NATO Establishes Insensitive Munitions Information Center

NATO Establishes Insensitive Munitions Information Center
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Release: 1989
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The NATO Insensitive Munitions Information Center (NIMIC) has been established as a clearinghouse for information in insensitive munitions and munitions safety. The pilot facility is located at the Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD. The NIMIC focuses on technologies that can reduce inadvertent detonation during manufacture, storage, transportation, or deployment. The NIMIC receives information in the form of technical reports, meeting papers, monographs, journal articles etc., as well as specifications (materials, systems, and environments) and test techniques and procedures. Bibliographic information is extracted and entered into relational databases.

Insensitive Munitions (Les Munitions a Risque Attenue).

Insensitive Munitions (Les Munitions a Risque Attenue).
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Total Pages: 289
Release: 1992
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The Conference Proceedings contains the 23 papers and the Technical Evaluation Report presented at the Propulsion and Energetics Panel 78th A specialists' Meeting on 'Insensitive Munitions', which was held from 21st-23rd October 1991 in Bonn, Germany. The Specialists' Meeting was composed of the following sessions: Insensitive Munitions Policy (4); Explosives and Gun Propulsion (6); Rocket Propulsion (4) and Physical Phenomena Associated with Insensitive Munitions (9). The papers presented reflect the big progress made in understanding and characterizing the response of energetic materials to external stimuli such as shock, fire and bullet impact. Small scale testing results, statistical data and approaches to numerical modelling are reported. The need for deeper investigation of the mechanisms involved, for corroboration of the statistical results and for better fidelity criteria of small scale testing becomes apparent. The NATO Insensitive Munitions Information Center (NIMIC) recently established in Brussels is charged to provide more exchange of information and international cooperation. Munition safety, Sensitivity reduction, Reduced sensitivity munition, Safety design, Hazard reduction, Impact resistance, Safety specification and policy, Fire resistance, Munition survivability.

Europe's New Defense Ambitions

Europe's New Defense Ambitions
Author: Peter van Ham
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2001-04
Genre: Europe
ISBN: 0756708788

At the EU's Helsinki summit in 1999, European leaders took a decisive step toward the development of a new Common European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) aimed at giving the EU a stronger role in international affairs backed by a credible military force. This report analyzes the processes leading to the ESDP by examining why and how this new European consensus came about. It touches upon the controversies and challenges that still lie ahead. What are the national interests and driving forces behind it, and what steps need to be taken to realize Europe's ambitions to achieve a workable European crisis mgmt. capability?

NATO and Weapons of Mass Destruction

NATO and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Author: Eric Terzuolo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2009-05-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134180993

This is the first detailed examination of NATO's role in the post-Cold War world in which the main threat to global civil society is now from Weapons of Mass Destruction.