"They've been building weapons, testing weapons, building weapons to operate from the earth in space, jamming weapons, laser weapons, and they have not kept it secret," Gen.
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Having nuclear weapons, possessing nuclear weapons, developing nuclear weapons, is illegal, and they need to stop.
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It owned and operated all U.S. nuclear weapons, it established all nuclear weapons requirements, it conducted nuclear weapons tests, it advanced the science of nuclear weapons effects, it developed all our nuclear weapons strategy and tactics, etc.
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Weapons Expert tests your skills with different CS:GO weapons by only allowing you to buy weapons once.
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"Iran has never sought nuclear weapons, will never seek nuclear weapons, is now not seeking nuclear weapons," Rouhani said.
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While the weapons don't seem to have the lethality of larger weapons or weapons systems, their impact can still be deadly.
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Russia's ongoing development of hypersonic weapons proves nuclear weapons are in fact warfighting weapons — contrary to conventional wisdom in the West.
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What weapons are actually banned by international agreements are chemical weapons, certain incendiary weapons, and cluster munitions, to name a few.
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Are we talking tactical nuclear weapons or strategic nuclear weapons?
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Additionally, some hypersonic weapons can be outfitted with nuclear weapons.
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It's these two guys that test weapons for a weapons company.
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There's more funding for nuclear weapons and precision weapons, for example.
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The alien Covenant weapons were very different from the human weapons.
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"Ban on military grade weapons (assault weapons, etc.)" he had written.
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"Chemical weapons and nuclear weapons are totally different," Mr. Shen said.
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This proved true of both the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972 that outlawed the production and use of biological weapons and the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 that prohibits the development and use of chemical weapons.
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Their weapons, the weapons of science, are all we have left — perhaps the only true weapons our kind has ever marshaled against encroaching oblivion.
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The Chemical Weapons Convention bans the use and stockpiling of chemical weapons, and North Korea is among the world's largest possessors of such weapons.
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China is also developing highly secretive weapons which might include, "directed energy weapons, advanced space weapons, electromagnetic railguns, high-powered microwave weapons, or even more exotic arms," according to former Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert O. Work.
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It requires nuclear-weapons states not to transfer, assist, encourage or induce any non-nuclear-weapons state to manufacture or acquire explosive devices, while requiring that non-nuclear-weapons states do not receive or manufacture nuclear weapons.
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This treaty has banned a whole category of weapons, intermediate range weapons.
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Both of these tests would be of conventional weapons, not nuclear weapons.
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Many nations developed sophisticated chemical weapons programs, as well as biological weapons.
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More weapons and more dangerous weapons are killing us, not protecting us.
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Chemical weapons are awful, but are not truly weapons of mass destruction.
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"These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways," Musk says.
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"These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways," the letter continued.
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In New Zealand, guns referred to as miltary-style semi-automatic weapons are almost all those known as assault weapons or semi-automatic weapons in America.
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I taught at Barksdale, La., at the pilot weapons training school where I trained pilots on the weapons systems and weapons for the B-52 bombers.
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"The weapons included everything we have, plus armored cars, antiaircraft missiles, heat-seeking shoulder-held weapons, light weapons and comm gear including Hetra wireless," Osama said.
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"These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways," the letter added.
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Russia, long India's main source of weapons, now sells weapons to Pakistan, too.
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Historically, we've also planned to use nuclear weapons in response to biological weapons.
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The men's business is drugs and weapons, and drugs and weapons are everywhere.
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This is war without weapons, which will do until the weapons turn up.
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Why did they give that many weapons -- more than 20,000 truckloads of weapons?
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Why did they give that many weapons - more than 20,000 truckloads of weapons?
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The number of deployed weapons are included in the number of stockpiled weapons.
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Making weapons less dangerous — I mean, why do people need semi-automatic weapons?
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This creates "weapons grade" uranium used to make reactor fuel and nuclear weapons.
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Weapons that blow up satellites or other space weapons will simply not do.
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Sometimes banned weapons are used; sometimes conventional weapons; sometimes, neglect, isolation and starvation.
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He also said that he would implement a buyback program for assault weapons and increase regulations of assault weapons to match those of fully automatic weapons. Sen.
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Anti-satellite weapons The report details a variety of Russian and Chinese anti-satellite weapons, including electronic warfare systems, directed-energy weapons and "kinetic" anti-satellite missiles.
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Nuclear weapons President Trump's critics have voiced few objections to Russia's nuclear weapons modernization.
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That includes 123 assaults with weapons, and 14 assaults with weapons that caused harm.
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That highway was once a major weapons supply route for Iranian weapons into Syria.
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Weapons smugglers also buy weapons in the arms bazaars to ship outside the country.
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Some were automatic weapons or semi-automatic rifles illegally modified into fully-automatic weapons.
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Most video games have weapons, and lots of those weapons happen to be guns.
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There's been weapons pulled at my shows; there [were weapons] at that [2013] show.
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I really don't like it when people call them battlefield weapons or tactical weapons.
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These weapons violated the rules of war and the Chemical Weapons Convention, they said.
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Nuclear weapons will be as available as assault weapons and high explosives are today.
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As for banning any 'non-assault' weapons, I support existing bans on other types of military weapons and would consider other weapons on a case-by-case basis.
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"All practical evidence and indicators and the weapons used in both attacks show preliminarily that these are Iranian weapons," he said, without providing details about the weapons themselves.
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Discussions about lethal autonomous weapons (LAWs) have been held at the UN's Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), which prohibits or restricts some weapons deemed to cause unjustifiable suffering.
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The threat of chemical warfare diminished because of the far greater power of nuclear weapons, but also because of the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention, which outlawed the weapons altogether.
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Such acts contradict the unequivocal prohibition against chemical weapons enshrined in the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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They are said to have about 20 nuclear weapons (or the making of 20 weapons).
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In addition to chemical weapons, North Korea also possesses the capability to cultivate biological weapons.
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We have to ban assault weapons to get these weapons of war off our streets.
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Ban assault weapons, including a registration or buyback program for these weapons already in circulation.
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Him Shinshar Chemical Weapons Bunker: Near the above weapons storage site and west of Homs.
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Use of chlorine as a chemical weapons is prohibited under the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention.
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It was to show that chemical weapons were somehow different from normal weapons, more unacceptable.
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They may be weapons, but they are weapons, at least for the moment, laid down.
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I think nuclear weapons are nuclear weapons and we need to draw the line there.
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Each new weapons system is born with its own unique vulnerabilities to nuclear weapons effects.
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Third, while I've had extensive experience firing weapons, I don't consider myself a weapons expert.
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I think nuclear weapons are nuclear weapons, and we need to draw the line there.
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They're essentially pep rallies with weapons -- the weapons have just gotten deadlier over the years.
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The biological weapons program would be in addition to North Korea's burgeoning nuclear weapons program.
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Today, prototypes of directed energy weapons actually do exist (though none are in use; the UN banned blinding laser weapons in 1998) and sonic weapons have been around for decades.
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Much of the case for biological weapons was that they were unusually cheap weapons of mass destruction — and access to cheap weapons of mass destruction is mostly bad for states.
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The Manhattan Project created nuclear weapons and won WWII by excelling in two broad types of science — nuclear weapons design by civilian scientists, and nuclear weapons effects by military officers.
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Weapons Israel has long focused on stopping the transfer of weapons from Syria to terror groups.
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North Korea never said it would stop building weapons, including missiles that might carry nuclear weapons.
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In 1972, the International Biological Weapons Convention prohibited the development, production, and stockpiling of chemical weapons.
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The shooter used modified semi-automatic weapons that sustained rates of fire similar to automatic weapons.
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But those weapons aren't as advanced as the precision weapons made at the facility Israel struck.
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"We will not make nuclear weapons and we will not proliferate nuclear weapons," Mr. Kim said.
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Besides nuclear weapons, the North also is believed to have a large stockpile of chemical weapons.
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"The last thing we need in Syria is more weapons ... God forbid chemical weapons," he said.
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Semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines have been weapons of choice in previous mass shootings.
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Of course, the denuclearization and nuclear weapons and biological weapons is one problem in North Korea.
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The 2010 review also placed limits on when the US would be willing to use nuclear weapons, saying, "The United States will not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapons states that are party to the (Non-Proliferation Treaty)," while also suggesting the US would not retaliate against a chemical or biological weapons attack with nuclear weapons.
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Of the nine nuclear weapons nations, the US, USSR (whose weapons are now exclusively owned by Russia), UK, France, China, and likely Israel had nuclear weapons before the treaty was enforced.
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The United States and our allies call upon Syria to immediately declare all aspects of its chemical weapons program to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), destroy its remaining chemical weapons stockpiles, dismantle its chemical weapons program entirely, and cooperative fully with the OPCW.
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Rockets, guns and missiles are among the weapons now under consideration, as the Corps examines requirements for an "all-quadrant" weapons application versus other possible configurations such as purely "forward firing" weapons.
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David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector, told CNN last year that Pyongyang could have 10 to 15 nuclear weapons and that it could grow that amount by several weapons per year.
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On Friday, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the international chemical weapons watchdog, adopted a statement that said, "Every actor involved in these chemical weapons attacks should be held responsible."
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In that role, she continues overseeing adherence to treaties on banned weapons and in recent years has been documenting the use of landmines, cluster munitions, chemical weapons and incendiary weapons in Syria.
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" Some of the topics to be covered include "improvised weapons and blunt weapons … fighting in low light conditions … striking/grappling with multiple attacker scenarios [and] one handed manipulations/dual deployment of weapons.
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Of course, the denuclearization — nuclear weapons and biological weapons and whatnot — is one problem in North Korea.
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Erdogan even has threatened to develop nuclear weapons, which justifies withdrawing U.S. tactical nuclear weapons from Turkey.
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The use of chemical weapons against civilians is illegal under international law, particularly the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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The idea that assault weapons are really "protection weapons" permitted by the Second Amendment is not credible.
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The problem with video games and nuclear weapons doesn't have anything to do with nuclear weapons themselves.
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Qatar was the single largest purchaser of weapons in the developing world, allocating $17.5 billion for weapons.
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And we had massive wars that drove weapons innovations, and those weapons made it to American streets.
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Do you think teachers should be able to carry assault weapons since they may face assault weapons?
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If the weapons are only defensive in nature, does that include anti-armor and anti-tank weapons?
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The Snapchat stories included weapons for sale and images of heavier weapons such as shells and mortars.
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The biggest risk for this world and this country is nuclear weapons, the power of nuclear weapons.
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The base has a "no weapons policy," Vincelette said, that prohibits the carrying or possession of weapons.
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The difference between semi-automatic weapons and automatic weapons is what happens when you pull the trigger.
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In his opening remarks, Trump spoke about chemical weapons in Syria and nuclear weapons in North Korea.
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"Last year, Putin revealed a handful of weapons, some of which have been described as "doomsday weapons.
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The demonstration showcased the feasibility of increasing the B-1B weapons capacity to integrate future advanced weapons.
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He would also introduce a federal weapons buyback program for those who want to surrender their weapons.
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The features Congress targeted when it banned assault weapons in 1994 increased the lethality of these weapons.
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The Saudis have said they would consider making nuclear weapons if Iran restarts its nuclear weapons program.
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Weapons like the AR-220006 used by Mateen are now the weapons of choice for mass murderers.
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The weapons storage facilities included areas where weapons used to attack American and coalition troops were stored.
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Britain has notified the global chemical weapons watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
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But the treaty doesn't directly ban conventional weapons in space, or weapons fired from Earth into space.
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Fallout parodied these weapons, lampooning Cold War fears of Red aggression and a reliance on devastating weapons.
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They say, we might not be able to control weapons like these, weapons loaded with artificial intelligence.
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It forbids the placement of nuclear weapons in space but is silent on other types of weapons.
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Mr. Assad concluded rightly that he could continue killing rebels with any weapons except the chemical weapons.
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And we do know from the Saudis on the initial examination that the weapons were Iranian weapons.
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"The fact that there are groups that have weapons, including heavy weapons and even weapons that can threaten neighboring countries, and those weapons are not under the control of the institutions of the state - this is a severe danger to the region as well as to Yemen," he said.
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The idea: An assault weapons ban leaves millions of these weapons out there, so the US government needs to do something on top of the ban to get the weapons out of circulation.
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David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector, told CNN last year that Pyongyang could already have 10 to 15 atomic weapons, and that it could grow that amount by several weapons per year.
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The head-worn device would specifically track weapons and allow soldiers to see simulated fire from their real weapons while offering training with weapons, like Javelin missile systems, in a completely simulated environment.
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Many experts say that Mr. Kim, if attacked with conventional weapons as a warning or a pre-emptive strike, could see chemical weapons as a way to retaliate without escalating to nuclear weapons.
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"... "By forcing offenders to substitute other weapons, you're essentially forcing them to use weapons that are less deadly.
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"We did seize a large number of weapons or things that could be used as weapons," Simpson said.
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The hackers created a fictitious chemical weapons conference, and then sent chemical weapons experts invitations embedded with malware.
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In the meantime, all the weapons to be banned have been reclassified as weapons requiring a stricter license.
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Such weapons may also elude today's arms-control agreements, which were written for an earlier generation of weapons.
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Unlike nuclear weapons, an issue you've also worked on, the tools to build autonomous weapons are relatively accessible.
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There are gravity weapons that suck in enemies and can cause damaging vortexes when paired with elemental weapons.
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And today our military doesn't have weapons, it has weapons systems — systems that are based on extensive infrastructure.
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Trump wants the agreement to address not just intermediate-range weapons, but "all nuclear weapons," the official said.
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Owners of the banned weapons will need to turn over their weapons as part of a buyback program.
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Nolan fears that the next step beyond AI-enabled weapons like drones could be fully autonomous AI weapons.
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This, too, indicates that he sees his nuclear weapons as deterrents rather than as offensive, first-strike weapons.
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"These weapons storage facilities include facilities that housed weapons used to target U.S. and coalition troops," it said.
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Sustained rapid fire is difficult to control and causes many weapons, especially light weapons, to overheat quickly. Maj.
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The chemical weapons attack last week, in Syria's northwestern Idlib Province, illustrated the ghastly utility of such weapons.
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They suggested raising the age requirement to purchase weapons, banning assault weapons and implementing more rigorous background checks.
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Deutch has introduced legislation to regulate assault weapons under the National Firearms Act, which bans fully automatic weapons.
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The military part (the military science of "nuclear weapons effects") became the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (AFSWP).
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Moscow's statements and deployments show us that nuclear weapons are indeed useful far beyond threatening other nuclear weapons.
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However, diplomats and weapons inspectors suspect Syria may have secretly maintained or developed a new chemical weapons capability.
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Truman himself came to believe that the US should never use nuclear weapons as ordinary weapons of war.
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The treaty was aimed not so much at anti-satellite weapons as at anti-missile weapons based in space—weapons which could be used to destroy ICBMs when they popped out of the atmosphere.
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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, once ratified by 50 nation states, will ban nuclear weapons, just as every other weapon of mass destruction including chemical and biological weapons have been banned.
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The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons The prize's 2013 recipient, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, won for its "extensive work to eliminate chemical weapons," most notably and recently in Syria.
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"The United States calls on Syria to eliminate all chemical weapons, to dismantle fully its chemical weapons program, and to ensure that these weapons can no longer be used against the Syrian people," she added.
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The 20-year-old Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which oversees a 1997 treaty banning the use of toxins as weapons, is a technical, scientific body which determines whether chemical weapons were used.
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Bungie is calling its new system for these weapons Masterworks, and there will be a way to unlock variable perks for specific weapons, including those items that are part of the game's rarest weapons collections.
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These military actions were designed to respond to the Syrian regime's chemical weapons use and degrade its ability to produce and use chemical weapons, and to deter any further Syrian regime use of chemicals weapons.
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"The main drivers of illicit weapons supplies are not the companies and states that manufacture weapons" the report said, "but the governments and entities that acquire weapons lawfully and subsequently divert them to unauthorized users."
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"All practical evidence and indicators and the weapons used in both attacks show preliminarily that these are Iranian weapons," Saudi-led coalition spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Turki al-Malki said, without providing details on the weapons.
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Weapons legislation votes in Congress The U.S. Senate is expected to vote on four pieces of weapons legislation Monday.
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Explosives, chemical weapons, biological weapons and more can be loaded up on drones and sent to strike military personnel.
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But members of that treaty only agree not to station nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction in space.
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The federal government decided to ban bump stocks, devices that make semiautomatic weapons fire more like fully automatic weapons.
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Police later found 23 weapons inside the hotel room, including several assault rifles modified to shoot like automatic weapons.
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When confronted by inspectors about missing weapons, the dealer has to declare whether the weapons were lost or stolen.
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Another student: Also important to outlaw semi-automatic weapons and recoil tools that make guns perform like automatic weapons.
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A war with conventional weapons would be bad enough; the lasting impact of nuclear weapons' use would be immense.
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Chemical weapons In addition to barrel bombs, the Syrian regime has been accused of using other forms of weapons.
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The game has literally hundreds of different gear options, which slot into two primary weapons and two accessory weapons.
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The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the U.N. destroyed tons of chemical weapons in Syria.
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He says it's unacceptable if they use chemical weapons, if they use chemical weapons, he's going to drop bombs.
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I want the most dangerous weapons — these weapons of war — out of the hands of the most dangerous people.
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The aircraft targeted two weapons manufacturing sites, a weapons warehouse and a military compound, according to an IDF statement.
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Texas has no assault weapons legislation Like most states, Texas does not have an assault weapons ban in place.
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In March, the Trump administration banned "bump stocks," attachments that could allow semiautomatic weapons to work like automatic weapons.
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The new capabilities means the Lancer can not only carry more weapons but heavier weapons, like hypersonics, as well.
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Such spacecraft are, in a sense, weapons, albeit weapons that can masquerade as civilian vehicles with strictly peaceful missions.
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Except rather than fighting over weapons and weapons defenses, these beetles are evolving the craziest dicks and dick-defenses.
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The UN's chemical weapons watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), was invited in to investigate.
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Perhaps the most disturbing is the weapons section, which features manuals on how to create explosives and chemical weapons.
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Meanwhile, the Pentagon and its largest weapons supplier have shared limited details about their own efforts on similar weapons.
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The presence of those American weapons probably motivated the North Koreans to accelerate development of their own nuclear weapons.
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Nuclear weapons save lives Since 1945, nuclear weapons have eliminated great power wars, saving the lives of untold millions.
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"Women now invent the weapons and shoot the weapons and are tough and not allowed to cry," Thompson said.
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It is the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, not the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons.
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Some favor the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which bans all nuclear weapons and related activities.
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"Space weapons and autonomous weapons will soon no longer be science fiction, but possible reality," he told the newspaper.
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The new American defense budget devotes significant funds to developing both new weapons and new defenses against hypersonic weapons.
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They enable semiautomatic weapons to increase their rates of fire, similar to automatic weapons — and kill more people. Sen.
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Now, wouldn't you rather in a certain sense have Japan have nuclear weapons when North Korea has nuclear weapons?
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"Calling for the addition of new weapons and weapons capabilities to our arsenal and expanding the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. national security strategy imposes significant economic burdens and undermines decades of United States leadership to prevent the use and spread of nuclear weapons," more than 40 House Democrats, led by Reps.
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Sandia is a part of the larger Kirtland Nuclear Weapons Complex, which includes the Air Force's Nuclear Weapons Center and what is believed to be one of the largest nuclear weapons repositories in the United States.
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Russia is deploying new low yield weapons, uses such weapons in military exercises and announces repeatedly its policy is to use theater low yield nuclear weapons first and preemptively to assure they win a conventional conflict.
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Kendall said U.S. weapons remained in high demand, but many other countries were rapidly developing and expanding their weapons capabilities.
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Taking aim at weapons smuggling Israel has long focused on stopping the transfer of weapons from Syria to terror groups.
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Money is easily found for sophisticated weapons whose destructive power is comparable to that of the weapons of mass destruction.
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Some Valryian steel weapons still exist in Westeros and are considered family heirlooms in addition to serving as battle weapons.
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"These weapons are especially dangerous as they are the weapons of civil wars," Gabriel told the Sueddeutsche daily on Monday.
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Such weapons could violate United Nations resolutions designed to pressure Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons and missile programs.
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Fighters would be allowed to take their light weapons with them, but must leave heavy weapons behind, the proposal said.
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The point of having it is to reduce the risk that anybody uses nuclear weapons, uses nuclear weapons against us.
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A study of weapons found at crime scenes suggests that 70% of gun crimes in Mexico involve American-bought weapons.
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But most countries still don't have nuclear weapons — and no individuals do — because of how nuclear weapons must be developed.
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Only firearm owners are licensed, not weapons, so there is no monitoring of how many weapons a person may possess.
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Motherboard also spoke with a weapons tracker on Twitter who had previously documented cases of weapons for sale over Snapchat.
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Any agreement on North Korea's weapons programs should achieve three objectives in relations to Pyongyang's chemical and biological weapons programs.
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Among the capabilities under development by those four nations are directed energy weapons, direct ascent weapons, and co-orbital satellites.
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It isn't even about nuclear weapons in South Korea -- the US hasn't stationed nuclear weapons in the country since 1992.
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The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is investigating the possible use of chemical weapons in northeastern Syria.
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But it said he did talk to the undercover officer about sneaking weapons into a federal courthouse, and stockpiling weapons.
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He did push through a ban on bump stocks, which modify semi-automatic weapons into automatic weapons, after that slaughter.
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However, Kim will keep all of his chemical weapons, biological weapons and missiles that can hit South Korea and Japan.
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The "crown jewels" of our nuclear weapons complex (scientists and engineers with extensive experience in testing nuclear weapons) are gone.
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It said the jets had seven pylons for external weapons loads, enabling it to carry 2,000 pounds of external weapons.
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Chemical weapons investigation While military options are under consideration, a chemical weapons investigative team is on its way to Syria.
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Denuclearization would mean that neither North nor South Korea would have nuclear weapons (foreign or domestic) or weapons-grade material.
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"To turn semiautomatic weapons into virtually automatic weapons, you know, that's something I think we'll take a look at," Sen.
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Today the Pentagon has only a partial idea of how many weapons it issued, much less where these weapons are.
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The Chemical Weapons Convention was designed to eliminate large stocks of chemical weapons that could be used on the battlefield.
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The US, by contrast, has an astonishing 6,800 nuclear weapons (surpassed only by Russia, which has an estimated 7,000 weapons).
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"Chemical weapons are chemical weapons so that is the issue if you're taking about the strike we took," Mattis said.
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A central mission of the nation's weapons laboratories is to ensure that the country's nuclear weapons still work if needed.
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This behavior strongly implies that he sees nuclear weapons as deterrents that discourage preemptive strikes, rather than as offensive weapons.
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Implement a national public health strategy focused on reducing weapons on school grounds There are illegal weapons already on campuses.
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The first of those weapons — called a W76-2 — is now being assembled at a weapons plant near Amarillo, Tex.
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The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the world's chemical weapons watchdog, immediately opened an investigation into the attack.
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Only firearm owners are licensed, not weapons, so there is no monitoring of how many weapons a person may possess.
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It's an evil world and we have to have weapons, so I'm not against weapons manufacture, but it felt purposeful.
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The United States did not develop its first thermonuclear weapons — commonly known as hydrogen bombs — until 1952, seven years after the first and only use of nuclear weapons in wartime, the weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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"I ask India: 'With the weapons you have and the weapons we have, can we really afford a miscalculation?" said Khan after a meeting of the National Security Council and the authority that controls Pakistan's nuclear weapons.
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"Weapons from the ground that attack spaceborne assets, (such as) lasers to blind and interfere with satellites' guidance; weapons in space that attack other assets in space; and space borne weapons attacking targets on earth," said Francona.
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To Read Warrior Maven&aposs Report on How Senior Air Force Leaders Believe Software Updates Will Win Future Wars CLICK HERE Block IV will include some unique partner weapons including British weapons, Turkish weapons and some of the other European country weapons that they want to get on their own plane, service officials explained.
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Unfortunately, this treaty is as wildly insufficient today as it was then, seeing as it only prohibits the placement of nuclear weapons, weapons of mass destruction in outer space, and the stationing of such weapons on celestial bodies.
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U.S. weapons testing facility was damaged Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, a US weapons testing facility near Ridgecrest, said on its Facebook page that it sustained "infrastructure damage" as a result of the earthquakes Thursday and Friday.
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The agenda must be comprehensive, covering strategic weapons, tactical weapons and new nuclear capabilities — capabilities that the United States has chosen not to pursue in the interest of reducing reliance on nuclear weapons in its national security strategy.
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And, remember, he also has biological, chemical weapons, and the conventional weapons that have held Seoul hostage since the Korean War.
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The group is reportedly operating a chemical weapons research lab, headed by Iraqi chemists who developed weapons programs under Saddam Hussein.
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The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons calls it one of the most brutal and largest attacks using chemical weapons.
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The opinion does not say concealed weapons are unconstitutional, nor does it make any decisions about openly carrying weapons in public.
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This UN agreement regulates the use of a number of types of weapons including land mines, fire bombs, and chemical weapons.
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Turkey is a member of NATO, and is a custodian of nuclear weapons for the United States hosts nuclear weapons there.
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The UN's Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) has been discussing autonomous weapons for five years, but there is little agreement.
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With semi-autonomous weapons, a human controller would stay "in the loop," monitoring the activity of the weapon or weapons system.
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Different groups of participants got different scenarios: Some were asked to consider attacks with conventional weapons, and some with nuclear weapons.
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Inspectors with the global chemical weapons watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, are due to investigate the incident.
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The United States and Russia have approximately 7,000 nuclear weapons a piece, 85033 percent of the nuclear weapons in the world.
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In response to the massacre, Australia introduced strict new gun control laws, banning automatic weapons as well as semi-automatic weapons.
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In addition to our high-yield strategic weapons, every branch of the service had low-yield weapons for every military purpose.
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While automatic weapons are tightly regulated in the US, the use of bump-fire stocks in semi-automatic weapons is legal.
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"The assault weapons ban is a ban against domestic weapons of mass destruction, because that's exactly what they are," Higgins said.
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As countries relied upon nuclear weapons test explosions to prove their new designs, a competitive frenzy of nuclear weapons development flourished.
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The Air Force is also looking at ways to expand that payload to carry more weapons and heavier weapons, including hypersonics.
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Apart from its nuclear weapons, North Korea's multiple-rocket launchers and artillery pieces are its most-feared weapons in the South.
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It was not clear on Monday evening whether Mr. Paddock possessed such weapons, or used semiautomatic weapons that had been altered.
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Today's most popular rifles can be modified in ways that keep the weapons legal — and nearly indistinguishable from illegal assault weapons.
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" He continued: "Now, wouldn't you rather, in a certain sense, have Japan have nuclear weapons when North Korea has nuclear weapons?
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And far from giving Iran a green light to build nuclear weapons, the agreement permanently bars Iran from building nuclear weapons.
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Tanf lies near the strategic Damascus-Baghdad highway that was once a major weapons supply route for Iranian weapons into Syria.
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In June 2014, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons certified that all of Syria's declared weapons had been removed.
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Recent reports indicate possible US and Russian expansion of nonstrategic nuclear weapons' capabilities, or those weapons developed for battlefield military uses.
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Nuclear weapons systems are particularly problematic since the possession of nuclear weapons carries an implicit threat of use under certain circumstances.
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The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs said initial investigations have indicated that the weapons used in the attack were Iranian weapons.
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Over these twelve years AFSWP trained the Army, Navy, and Air Force in nuclear weapons, and turned over the weapons themselves.
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Those who want to wipe out poverty from the face of the earth must use other weapons, weapons other than kindness.
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The artificial intelligence tech that "we already know and understand are perfectly adequate" to create these kinds of weapons said Bezos, "and these weapons, some of the ideas that people have for these weapons, are in fact very scary."
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Whose hands would these weapons be in right now if it wasn&apost for the folks who got those weapons, apprehended them?
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He warned of the risk of Pyongyang selling nuclear weapons technology to Islamic State, al Qaeda, or any aspiring nuclear-weapons state.
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The amount of climate change and UV would depend on the number of weapons, their targets, and how large the weapons are.
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The Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV, which aired the footage, said the weapons included Israeli and U.S. made weapons and communication devices.
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From an operational standpoint, autonomous weapons pose a novel risk of mass fratricide, with large numbers of weapons turning on friendly forces.
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America, for instance, thinks nothing of decreeing that we will forbid another sovereign nation from building nuclear weapons or using chemical weapons.
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"That's why we need to be concerned about North Korea's nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, biological agents, long range missiles, because it's unstable."
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The one time the United States used nuclear weapons in war, it was to end a conflict being fought with conventional weapons.
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Unlike nuclear weapons, which can be guarded in bunkers and require deep expertise to manufacture, autonomous weapons are not easily locked away.
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It is responsible for the nation's nuclear weapons and for cleaning up the environmental mess at the facilities that built those weapons.
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The UN finalized a treaty today that would ban all nuclear weapons, destroy existing weapons, and prohibit their use forever, per NYT.
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Sales of automatic weapons are banned in the US. Sales of semiautomatic, or assault weapons, are legal in most states, including Nevada.
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Detailed information on locations, numbers, groups and types of weapons in the field — including American weapons — days in advance of the operation.
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That is the same year it ratified the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention that banned the production, storage, and use of chemical weapons.
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We subsequently saw the devastation caused by nuclear weapons, and learned we must try to refrain from ever using nuclear weapons again.
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We live in a nuclear age, in which scary people have nuclear weapons and the only defense against them is nuclear weapons.
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How can possessors of nuclear weapons assure that their nuclear weapons are effective in providing a deterrent to another nuclear-armed country?
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"I'm not into banning specific weapons; I think what you need to do is ban specific people from having weapons," he said.
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In 2010, he said the United States would not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against any non-nuclear weapons country.
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But this does not stop North Korea from conducting missile and nuclear weapons tests to develop their ICBM and nuclear weapons capability.
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Handmade weapons are really powerful Spears, bows and arrows, and clubs are some of your main offensive weapons in Far Cry Primal.
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After the federal assault weapons ban took effect, sales of those guns actually increased, as manufacturers customized weapons to make them compliant.
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No number of weapons, including semiautomatic weapons, in the hands of the tragic victims in Las Vegas would have saved their lives.
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RICK PERRY: Well, I'll let someone who has the background in cost of weapons, the type of weapons you're making reference to.
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The 14,865 weapons dropped between February and May this year also exceed the 9,065 weapons released over the same period last year.
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"Some of them might be armed with nuclear weapons but a lot of them will be armed with conventional weapons," he said.
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" The Apostle Paul says in 2 Corinthians 10:143 that Christians should use weapons that "are not the weapons of the world.
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The controversial 1994 crime bill incorporated the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, which banned assault weapons and high-capacity magazines for a decade.
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Given the history of incorrect assessments surrounding Assad's chemical weapons program, it's highly uncertain that his chemical weapons capability has been eliminated.
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"We will not make nuclear weapons and we will not proliferate nuclear weapons," Mr. Kim said during a New Year's Day address.
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After all, what good is a treaty banning nuclear weapons if it hasn't actually been able to, you know, ban nuclear weapons?
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International monitoring groups, including the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism, have accused Assad's air force of using such weapons multiple times Like sarin, weaponized chlorine is prohibited under the convention outlawing chemical weapons.
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" In regards to the weapons the gunman used, President Obama said "it appears that he was able to obtain these weapons legally because he did not have a criminal record that, in some ways, would prohibit him from purchasing these weapons.
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Yet the Nuclear Posture Review argued for low-yield weapons out of concern that Russia might feel it could use its "small" nuclear weapons free of concern about U.S. retaliation because the United States arsenal consists mainly of large-yield weapons.
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Assault weapons were used in at least 11 of the 15 gun massacres since 2014; at least 234 of the 271 people who died in gun massacres since 2014 were killed by weapons prohibited under the federal assault weapons ban.
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Alongside that, China has a nuclear "no first use" policy: that it will not be the first to launch nuclear weapons against another nuclear foe, and that it will not use its nuclear weapons against a country without nuclear weapons.
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Instead, North Korea has resisted US requests for a list declaring the extent of its nuclear weapons facilities and weapons and is continuing to enrich nuclear material and build nuclear weapons -- it now simply does so quietly, with little public fanfare.
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Elon Musk signed this pledge against killer weapons, but he also makes driverless cars, which can be killer weapons when they screw up.
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"Maybe the regime will not use chemical weapons again, but it will not hesitate to use weapons," opposition leader Nasr al-Hariri said.
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North Korea still possesses nuclear weapons and is actively developing new "ultramodern" weapons, if this latest report directly from North Korea is accurate.
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"I said, 'I don't have weapons, I'm just working the fields, I don't know which weapons you're talking about,'" Moungue told BuzzFeed News.
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Weapons are now broken down into three types: kinetic, energy, and power weapons instead of the primary, secondary, and heavy classifications as before.
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"Weapons of mass destruction and non-personal weapons in general should not be 'sanctified,'" Bishop Savva of Zelenograd said on Telegram in 2019.
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Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was killed in 2011 after agreeing to give his country's chemical weapons, and dismantling nuclear and chemical weapons programs.
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Analysts are asking how much weapons-grade plutonium North Korea still possesses, given the rate at which it has been testing its weapons.
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Fully autonomous weapons don't exist today, but Petraeus warns even a world of semi-autonomous weapons could create a frightening future for humankind.
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The United States sold roughly $22014 billion worth of weapons in 240, representing roughly half of all military weapons sold around the world.
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The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) offered to assist the Iraqi government investigating the use of chemical weapons in Mosul.
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The availability of weapons in Libya remains so overwhelming that U.N. experts have categorized the North African country as a regional weapons bazaar.
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Backpacks will be searched and weapons, and objects that can be used as weapons -- including glass containers and flag poles -- will be banned.
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"North Korea's cyber weapons are as destructive as its conventional weapons," Lim Jong-in, a cyber security professor at Korea University, told CNN.
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Correction: An earlier version of this commentary incorrectly referred to semiautomatic weapons as banned under the now-expired 1994 federal assault weapons ban.
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Ban weapons of war for civilian use, including assault-style weapons, high capacity magazines, as well as bump stocks and untraceable guns. Period.
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Although North Korea is a party to the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention, it is not a party to the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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The officers regularly siphoned truckloads of the weapons from the stocks, before delivering the rest of the weapons to designated drop-off points.
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Will you be asking these companies to reconsider their investments in manufacturing tactical assault weapons or the work they do for weapons producers?
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They instead pledged commitment to a decades-old Non-Proliferation Treaty, which aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology.
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D.C. law prohibits the open carrying of weapons and specifically disallows any weapons on public transportation, at protests or near the White House.
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There was so much money available that, instead of producing more weapons and capability, we got higher prices and weapons that didn't work.
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Nolan said there needs to be legislation in place banning autonomous AI weapons from the battlefield such as there is for chemical weapons.
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They handed over their weapons at the entrance, with their weapons to be given them back when they left the city, he said.
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A bump stock is a device that allows semi-automatic weapons to unleash bullets with about the same speed as fully automatic weapons.
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It now turns out that Syria has used chemical weapons, in defiance of the Chemical Weapons Convention — 50 times during its civil war.
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Instead, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) went into Syria to monitor the destruction of the country's chemical weapons program.
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Furthermore, nuclear-weapons states, including the U.S. and China, would commit not to use nuclear weapons in a first strike against either Korea.
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In 2014, Turi was indicted under felony weapons trafficking laws for allegedly trying to transfer weapons into the hands of rebels fighting Gaddafi.
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US government officials have long warned about biological weapons attacks against us, and they have stockpiled their own defensive biological weapons for decades.
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READ: Russian weapons maker Kalashnikov developing killer AI robots The application of artificial intelligence to weapons has long been a concern for academics.
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After a particularly horrific example in 1996, the government banned assault weapons and bought such weapons back from those who already had them.
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She would fight for an assault weapons ban while more immediately raising the minimum age to buy such weapons from 18 to 21.
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The pits have been made, until now, at the Los Alamos weapons laboratory in New Mexico, where America's first nuclear weapons were built.
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You accept that some weapons are beyond the pale: nuclear weapons, nerve gas or perhaps hand grenades, land mines and anti-aircraft missiles.
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The Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons said that a fact-finding mission was working to establish whether chemical weapons were used.
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He has served as an advisor to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the global civil society campaign to ban nuclear weapons.
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Francis denounced nuclear weapons, repeating his position that the mere possession of nuclear weapons is immoral, and Guterres praised the pope's disarmament efforts.
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Other than the bump stock ban and restrictions on fully automatic weapons, regulations targeting rifles usually take the form of assault weapons bans.
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The U.S., U.K. and France launched missiles at a research and development center, a chemical weapons storage site and a chemical weapons bunker.
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Senator Rubio, I believe a big issue, when it comes to the debate about semiautomatic weapons and automatic weapons is large capacity magazines.
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Congress should pass the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act, barring the president from using nuclear weapons first without specific congressional authorization.
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These sanctions, imposed to punish Pyongyang for new weapons tests, differed from previous restrictions that were focused on weapons and nuclear-related equipment.
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Nuclear weapons are one part of his answer – because Kim hopes they will cost less to maintain than North Korea's conventional heavy weapons.
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North Korea said its quest for nuclear weapons is complete and it no longer needs to test its weapons capability, a significant change in policy for Kim, who has relentlessly pursued nuclear and ballistic weapons as a means to ensure the regime's survival.
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What's known as the "norm" against chemical weapons use — the idea that chemical weapons were, like nuclear and biological weapons, a special kind of evil to be prohibited even in vicious wars — had been upheld, seemingly backstopped by US threat of force.
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"This treaty is a clear indication that the majority of the world no longer accepts nuclear weapons and do not consider them legitimate weapons, creating the foundation of a new norm," the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons said in a statement.
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In a world where Pakistan has nuclear weapons... where North Korea has nuclear weapons...and where IRAN--the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism--is close to having nuclear weapons...this, a catastrophic attack on innocent Americans, is a very real threat.
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President Barack Obama was derided for choosing to negotiate a deal for the removal of chemical weapons from Syria instead of bombing, yet that deal removed hundreds of weapons from Syria and no such weapons were used for at least three years.
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If the Russian government is serious about nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, it will convince its client Assad that he must eliminate his chemical weapons and cooperate fully with the OPCW (Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) and the United Nations.
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That was to include the number of weapons they have produced — variously estimated at 20 to 60 nuclear bombs — the locations of those weapons, any nuclear materials used to produce new weapons and a detailed list of their missiles and missile launchers.
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If Proteus was eventually equipped with weapons, then just like dogfights with aircraft in the air, SEALs could fire off weapons in underwater battles.
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The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department ordered 1,525 Taser X2 smart weapons and the Huntsville (Alabama) Police Department ordered 400 Taser X26P smart weapons.
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"Wouldn't you rather in a certain sense have Japan have nuclear weapons when North Korea has nuclear weapons?" he said to CNN in March.
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"We'll not stand idly by while NATO allies purchase weapons from our adversaries, weapons that threaten the very cohesion of this alliance," Pence said.
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And, bottom line, a regionally aggressive Iran without nuclear weapons was a much better outcome than a regionally aggressive Iran armed with nuclear weapons.
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It said negotiations aimed to reach a cease-fire as well as have rebels hand over their heavy weapons then later their light weapons.
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Investigators were also seeking to obtain information on the use of chemical weapons in Syria from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
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Meanwhile, the U.S. and its allies were developing "defensive" bio-weapons, which were intended to provide insight into "offensive" weapons — a small step technologically.
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Russia has also refused to discuss limits on tactical nuclear weapons, the anticipated follow-up to the New START strategic weapons treaty of 2010.
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One way to get around this—and to guide weapons automatically to their targets without relying on satellites—is to give weapons a map.
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Kickstarter and Indiegogo declined to comment beyond referring to their published policies, which prohibit crowd-funding projects involving weapons, replica weapons and weapon accessories.
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The document says that the chemical weapons are being made in areas closed off to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
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They also may not have had the typical weapons of a Syrian military unit but rather trucks with weapons mounted on top of them.
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We believe that an evidence-based understanding of what nuclear weapons actually do invalidates all arguments for continued possession of these weapons by anyone.
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The funding comes as Russia and China sprint to develop hypersonic weapons, a new breed of weapons that the U.S. currently cannot defend against.
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That was the third seizure, the Navy said, with the Australian navy confiscating weapons in February and the French navy seizing weapons in March.
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And new weapons are on the way, including hypersonic weapons designed to evade US defenses and hit their targets with little or no warning.
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He lives within range of conventional weapons permanently aimed at Seoul that can be launched before US nuclear weapons destroy the North Korean regime.
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"It expands the scenarios under which the United States might use nuclear weapons and therefore increases the risk of nuclear weapons use," Rief said.
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The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is looking into the possible use of chemical weapons in the conflict in northeastern Syria.
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This has included surprising revelations about the extent of Russia's weapons programs and ominous new applications of existing weapons technology by non-state actors.
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The US is believed to store some 180 nuclear weapons in other countries, the Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor (NWBM) said in its 2018 report.
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They were told that normal relations with the United States would require complete, verifiable, irreversible dismantlement of their nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons facilities.
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She laid out four conditions, saying that: Syria's chemical weapons program must be ended and its chemical weapons stockpiles destroyed once and for all.
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We would never give up, and what couldn't be done with votes, we would do with weapons, we would liberate the fatherland with weapons.
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We approach games that we went and got those weapons to win games with those weapons, and I'm not afraid to go with them.
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Most, but not all, of the randomly rolled weapons are still available, and Bungie's hundreds of static-rolled weapons are largely unavailable or useless.
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To the Editor: Thank you, Carol Giacomo, for your support for female experts on nuclear weapons ("The Nuclear Weapons Sisterhood," Editorial Observer, May 19).
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The world needs to be moving away from new nuclear weapons states, not increasing the number of countries with these weapons of mass destruction.
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New nuclear weapons The Trump administration wants to build two new types of nuclear weapons that it suggests are more likely to be used.
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Police later returned the seized weapons to Reinking's father, Jeffrey Reinking, and told him to keep the weapons secure and away from his son.
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It has concentrated on low-yield weapons research and testing (10-100 tons), as opposed to our aged weapons with hundreds-of-kilotons yield.
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One of those changes could come on the question of low-yield nuclear weapons, or those weapons most likely to employed on the battlefield.
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"The use of chemical weapons can never be condoned ... Unfortunately the terrorist organizations Nusra and Daesh (Islamic State) still possess chemical weapons," Zarif said.
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These include an increase in the number of countries possessing nuclear weapons and a greater number of nuclear weapons in each country's nuclear arsenal.
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That court said the weapons are excluded from Second Amendment protections because they are the kind of weapons most often used by the military.
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Steyer would push for creating a gun licensing system, national assault weapons registries, and voluntary buyback programs for all firearms — not just assault weapons.
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Perhaps the same crimes would have taken place with different weapons; perhaps those weapons would have been less lethal, but it's hard to know.
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If we claim Russian low weapons are destabilizing and lowering the nuclear threshold, then of course similar American weapons must also be destabilizing, correct?
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And weapons experts have warned that the advanced technologies being tested on the short-range missiles could eventually be applied to long-range weapons.
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By the late 1970s, the number of nations possessing nuclear weapons had grown to at least six, possessing nearly 50,000 nuclear weapons among them.
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A central premise of the NPT is that nuclear weapons states will take steps to reduce the significance of such weapons in international affairs.
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The "road to our cooperation is clear: Stop giving weapons and collect the weapons given before," Bozdag said during a news conference in Ankara.
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Stationing or testing any weapons of mass destruction in space, including nuclear weapons, is banned by the United Nations' Outer Space Treaty of 1967.
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Those suspicions were not assuaged when in 2013 Syria signed onto the Chemical Weapons Convention and claimed to give up its chemical weapons stocks.
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"These will be targeted sanctions against individuals, possible entities that are owned or partially owned by the IRGC that are directly supporting these terrorist activities whether its weapons exports, or weapons components, or cyber activities or its movement of weapons and fighters around," he said.
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"We currently assess that North Korea will seek to retain its WMD [weapons of mass destruction] capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capability because its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival," Coats testified.
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"We currently assess that North Korea will seek to retain its WMD [weapons of mass destruction] capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capability because its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival," Coats said.
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While aware of public horror about using nuclear weapons, Mr. Stoltenberg, Mr. Lute and others emphasize that NATO "remains a nuclear alliance" and that its deterrence is meant to be "seamless," ranging from responses to cyberattacks through conventional weapons and if necessary, nuclear weapons, too.
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JERUSALEM — Overnight strikes Thursday on Syrian military sites — which are said to produce chemical weapons and advanced missiles — brought renewed attention to Syria's chemical weapons, and appear to have been an escalation of Israel's efforts to prevent its enemies from gaining access to sophisticated weapons.
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It is the most significant development in nuclear politics since the end of the Cold War, placing nuclear weapons in the same category of international law as other weapons of mass destruction or that cause unacceptable harm: chemical and biological weapons, landmines, and cluster munitions.
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Trump said in response to Erdogan's call on the United States to end the delivery of weapons to the YPG that the United States no longer supplied the group with weapons and pledged not to resume the weapons delivery in the future, the source said.
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Police: Gunman had two weapons Cannon said the main suspect in the shooting wielded at least two weapons: a pistol and an AR-15 rifle.
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Opponents of gun rights try to come up with scary sounding phrases like 'assault weapons', 'military-style weapons' and 'high capacity magazines' to confuse people.
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It also called on North Korea to return to the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and to accede to the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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Some of these weapons were used for hunting, but early humans also used these weapons against one another—we're just not entirely sure which ones.
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Initially meant to be stored in the trunks of the BAC's vehicles, these handheld weapons have today become individual, highly visible [service] weapons, explained Jobard.
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I think there is some concern that it's evidently legal to buy one of these kits that you can turn semiautomatic weapons into automatic weapons.
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In this section the committee also describes accountability for the operation of autonomous weapons and lethal autonomous weapons systems as "critically important" — as you'd hope.
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Known as the BUFF (that's for Big Ugly Fat Fucker), it can hold nine weapons on each wing and 27 more inside the weapons bay.
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Under federal law, fully automatic weapons are technically legal only if made before 1986, so it's illegal to manufacture new automatic weapons for civilian use.
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Nuclear weapons based on fission typically have a yield of around 10 kilotons, while nuclear weapons employing fusion can have a yield measured in megatons.
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Prosecutors claim he was a top sniper and weapons instructor who ultimately became an ISIS "emir" in charge of weapons training, according to court documents.
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That's because the Illinois police who confiscated the weapons handed them to his father, Jeffrey Reinking, who eventually gave the weapons back to his son.
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The funding requests come as Russia and China sprint to develop hypersonic weapons, a new breed of weapons that the U.S. currently cannot defend against.
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Indeed, the ease with which a combatant with little military training can use semi-automatic weapons on the battlefield is part of the weapons' appeal.
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Backpacks were to be searched and weapons, and objects that could be used as weapons -- including glass containers and flag poles -- were to be banned.
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" Then, a moment later, he went on: "Wouldn't you rather in a certain sense have Japan have nuclear weapons when North Korea has nuclear weapons?
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He said the government was the party using chemical weapons, saying it was responsible for a chemical weapons attack in the same area in 2013.
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He's a part of the approval process to make a weapons deal with Saudi Arabia, so Saudi Arabia can use outlawed weapons like barrel bombs.
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It would have to "ultimately ensure removal or destruction of stockpiles of fissile material, weapons, missiles, launchers and other weapons of mass destruction," he added.
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"They know it and they see nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction as the only way for them to protect themselves," Putin said Thursday.
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The study did not specifically examine such bump fire stocks, but rather weapons using large-capacity magazines, which have increased as weapons used in crime.
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The Pentagon report also documents North Korea's cyber weapons efforts as well as its chemical and biological weapons program, which the US believes remains intact.
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It did not cover tactical nuclear weapons either and perhaps there was a case to include non-nuclear weapons in any new update, said Huntsman.
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The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the international chemical weapons watchdog, launched an investigation into the alleged chemical strikes on Douma on Saturday.
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Some of the weapons Paddock had with him were equipped with "bump stock" devices, which allow semi-automatic rifles to mimic illegal, fully automatic weapons.
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"Arms dealers use secret villas, and homes and underground sites for selling weapons since open markets for weapons disappeared some time ago," the researcher said.
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Although the Outer Space Treaty of 28500 prevented the placement of weapons of mass destruction in outer space, it never prohibited conventional weapons in space.
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It also orders the ATF to destroy all collected weapons, while permitting the delayed destruction of any weapons needed in ongoing investigations or legal proceedings.
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Strict background checks, limiting access to assault weapons, and prohibiting domestic abusers from owning weapons are all policies associated with reduced rates of gun violence.
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And he was working to take the profit out of weapons manufacture, although he doubted that the military would ever produce its own weapons again.
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In a joint missile strike, the U.S., U.K. and France launched a total 105 weapons against three chemical weapons facilities in Syria on Friday night.
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It was a deadly reminder of the persistence of makeshift chemical weapons in Syria despite an international effort to destroy the country's chemical weapons caches.
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Laser weapons, which fall into the category of "directed-energy weapons," are being shown off by America's New Cold War adversary Russia with increased frequency.
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Buwaydani said his group is fighting on many fronts in Syria despite a lack of supplies and weapons, especially anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons.
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Innovative tools and weapons: Prior to this time period, early humans had been using rudimentary hand axes and cleavers to hunt animals and as weapons.
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The 1967 Outer Space Treaty contains no language that specifically prohibits militarizing space, except when it comes to weapons of mass destruction, like nuclear weapons.
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Should it provide deadly weapons to the opposition, knowing that those weapons might make their way to civilian-killing jihadists or simply prolong the conflict?
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Neither candidate has said they would force assault weapons owners to sell or return their weapons, an important part of a comprehensive gun control plan.
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But land mines and weapons like the Harpy are not the kinds of autonomous weapons that those lobbying for a ban are specifically concerned about.
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Qaddafi had a nuclear weapons program but in 2003 he made a deal to remove those weapons from his country in exchange for economic benefits.
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It had 75 designated peace officers with weapons permits (all of whom owned their own weapons), but their role in the agency was not emphasized.
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When thinking about arms control, he said it was important to consider not only traditional weapons but also new autonomous weapons powered by artificial intelligence.
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Russia, he said, had built new nuclear weapons systems, raising questions as to whether its leaders were cautious enough when it came to atomic weapons.
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The facility that was hit produces chemical weapons, barrel bombs and a variety of other weapons that the Assad regime has used to massacre innocents.
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His proposal would authorize sanctions on individuals who help Russia develop major weapons systems, as well as state sponsors of terrorism that buy such weapons.
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While the ban reduced crimes with assault weapons, the use of other, still legal semi-automatic weapons with large-capacity magazines increased, the report said.
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The inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons will try to determine whether chemical weapons had been used in the Douma attack.
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In the interim, new weapons programs designed to meet that standard were failing in tests, and the Army began to destroy its less-reliable weapons.
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Others such as Japan and South Korea have demonstrated mastery of the technical components of a nuclear weapons program, but have not developed such weapons.
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If it dies, there will be nothing to stop either country from developing or deploying nuclear weapons, including the most lethal and technologically advanced weapons.
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In accord with nuclear deterrence theory, a country threatens to use nuclear weapons, believing that it will prevent the use of nuclear weapons against it.
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In a statement, the Israeli military said its aircraft targeted four Hamas facilities, including two weapons manufacturing sites, a weapons warehouse and a military compound.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson determined North Korea had "used chemical weapons in violation of international law or lethal chemical weapons against its own nationals."
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Ardern said Tarrant was a licensed gun owner who allegedly used five weapons, including two semi-automatic weapons and two shotguns, which had been modified.
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Nuclear weapons are these special, incredible weapons that changed international politics, and it's therefore no surprise the comparison has been made time and time again.
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The president has basically unconstrained authority to use nuclear weapons, a seemingly insane system that flows pretty logically from America's strategic doctrine on nuclear weapons.
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This test could redefine what weapons are protected by the Second Amendment This test could redefine what weapons are protected by the Second Amendment A federal appeals court upheld Maryland's ban on popular AR-15-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines last week, delivering a significant win to gun-control advocates who argue that the Second Amendment does not apply to military-style weapons.
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Sudan's weapons relationship with North Korea continues, because none of the five criteria on which Sudan was measured required it to stop buying weapons from Pyongyang.
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After all, the US didn't use nuclear weapons against Iraq in the 211 Gulf War, even though Iraq didn't have any nuclear weapons to retaliate with.
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Iran, meanwhile, has no nuclear weapons either, and still hews to a deal that curbs its ability to produce such weapons for at least a decade.
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"It's really not appropriate to describe cyber operations and cyber weapons in the same way that we describe kinetic [physical] operations and kinetic weapons," he said.
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"If there are allegations about Iranian weapons, there are facts about US weapons, there are facts about Saudis bombing the hell out of Yemenis," he said.
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The two Koreas first forswore nuclear weapons in a solemn agreement in 1992, shortly after America removed tactical nuclear weapons from its bases in South Korea.
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In other words, they'd destroy weapons or nuclear sites and try to claim they gave up everything, while hoarding a stash and presumably deceiving weapons inspectors.
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North Korea, Kim announced, would never use nuclear weapons or transfer nuclear weapons or nuclear technology "unless there are nuclear threats and nuclear provocations" against it.
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He bemoaned the expansionist ambitions of arms traders, rising military weapons production and the buildup of "massive stockpiles" of conventional weapons — especially in conflict-prone zones.
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They are still science fiction, but the question of whether future autonomous weapons systems should be banned, like chemical weapons, is moving up the geopolitical agenda.
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"These are not exciting kinds of weapons; these are mundane sort of weapons," PACOM commander Admiral Harry Harris told the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday.
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" New weapons test Kwon's broadside against Pompeo, Thursday, came soon after North Korea announced Kim had inspected and directed a "new tactical guided weapons firing test.
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No rebel group has been confirmed to have used chemical weapons in the war by the by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
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This eight-minute video might help: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often more a war of narratives than of weapons (though there are plenty of weapons).
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In 1964 Goldwater hurt his own chances by suggesting that tactical nuclear weapons should be treated more like conventional weapons and should be used in Vietnam.
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In May last year, it said it had the ability to miniaturize nuclear weapons, a development that would allow it to deploy nuclear weapons on missiles.
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"As we gain increasing experience with the aircraft and these new weapons mature, the program will follow the requirements for incorporating future weapons," she told Warrior.
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With the chemical weapons program undisturbed, it would allow ISIS to use the weapons to strike civilians, troops the U.S. supports, and possibly even U.S. troops.
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"Our stuff was all about nuclear weapons, the need for disarmament, the need for the US to participate in the new UN treaty" on nuclear weapons.
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Washington (CNN)Saudi Arabia's foreign minister told CNN on Wednesday that his country stands ready to build nuclear weapons if Iran restarts its atomic weapons program.
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Onodera said that North Korea's disarmament must include more than nuclear weapons and missiles, but also any stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons it may have.
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Taboos on nuclear tests and chemical weapons usage were under threat, he added, while talk of tactical nuclear weapons was leading in an extremely dangerous direction.
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In April, Kim Jong Un said that his country's quest for nuclear weapons was "complete" and that it "no longer needs" to test its weapons capability.
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They draw a line between semiautonomous weapons, whose targets are chosen by a person, and fully autonomous weapons that can hunt and engage targets without intervention.
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North Korea is believed to have developed nuclear weapons capability, but there is a high degree of uncertainty around whether the nation has actually built weapons.
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Although Israel has not acknowledged its nuclear weapons program, experts from The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists assess that the country possesses about 80 nuclear weapons.
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Last December, the Washington Post reported that moving from rocket-boosted weapons to hypersonic weapons is the "first, second, and third" priority for defense right now.
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To stop the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Clinton empowered the Commerce Department to control any exports that could aid countries in producing those weapons.
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Speed is undoubtedly the new stealth and the Pentagon's top weapons supplier just got one step closer to handing hypersonic weapons to the U.S. Air Force.
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Weapons technology is advancing and merging with artificial intelligence to a degree that weapons like drone aircraft could soon decide for themselves what they should kill.
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Additionally, China's nuclear weapons are not operationally deployed, meaning its warheads are stored separately from its missiles — unlike the nuclear weapons of the U.S. and Russia.
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Millions of weapons circulate the globe today on the black market, and illegally obtained weapons are responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of people every year.
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Unlike chemical weapons, incendiary weapons are not entirely banned, but an international agreement signed by 113 nations forbids their use on areas with concentrations of civilians.
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Putin said on Tuesday Russia would be urgently asking the global chemical weapons watchdog -- the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons -- to investigate the incident.
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It encourages adversaries to develop more weapons (to attempt to overwhelm the defenses) and to be more likely to use those weapons early in a crisis.
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The US Department of Defense says that a chemical weapons storage facility was targeted, in addition to a chemical weapons equipment storage facility and command post.
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When in the wrong hands, assault weapons, or 'weapons of mass destruction,' can prove deadly and they have no place in our streets, neighborhoods, and cities.
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The U.S. coalition strikes in Syria were a direct but limited response to the violation of international norms opposing chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction.
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This points to a broader point, one hammered home by experts on ISIS and chemical weapons: The Islamic State's group's chemical weapons capability is extremely limited.
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When the Pentagon sent weapons to some Syrian rebels whom they wanted to fight ISIS, it made them promise not to use those weapons against Assad.
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This is not the first time Assad's regime has been accused of using chemical weapons since agreeing in 2013 to relinquish the country's chemical weapons stockpile.
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"We have the authority, given to us by Secretary Mattis — the units that are normally assigned weapons, they are, in fact, deploying with weapons," he said.
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Harrison said other countries have developed counterspace weapons that can thwart Amercia's military advantage, because those weapons can be used against U.S. military and commercial satellites.
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Canikli also said that Mattis had told him the United States was working on a plan to retrieve weapons given to the YPG, especially heavy weapons.
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There will therefore be proposals to tighten prohibitions against fully automatic weapons and to prohibit devices that accelerate the rate-of-fire of semi-automatic weapons.
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Swalwell was also clear his assault weapons ban would leave out "pistols and rifles and shotguns," making it, essentially, an extension of the assault weapons ban.
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When Mr. Kim was expediting his nuclear and missile programs last year, he visited weapons facilities and missile test sites, and hosted banquets for weapons engineers.
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In the 1990s, a scandal erupted when it was revealed the US stored nuclear weapons in Greenland, despite Denmark's policy banning such weapons throughout its territory.
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Mr. Bolton told Fox News that the North would have to ship all its nuclear weapons, missiles and biochemical weapons out of the country, as Col.
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Calls to ban AI weapons The boycott comes less than a week before a United Nations meeting in Geneva to discuss concerns over autonomous weapons systems.
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"The draft language is strong and categorically prohibits nuclear weapons," Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, said in a statement.
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He further advocated boosting confidence measures and faster nuclear weapons reductions by the P5, which would encourage other countries not to pursue nuclear weapons, he said.
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He faced charges of attempted murder and weapons possession, and Mr. Derbyshire faced charges of attempted assault and weapons possession, the police said late Thursday night.
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"Outside of perhaps routine weapons qualifications, I can't say I have ever seen leaders at this level fire live weapons," CNN Diplomatic and Military Analyst Ret.
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Also, if a chemical weapons facility had been hit, the resulting explosion would most likely have caused the chemical to burn up, international weapons experts say.
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The top agenda item will be pressing China on economic sanctions on North Korea over its weapons program — which may have expanded to include thermonuclear weapons.
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"The Trump administration's call for new nuclear weapons is a major shift in US policy," Mount said when asked the proposal for low-yield nuclear weapons.
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The weapons displayed in the videos are a significant addition to the Kremlin's arsenal, which already has more nuclear weapons than other countries, according to estimates.
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These weapons are smaller, less destructive and have shorter ranges than strategic nuclear weapons -- though the death and destruction they cause could still mean substantial casualties.
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While Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons in Syria is noticed, we don't know how many times he's attempted to launch chemical weapons attacks and failed.
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DNA housed the national laboratory for nuclear weapons effects, and conducted the underground nuclear tests that are the life blood of the nuclear weapons effects science.
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Fully automatic weapons are already banned — it should go without saying that accessories that allow semi-automatic weapons to function as such should also be banned.
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"Unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity," the bulletin said.
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Kim froze the new weapons tests that provoked Trump&aposs ire — but US intelligence agencies say the state has continued to quietly develop new nuclear weapons.
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North Korea has intimated it will test some kind of advanced weapons in the coming weeks — weapons it's developed as Trump has tried to woo Kim.
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Some experts warn that such smaller weapons can blur the distinction between nuclear and non-nuclear weapons, and, as a result, be more tempting to use.
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He doesn't even realize that the video is running on WSHH and immediately expects that he'll encounter tons of weapons, drugs, women, and even more weapons.
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But most folks probably don't want to be against precision weapons that reduce collateral damage or in favor of the broader use of indiscriminate, unguided weapons.
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It lumps nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons into a category of weapons of mass destruction that are unusable precisely because they're so powerful and hard to control, says Tannenwald, author of The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945.
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Washington described the strike targets as a center near Damascus for the research, development, production and testing of chemical and biological weapons; a chemical weapons storage site near the city of Homs; and another site near Homs that stored chemical weapons equipment and housed a command post.
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They managed underground nuclear weapons tests; they established hardness and survivability standards for U.S. weapons systems; they investigated vulnerabilities of Soviet systems; they created targeting doctrines for each type of weapon and target; and they developed military strategy and tactics for battlefield use of nuclear weapons.
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In a statement to the Syrian state-run news agency SANA, the Syrian foreign ministry denied that it had used chemical weapons on its own people, and insisted that it had turned its chemical weapons stockpile over to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
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Several lawmakers said there was no discussion at the briefings Wednesday of what specific weapons the president meant by his tweet on selling weapons to Japan and South Korea, but said that both countries in the past have expressed a desire to upgrade the weapons they have.
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But in this week's massacre in Las Vegas, lawmakers in both parties may have found the part of the weapons trade that few could countenance: previously obscure gun conversion kits, called "bump stocks," that turn semiautomatic weapons into weapons capable of firing in long, deadly bursts.
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One of its key achievements however was the development, over 12 years of negotiations, of the convention on chemical weapons, which led to the creation of the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons — a body which is currently investigating Syria for alleged chemical weapons attacks.
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PODCAST: MASTER THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR ETHOS FORMULA TO SUCCEED IN ALL THINGS Weapons Wisely, Carmor has opted to make the weapons mount a foldable, retracting one.
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The proposal that has the best chance to get to 60 is legislation banning bump stocks, devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like automatic weapons.
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But in 1980, with the introduction of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the use of incendiary weapons against concentrations of civilians was banned in most countries.
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Trump also appeared to confirm the existence of nuclear weapons on Turkish soil, despite Pentagon policy not to comment on the weapons' presence anywhere outside US territory.
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The US assault weapons ban, by contrast, only banned a narrow range of weapons, allowing manufacturers to evade the law by making small changes to their products.
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She also notes that the plan wouldn't run afoul of the Outer Space Treaty, which explicitly prohibits things like nucleaer weapons or "other weapons of mass destruction."
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It is meant to prevent Iran from being able to make nuclear weapons; it is not an agreement to eliminate such weapons — which Iran does not have.
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Lifting the weapons ban, put in place to protest human rights abuses, will deepen economic and military ties to Vietnam, defense analysts said, benefiting American weapons manufacturers.
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"The weapons were seized under United Nations sanctions, which authorize interdiction on the high seas of illicit weapons destined for Somalia," the navy said in a statement.
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Still, Musk, and maybe to a certain extent Putin, made people think of AI as it might be connected to weapons, even weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
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The prize's 2013 recipient, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, won for its "extensive work to eliminate chemical weapons," most notably and recently in Syria.
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The US is developing similar weapons, including hypersonic weapons able to travel nine times the speed of sound and largely impervious to any existing missile defense systems.
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The Pentagon said there had been chemical weapons agents at one of the targets, and that the strikes had significantly crippled Syria's ability to produce such weapons.
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Despite these laws, however, police say gaps in what types of weapons can be licensed and how semiautomatic weapons are classified pose a threat to the public.
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That's not likely to be the case with the real 'Killer Robots'— the autonomous weapons of the near future, or so-called Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS).
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The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), effective since 21980, verifies compliance through the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 24.5.
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The plastic and wooden weapons are used for the fights, but the walls are adorned with all manner of potentially deadly metal hand-to-hand combat weapons.
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It's possible Paddock took the semi-automatic weapons he was known to have bought legally and used special tools to convert them to automatic weapons, Rabadi said.
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The Democratic legislation would ban the sale, production and transfer of military-style assault weapons, with some exceptions, though owners would be able to keep existing weapons.
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The Swiss weapons industry pushed for the concession, on the grounds that existing restrictions make it tough for them to compete with weapons producers in other countries.
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In this case—as with previous instances of regime chemical weapons use—United States experts considered alternative explanations beyond the Syrian regime's culpability for chemical weapons use.
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The Syrian government denies ever using chemical weapons during its now seven-year civil war, and says it got rid of all its chemical weapons in 2013.
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Still, the destruction of a chemical weapons research facility might be able delay a chemical weapons program involving the most lethal forms of nerve gases, experts concede.
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Would Kim agree to the total opening of his country to hundreds of nuclear weapons inspectors who would document, quantify, and then dismantle his nuclear weapons program?
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Worse, the Reagan administration sold Saddam Hussein dual-use products which helped him produce chemical weapons and provided him with intelligence to use those weapons against Iran.
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It still remains a fact that assault weapons are the weapons of choice for perpetrators looking to inflict as much harm and loss of life as possible.
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Moreover, comparing purely aesthetic similarities and crude, operator-dependent performance metrics between military weapons and civilian-owned weapons is a poor foundation for a rule of law.
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The United States has used nuclear weapons twice and has threatened to use them again on multiple occasions, even against countries that do not possess nuclear weapons.
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In the second presidential debate, Clinton briefly mentioned nuclear weapons when elaborating on her successes, such as negotiating treaties to reduce nuclear weapons and Iran's nuclear program.
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O was named in U.S. sanctions against North Korea's weapons programme in 2013 specifically to "further impede North Korea's weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programmes".
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"There is no sane strategic use of nuclear weapons, and we need to reduce our nuclear arsenal, not create a new generation of nuclear weapons," he said.
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Notably, all of these estimates count only rifles, whereas the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and current draft legislation also classify certain pistols and shotguns as assault weapons.
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The military continues to argue that with the advent of precision weapons such as cruise missiles and heavy bombers, there is less reason to use nuclear weapons.
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Both the US and UK urged cooperation with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which responds to the use or alleged use of chemical weapons.
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On June 1, 1952, Taylor and other weapons experts huddled into the bunkerlike control building near Area 3 of the Yucca Flats weapons test basin in Nevada.
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A team of 25 soldiers was ambushed by up to 70 "armed criminals" carrying military-standard weapons and traditional weapons, the Indonesian army said in a statement.
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The United States expects to recover heavy weapons and larger vehicles from the YPG, but lighter weapons are unlikely to be completely recovered, U.S. officials have said.
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We forgot that Kim has over 5,000 tons of chemical weapons and most likely biological weapons – and could kill hundreds of thousands of people with these alone.
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And it's a very big deal that Syria still had a chemical weapons facility, given that it had earlier promised to give up all of those weapons.
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Ninjago, as the lore would have it, was created by the First Spinjitzu Master, who used some very powerful weapons called the Four Elemental Weapons of Spinjitzu.
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With Congress unlikely to pass an assault weapons ban anytime soon, some victims of mass shootings are turning to litigation against the companies who made the weapons.
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The products allow semiautomatic weapons to be modified to perform at the level of automatic weapons, which are highly regulated, effectively creating a legal loophole, she said.
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The law answered a fear that terrorists could smuggle weapons with lightweight polymer components through metal detectors by banning the manufacture, possession and transport of these weapons.
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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said international chemical weapons experts have arrived in Syria to determine whether chemical weapons were used, but not who is to blame.
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Iran denies seeking nuclear weapons and refers to a religious decree issued in the early 2000s by Khamenei that bans the development or use of nuclear weapons.
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That meant joining with Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China to keep the most dangerous weapons — nuclear weapons — away from the most dangerous bad actor there — Iran.
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And occasionally, Mr. Rosenfeld said, security guards had used their work-issued weapons to commit deadly acts of domestic violence, prompting new limits on taking weapons home.
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The next morning, the weapons depot where the prisoner was hiding was blown up, killing him and destroying a huge quantity of heavy and light weapons. Sept.
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This dramatic, large-scale print is a compilation of 3-D renderings of 50 conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction developed by a number of countries.
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The document also urges international condemnation of Syria's use of chemical weapons and harshly criticizes Russia for "shielding" an ally that has used weapons of mass destruction.
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Unlike in 1994, North Korea now has an unknown number of nuclear weapons stored in unknown locations along with an unknown quantity of weapons-grade fissile material.
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One key question is whether autonomous weapons should be permitted to attack only other weapons — for example, an AK-220 rifle, rather than the person holding it?
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"While in the performance of official duties, qualified military personnel may carry weapons, including concealed weapons, when expressly authorized to do so by appropriate authority," he said.
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But the research identified nearly 100 instances in Libya of what's referred to as light weapons trading, including heavy machine guns, rocket launchers and anti-tank weapons.
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Mr. Peskov said that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons had declared Syria to be free of chemical weapons, although that is not quite true.
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A fact-finding team of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has already been assigned to look into whether chemical weapons were used in Syria.
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The President has handled relations with North Korea in topsy-turvy fashion, doing little to produce an actual nuclear weapons agreement or halt North Korea's weapons production.
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Bump stocks harness the recoil from semi-automatic weapons to increase the rate of firing to mimic that of automatic weapons, which are illegal for citizen use.
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Rubio said he also supported the banning of bump fire stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like automatic weapons, and a bolstered background check system.
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In March, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons reported that there were "reasonable grounds" to say that chemical weapons had been used in the attack.
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Haley criticized Russia's "audacity" in lecturing the Security Council on chemical weapons, after it vetoed, three times, the UN mechanism to determine who committed chemical weapons attacks.
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This would minimize the chance that North Korea's mobile weapons are moved before the bombers arrive and would suppress some of the North Korean air-defense weapons.
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The statute allows law enforcement agencies to petition the courts to seize weapons if they aren't turned in, but in many instances, the remaining weapons go unchecked.
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Australia banned semi-automatic weapons, launched a gun amnesty in which tens of thousands of weapons were handed in, and made it much tougher to own them.
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"Short of giving them South Korea and a pile of money and eliminating our nuclear weapons," he says, "I can't see them giving up" their nuclear weapons.
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"As we have clearly said several times, our republic does not develop, produce and stockpile chemical weapons and opposes chemical weapons themselves," the North Korean official responded.
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Smith's vision: John Hopkins, former chief of the Los Alamos nuclear weapons program, and co-author David Sharp, who was chief scientist of the Science, Technology and Engineering Directorate of Los Alamos, in "The Scientific Foundation for Assessing the Nuclear Performance of Weapons in the Stockpile" (Perspectives, Winter 2019), join many nuclear weapons scientists who doubt that U.S. nuclear weapons, now decades old and untested, are still safe, reliable and effective.
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Since the start of Russian President Vladimir Putin's second term — he promised "high-tech weapons systems … comparable in effect to nuclear weapons" — a construction boom has been under way at more than two dozen institutes that were once part of the Soviet Union's biological and chemical weapons establishment.
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" Asked about the presence of nuclear weapons on the peninsula, a US defense official said "we do not discuss the location of nuclear weapons; however, in the early '90s, President George H. W. Bush announced the withdrawal of all naval and land-based tactical nuclear weapons deployed abroad.
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Ongoing disgruntlement among almost all other nations about the stagnation in weapons disarmament led directly to the July 2017 passage by 122 member states in the United Nations General Assembly of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, now commonly referred to as the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty.
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The doctrine of strategic deterrence — maintaining stockpiles of powerful weapons to keep a similarly armed adversary in check — didn't begin with nuclear weapons; rather, it emerged from gas warfare in World War I. In the war's aftermath, the Geneva Protocol of 1925 banned chemical warfare but not chemical weapons.
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ANNE ROSENBERGBALA CYNWYD, PA. To the Editor: Where is the morality in a stance that says: We have weapons; you cannot have those weapons as you can't be trusted not to use them; if you acquire them and threaten to use them, we will use our weapons on you?
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DEUTCH: Yes, and the -- and the answer to the question is, do I support weapons that fire-off 150 rounds in seven or eight minutes, weapons that are weapons of war that serve no purpose other than killing the maximum number of people they can, you bet I am.
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"A powerful taboo against the use of nuclear weapons has developed in the global system, which, although not (yet) a fully robust prohibition, has stigmatized nuclear weapons as unacceptable weapons," Nina Tannenwald, a professor of international relations at Brown University, writes in her groundbreaking book on the taboo.
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The FBI asked the occupiers to exit the refuge with their hands up and weapons down, but the lone female occupier said she wouldn't exit without her weapons.
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Click here to view original GIFVideo of Russia's new Peresvet laser weapons systemGIF: SputunikRussian state media published video earlier today of its latest laser weapons system, the Peresvet.
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The other nuclear countries either began by developing a nuclear weapons program, such as China and France, or developed these weapons in tandem with their nuclear energy programs.
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They made and bought conventional weapons in and outside Japan, while the scientists he had recruited developed and manufactured sarin, VX and other deadly chemical and biological weapons.
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ZARIF: No, we never support the use of chemical weapons, because we were victims of chemical weapons -- AMANPOUR: Right, but they are using it and you're supporting them.
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There are binary versions of chemical weapons, including VX, which aren't lethal until two compounds are mixed, according to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
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They have committed acts of cyber warfare against us, they are developing weapons that have as their purpose to attack us or to neutralize our most sophisticated weapons.
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The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons released a similar statement on Sunday, stating that it's "seriously concerned" over the alleged use of chemical weapons in Mosul.
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Secondary weapons were sniper rifles and shotguns (as well as fusion rifles and sidearms), while heavy weapons were exclusively large machine guns, rocket launchers, and, later on, swords.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday congratulated Libya for destroying its remaining chemical weapons stockpile, and also called on Syria to fully eliminate its chemical weapons program.
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The memo said the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction office would only focus on quantities and configurations of the drug that could be used as mass casualty weapons.
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Legacy weapons from those raids will also return with the update, although Bungie has yet to detail exactly how those weapons will be integrated into the current game.
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It had already declared itself "a responsible nuclear weapons state" and disavowed the use of nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is first infringed by others with nuclear arms.
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While the Pentagon will not publicly confirm the presence of nuclear weapons at Incirlik, US officials are saying all American weapons in Turkey remain safely in US hands.
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The message for the administration has been mostly about the use of the chemical weapons, more than anything else, although he has plenty of other weapons to use.
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He noted that ISIS has used chemical weapons on the battlefield in Syria and did not rule out the terror group using such weapons in its global attacks.
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Elements from the first Destiny, including randomized weapons that have the potential to be one-of-a-kind, long, and complex questlines for rare exotic weapons, have returned.
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Fusion weapons (H-bombs) are much bigger weapons with explosive yields tens or hundreds of times larger, reaching up to tens of millions of tons (megatons) of TNT.
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There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and ignored the urging of the UN Security Council.
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The Kim regime said North Korea would stop testing nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles during negotiations with Washington, but has not given any assurances regarding other weapons.
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Asked if he had ordered the chemical weapons attack, Assad said the Syrian military had no chemical weapons and that it would not use them if it did.
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In fact, nuclear weapons scientists believe they have a better understanding and confidence in the reliability of U.S. nuclear weapons than when they were conducting nuclear test explosions.
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"We did not use chemical weapons in World War II. You had someone as despicable as Hitler who did not even sink to using chemical weapons," Spicer said.
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" He added, "I remember when I was sitting back listening about Iraq, weapons of mass destruction, how everybody was 100% certain that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
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The B-1s have drawn praise for the amount of weapons they can carry, their accuracy in using those weapons and their reliability during the campaign against ISIS.
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There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and ignored the urging of the U.N. Security Council.
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North Korea has complained that the United States has done little to reciprocate for its actions so far to dismantle some weapons facilities and freeze its weapons testing.
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Even if it could, the North still could strike Seoul and Tokyo with 5,000 tons of chemical weapons, lethal biological weapons and a large cache of remaining missiles.
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The predawn strikes Friday also targeted two other targets: a chemical weapons storage site and a chemical weapons bunker near the city of Homs, according to the Pentagon.
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The country is "unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities because its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival," he continued.
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"I confirm to them, no ballistic missiles, no advanced weapons, and no guns ... we did not send weapons to Yemen," or Bahrain, or Kuwait, or Iraq, he said.
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Instead of the tactical weapons de-escalating the conflict, as proponents claim they would, the simulation shows conflict spiraling out of control after the use of tactical weapons.
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In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, the former Vice President said he was determined to get assault weapons off the streets by reinstating the Assault Weapons Ban.
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"We have the authority, given to us by [Defense] Secretary [James] Mattis, the units that are normally assigned weapons, they are in fact deploying with weapons," he said.
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Experts describe the weapons North Korea has been testing as potential first-strike weapons that could be used to start a war, given their ability to skirt defenses.
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As Russia and China continue their march toward fielding hypersonics, the Pentagon and its largest weapons supplier have shared limited details about their own efforts on similar weapons.
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Booker is in favor of universal background checks and sponsored the Assault Weapons Ban of 2017, legislation to ban military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
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The country is "unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities because its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival," he continued.
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The state of Bavaria&aposs intelligence report concluded that Iran&aposs regime is working to turn its conventional military weapons into a system for weapons of mass destruction.
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Recent Russian statements on this evolving nuclear weapons doctrine appear to lower the threshold for Moscow's first-use of nuclear weapons -- - This article originally appeared on Warrior Maven .
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Our deterrent capability will also rely on the Syrians, and any other actors considering chemical weapons use, believing that we will act again if they use those weapons.
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North Korea is widely believed to have a small number of nuclear weapons, and it claims to have the ability to strike the United States with nuclear weapons.
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Deterring state possession and use of weapons of mass destruction is therefore crucial to keeping these weapons beyond the reach of terrorists who, like Assad, would use them.
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These weapons have the power to destroy all life on Earth, but the Pentagon has thought long and hard about how to deploy these weapons in smaller engagements.
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They know how serious a violation of the norms around chemical weapons this attack is and how important it is to limit the use of such of weapons.
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The Nuclear Posture Review will, among other issues, assess how many nuclear weapons are necessary to deter nuclear attack and whether new types of nuclear weapons are necessary.
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The bill loosened some restrictions on weapons identified in the 1968 Gun Control Act, but also imposed a new ban on the possession and sale of automatic weapons.
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That conclusion was supported by further testing by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the international body that monitors compliance with a chemical weapons ban treaty.
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The report, due to be released this month, identifies the customer for the weapons as an arm of the Arab Organization for Industrialization, Egypt's main state weapons conglomerate.
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He wants to ban military-style semi-automatic assault weapons during his first 100 days in office, and he plans to implement a buyback program for assault weapons.
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Mr. Rold told the agency that his grandson had never shown an interest in guns or other weapons, not that he knew him to be a weapons enthusiast.
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North Korea: The country is pursuing biological weapons that could present a more immediate threat to the world than its nuclear weapons program, according to new military analysis.
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It's that North Korea has nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction — and is now in a situation where they might have real incentives to use them.
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The only way to be secure from nuclear attack is by the complete abolition of these weapons as required in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
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The measure would have banned assault weapons and high capacity magazines (more than 12 rounds), trigger activators that are designed to make weapons fire more rapidly, and silencers.
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Some of the weapons that we use, our weapons that have been used for a very long period of time, all the way back to the Vietnam War.
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But while both Mr. Esper and General Milley said they believe the weapons are necessary for American defenses, the Iraqi government is currently holding up the weapons' deployment.
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The alternative course – of preventing Iran from producing nuclear weapons – leads to the caging of the nuclear genie and the world's long-term peaceful coexistence with nuclear weapons.
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For instance, one country might develop weapons that could deliver warheads more rapidly, which would require the other to shorten its response time and build redundant, retaliatory weapons.
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As vice chairman, Selva holds significant responsibilities overseeing highly classified nuclear weapons procedures, as well as military oversight of billions of dollars in budgeting and new weapons acquisitions.
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Apart from allowing gun violence victims to sue manufacturers, the plan would force owners of assault weapons to register their weapons and require permits for all gun purchases.
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Immediate action would be taken to prevent people from stockpiling weapons ahead of the change in law and to encourage gun owners to surrender their weapons, he said.
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Open-source weapons investigators at Calibre Obscura found that the Turkish backed rebels captured at least 11 tanks and huge amounts of weapons and material in the assault.
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The budget also proposes $3.2 billion for hypersonic weapons, a 23 percent increase in research and development meant to compete with a growing number of similar Russian weapons.
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The report suggests that North Korea may be helping Syria's Bashar Assad maintain his country's banned chemical weapons stockpile despite Syria's agreement to destroy such weapons in 2013.
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There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and ignored the urging of the U.N. Security Council.
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Last year's winner was the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which successfully pushed the United Nations to pass the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
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Our leaders — following the mistaken idea that nuclear weapons are evil — wished to deny their progress; thus their top-priority goal has been to prevent nuclear weapons testing.
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Virginia does not, for example, have universal background checks, a "red flag" law that lets courts take away weapons from people deemed dangerous, or an assault weapons ban.
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Shortly after the Supreme Court decided Heller, the District of Columbia passed a new law banning semi-automatic "assault weapons" and requiring gun owners to register those weapons.
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Mr. Trump has mostly expressed his military thinking through calls to build up major weapons systems, such as aircraft carriers and nuclear weapons, designed to fight major wars.
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North Korea has cheated on every agreement it ever made regarding nuclear weapons and changed its constitution in 2012 to establish itself as a permanent nuclear weapons state.
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The Saudis still would require extensive US contractor supports for the interoperability of the weapons they already have and would not be quick to divert from US weapons.
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Mr. Kim did so while frequently visiting weapons-related facilities, inspecting tests and feting officials and engineers involved in weapons development with parades, gala parties and heroes' titles.
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North Korea is the only country to test nuclear weapons this century, and Kim has emphasized that nuclear weapons are a fundamental part of his regime's national security.
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They include China and Russia's thrust for a treaty on weapons in space and Russia's hope for a treaty to stop Islamist militants obtaining weapons of mass destruction.
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There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and ignored the urging of the UN Security Council.
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When we consider for a moment that Pyongyang has over 1,000 missiles of various ranges, 5,000 ton of chemical weapons, biological weapons and as many as 60 sixty nuclear weapons, this only adds to the circumstances that nearly brought us to the brink of war on several occasions last year.
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The investigation, led by the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the implementing body of the Chemical Weapons Convention, was launched a year ago at the behest members of the UN Security Council with the aim of identifying the perpetrators of chemical weapons attacks in Syria.
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"We may not see a ten-fold increase but I think it's likely that we're going to see President Trump's policy put a greater emphasis on the role of nuclear weapons, looking for ways to make these weapons more 'usable' ... and perhaps to develop new types of nuclear weapons," he noted.
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Similarly, if individuals want to use unusual high-powered weapons for hunting, and if such weapons are deemed to be acceptable for hunting purposes, then require that the hunters collect their weapons from a registered hunting depot and redeposit them after hunting, with the guns and ammunition properly accounted for.
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Despite imported weapons finding their way onto the local arms markets, diplomats said the weapons marking program represented progress as it was now possible to track which branches of the Somali armed forces — the police, intelligence services or military — were selling on weapons illegally, even if individuals could not be identified.
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Melissa Hanham, another well-known missile expert, told Reuters in May that the types of weapons North Korea was testing, weapons deemed by Trump to be less important than the intercontinental ballistic missiles the country was building and testing in 2017, were the types of weapons "that will start the war."
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The State Department said the United States determined on Monday that the Kremlin "has used chemical or biological weapons in violation of international law or has used lethal chemical or biological weapons against its own nationals," citing a 1991 law called the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act.
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Israel has carried out scores of airstrikes in Syria in recent years, focusing largely on what it says are advanced weapons stores or convoys of weapons meant for Hezbollah, and it has also reportedly hit Syrian government facilities involved in weapons development and an Iranian base under construction in Syria.
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But they get special attention both because those weapons formerly were banned and because the number of mass shootings appears to have risen since the assault weapons ban expired.
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The policy means exactly what it sounds like -- in the event of a war, the country won't use nuclear weapons unless they're attacked by an enemy using nuclear weapons.
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"Almost all countries have scrapped chemical weapons under the convention on ban on chemical weapons but only the US and some other countries still possess (them)," the article said.
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As part of the deal in 2013 to end Syria's chemical-weapons programme, both America and Russia promised to punish the Syrian regime should it use chemical weapons again.
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We are told about the weapons he used and how he obtained them, and we learn about the warning signs that should have restricted his access to powerful weapons.
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The international inspectors had been set to travel to Douma to definitively determine if chemical weapons were used — but they were not tasked with investigating who used such weapons.
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Trump: Never called for more countries to have nuclear weapons REALITY CHECK: False Trump said last spring that other countries, particularly Japan, should be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons.
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" McMaster also raises the prospect of North Korea selling its nuclear secrets, or even weapons, noting Pyongyang "was developing a nuclear weapons program for the Assad regime in Syria.
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Outside of NATO, Israel has its own nuclear weapons program, although details are sparse about whether the Israeli version, the F-35I, will be able to use nuclear weapons.
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