethnic ...

of the human species (in case of nuclear warfare or other planetary catastrophe ... protect humanity in the event of global nuclear warfare. ...

the distribution of power in society, biological and gender differences ... the planet's harsh climate, limiting warfare to small skirmishes by simple ...

the discovery of plutonium, when its biological and physical properties ... of areas that have been exposed to nuclear warfare and on the health of the ...

on Earth. Technetium plays no natural biological role and is not normally ... *[http://www.hypatiamaze.org/ida/tacke.html Ida Tacke and the warfare ...

However, not all scientific advances have been positive. Warfare was ... a relationship between cultures and the biological disposition of their creators ...

concerning Manners, Customs, Beliefs, Warfare, Crime, and a Storm at Sea ... *Star Begotten: A Biological Fantasia (US title, Star-Begotten) (1937) ...

1793, and later executed. The interparty warfare then degenerated into intraparty ... wrong or dangerous. Using a pseudo-biological argument, they are enemies ...

and regimes who seek chemical, biological or nuclear weapons from ... had not properly accounted for Iraqi biological weapons and chemical weapons ...

Clinton Hart Merriam, head of the U. S. Biological Survey and one of the early ... they appeared in the days of inter tribal warfare, carefully making their ...

Warfare on the North American frontier was brutal, and the killing ... the first time that a crude form of biological warfare had been attempted ...

a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child ... a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child ...

used in chemical warfare and biological warfare are not dependent on nuclear power. Humans could still make war even if all technology was forbidden. ...

elephants have been used for labor and warfare for centuries and traditionally ... . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 269(1504): 1993–2006 ...

Gunn described as historical "trench warfare." ... had actually been her husband's biological daughter, and had been ...

mineral extraction, power generation, warfare, and leisure activities ... Submarines became important in naval warfare in World War I, when ...

or to a real sympathy with its biological purpose. Neither could hold much weight with him. He was justifiably self sufficient, and up to the ...

731 (a unit responsible for atrocious acts of biological and chemical warfare) Eiji, 2002, 256. were exonerated from criminal prosecutions by ...

scope of the Geneva Convention to naval warfare. Shortly before the beginning ... protested against this new type of warfare. Even without having a mandate ...

Famine was the culmination of a social, biological, political, and economic ... period of constant political upheaval and warfare. The uncertainly of food ...

that could be gained from using urban warfare—fighting within Kuwait ... Had the Iraqi military made use of urban warfare in Kuwait City and dug their ...

subversive religion (a "psychological warfare weapon" or what some ... followed Enlightenment thinkers, and the biological worldview gaining currency ...

and illegitimate methods of warfare… [including] offenses against ... (c) there was no resource allocation to exterminate Armenians (biological ...

mathematical, medical, astronomical, and biological knowledge of the ancient ... Lewis Spitz says: "To set up a 'warfare of science and theology ...

* Benthic sediment buildup causes biological damage and reduces aquatic biodiversity. first1=Henrik | first2=Koen | last1=Segers | title=The River ...