Shipping containers holding the decommissioned weapons sat on the camp's perimeter, watched and sealed by United Nations observers in baseball caps.
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For Imagine (2012) and Disarm (2013), he built musical instruments out of decommissioned weapons seized by the Mexican army from drug cartels.
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First, he'd opted to play laser tag with quasi-decommissioned weapons at a place called Hard Knocks and dine with friends at a Brazilian steakhouse.
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The country's military inventory did not change much during the period, only to replace decommissioned weapons. By 2018, the country had shifted more to land weapons, although it is subjected to change in the future.
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JASPER experiments support the Stockpile Stewardship Program and complement subcritical experiments conducted in Area 1. The facility is located in a decommissioned weapons assembly complex and was established in 1999.Plan of Action: JASPER Management Prestart Review (Surrogate Material Experiments). W. E. Cooper.
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Evola's "Renaissance Peace Angel" sculpture, composed of bronze and decommissioned weapons, was added as one of the exhibits at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum on October 22nd, 2018. The work was previously installed in front of Nino's American Kitchen in lower Manhattan following the September 11 attacks. The sculpture's concrete plinth bears the signatures of many Ground Zero workers and volunteers.
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The symbol Kester created was the gothic shape at the back which is intended to symbolise a church. Detail of the throne's seat The "Transforming Arms into Tools" organisation supplied the decommissioned weapons to Kester and his group for this and many other related pieces of sculpture. The guns, mostly AK-47 assault rifles, were manufactured in Portugal, Eastern Europe and North Korea. The H&K; G3 rifles used to form the backrest were designed in Germany and manufactured in Portugal.
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Upwards of 40,000 Gulag prisoners and POWs built the factory and the closed nuclear city of Ozersk, called at the time by its classified postal code "Forty." Five (today closed) nuclear reactors were built to produce plutonium which was refined and machined for weapons. Later the plant came to specialise in reprocessing spent nuclear fuel from nuclear reactors and plutonium from decommissioned weapons. Once production started up, Soviet engineers quickly ran out of underground space for storage of high level radioactive waste.
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The Throne of Begoro in Ghana in the 1880s The Associação Núcleo de Arte in Maputo has been an artists' collective since the 1930s and despite the end of empire and a civil war it is still supporting artists as it did to Maputo, the painter Malangatana Ngwenya in the 1950s. The symbolism of recycling decommissioned weapons from around the world is self-evident. However, there is an added meaning because chairs can be a symbol of authority in Africa. A nineteenth century example of a chief's chair from Ghana is shown for comparison.
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Cameron Sinclair (born 16 November 1973) is a designer, writer and one of the pioneers in socially responsive architecture. He is CEO of Worldchanging Ventures and currently serving as pro bono executive director of Armory of Harmony, a US-based organization focused on repurposing decommissioned weapons into musical instruments. During the outbreak of COVID-19 he formed Frontline Care, partnering with Jupe Health and Amplifier to create rapidly deployable rest and recovery units for frontline workers. In 1999 he co-founded Architecture for Humanity, a charitable organization that developed architectural solutions to humanitarian crises and brought professional design and construction services to communities in need.
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