China held the first of what could be a series of tests to check on the speed of its new experimental hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) which would approach its target at a velocity of up to 10 times the speed of sound. Basically dubbed as WU-14 by Pentagon, this development interpreted to be designed for mounting on intercontinental ballistic missiles, as when the hypersonic vehicle is detached f...

Nuclear proliferation, because of its ability to threaten human survival, is fast coming to overshadow all other global issues.1-7 When the renowned explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau addressed the UN General Assembly in 1976 he observed that atomic power had "reshaped what we may fear, what we may dream, how we live and how we may die." He was emphasising as many before him had done that since Aug...

In this study the first complete sequence of the West Nile virus (WNV) lineage 2 strain currently circulating in Romania was determined. The virus was detected in a Hyalomma marginatum marginatum tick collected from a juvenile song thrush (Turdus philomelos) in the Romanian Danube Delta close to the city of Tulcea, end of August 2013. Our finding emphasizes the role of ticks in introduction and...

of THEATER MISSILE DEFENSE IN WORLD WAR II SOME OPERATIONAL ART CONSIDERATIONS The World War II V-l and V-2 attacks by Germany were the first effective use of theater missiles, and the first instance of a requirement for theater missile defense (TMD). The Allied response to German cruise (V-l) and ballistic (V-2) missile attacks incorporated all the elements of modern TMD concepts—Active Defens...

Comparison and evaluation of modelled and GOME measurement derived tropospheric NO2 columns over Western and Eastern Europe I. B. Konovalov , M. Beekmann, R. Vautard, J. P. Burrows, A. Richter, H. Nüß, and N. Elansky Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia Service d’Aéronomie, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Paris, France Laboratoire de Météorogie Dyna...

Japan has entered into a programme of off-the-shelf procurement and joint development of Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) systems. The impact on US-Japan alliance relations is transformational. This working paper outlines the various strategies that Japan has used in the past to manage alliance ties with the US and to mitigate the alliance dilemmas of entrapment and abandonment. It then demonstr...

This article explores how today’s post-modern, interdependent European system of order interacts with a competing system led by a modern, realist Russian Federation. Russia’s great power identity is based on a long-standing statist tradition of foreign policy thinking combined with a legacy of conviction in the uniqueness of Eurasian civilization. Key to meeting the Russian challenge is systemi...

VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2, 1997 THE LINCOLN LABORATORY JOURNAL 203 L    played a major role in developing wideband radar systems. This development was motivated by the successful application of high-power instrumentation radars to research in ballistic missile defense and satellite surveillance. Today’s wideband imaging radars perform real-time discrimination and target identificat...

geographical situation of gilan province, its weather and suitable conditions for agriculture, plus its neighboring with russia, have prepared the way for cultural, political and economical relations and interchanges between iran and russia. being called “the gate of europe”, the province also receives many tourists from many countries, especially russia. many of these tourists have recorded de...