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Collateral damage.
Accidental or unintended damage or casualties are collateral damage.
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Advocates say that relatively small nuclear weapons that burrowed deep into the ground to destroy enemy bunkers would cause reduced collateral damage -- that is, less accidental destruction beyond the intended target.
David Cameron claimed that Britain had military assets that would make Coalition airstrikes more effective including a precision missile system which reduced collateral damage allowing more Isis sites to be targeted within civilian areas.
Because the neutron bomb reduced collateral damage, it could be used in a much more selective fashion than a fission weapon, thereby providing a clear "advantage for the military defender as well as for the nearby non-combatant".
Early detection and treatment thus appears to have reduced collateral damage in first psychosis and altered the course and prognosis of the disorder (i.e. achieved secondary prevention).
Another recent study on rabbit eyes has demonstrated that 20 ms pulse durations represent an optimal compromise between reduced collateral damage and sufficient width of the therapeutic window.
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Such particles can be tailored to release their payloads only when the surrounding environment indicates that they are near a tumour, thus reducing collateral damage.
At the same time, note how these superheroes take great care to reduce collateral damage at their battles, risking their own lives to evacuate and save innocent civilians, in a fantasy of perfected warfare.
Such developments, along with the pinpoint accuracy of missiles on a modern aeroplane, could help save lives by reducing collateral damage.
Smaller blasts and fewer misses reduce collateral damage.
In December 2014 it successfully test fired "smart" Excalibur artillery rounds touted for saving lives, reducing collateral damage and pinpoint marksmanship.
However, suspected militants are generally targeted while in sparsely populated areas, often while traveling, which appears to be a conscious effort to reduce collateral damage.
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