The resister feels compelled by religion or conscience to follow this route rather than to pay as of their own free will for war and weapons.
The administration also dismissed findings of U.N. weapons inspectors, who returned shortly before the war and reported finding no banned weapons.
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The traditionalists argue that existing definitions of war are more than adequate, that while the practice of war might change (including weapons and tactics) the fundamental nature of war does not: it is still about damage, destruction, injury, or death inflicted for political purposes, usually by state actors.
Like cannons and other weapons of war, they were tools of the state and inaccessible to regular folks.
Sharif Shehadeh, a Syrian lawmaker, said the Syrian army "can win the war with traditional weapons" and has no need for chemical weapons.
But the war was not waged to topple him, the announced goal of the war was to find and destroy weapons of mass destruction.
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Police chiefs are asking our help to get weapons of war and massive ammunition magazines off our streets, because these police chiefs, they're tired of seeing their guys and gals being outgunned.
When nuclear stockpiles reached tens of thousands of deliverable weapons and war threatened the extinction of humanity, individuals in and out of government began to advocate the then-unprecedented proposition that the holders of these vast arsenals might negotiate to mitigate nuclear danger by limiting their nuclear buildups and establishing some rules for deployment.
It did not afford them the privileges enjoyed by legitimate prisoners of war--those who wear uniforms, carry weapons openly and otherwise comply with the rules of war.
The Bush administration certainly wanted to go to war, and it advanced eradication of weapons of mass destruction as the main reason.
Fourteen years of no-new-nuke-orders later, uranium mining's drop in popularity came with the post-Cold War decision to buy Soviet weapons and turn them into reactor-grade fuel.
Porton was established during the First World War for chemical weapons research, and it relied heavily on volunteers from the armed forces to become what has been described as human guinea pigs.
Fear of conflict and the weapons of war.
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The United States benefitted both during World War II and during the cold war in being the nation to develop nuclear weapons first.
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As the post-war situation deteriorated, and the pre-war intelligence Chalabi supplied about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction did not pan out, the relationship soured.
"You know very well this is a pretext of a political war between President Basescu and me, a war each of us leads with their own weapons, " he said.
The Hanford facility processed plutonium for nuclear weapons during World War II and the Cold War.
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Russian doctrine emphasizes the war-fighting utility of such weapons and their modernization and exercising remain a priority for the Kremlin.
The rest of the world is equally anxious about the current stand-off over Iraq, the crisis caused by North Korea's newly aggressive stand on nuclear weapons, and the war on terrorism.
The mortar has changed little since World War II and remains one of the simplest weapons to operate, which is why it is found at the lowest level of infantry units, said Joseph Trevithick, a mortar expert with Global Security.org.
And, even if they were not obsolescing, weapons designed for the Cold War may be ill-suited and incredible as deterrents to today's threats.
President Kennedy would later vow to "pay any price, bear any burden" and go to brink of war over nuclear weapons in Cuba.
Under Rumsfeld's plans to "transform" the military with more lethal, more mobile and lighter weapons, the Cold War-era Crusader has been highly vulnerable to a budget cut.
He has been at the forefront of issues and legislation related to terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, post-Cold War Europe, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia.
It is destined for Japan's fifth Aegis-class destroyer, now under construction in Nagasaki by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, maker of the World War II Zero fighter and still Japan's largest weapons producer.
It is set for Japan's fifth Aegis-class destroyer, now under construction in Nagasaki by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, maker of the World War II Zero fighter and still Japan's top weapons producer.
Russia had wanted a greater role for the UN in the post-war administration of Iraq and for the UN's weapons inspectors to return in order to certify that the country has no weapons of mass destruction.
He said he did not recognise the description of "sofa" government from Lord Butler, who used the term after he later headed an inquiry into the quality and use of pre-Iraq war intelligence on weapons of mass destruction.
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"The fundamental problem of the violence ... is directly related to this so-called war on the cartels and this war on drug trafficking and the effort by the criminals to show that they have more money, more weapons, more people, " Rozental said.
France, Germany and Russia staunchly opposed the war, arguing for more weapons inspections rather than an invasion.
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