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11Peaceful nuclear explosions — (PNEs) are nuclear explosions conducted for non military purposes, such as activities related to economic development including the creation of canals. During the 1960s and 1970s, both the United States and the Soviet Union conducted a number of… …
12Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty — (CTBT) Signed 10 September 1996 Location New York City Effective Not in force Condition 180 days after it is ratified by all 44 Annex 2 countries: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, B …
13Biological Weapons Convention — ▪ international agreement formally, Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction international treaty that bans the use of… …
14Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense) — Infobox US Cabinet official name=Harold Brown order=14th title=United States Secretary of Defense term start=January 21, 1977 term end=January 20, 1981 predecessor=Donald Rumsfeld successor=Caspar Weinberger birth date=birth date and… …
15De-alerting — introduces some reversible physical change(s) to nuclear weapons or weapon systems in order to lengthen the time required to use nuclear weapons in combat.[1] Because thousands of strategic nuclear warheads mounted upon ballistic missiles remain… …
16Counter-proliferation — refers to diplomatic, intelligence, and military efforts to combat the proliferation of weapons, including both conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction. Arms control is a related term. Contents 1 Weapons of mass destruction 1.1… …
17Kilogram — Kg redirects here. For other uses, see Kg (disambiguation). Kilogram A computer generated image of the international prototype kilogram (IPK). The IPK is the kilogram. The IPK, which is roughly the size of a golf ball, sits here alongside a ruler …
18Nuclear proliferation — World map with nuclear weapons development status represented by color.   Five nuclear weapons states from the NPT …
19Cyclic redundancy check — A cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is an error detecting code designed to detect accidental changes to raw computer data, and is commonly used in digital networks and storage devices such as hard disk drives. Blocks of data entering these systems… …
20Software patents under the European Patent Convention — Computer programs, software and patent law Topics …
