Deepak Kumar

  The COVID-19 vaccine tracker and landscape compiles detailed information of each COVID-19 vaccine candidate in development by closely monitoring their progress through the pipeline. The COVID-19 vaccine tracker: Provides summary tables of COVID-19 vaccine candidates in both clinical and pre-clinical development; Provides analysis and visualization for several COVID-19 vaccine candidate categories; Tracks the progress of each vaccine from pre-clinical, Phase 1, Phase 2 through to Phase 3 efficacy studies and including Phase 4 registered as interventional studies; Provides links to published reports on safety, immunogenicity and efficacy data of the vaccine candidates; Includes information on key attributes of each vaccine candidate and Allows users to search for COVID-19 vaccines through various criteria such as vaccine platform, schedule of vaccination, route of administration, developer, trial phase and clinical endpoints. The database is updated regularly - twice a week...

  the spring of 1988, President Ronald Reagan   described the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty   as an agreement that would, “for the first time, eliminate an entire class of U.S. and Soviet missiles.” Reagan’s description of the INF Treaty as a historic and mutually beneficial reduction of nuclear arms remains the conventional wisdom. This narrative is not wrong, of course, but it is incomplete: Arms control has never been purely cooperative. Rather, the United States employed arms control negotiations to build military-technological advantages over the Soviet Union. From the 1940s onwards, U.S. leaders sought to   “offset” the Soviet Union’s advantage in conventional weapons by   developing advanced military technologies   that their Cold War opponent did not have. Arms control played an important role in advancing this offset strategy. American leaders raced the Soviets in military technologies where the United States was perceived to enjoy...

  The expansion of trade of automobiles all over the world   WRITTEN BY John Bell Rae   See All Contributors Professor of the History of Technology, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, 1959–76. Author of  American Automobile Manufacturers: The First Forty Years  and others. See Article History Alternative Title:  automobile industry Automotive industry , all those companies and activities involved in the manufacture of motor vehicles, including most components, such as engines and bodies, but excluding tires, batteries, and fuel. The  industry’s  principal products are passenger automobiles and light trucks, including pickups, vans, and sport utility vehicles. Commercial vehicles (i.e., delivery trucks and large transport trucks, often called semis), though important to the industry, are secondary. The design of modern automotive vehicles is discussed in the articles  automobile ,  truck ,  bus , and  motorcycle ; autom...