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Exploring the Nexus Between Critical Infrastructure, Fragility and Peace Operations
It is said that the end purpose of a peace mission is to win people’s hearts and minds. And when it comes to winning them, infrastructure seems to be...
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Science for Peace with SESAME and SEEIIST
They say that the main CERNCERN restaurant, once known as the Co-op after the company that used to run it, now more prosaically known as R1, is the...
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Transition to Peace, 1945–1946
Wartime can create significant changes in people and institutions. New opportunities are envisaged. Australian scientists imagined many new...
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Promoting Integral Human Development and Peace in the Digital Age
Esteemed President Roberto Antonelli, Professor Luciano Maiani and Organizers.
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On War and Peace
War is sweet to those who have no experience inPindar (518-438 BC), Ancient Greek poet it.
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Embattled Cooperation(s): Peaceful Atoms, Pacifist Physicists, and Partisans of Peace in the Early Cold War (1947–1957)
The famous nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo, who defected to the USSR in 1950, was affiliated to the internationalist network called “Partisans of...
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Nuclear Risks and Arms Control - Problems and Progresses in the Time of Pandemics and War Proceedings of the XXII Edoardo Amaldi Conference, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy, April 6–8, 2022
This open access book is based on the conference organised by Accademia dei Lincei and the US National Academy of Sciences and supported by the...
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Military-Industrial Interactions in and Between Germany and the United States: Combining Spatial and Timescales
The classical nomothetic social sciences of economics, political science, and sociology have reduced the complexities of societal development not the...
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Science and Society
Here, I would like to briefly address some critical points in the relationship between science and society. Science must be considered part of the...
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Quantum technology for military applications
Quantum technology is an emergent and potentially disruptive discipline, with the ability to affect many human activities. Quantum technologies are...
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Development of the Primary Standard for IAEA TRS-457 at OAP, Thailand
This research reports the procedure in establishing the diagnostic beam qualities following IAEA TRS-457 for calibration in the field of diagnostic...
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Blossoming in Germany and Austria: The Priestermechaniker
In the early eighteenth century, a series of conflicts took place: the War of the Spanish Succession, which ended in 1714. In 1721, the Northern...
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Early Years and Private Life
February 28, 1924 was a winter’s day much like any other in the Czechoslovakian town of Landskron. The world was at peace, if somewhat unstably, and...
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Gorilla in the RF Cage and Other Recollections
As is most often the case, performance in the later stages of one’s career is intrinsically linked to experiences gained earlier on. There were two...
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The War Years
With the annexation of the SudetenlandSudetenland, annexation in 1938, swiftly followed by German occupation of all the Czech lands in 1939, Herwig’s...
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Ballad of the Moon Moon
On December 11, 1972, Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt, two of the three astronauts on NASA's Apollo 17 mission, landed on the Moon. They were the...
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The Nibelung Saga
During World War II, the Germans strafed cities in England, Belgium, and France with the deadly V2s, the flying bombs developed in Peenemunde by a...
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Dreams of Declassification: The Early Cold War Quest for Nuclear Knowledge in The Netherlands and Norway
This article seeks to explore the relation between nuclear physics and secrecy in early Cold War Europe. After World War II, nuclear physics...
