Operators can now safely manipulate battlefield weapons from control rooms half a world away, as if they are playing a video game.

现在操控人员可以远在地球另一端的操作间内毫无性命之忧地遥控着战场武器系统，就好像他们正在玩一个视频游戏。

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Some of these weapons have already found their way onto the battlefield.

这些武器中的一些早已用于战场作战。

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Even as computerised weapons systems and wired infantry have blown away some of the fog of war from the battlefield, they have covered cyberspace in a thick, menacing blanket of uncertainty.

电脑化的武器系统和网络步兵尽管可以驱散传统战场上的硝烟，但同时也给网络空间蒙上了一层厚重的云雾，使其险象环生，充满了不确定性。

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However, the Butler inquiry (like an earlier inquiry by a parliamentary committee) said the dossier ought not to have included the 45-minute claim without making it clear that intelligence chiefs thought it in fact referred to short-range, battlefield weapons or at least it should have admitted that it was unclear what sort of weapons it referred to.

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Ratification was supposed to launch a more ambitious round of negotiations aimed at nondeployed, or mothballed, strategic warheads and smaller, battlefield nuclear weapons untouched by the treaty.

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If development programs are curtailed their absence will not be noticed on the battlefield because the weapons they would have yielded are not yet there, and the programs usually have a small domestic political footprint due to the absence of a production line and articulated supplier base.

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