North Korea Nuclear Deterrence: A shift from Assured Retaliation to Assured Destruction

Self-assured destruction: The climate impacts of nuclear war

A nuclear war between Russia and the United States, even after the arsenal reductions planned under New START, could produce a nuclear winter. Hence, an attack by either side could be suicidal, resulting in selfassured destruction. Even a ÒsmallÓ nuclear war between India and Pakistan, with each country detonating 50 Hiroshima-size atom bombsÑonly about 0.03 percent of the global nuclear arsena...

How to Make Assured Service More Assured

In this paper, we study why the current assurance services (AS) architecture with pro lers/markers at edge routers and with queue management mechanisms (RIO) at core routers cannot achieve throughput assurance and fairness. Based on the ndings of the simulation study, we propose an enhanced version of the time sliding window (TSW) pro ler, called the enhanced TSW (ETSW). We also design two enha...

Fertilization: Monogamy by Mutually Assured Destruction

The fusion of Chlamydomonas gamete membranes leads to rapid degradation of FUS1 and HAP2, proteins required for gamete fusion. This provides a mechanism to prevent any subsequent fusion events, thereby preventing polygamy.

How to Make Assured Servi e More Assured

A Quantitative Assured Forwarding Service

The Assured Forwarding (AF) service of the IETF DiffServ architecture provides a qualitative service differentiation between classes of traffic, in the sense that a low-priority class experiences higher loss rates and higher delays than a high-priority class. However, the AF service does not quantify the difference in the service given to classes. In an effort to strengthen the service guarante...