Le Play (1895), who combined a series of empirical studies of families across much of Europe with pronouncements about the evolution of family life in the west, warning of an alarming erosion in traditional family forms that was eating at the moral fabric...
The estimation of the probable effect on population, forces, and resources from a hypothetical nuclear attack. It is performed predominantly in the preattack period; however, it may be extended to the transattack or postattack periods. Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of...
the Soviet nuclear warning system falsely raisedan alarm, reporting that five U.S. nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles were on their way toward the USSR. There was no retaliatory launch from Moscow. Fortunately, for
the United States demonstrated not only that it had the power to do so but also that it was prepared to do so. This was the moment when nuclear deterrence was born because the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were arguably intended as much as a warning to Russia about what could ...
"They aren't going to put up a nuclear damper and warn everybody they're expecting attack, old son," said Major Soames tartly. "Of course, the least warning and they'll turn it on." "Hold one," said the trooper in Fire Control. ...
the irresistible development of nuclear technology, while enjoying the technological dividend brought by nuclear power, it is of great significance to timely consider diversified kinds of risks that may be brought by its application and to establish and improve the prevention and early warning system....
In the film, Stimson expresses some skepticism at the impressiveness of the bomb (Oppenheimer has to convince him otherwise), shoots down any suggestions about warning the Japanese ahead of it, impresses on the men there that the Japanese are intractably committed to war in the face of defeat...
As one paper explains, even during an “alarm avalanche” — an overwhelming series of alarms in a short period of time — operators sometimes simply ignore warning signals, partly because the operators know that analyzing them may not offer much benefit, and also because they don’t have ...
It’s a concept he believes could be used on very large asteroids, if there’s enough warning. “So, in principle, you could push a dinosaur-killing asteroid out of the way, if you have enough time.” But those aren’t very common. ...
Nuclear Power Plant Emergency Warning: How Would the Public; HRRC Publication: College Station, TX, USA, 1983. [Google Scholar] Landry, M.; Pascot, D.; Briolat, D. Can DSS evolve without changing our view of the concept of ‘problem’? Decis. Support Syst. 1985, 1, 25–36. [...