American leadership can also be seen in the effort to secure the worst weapons of war.
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He was an intellect, free thinker, vegetarian and a humanist who supported himself designing weapons of war.
Like cannons and other weapons of war, they were tools of the state and inaccessible to regular folks.
"Assault weapons were developed as weapons of war by the military, " he said.
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The US and Israel have led the way in recent years in using drones as weapons of war as well as for surveillance.
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.
Fear of conflict and the weapons of war.
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He tracks the weapons of the war in Syria on his laptop from a cream-colored sofa in his living room.
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.
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.
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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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.
With the end of the cold war, millions of Soviet weapons came on to the market, undercutting the profits of private dealers, while a number of wars fostered by the superpowers fizzled out.
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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Weapons designed for the theater of war have no place in a movie theater.
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Remember it took the U.S. less than four years to go from the invention to the use of atomic weapons during World War II.
Ereli said coalition forces searched 32 bunkers and 87 other buildings at the Al Qaqaa facility after the war for weapons of mass destruction.
America and Russia have pulled back from the brink, but India and Pakistan have increased the danger and the more nations that have nuclear weapons the greater the probability of war between them.
Mr Powell admitted to the Washington Post that he did not know whether he would have approved of going to war had he known that Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction.
President Kennedy would later vow to "pay any price, bear any burden" and go to brink of war over nuclear weapons in Cuba.
Iraq is also reported to have begun excavating sites where, it says, chemical and biological weapons were disposed of after the Gulf war.
Did he have weapons of mass destruction just before the war?
And second, there is a real possibility that the Obama administration will refuse to resupply Israel with vital weapons systems in the course of the war.
By his early thirties he successfully led a fleet of experimental new weapons in World War I - submarines - earning the Distinguished Service Order with two bars.
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Mr Calderon pointed to the recent confiscation from the cartels of a large haul of weapons as a sign that his war on drugs is working.
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.
The defense secretary refused to comment about another New York Times story, which said that an Iraqi scientist had told an American military team that Iraqis destroyed chemical and biological weapons equipment days before the start of the war in Iraq.
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That's what the U.S. said it was doing in Iraq, with the president and a long list of White House officials asserting with all certainty before the war that Saddam Hussein had amassed stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
"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.
Whether Ahmadinejad believes that he can prompt the return of the Mahdi through the instigation of a regional war, perhaps one that might see the use of nuclear weapons, is unknowable, but this is not a prospect on which we should wait around for the answer.
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