Weapons development

When designing a stab detonator, the engineer will select the firing pin so that the entire initiation mechanism is under control. This permits close coordination with other systems designers involved in the weapon development, and thus insures that the stab detonator will receive the proper stimulus... 

The pace of biological weapons development may well be accelerating, due to innovations in genetic and molecular engineering. A team of Australian scientists... 

Los Angeles, Calif(1959), 3l-2(Atomic Rocket Power Plant) 16)Anon, Dover Advance, Dover, NJ 58, No 19 May 12, i960, pp l-2(Foot Soldier s Atomic Weapon Developed Here) (A photo and few words about the... 

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In the past most weapons developed in Israel have been offered for export, but these weapons appear not to have been. No photographs have been released, and it may well be that they have been phased out of service. In recent years the Israeli Army has adopted the Soviet 240mm (12-round) BM-24 MRS, and rockets for this system are now being manufd in Israel by Israel Military Industries... 

Culverin. A light, long, muzzle-loading artillery weapon developed during the 15th century. 

Anon, International Weapon Developments , 3rd Ed, Presidio Press, San Rafael, Calif (1980)... 

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During the early years of the nuclear energy and weapons development programs, ores containing unusually high concentrations of... 

On the defensive side, service requirements were promulgated for a real-time detector for nerve agents in the field, shipboard detectors for Royal Navy vessels, prophylactics and therapy for nerve agent poisoning and a new respirator. The procurement cycle for some of these items was relatively quick, but for others, in particular the respirator, the process was one of continuous improvement reflecting advances in science and technology. However, to try to provide a succinct analysis of the first 20 post-war years of chemical weapon development in Britain is difficult mainly because many topics cannot be reported due to the non-disclosure of sensitive documents by the British government. 

Stimulated by the recent introduction of photochemical means to synthetic organic chemistry, the reaction and application of enamines and their derivatives have been studied (3). Although enamines have been regarded as one of the most useful synthetic weapons developed in modern organic chemistry (3), these particular groups are usually too unstable and decompose rather readily under photochemical conditions. Therefore, A-acylen-amines, which are readily prepared from imines by simple acylation, were the compounds of choice to study for photochemical reaction. 

Some basic work on the formation of spherical detonation waves from explosing gas mixts confined in ballons was reported. by Freiwald Uhde (Ref 2). Magram in the US earlier studied die effects of expl gases (Ref 1). Many of the first feasibility studies of FAE and FAE weaponization developments were carried out at the US Naval Ordnance Test Station, China Lake, Calif (Refs 3 4)... 

Thomas Stock, Chemical and Biological Weapons Developments and Proliferation , SIPRI Yearbook 1993 World Armaments and Disarmament (Oxford Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 259-292 Robert Noyes, Chemical Weapons Destruction and Explosive Waste/Unexploded Ordnance Remediation (Westwood, NJ Noyes Publication, 1996) National Research Council, Alternatives to Commercial Incineration of CAIS , in Review of the Army Non-Stockpile Material Disposal Program Disposal of Chemical Agent Identification Sets (Washington, DC National Academy Press, 1999), pp. 75-94. 

This treaty was not everything the Paulings had hoped for, not a complete ban on weapons development and testing. But it was a major step forward it would stop the threat of fallout. 

US Army, Univ of Wisconsin mechanical time fuze Brit desgn for dichlorodiethyl-sulfide (CWA) (See also Yperite) Miscellaneous Weapons Development Depanment (Brit)... 

The past half-century has witnessed an enormous accumulation of nuclear wastes. This accumulation continues today, but on a smaller scale, due to peacetime uses of nuclear energy. Some of the largest repositories of nuclear waste are derived fi-om atomic weapons development and are found in the USA. These repositories often date back to the 1940s and 1950s and contain a mixture of radioactive and non-radioactive constituents refleeting past efforts to modify the original waste. 

Going from one of the most sensitive of the aromatic explosives to one of the very least sensitive, we have TATB (Figure 3.18). This is a new, very insensitive, high explosive that is finding broad use in nuclear weapons development. The extreme degree of insensitiveness boosts the safety in handling and in accident situations, which is so crucial in that particular application. It is made by direct nitration of 1,3,5-trichlorobenzene to 1,3,5-trichloro-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene. This, in turn, is then converted to the 1,3,5-triamino- by amine substitution of the three chlorine atoms. 

Dept of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (Brit) Director of Materials Explosives Research Development(Brit) dlnitro-... 

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