The proliferation of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons technology and that of the means of delivering such weapons over very long distances with ballistic missiles are of particular concern in this regard.
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But Dr Anders Sandberg, James Martin Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, said that while "the future looks pretty bright" there are "dark shadows" because technologies to improve the world also bring fears such as security worries over advances in sharing technology and bio-weapons coming out of bio-technology meant to feed us and bring us new sources of energy.
The Renaissance of Europe created strong nation states, which parlayed science and technology into weapons for building new empires.
Rare earths metals play a large role in current modern technology, cruise missiles and other weapons systems.
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But, whatever Mr Bush's scepticism about the usefulness of sanctions, he is unlikely to pursue a softer policy so long as Iran is suspected of using Russian technology to develop nuclear and biological weapons, devices that Iran's ballistic missiles might be capable of delivering to Israel.
President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative is an example of a global strategy for dealing with the spread of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons and missile-related materiel and technology.
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Our defense must keep pace with developments in weapons, technology, and tactics.
We helped to win the indefinite extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, a powerful global barrier to the spread of nuclear weapons and their technology.
After the first Gulf War, UN weapons inspectors went into Iraq in a big way, and they compiled an extensive dossier on many American and European companies that had secretly provided Iraq with dual-use equipment and technology that went into these weapons programs.
Our military needs the best weapons and most advanced technology.
The United States and other nations fear that they might share nuclear weapons technology that they might acquire with other nations.
He led a comprehensive review of our nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship program, enhanced the science and technology of environmental cleanup, and was the DOE special negotiator for Russia initiatives, focusing on disposal of Soviet-era nuclear materials.
Pickering and Kampelman were no more convincing on the mechanics of eliminating all nuclear weapons, given the widespread availability of the relevant technology and know-how and the ease with which small arsenals could be concealed by dictators ruling closed societies.
The top four industries represented in the study are weapons and security, aerospace, government agencies and information technology.
Given that the services want to modernise their technology, this suggests one kind of trade-off: between manpower and weapons.
Black Ops 2 is pulling out all the stops to keep the series fresh, setting the game in the future where new weapons and killstreaks are invented out of non-existing technology.
But, of course, the Iranian leaders say they're not after nuclear weapons, they're after nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, and they want to develop a nuclear power industry.
"Advanced imaging technology enhances security by safely screening passengers for metallic and non-metallic threats including weapons, explosives and other objects concealed under layers of clothing without physical contact, " Soule said.
Furthermore, no country, including the United States, has ever given up territory and needed defensive space just because it had advanced weapons systems or sophisticated early warning technology.
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The colors are brighter, and the planetary bodies, landscapes, buildings, uniforms, people and weapons now have finer, crisper details that were not previously available with the technology of the 1980s.
Participants in the Roundtable also discussed the potential application of tiltrotor technology to such activities as search and rescue, homeland security, emergency response to the use of weapons of mass destruction and commercial aviation.
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Epstein commissioned a detailed statistical assessment of the correlation between Pentagon technology spending and various potential drivers in 2005, measuring which factors were most intimately linked with the rise and fall of weapons outlays all the way back to 1955.
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Like most other firms, it now provides free access to its games, collecting revenue from the 10% or so of players who are prepared to pay for in-game extras such as weapons, medicine and shields, says Benjamin Joffe, chief executive of Plus Eight Star, a technology consultancy in Beijing.
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