But deals such as General Electric's transactions with Iran and Syria, or the Russian subsidiary of IBM moving its power and computers to weapons manufacturing facilities could cause unease with investors.
Its purpose in acquiring a chemical weapons manufacturing capability appears motivated, at least in part, by the desire to add CW to the gruesome tools of the trade of the worldwide terrorist groups it sponsors.
These have included dump trucks as Secretary Rumsfeld observed on August 21 that have their back ends removed and replaced by artillery and rocket pieces and the use of refrigerated trucks, ostensibly purchased for food transport purposes, as mobile biological weapons manufacturing facilities.
These have included dump trucks -- as Secretary Rumsfeld observed on August 21 -- that have their back ends removed and replaced by artillery and rocket pieces and the use of refrigerated trucks, ostensibly purchased for food transport purposes, as mobile biological weapons manufacturing facilities.
In this connection, high priority must be given to improving the United States' ability to attack and destroy deeply buried assets -- one approach taken by the North Koreans to conceal and harden some of their nuclear weapons-related manufacturing sites.
Much of the work in developing and manufacturing chemical weapons occurred during the Cold War period.
Reportedly, eight North Korean plants are now manufacturing chemical weapons and army units are being trained to fight in a chemical warfare environment.
The reigning regime of clerical fanatics is the most active state sponsor of terrorism, and Iran is on the brink of manufacturing nuclear weapons.
The President also believes we can no longer safely afford to be the only nuclear weapons state incapable of manufacturing "pits" - the plutonium cores that are at the heart of our current arsenal.
Unlike North Korea (and probably Iran), it has no active production line for manufacturing modern nuclear weapons.
He is feverishly manufacturing chemical and biological weapons.
If these were not grounds enough to sack the Chemical Weapons Convention, another one looms large: The treaty will impose substantial new cost, inspection and reporting requirements on a host of industries that have nothing to do with chemical weapons or even chemical manufacturing.
He was a major architect of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 which included major curbs on assault weapons, not only barring the manufacturing of 19 different brands of firearms, but also outlawing the possession of newly manufactured high-capacity magazines.
If these were not grounds enough to sack the Chemical Weapons Convention, another one looms large: The treaty will impose substantial new cost, inspection and reporting requirements on a host of industries that have nothing to do with chemical weapons -- or even chemical manufacturing.
Joe Biden was a major architect of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 which included major curbs on assault weapons, not only barring the manufacturing of 19 different brands of firearms, but also outlawing the possession of newly manufactured high-capacity magazines.
The sale of the Mistrals is by far the most prominent example, but present-day Russia is far more open to foreign defense technology than was the Soviet Union which, as the articles state, had a standing policy of manufacturing all of its own weapons systems.
Worse yet, the biological and chemical weapons conventions obliged signatories with advanced biotech and chemical manufacturing industries to share the technology with others who did not have such capabilities.
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In 1997, for instance, the verification system for the Chemical Weapons Treaty was devised by the world's chemical-manufacturing associations.
The rest is history: Saddam exploited the opportunity thus afforded to him to acquire state-of-the-art manufacturing technology and componentry critical to his efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction, advanced conventional armaments and other dangerous capabilities.
Given the importance of all kinds of chemicals to industry around the world and the ease with which virtually any fertilizer, pharmaceutical or plastics manufacturing plant can be used, when required, to make a batch of weapons agent, no ban on production can solve or even substantially mitigate the chemical weapons problem.
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First, the development of biological weapons is one of the most difficult things to detect since the lethal agents can easily be hidden, and the manufacturing facilities are essentially undistinguishable from legitimate pharmaceutical or research installationsTo manage this impossible job, the protocol would set up a large international organization that would have people on its staff from such nations as North Korea, Iran, Iraq, and Cuba.
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