[The Romans] do not begin to use their weapons first in time of war, nor do they then put their hands first into motion, while they avoided so to do in times of peace; but as if their weapons did always cling to them, they have never any truce from warlike exercises; . . . nor would he be mistaken that should call those their exercises unbloody battles, and their battles bloody exercises.— Flav...

Introduction The collapse of the Soviet Union could result in a variety of nuclear proliferation dangers. Some of the newly independent states (NIS) may retain former Soviet nuclear weapons or develop their own nuclear weapons capability. Others are capable of supplying nuclear weapons and missile equipment, technology, or materials to states outside the NIS. Ongoing conflicts in several region...

For the first time the Deparment of Health and Human Services is part of the national security apparatus of the United States. That reflects a change in our views on chemical and biological defense programs. Almost 5 years ago at the bidding of the president we began to look at what has come to be known as “asymmetrical threats,” ways in which opponents (be they nations or terrorist groups) cou...

Episodic memory is defined as the conscious retrieval of specific past events. Whether accurate episodic retrieval requires a recollective experience or if a feeling of knowing is sufficient remains unresolved. We recently devised an ecological approach to investigate the controlled cued-retrieval of episodes composed of unnamable odors (What) located spatially (Where) within a visual context (...

Hostile jokes (HJs) provide aggressive catharsis and a feeling of superiority. Behavioral research has found that HJs are perceived as funnier than non-hostile jokes (NJs). The purpose of the present study was to identify the neural correlates of the interaction between type and humor by comparing HJs, NJs, and their corresponding hostile sentences (HSs) and non-hostile sentences (NSs). HJs pri...