...agency, Lyman said. The nuclear program of Iran was launched in the 1950s with the help of the United States as part of the Atoms for Peace program.[1] The participation of the United States and Western European governments in Iran's nuclear program continued until the 1979 Iranian Revolution that toppled the Shah of Iran.[2] Iran's nuclear program has included several research sites, two uranium mines, a research reactor, and uranium processing facilities that include three known uranium enrichment plants. [5] In November 2011, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors criticized Iran after an IAEA report concluded that before 2003 Iran likely had undertaken research and experiments geared to developing a nuclear weapons capability.[9] The IAEA report details...
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...infer that it will cause a crime drop, cause less gun related deaths, and make people less violent. The two sides of the debate are those who are for having guns banned, and those who are against having them banned. I am against having guns completely banned because they are a great protection against people who are trying to harm you, they are a great learning tool, and gun owners are less likely to have their houses invaded. Let’s talk about why people need these weapons in their homes. From 2003 to 2007, there was 3.7 million robberies that occurred while the homeowner was at their home. In that same time frame, 2.5 million home robberies were stopped with a weapon. That shows that if had a gun in your home at the time of the robbery, it can easily be stopped. These weapons provide the best protection you can have because the police are not always going to be around to save you can sometimes, you are required to take matters into your own hands. Now what about the responsibility that comes with owning a dangerous weapon?...
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...Concealed weapons in the workplace have been a legal issue in the business field for quite some time. Besides the dangers it will cause, on the cilivain side there are also liability issues that have arisen concerning employee rights and workplace safety. There are laws passed at both the state and federal levels that allow United States citizens to carry concealed weapons as long as they retain a permit to do so. However, many businesses do not allow their employees to carry weapons on their persons, in their vehicles, or in their offices. The purpose of this paper is to state why citizens should not be allowed to carry concealed weapons in their workplace, the regulations that allow both employees to obtain weapons at work and the laws that refrain them from doing so. The majority of the research was gathered from secondary sources mainly articles on the Strayer campus site ,elibrary and the internet. There are many states in the United States that have enacted laws to allow their citizens to carry concealed weapons in public but not in the workplace. However, the employer may not prohibit the employee from carrying a concealed weapon in the employee’s own motor vehicle, even when the motor vehicle is driven or parked on the employer’s property or while the vehicle is used in the course of employment. For employers who choose not to prohibit their employees from carrying concealed weapons, the law includes a provision granting immunity to the employer for liability arising from...
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...A nuclear weapon is a device that produces enormous explosive energy of mass destruction. A single bomb can destroy an entire city which can potentially kill millions of people, and cause severe damage to the environment. One nuclear bomb jeopardises the lives of future generations through long-term catastrophic effects. Today, there is a total of 16,400 nuclear weapons on Earth, more than 20 years after the cold war ended. That's enough nuclear bombs to destroy the world and make it completely uninhabitable. The US set up the 'Manhattan Project' to develop the first nuclear weapon, and were the first and only country to use nuclear weapons during the second world war on Japan. The first atomic bomb hit Hiroshima on 6th August 1945, killing...
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...It is described that the weapon focus effect is when a witness of a crime that was committed with an armed offender stays focused on the weapon and not the offender. Since the witness stays so focused on the weapon they cannot recall correct details about the offender when reporting the crime. However, if there is not a weapon involved then the witness is more likely to recall details about the offender. There have been many studies conducted involving the weapon focus effect. Each study consist of different variables to better understand the weapon focus effect. Researchers have changed the types of people involved, the places in which the study is conducted and the way each people experiences the effect. Theories have been made in regards to why weapon focus effect occurs. A hypothesis called cue-utilisation says that because weapons are known...
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...The issue of gun control is a very serious matter because of the danger that can come with firing a gun. Guns are weapons, and although they can be used for protection, accidents can happen. This is one of the reasons that there should be some form of restriction on the use and carrying of guns in public places. Texas should not become an Open Carry state. This is not to say that citizens and licensed gun holders should not be allowed to carry their weapons, but concealed carry is a better plan of action in my opinion. Personally, I am not comfortable with seeing someone, other than a police officer, with a gun in public. Bad decisions and gun related accidents can happen in an instant. I think there is not a lot that Congress and the Texas...
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...industries around the United States. Coupled with the growing development of biotechnology, however, is a force hoping to harness its power to create biological weapons. Presently, there are several nations pursuing biological weapons programs, making it easier for terrorist groups to gain access and attain advanced weaponry. Recently, terrorists have demonstrated their ability to execute acts of bio-terror without any moral repugnance or regret. Though these weapons have been taboo in past centuries, known for their sneakiness and deception, the use of biological weapons and the incidence of biological attack in the present century has –relatively speaking– dramatically increased. It is for this reason that congress and the federal government must intervene to prevent future bio-attack. The best method to stall further biological development within terrorist groups is by infiltration and detection via the Intelligence Community (IC). Unfortunately, we have diverted all our resources towards bio-terrorism research, without realizing that it is the further development and accessibility of biological weapons information that has promoted the spread of deadly knowledge within the terrorist community. Instead of trying to develop research plans for specific pathogenic agents, we must try and directly detect the progress of bio-weapon development in other nations through secretive intelligence networking. While some may question the ability of the IC to forestall future bio-attack due to...
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...The topic of gun control is perhaps one of the most controversial subjects in the nation. It is known that there are approximately 300 million firearms in circulation in the United States. With that being said, from information gathered from the article by Paul Waldman, those weapons account to the 11,000-12,000 gun related homicides that occur every year. If someone has guns in his or her possession, it is easier to kill many people at once. Bombs, guns, knives, and other weapons can be used against people to harm them. While yes, firearms are a problem, they are not the only problem out there. To many Americans, owning a firearm gives them a sense of security. Knowing that they have a way to protect themselves in a dangerous...
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...On Combat: Grossman and Christensen Self development is one of the critical variables in the four domains of Army Leadership Development. In an effort to help expand the contexts related to self development, Grossman and Christensen’s On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and Peace, add strong information to self development that would be useful to all military and police personnel. Picking up where his earlier work, On Killing, left off, Grossman and Christensen examine all facets of deadly combat including preparation/training, the actual moment of conflict and even debriefing at the conclusion of combat. The self development advocated by the authors establishes the true context of being a warrior, which they define as the 1% who protects the 98% from the remaining 1% who would do them harm (Grossman & Christensen 12). Though the work is not infallible, it examines subject matter that many psychologists have traditionally avoided. In addition, it combines psychology and physiology to extend beyond simply combat training and into the realms of healing after combat has occurred. The book is critically divided into four sections: The Physiology of Combat, Perceptual Distortion, Mental Attitude and Aftermath. Each of the four dimensions offer elements of self development that are useful to the reader. The first sections explains to the reader exactly what occurs physically during combat. As the author’s demonstrate, the will to kill another human...
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...Assault weapons are not so bad Are assault weapons really that dangerous? No they are not there is a lot of mass murders in the world such as San Bernardino and sandy hook elementary ETC. Most of the gunmen and women have disabilities. The man from Sandy hook elementary had a mental problem and he went to the school and shot all of the little children. Most of the mast shooting aren't from people having the assault weapons most of the massacres are from video games. Some shooters play gun games such as Call Of Duty. A lot of gunmen play those a games daily and learn how to do things like breaking into places, and killing many and many people. I think the U.S should ban violent video games. Assault weapons shall not be banned at all....
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...As an American citizen in high school, I believe the popular topic of gun control in schools is most relevant to me at the moment. There have been OVER 300 school related shootings since 2013—an average of about one a week. As a student who has never been put in the position of having to protect oneself from an active shooter, I believe teachers should not have guns. Michael Drayton (1596) created a wise saying: “add fuel to the fire” this is still relevant today. By allowing teachers to have guns it is adding fuel to a fire, meaning it can only make a situation worse. If teachers are allowed to have guns in the classroom, students may be afraid to go to class, may feel uncomfortable knowing there is a weapon in the classroom. It also can...
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...non-proliferation in the Korean Peninsula Nuclear weapons are not a joking matter. With the announcement that North Korea had conducted a successful nuclear test in 2006, 2009, and in 2013 (CNN), that the country had officially become a nuclear state, the Republic of Belarus share the same fear that is being felt across the globe on a daily basis. The delegate understands the threat that it poses to Belarus, as well as the international community as a whole. As a result, the delegate of Belarus strongly oppose any further development of the North Korean nuclear weapons program, and urge the great world powers to take action and stop it altogether. North Korea built a nuclear complex in the 1960s. In the 1970s, they expanded their plant into a more capable and complex facility. In 1985, they signed the treaty of the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction but then dropped out (Aftergood and Kristensen, 2). Since then, they have fired seven ballistic missiles and conducted two nuclear tests, the more recent test defied UN resolutions 1718 and 1695 (Lee, 1). Belarus is a signer of the NPT Non-Proliferation Treaty and The Republic of Belarus has ratified the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) and is showing effort to reduce military arsenals by being a part of the Global Threat Reduction Initiative. Also, Belarus has been a State Party of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) too. Although Belarus had possessed nuclear weapons in the past, it has sent them to Russia...
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...Jatin Sharma Amber Petersen English 100 May 30, 2018 Socioeconomic Problems and Gun Related Deaths Carrying gun for personal use may be good for safety to some extent. People will be dying till socioeconomic problems such as unemployment, poverty alcohol consumption exist, but gun related death can be stopped up to some extent by controlling guns. For example, in India, many people are killed by a gun shot in weddings. A recent study says that guns are responsible behind the death of 32,000 people every year in The United States and that is why this topic became a matter of concern. My research question relates to the relationship between socioeconomic problems which mentioned before and its related homicide rates? I took the Mark Gius’s...
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...that if properly motivated, any person, no matter the age, race, or mental condition, can get behind that gun and pull the trigger. Guns have become the weapon of choice, able to kill large numbers of people efficiently and quickly. This great invention may work for military warfare, but in the Unites States alone more than 32,000 fatalities occur every year because of gun related violence. With the highest number of guns in any developed country on earth, guns must really make Americans feel safer. But are you really safe...
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...Shooting for an answer (Gun Control Laws) Many may argue that weapons such as a gun and a crime go hand in hand. If it is so then does that mean guns lead to crimes? Gun control laws are meant to minimize crimes and help protect citizens but are they really doing this? The debate about gun control is no new topic to us and has been evolving over time. Now back to the question, do gun control laws really do what they are suppose to do? I personally believe that these laws don't work. They only affect law-abiding citizens and criminals as we all know aren't in that category. If a criminal wants to use a weapon such as a gun and knows they cannot legally acquire one they will still find a way to obtain one, of course illegally. Some may argue that by allowing more restrictive gun ownership and or use laws will help reduce gun related crimes, suicides and homicides in our country. Yet more than 30,000 American citizens die each year due to gunshots wounds, which in return is the highest homicide rate from guns in the world (Deborah White). Here are some facts about gun uses in America. About 80 million Americans, representing 50% of the U.S homes, own 223 million guns, easily the highest private gun ownership rate of any country in the world (Deborah White). An article on Wikipedia states that "Gun uses in the United States is associated with the majority of homicides and over half the suicides". Each year about 4.5 million firearms, including approximately 2 million handguns...
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