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Overview of Lecture Days, Assigned Readings, and Major Dates
Textbook: How to Build a Nuclear Bomb: And Other Weapons of Mass Destruction (HTBNB) by Frank Barnaby
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Session | Topic |
Assigned Reading |
Major Dates |
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1 |
1 | Course
Introduction |
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2 | Lecture 1 |
HTBNB - Introduction (preview) |
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3 | Lecture 2 |
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4 | Lecture 3 |
HTBNB - Chapter 1: Nuclear Weapons (preview) | |
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5 | Lecture 4 |
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6 | Lecture 5 |
HTBNB - Chapter 2: Biological Weapons |
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4 |
7 | Lecture 6 |
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8 | Lecture 7 |
HTBNB - Chapter 3: Chemical Weapons | Homework 1 Due |
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5 |
9 | Lecture 8 |
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10 | Lecture 9 |
HTBNB - Chapter 4: What does it take to make a WMD? | |
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6 |
11 | Lecture 10 |
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12 | Lecture 11 |
HTBNB - Chapter 5: Case Studies: Iraq and North Korea | |
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7 |
13 | Review: Mid-Term Exam 1 |
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14 | HTBNB - Chapter 6: What is the international impact of a WMD program? | Mid-Term Exam 1 |
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8 |
MIDTERM BREAK | |||
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9 |
15 |
Lecture 12 |
HTBNB - Chapter 7: Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction | |
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16 | Lecture 13 |
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10 |
17 |
Lecture 14 |
HTBNB - Chapter 8: Which groups are capable of making and using a WMD? | |
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18 | Lecture 15 |
Homework 3 Due |
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11 |
19 | Lecture 16 |
HTBNB - Chapter 9: What can counterterrorism do? | |
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20 | Lecture 17 |
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12 |
21 | Lecture 18 |
HTBNB - Chapter 10: What does the future hold? | |
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22 | Lecture 19 |
Homework 4 Due |
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13 |
23 | Review: Midterm Exam 2 |
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24 | Midterm Exam 2 |
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14 |
25 | Presentations Day 1 | ||
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26 | Presentations Day 2 | ||
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27 | Presentations Day 3 | ||
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28 | Presentations Day 4 | ||
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29 | Final Review Day 1 |
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30 | Final Review Day 2 |
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31 | Final Exam |
Copyright Spring 2008.,
by the Contributing Authors.
This work is licensed under a
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Cite/attribute Resource.
Ph.D., G. M. (May 28, 2008). Calendar. Retrieved Jun 18, 2013, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/physics/nuclear-warfare/calendar.
