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2. RECORDANDO 1955. LOS BOMBARDEOS A PLAZA DE MAYO, EL GOLPE DE ESTADO Y SUS RESIGNIFICACIONES POR EL PERONISMO EN LA ARGENTINA DE PRINCIPIOS DE LOS AÑOS SESENTA.
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Funes, Andrés N.
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PERONISM ,BOMBINGS ,POLITICAL parties ,POLITICAL organizations - Abstract
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- 2023
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3. Urakami Memory and the Two Popes: The Disrupting of an Abstracted Nuclear Discourse.
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McClelland, Gwyn
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MEMORY ,NUCLEAR weapons ,DISCOURSE - Abstract
Since 1945, official Catholic discourse around nuclear weapons has condemned their existence on the one hand and supported them as deterrents on the other. This paper argues the largely abstracted discourse on nuclear weapons within the World Church has been disrupted by voices of Urakami in Nagasaki since at least 1981, as the Vatican has re-considered both memory and Catholic treatments of the bombing of this city since the end of World War II. On 9 August 1945, a plutonium A-bomb, nicknamed 'Fat Man', was detonated by the United States over the northern suburb of Nagasaki known as Urakami. Approximately 8500 Catholics were killed by the deployment of the bomb in this place that was once known as the Rome of the East. Many years on, two popes visited Nagasaki, the first in 1981 and the second in 2019. Throughout the period from John Paul II's initial visit to Pope Francis's visit in 2019, the Catholic Church's official stance on nuclear weapons evolved significantly. Pope John Paul II's contribution to the involvement in peace discourses of Catholics who had suffered the bombing attack in Nagasaki has been noted by scholars previously, but we should not assume influence in 1981 was unidirectional. Drawing upon interviews conducted in the Catholic community in Nagasaki between 2014 and 2019, and by reference to the two papal visits, this article re-evaluates the ongoing potentialities and concomitant weaknesses of religious discourse. Such discourses continue to exert an influence on international relations in the enduring atomic age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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4. Suicide Bomb Attack Identification and Analytics through Data Mining Techniques.
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Ferooz, Faria, Hassan, Malik Tahir, Awan, Mazhar Javed, Nobanee, Haitham, Kamal, Maryam, Yasin, Awais, and Zain, Azlan Mohd
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SUICIDE bombings ,DATA mining ,ASSOCIATION rule mining ,BOMBINGS ,APRIORI algorithm - Abstract
Suicide bomb attacks are a high priority concern nowadays for every country in the world. They are a massively destructive criminal activity known as terrorism where one explodes a bomb attached to himself or herself, usually in a public place, taking the lives of many. Terrorist activity in different regions of the world depends and varies according to geopolitical situations and significant regional factors. There has been no significant work performed previously by utilizing the Pakistani suicide attack dataset and no data mining-based solutions have been given related to suicide attacks. This paper aims to contribute to the counterterrorism initiative for the safety of this world against suicide bomb attacks by extracting hidden patterns from suicidal bombing attack data. In order to analyze the psychology of suicide bombers and find a correlation between suicide attacks and the prediction of the next possible venue for terrorist activities, visualization analysis is performed and data mining techniques of classification, clustering and association rule mining are incorporated. For classification, Naïve Bayes, ID3 and J48 algorithms are applied on distinctive selected attributes. The results exhibited by classification show high accuracy against all three algorithms applied, i.e., 73.2%, 73.8% and 75.4%. We adapt the K-means algorithm to perform clustering and, consequently, the risk of blast intensity is identified in a particular location. Frequent patterns are also obtained through the Apriori algorithm for the association rule to extract the factors involved in suicide attacks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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5. Earthquakes induced by deep penetrating bombing?
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Balassanian, Serguei Y.
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- 2005
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6. UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENTIAL ASSOCIATION AND GENERAL STRAIN THEORIES TO ANALYZE SUICIDE BOMBING IN INDONESIA
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Alfons Zakaria
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Bombing ,Law - Abstract
On Friday 21st April 2011, Indonesia was shocked by a suicide bombing in a police mosque in Cirebon,West Java Indonesia. The bombing exploded just before the Friday prayer began. Historically, althoughsuicide bombings or mosque bombing have occurred elsewhere, the suicide mosque bombing in Cirebonwas the first time this had occurred in Indonesia. There are similarities between the Cirebon bombingand other bombings occurring in Indonesia. First, there is a similar relationship among the suspects.Second, the suspects were all involved in organizations that have hard-line Islamic ideology. The aim ofthis paper is to understand the differential association and general strain theories in the light of the newform suicide bombing that occurred in Indonesia. This paper will be argued that differential associationtheory is an appropriate approach to explain the cause of the suicide bombing related to the relationshipamong suspects. Similarly, general strain theory is a suitable approach to explain the cause of theterrorism in Indonesia. KeyWords: terrorism, suicide bombing, differential association and general strain theories.
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- 2013
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7. Anatomy of the Lockerbie bombing: Libya’s role and reactions to al-Megrahi’s release.
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K. J. Ani and U. O. Uzodike
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al-Megrahi ,Ghadafi ,bombing ,terrorism ,prosecution ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
Despite its long historical antecedents, terrorism is amongst the growing realities of the national history of contemporary sovereign states. With this emergence, destabilizing influence, and internationalization, terrorism has made the associated security challenge a major diplomatic headache for all key international actors and diplomats. This paper, which adopts a theoretical approach, assesses claims that Ghadafi’s Libya championed state-sponsored terrorism. It reviews the Lockerbie bombing and the conviction of al-Megrahi by the court in Netherland as well as his release from Scottish prison on compassionate grounds. It examines Libya’s use of available diplomatic tools and channels not only to prevent Abdelbaset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi from facing justice but also to attain Ghadafi’s political and economic interests. This article documents the political communication that followed his release and calls for increased diplomatic investigations of the Lockerbie terrorist attack. Finally, the paper beckons on Libya’s new leaders and the leaderships of USA and Scotland to engage in a progressive multilateral strategic cooperation to unravel further facts on the Lockerbie bombing while promoting the current international “war” against terrorism
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- 2015
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8. Crime Script Sequencing: An optimal forensic combination for cold case analysis
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D.A. Keatley, M. Arntfield, and D.D. Clarke
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Crime script analysis ,Behaviour sequence analysis ,Timeline analysis ,Bombing ,Methods ,Criminal law and procedure ,K5000-5582 - Abstract
Criminal cases go cold when investigative leads or forensic testing does not lead to a successful arrest. In these cases, investigators are often keen to use novel methods to derive fresh ideas or insights. Recently, academics from a range of fields, including Psychology, Criminology, and Forensic Sciences have developed a range of new methods and tests to assist with police investigations. The current paper outlines a novel approach to assisting with police cold case investigations: Crime Script Sequencing. The new method combines two leading temporal methods, Crime Script Analysis and Behaviour Sequence Analysis. A real-world cold case, the bombing of Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 21, is presented and analysed using Crime Script Sequencing to offer readers a guide of how to use the method for other investigations. Impacts, insights, and potential future developments of the method are outlined.
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- 2022
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9. The restoration of forest ecosystems in the NP 'Fruška Gora' 20 years after the bombing
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Stojšić Vida, Dinić Anka, and Grozdanić Đorđe
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national park ,fruška gora ,bombing ,restoration of forest ecosystems ,sessile forests ,sessilehornbeam forests ,beech forests ,Environmental protection ,TD169-171.8 - Abstract
This paper presents the restoration of forest ecosystems in the NP "Fruška gora" 20 years after the bombing, which lasted from April 4 to June 8, 1999. The most frequently bombed sites were: Elektrovojvodina (Iriški venac), Kraljeve stolice, Paragovo, Crveni čot and Dubočaš. The most affected were sessile oak, sessile-hornbeam and beech forests with linden. At the sites Elektrovojvodina, Paragovo and Crveni čot, young oak forests 15-20 years of age have been restored by planting sessile oak and sowing acorns. Beech-linden forests will spontaneously restore, which is indicated by the appearance of young beech seedlings. At the Dubočaš site, in a destroyed forest dug by craters, dense acacia shrubs have been formed. In the sessile forest on the Kraljeve stolice site, the pioneer species Salix caprea and Populus tremula, 15-20 years of age, are in the proces of spontaneous restoration. However, this forest cannot be restored without human intervention.
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- 2020
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10. Bombs in the sky, ruins in the city: aspects of urban bombardment in The End of the Affair and Spies.
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Castagnino, María Inés
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SPIES ,BOMBARDMENT ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations ,BOMBS ,BOMBINGS ,AERIAL bombing - Abstract
Aspects of the London Blitz are represented in the novels The End of the Affair (Graham Greene 1951) and Spies (Michael Frayn 2002), and these representations involve a reflection on the effects on urban culture and city lives of the translation of the destructive action of war to the metropolitan sphere. To the purpose of elucidating the extent of this reflection, this article offers a comparative analysis of the depiction of human lives in an urban environment under threat of instantaneous ruin in both novels. The analysis is guided by the specificities of urban ruin originated by bombing as useful indicators to relevant textual items, and focuses on the divine associations of air bombing, the articulation between built and open or "natural" spaces in the urban framework, social difference encoded in the city landscape, the significance of bomb sites and urban routine affected by the war. The conclusions attempt to show how, conversely, the literary representation of bombing attacks on the city illuminates the actual experience or city life and urban culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
11. MEDIA BIAS AND THE ROLE OF INTERNET-USER-GENERATED CONTENT IN CRISIS MANAGEMENT: A CASE-STUDY ABOUT THE COMMUNICATION OF THE HUNGARIAN POLICE FORCE AFTER THE 2016 BUDAPEST EXPLOSION.
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PINTÉR, DÁNIEL GERGŐ
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CRISIS management ,SOCIAL media ,POLICE - Abstract
The 2016 Budapest explosion occurred on September 24, 2016 when a young man detonated a nail bomb in an attempt to kill two patrolling police officers. This case-study analyses the official communication of the Hungarian police force, focusing on the time that elapsed until their first official reaction. I argue that the first twenty-four hours after the explosion were the most crucial, and that working with speed and efficiency is important. I claim that a successful crisis management process takes not only the bias of mass media into consideration, but also the influence of internet-user-generated content and conspiracy theories as well. The publication of a holding statement, designed to help control the message the public will hear immediately following an incident, is also essential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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12. World War II Aerial Bombings of Germany: Fear as Subject of National Socialist Governmental Practices
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Torben Möbius
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air war ,emotions ,bombing ,National Socialism ,II world war ,german ,History (General) ,D1-2009 - Abstract
This paper highlights how the National Socialist regime in Germany created the so-called «Selbstschutz» («self protection») in civil air defense as an «apparatus of society» (Michel Foucault) to educate the German population with regard to the new possibility of aerial bombing. Mechanisms, functions of emotional control and their relationship to concrete practices of the people involved are shown alongside a local example. Regarding the spread and development of fears, this article maintains that practices of «Selbstschutz» had to bridge the temporal gap between future expectations and actual experiences in crucial ways. Before the war, «Selbstschutz» followed its own logic of expectation of danger and risk, as exemplified in aerial-defense simulation exercises, which clashed with the reality of bombs falling on German cities later on.
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- 2016
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13. The restoration of forest ecosystems in the NP 'Fruška Gora' 20 years after the bombing
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Anka Dinić, Vida Stojšić, and Đorđe Grozdanić
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restoration of forest ecosystems ,Geography ,fruška gora ,TD169-171.8 ,Forest ecology ,national park ,beech forests ,sessile forests ,Forestry ,sessilehornbeam forests ,bombing ,Environmental protection - Abstract
This paper presents the restoration of forest ecosystems in the NP "Fruška gora" 20 years after the bombing, which lasted from April 4 to June 8, 1999. The most frequently bombed sites were: Elektrovojvodina (Iriški venac), Kraljeve stolice, Paragovo, Crveni čot and Dubočaš. The most affected were sessile oak, sessile-hornbeam and beech forests with linden. At the sites Elektrovojvodina, Paragovo and Crveni čot, young oak forests 15-20 years of age have been restored by planting sessile oak and sowing acorns. Beech-linden forests will spontaneously restore, which is indicated by the appearance of young beech seedlings. At the Dubočaš site, in a destroyed forest dug by craters, dense acacia shrubs have been formed. In the sessile forest on the Kraljeve stolice site, the pioneer species Salix caprea and Populus tremula, 15-20 years of age, are in the proces of spontaneous restoration. However, this forest cannot be restored without human intervention.
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- 2020
14. Bombing and the Two Vietnams
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Vu Vuong, Simon Chang, and Michael Palmer
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I15 ,N45 ,N35 ,Vietnam ,H56 ,nutrition transition ,ddc:330 ,body mass index ,institutions ,I31 ,bombing ,humanities ,O15 - Abstract
The Vietnam War occurred when Vietnam was divided into two states with contrasting institutions. North Vietnam was characterized by a command economy under a stable political regime, whereas South Vietnam experienced a market economy and prolonged political instability. This paper uses this context to investigate the heterogeneous effect of childhood bombing exposure on health in adulthood. On average we found negative long-term effects on adult height and body mass index among the South Vietnamese population, while their counterparts in the North were barely affected. We argue that this heterogeneity is most likely attributable to the interplay of institutions and bombing.
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- 2021
15. The effects of the Omagh bomb on adolescent mental health: a school-based study.
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Duffy, Michael, McDermott, Maura, Percy, Andrew, Ehlers, Anke, Clark, David M., Fitzgerald, Michael, and Moriarty, John
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TRAUMATIC psychoses ,MENTAL health of teenagers ,QUESTIONNAIRES ,BOMBINGS ,EDUCATIONAL surveys - Abstract
Background: The main objective of this study was to assess psychiatric morbidity among adolescents following the Omagh car bombing in Northern Ireland in 1998. Methods: Data was collected within schools from adolescents aged between 14 and 18 years via a self-completion booklet comprised of established predictors of PTSD; type of exposure, initial emotional response, long-term adverse physical problems, predictors derived from Ehlers and Clark's (2000) cognitive model, a PTSD symptoms measure (PDS) and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). Results: Those with more direct physical exposure were significantly more likely to meet caseness on the GHQ and the PDS. The combined pre and peri trauma risk factors highlighted in previous meta-analyses accounted for 20% of the variance in PDS scores but the amount of variance accounted for increased to 56% when the variables highlighted in Ehlers and Clark's cognitive model for PTSD were added. Conclusions: High rates of chronic PTSD were observed in adolescents exposed to the bombing. Whilst increased exposure was associated with increased psychiatric morbidity, the best predictors of PTSD were specific aspects of the trauma ('seeing someone you think is dying'), what you are thinking during the event ('think you are going to die') and the cognitive mechanisms employed after the trauma. As these variables are in principle amenable to treatment the results have implications for teams planning treatment interventions after future traumas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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16. A school based study of psychological disturbance in children following the Omagh bomb.
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McDermott, Maura, Duffy, Michael, Percy, Andy, Fitzgerald, Michael, and Cole, Claire
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CHILD death ,ANXIETY ,VEHICLE bombs ,THREATS ,POST-traumatic stress disorder - Abstract
Objective To assess the extent and nature of psychiatric morbidity among children (aged 8 to 13 years) 15 months after a car bomb explosion in the town of Omagh, Northern Ireland. Method A survey was conducted of 1945 school children attending 13 schools in the Omagh district. Questionnaires included demographic details, measures of exposure, the Horowitz Impact of Events Scale, the Birleson Self-Rating Depression Scale, and the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale. Results Children directly exposed to the bomb reported higher levels of probable PTSD (70%), and psychological distress than those not exposed. Direct exposure was more closely associated with an increase in PTSD symptoms than in general psychiatric distress. Significant predictors of increased IES scores included being male, witnessing people injured and reporting a perceived life threat but when co-morbid anxiety and depression are included as potential predictors anxiety remains the only significant predictor of PTSD scores. Conclusions School-based studies are a potentially valuable means of screening and assessing for PTSD in children after large-scale tragedies. Assessment should consider type of exposure, perceived life threat and other co-morbid anxiety as risk factors for PTSD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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17. Rogaška Slatina v obdobju nemške okupacije (1941–1945)
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Siter, Daniel and Mikša, Peter
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KLV camp ,kulturbund ,mobilizacija ,Robert Komarek ,grobišča ,fortification ,German occupation ,Rogaška Slatina ,druga svetovna vojna ,Styria Homeland Association ,Second World War ,terror ,Štajerska domovinska zveza ,KLV kamp ,utrjevanje ,bombardiranje ,Herbert Miglič ,teror ,denationalization ,bombing ,nemška okupacija ,mobilization ,graveyards ,raznarodovanje - Abstract
Magistrsko delo na podlagi doslej še neobjavljenih arhivskih virov, slikovnega gradiva, šolskih kronik, matičnih knjig, občutljive osebne dokumentacije žrtev okupatorjevega nasilja in ostalih zasebnih zbirk ter spominskih pričevanj še živečih prič in raziskav na terenu (LIDAR tehnologija in uporaba detektorja kovin) prvič celostno proučuje in analizira štiriletno nacistično okupacijo občine Rogaška Slatina, ki jo je okupator zaradi zdraviliškega in steklarskega pomena, velike namestitvene kapacitete ter lege ob nemško-hrvaški državni meji na reki Sotli spremenil v eno izmed ključnih postojank spodnještajerske zasedbene pokrajine in pomembno obmejno mesto tretjega rajha. Raziskava kaže, da je bila osnova raznarodovalnega terorja, ki ga je okupator v vsej svoji izkrivljeni obliki v Rogaški Slatini izvajal po njeni zasedbi, načrtovana že pred napadom, pri čemer je pomembno vlogo odigrala tudi izdajalska obveščevalna dejavnost pronacistične pete kolone in lokalne kulturbundovske sekcije. Okupacijska občina Rogaška Slatina pod vodstvom nemškega župana Herberta Migliča je bila pogostoma najpomembnejša enota celjskega političnega okrožja. Ključni širši pomen Rogaške Slatine in njenega obsotelskega zaledja je bil razviden tudi iz dejstva, da so bili v kraju sedeži raznarodovalnih organizacij in zvez ter najpomembnejši vzvodi polvojaške in vojaške, policijske in upravne oblasti, v zadnji fazi vojne pa tudi razni vojaški in utrjevalni štabi, povezani z gradnjo protiinvazijskih fortifikacijskih sistemov in obrambnih preprek vzdolž razmejitvene Sotle. Navsezadnje je imel tudi ustaški vodja Ante Pavelić pri begu svoj zadnji sestanek ravno v zdravilišču, kjer je prvič izvedel za kapitulacijske namene njegove največje zaveznice. Okupacija Rogaške Slatine je bila tako silovita, da so njene posledice 74 let po koncu največje vojne morije v zgodovini človeštva na terenu še vedno vidne v obliki materialnih ostalin in sledi ter vojnih grobišč, hkrati pa se ohranjajo tudi v spominu peščice še živečih pričevalcev in žrtev nemškega nasilja. Ti so zadnji neposredni pomnik o trpljenju in nepopravljivih krivicah, ki služijo kot zgodovinski nauk prihodnjim generacijam. Drawing on previously unpublished archival sources, pictorial material, school chronicles, central registers, sensitive personal papers from victims of Nazi violence and other private collections, oral accounts and field research (LIDAR technology and use of metal detector), the masters thesis for the first time comprehensively studies and analyzes the four-year Nazi occupation of municipality Rogaška Slatina, which was for its health and glassmaking importance, large accommodation capacity and position along the German-Croatian state border on the Sotla River turned into one of the key outposts of the Lower Styrian occupation zone. The research shows that the basis of the denationalizing terror, of which in all its distorted form was carried out in Rogaška Slatina after its occupation, had been prepared before the attack where the significant role was also played out by treacherous intelligence activity of the pro-Nazi-oriented fifth column and local »Kulturbund« section. The occupation municipality under the leadership of German mayor Herbert Miglic was often the most important unit of the Celje political district. The key wider significance of Rogaška Slatina and its Sotla hinterland was also evident from the fact that the seats of denationalize organizations and associations and the most important levers of the half-military and military, police and administrative offices as well as various fortification staffs connected by building anti-invasion fortification systems and defence barriers along the demarcation Sotla at the end of the War were installed here. The occupation of Rogaška Slatina was so brutal that its consequences 74 years after the end of the greatest war in the history of mankind are still visible through material remains, traces and covert war graves, and are preserved in the tragic memory of a handful of living witnesses and victims of German violence. Those are the last direct monuments of suffering and irreparable injustices that serve as a historical lesson for future generations.
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- 2019
18. Urakami Memory and the Two Popes: The Disrupting of an Abstracted Nuclear Discourse
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Gwyn McClelland
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International relations ,oral history ,History ,Religions. Mythology. Rationalism ,World War II ,Religious studies ,Ancient history ,Nuclear weapon ,atomic weapons ,BL1-2790 ,Holy See ,United States ,Catholic ,abstract ,Oral history ,Initial visit ,history ,bombing ,Nagasaki ,pope ,nuclear weapons ,Period (music) - Abstract
Since 1945, official Catholic discourse around nuclear weapons has condemned their existence on the one hand and supported them as deterrents on the other. This paper argues the largely abstracted discourse on nuclear weapons within the World Church has been disrupted by voices of Urakami in Nagasaki since at least 1981, as the Vatican has re-considered both memory and Catholic treatments of the bombing of this city since the end of World War II. On 9 August 1945, a plutonium A-bomb, nicknamed ‘Fat Man’, was detonated by the United States over the northern suburb of Nagasaki known as Urakami. Approximately 8500 Catholics were killed by the deployment of the bomb in this place that was once known as the Rome of the East. Many years on, two popes visited Nagasaki, the first in 1981 and the second in 2019. Throughout the period from John Paul II’s initial visit to Pope Francis’s visit in 2019, the Catholic Church’s official stance on nuclear weapons evolved significantly. Pope John Paul II’s contribution to the involvement in peace discourses of Catholics who had suffered the bombing attack in Nagasaki has been noted by scholars previously, but we should not assume influence in 1981 was unidirectional. Drawing upon interviews conducted in the Catholic community in Nagasaki between 2014 and 2019, and by reference to the two papal visits, this article re-evaluates the ongoing potentialities and concomitant weaknesses of religious discourse. Such discourses continue to exert an influence on international relations in the enduring atomic age.
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- 2021
19. Suicide Bomb Attack Identification and Analytics through Data Mining Techniques
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Faria Ferooz, Awais Yasin, Maryam Kamal, Azlan Mohd Zain, Malik Tahir Hassan, Haitham Nobanee, and Mazhar Javed Awan
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pattern extraction ,Apriori algorithm ,TK7800-8360 ,Association rule learning ,Computer Networks and Communications ,Computer science ,counter terrorism ,Big data ,computer.software_genre ,Naive Bayes classifier ,Bombing ,Clustering ,Counter terrorism ,Data mining ,Environment ,Geopolitical situation ,Location sensitivity prediction ,Pattern extraction ,Suicide ,big data ,bombing ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,Cluster analysis ,suicide ,business.industry ,geopolitical situation ,data mining ,Identification (information) ,Hardware and Architecture ,Control and Systems Engineering ,Analytics ,Signal Processing ,Terrorism ,Electronics ,business ,environment ,computer ,location sensitivity prediction ,clustering - Abstract
Suicide bomb attacks are a high priority concern nowadays for every country in the world. They are a massively destructive criminal activity known as terrorism where one explodes a bomb attached to himself or herself, usually in a public place, taking the lives of many. Terrorist activity in different regions of the world depends and varies according to geopolitical situations and significant regional factors. There has been no significant work performed previously by utilizing the Pakistani suicide attack dataset and no data mining-based solutions have been given related to suicide attacks. This paper aims to contribute to the counterterrorism initiative for the safety of this world against suicide bomb attacks by extracting hidden patterns from suicidal bombing attack data. In order to analyze the psychology of suicide bombers and find a correlation between suicide attacks and the prediction of the next possible venue for terrorist activities, visualization analysis is performed and data mining techniques of classification, clustering and association rule mining are incorporated. For classification, Naïve Bayes, ID3 and J48 algorithms are applied on distinctive selected attributes. The results exhibited by classification show high accuracy against all three algorithms applied, i.e., 73.2%, 73.8% and 75.4%. We adapt the K-means algorithm to perform clustering and, consequently, the risk of blast intensity is identified in a particular location. Frequent patterns are also obtained through the Apriori algorithm for the association rule to extract the factors involved in suicide attacks.
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- 2021
20. 'It did not traumatise me at all': childhood 'trauma' in French oral narratives of wartime bombing.
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Dodd, Lindsey
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BOMBINGS ,TRAUMATISM ,ORAL history ,CHILD psychology ,SOCIAL context ,WAR victims ,PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
In oral histories of the Allied bombing of France during the Second World War, 'trauma' is a word rarely used. Here, I examine the seeming absence of trauma in interviews I recorded with people who lived through the bombing as children. I note that this absence is only apparent, and that close analysis of their words reveals 'trauma signals' explicitly and implicitly in the narrative and its structure. Bombing is an objectively traumatising event, but traumatisation depends too on a subjective response which, I suggest, is psychological as well as socially constructed. I conclude by proposing several reasons why trauma is not expressed directly in these narratives, which include French memorial culture in the post-war era, the elision of victimhood and trauma, and interviewees' subsequent life trajectories as soldiers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
21. A Behavioural Analysis of Terrorist Action.
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Wilson, Margaret A., Scholes, Angela, and Brocklehurst, Elizabeth
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TERRORISM ,BEHAVIORAL assessment ,ASSASSINATION ,BOMBINGS - Abstract
This study examines the range of terrorist action employed by ETA and the underlying psychological dimensions that distinguish between the conduct of their two main forms: assassinations and bombings. Descriptive accounts of incidents occurring between 1980 and 2007 are analysed for content and for the similarities and differences between the incidents represented, using Multidimensional Scalogram Analysis. The results show that incidents vary according to dimensions of victim targeting. For assassinations, these dimensions are proximity and specificity, whilst bombings vary in the level of ‘intent to harm’ and the type of victim. Correlational analysis reveals that the group goes through periods of increased and decreased activity involving all forms of action, rather than displaying a substitution effect between different methods. The implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2010
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22. Time Bombs.
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Allen, Susan Hannah
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AERIAL bombing ,AIR warfare ,ESTIMATION theory ,COMPETING risks ,POLITICS & war ,CONFLICT management ,INTERNATIONAL relations - Abstract
Advancements in technology coupled with the perception of diminished public tolerance for casualties have increased the prominence and popularity of aerial bombing as a coercive tool, particularly for the United States. Despite interest from policy makers and support from the public, there has been little scholarly assessment of these coercive episodes. How successful are air campaigns, and what are the prospects for the future? In this article, I focus on the factors that cause bombing campaigns to end. To explore what leads to campaign termination, I highlight the theoretical significance of the political characteristics of both the attacker and the adversary. Using competing risks duration analysis to examine both failed and successful bombing campaigns from 1917 through 1999, I find that a democratic government on either side of the coercive equation increases the likelihood of campaigns ending. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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23. Monastery living without a Monestary
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Slavko SLIŠKOVIĆ
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Dominikanci ,bombardiranje ,Zagreb ,Resnik ,Samobor ,Brezovica ,godine 1944. i 1945 ,Dominicans ,Bombing ,1944 and 1945 - Abstract
Dominikanci na hrvatskim prostorima djeluju od dvadesetih godina 13. stoljeća, kada se između ostalih mjesta nastanjuju i u Zagrebu. Najprije su sagradili samostan u podnožju biskupskog grada, da bi u drugoj polovici 15. stoljeća zbog otomanskih osvajanja preselili na Gradec. Zbog gubitka prostora misijskog apostolata kao i nedostatka razvijene urbane sredine koja bi im omogućila intelektualnu djelatnost za koju su se opredijelili članovi Reda propovjednika kraljem 16. stoljeća napuštaju grad podno Sljemena. Njegovo kasnije uzdizanje u političko, kulturno i crkveno središte Hrvatske potaknulo je bijele fratre da se u Zagreb vrate sedam stoljeća nakon prvoga dolaska. Samostan na istoku grada, u naselju Željezničarska kolonija, otvoren je 1927. godine i u kontinuitetu djeluje do danas. Tijekom proteklih devet desetljeća u njemu se razvijala različita odgojno-obrazovna, medijska, kulturna i crkvena djelatnost i živjeli članovi koji su ostavili značajan trag u crkvenom i društvenom životu Hrvatske, a osobito njezina glavnog grada. Unatoč tomu, jedno razdoblje samostanske prošlosti ostalo je gotovo nezapaženo i slabo istraženo. Riječ je o godinama 1944. i 1945. kada je uslijed savezničkih bombardiranja južno krilo samostana u potpunosti srušeno, a njegov ostatak postao neprikladan za stanovanje, dok je u ruševinama smrtno stradalo devet osoba. U ovom radu je na temelju izvorne građe rekonstruiran život redovnika u spomenutom vremenu i pokušaji obnavljanja samostanskog zdanja u teškim danima rata i neposrednog poraća., Dominicans in the Croatian territories operate from the twenties of the 13th century, when they beside other places also inhabit Zagreb. First they built a monastery at the outskirts of the bishop’s town, and later they move to the Gradec in the second half of the 15th century due to Ottoman conquests. They left the city due to the loss of the space of the missionary apostolate as well as the lack of a developed urban milieu that would enable their intellectual activity for which the members of the Order of Preachers in the 16th century opted for. Its subsequent rise to the political, cultural and ecclesiastical center of Croatia prompted white friars to return to Zagreb seven centuries after their first arrival. The monastery in the East of the city, in the Railway Colony, was opened in 1927. and continues to work until today. Over the past nine decades, it has developed various educational, media, cultural and ecclesiastical activities and there lived members who left a significant mark in the Church and social life of Croatia. Nevertheless, one period of the monastery’s past remained almost unnoticed and poorly explored. Those were the years 1944 and 1945 when, due to the allied bombings, the southern wing of the monastery was completely demolished and its remains became unsuitable for housing, while nine people were killed in the ruins. In this paper, based on the original material, the author reconstructed the life of the monks in the mentioned time and their attempts to renew the monastery building in the difficult times of war and just after it.
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- 2017
24. Worse than waterboarding.
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Debra J. Saunders
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NBC released a confidential Department of Justice paper Tuesday concluding that our government can authorize the use of drones to kill targeted terrorist leaders, including U.S. citizens abroad. This story bares the dividing line between honest liberals like Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the ACLU and The Chronicle's editorial board, all of whom opposed some of the harsher antiterrorism tactics employed both under President George W. Bush and this administration, and rank opportunists like Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, who denounced what they described as civil-liberties violations under Bush but ditched said scruples when they took power. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
25. Man injured by bomb in newspaper.
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Jill Tucker
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An elderly Vacaville man retrieving his Sunday newspaper was severely injured and had to be flown by helicopter to a hospital when explosives packed in the paper blew up, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2011
26. World War II Aerial Bombings of Germany: Fear as Subject of National Socialist Governmental Practices
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Torben Möbius
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Michel foucault ,World War II ,Subject (philosophy) ,Nazism ,lcsh:History (General) ,emotions ,lcsh:D1-2009 ,language.human_language ,German ,german ,Spanish Civil War ,Falling (accident) ,German population ,Law ,Political economy ,Political science ,National Socialism ,II world war ,language ,medicine ,medicine.symptom ,air war ,bombing - Abstract
This paper highlights how the National Socialist regime in Germany created the so-called «Selbstschutz» («self protection») in civil air defense as an «apparatus of society» (Michel Foucault) to educate the German population with regard to the new possibility of aerial bombing. Mechanisms, functions of emotional control and their relationship to concrete practices of the people involved are shown alongside a local example. Regarding the spread and development of fears, this article maintains that practices of «Selbstschutz» had to bridge the temporal gap between future expectations and actual experiences in crucial ways. Before the war, «Selbstschutz» followed its own logic of expectation of danger and risk, as exemplified in aerial-defense simulation exercises, which clashed with the reality of bombs falling on German cities later on.
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- 2015
27. Bombs, Broadcasts and Resistance: Allied Intervention and Domestic Opposition to the Nazi Regime During World War II
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Adena, Maja, Enikolopov, Ruben, Petrova, Maria, Voth, Hans-Joachim, and University of Zurich
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History ,N44 ,Media ,Polymers and Plastics ,05 social sciences ,16. Peace & justice ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,0506 political science ,330 Economics ,resistance ,WWII ,10007 Department of Economics ,0502 economics and business ,050602 political science & public administration ,ddc:330 ,L82 ,050207 economics ,Business and International Management ,bombing ,D74 ,BBC - Abstract
Can bombs and broadcasts instigate resistance against a foreign regime? In this paper, we examine the canonical case of bombing designed to undermine enemy morale-the Allied bomber offensive against Germany during World War II. Our evidence shows that air power and the airwaves indeed undermined regime support. We collect data on treason trials and combine it with information on the bombing of over 900 German towns and cities. Using plausibly exogenous variation in weather, we show that places that suffered more bombardment saw noticeably more opposition. Bombing also reduced the combat motivation of soldiers: fighter pilots from bombed-out cities performed markedly less well after raids. We also provide evidence that exposure to BBC radio, especially together with bombing, increased the number of resistance cases. We corroborate these findings with the evidence on people's opinions and behavior using unique survey data collected in 1945.
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