Bishop's position wouldn't have given him access to specifics about weapons technology, though, Baker said.
Our allies either already have nuclear-weapons technology or the means to acquire it if they wish.
Little of the weapons technology filtered out into commercial use to create jobs.
The United States and other nations fear that they might share nuclear weapons technology that they might acquire with other nations.
They agreed on the urgency of halting the spread of nuclear weapons technology, the state department spokesman said, according to the Associated Press.
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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Our defense must keep pace with developments in weapons, technology, and tactics.
Unfortunately, the dissemination of nuclear weapons-relevant technology has been the result of an international agreement meant to prevent it: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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.
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.
The much-ballyhooed "Dual-Use Initiative" was advertised as the Defense Secretary's plan to cut DoD procurement costs by using commercial technology in weapons systems wherever possible.
"Nobody's sending missile technology or weapons down to Cuba, " he says.
Our military needs the best weapons and most advanced technology.
Tehran denies any effort to build nuclear weapons, insisting its nuclear technology is for energy purposes only.
As just one example, emerging technology to find weapons or explosives hidden beneath clothes is devilishly challenging.
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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Administration officials testifying recently in hearings convened by the Joint Economic Committee and the House Government Operations Committee have conceded that insufficient attention has been given to the implications of East-West technology decontrol decisions for weapons proliferation from North to South.
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.
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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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.
Rare earths metals play a large role in current modern technology, cruise missiles and other weapons systems.
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They abuse the vast power of technology to build black markets for weapons, to compromise law enforcement with huge bribes of illicit cash, to launder money with a keystroke of a computer.
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.
Stealth, also known as low-observable technology, enables warfighters to mask their weapons from detection by enemy sensors.
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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.
U.S. officials say North Korea doesn't yet have the technology to use its missiles to deliver nuclear weapons, but say intelligence about the secretive nation's weapons program is incomplete.
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