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"Once a target is verified and authorized for destruction, operators sitting safely behind command center computers push a button to fire the weapon." It's just like a computer game! Paging

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"Kommersant attributed the ban to fears in the secret service that Russian genetic material could be used abroad to make biochemical weapons targeting Russians." Oh, come on.

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"...robot warriors [...] autonomously deciding to blast enemy weapon systems. Many enemy “systems” would, of course, be themselves robots, so it's clear that machine-on-machine violence isn't a p

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"...the United States is considering controversial proposals to produce a new generation of nuclear weapons and revamp its nuclear weapons complex..." Bloody idiots.

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Interesting (if very US-centric) article about the weaponisation of space - or rather, the lack of. Or something.

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"Dr. Ketchum and his team were looking, primarily, for non-lethal incapacitating agents, and he was central to many of the experiments with these compounds that took place during that time."

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"Survivors talk about playing in fallout that landed like snow, of sand that melted like glass, of hair that fell out in handfuls..." A Metafilter round-up on the US's nuclear tests in Utah.

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"This summer (June 2006) the British declared it "National Knife Amnesty." The idea was that common folk were to turn in their illegal knives and other weapons with no penalty." Na

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"Think carbon nanotubes are new-fangled? Think again. The Crusaders felt the might of the tube when they fought against the Muslims and their distinctive, patterned Damascus blades." Itz 4ll

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"All it takes is a few shipping containers, a power hookup, and a source of refined metal ingots to produce high precision parts and designs from a high-technology mobile factory. And if that doe

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"...the wonks at the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Federation of American Scientists have teamed up to make a Google Earth map of the nearly nearly 10,000 nuclear warheads in the U.S.

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"'The first nuclear test by any state today is about sending a political message,' says Michael Levi ... A weapon can’t be a credible threat if no one knows you have it."

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US Army has long been interested in exoskeletons; "...the project is very much alive and ... exoskeletons will be delivered for Army testing in 2008." Link via Advanced Nanotech.

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"'If necessary, Russia's rocket-manufacturing complex can create the means in space to repulse asteroids threatening Earth,' Remishevsky said, without giving further details."

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"...the Department of Homeland Security is trying out instead a pair of new defenses, seemingly straight of science fiction: laser guns and microwave blasters." Sounds a bit cumbersome and e

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"South Korea [is] supplementing its soldiers manning the border with North Korea with "gun-toting sentries" that can detect baddies and kill them."

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Warren Ellis in the metaverse, part 2.

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Regular readers are probably aware that I'm not a big fan of nuclear power. If we absolutely must build more reactors (and I'm not so sure we should), using this stuff as fuel sounds like a much bette

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Designing yourself a space ship? Better kit it out with some practical weaponry, then - this page discusses some of the potential tools of combat for the budding space pirate. Link via Metafilter.

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Police north of the border get some funky metal detector gloves for finding concealed knives. Link via Engadget.

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"In a 2005 audit, hundreds of conventional explosives...could not be accounted for, says a report." How reassuring...not as if the US military have a great track record at finding (other peo

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w00t! Loads of old nuclear test videos now declassified and ready for us to enjoy online! They may be evil, but they sure look pretty! Link via NewScientist-ShortSharpScience.

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This looks like a good book...it'll be slipping on to the stock purchase suggestions list at work, methinks.

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Josh Ellis' article on the Trinity nuclear test site near Los Alamos. A great read, Creative Commons licenced, and funded by micropatronage - a new model for journalism.

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I'll believe it when I see it...good story though.

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Pentagon not content with being aggressive on the planet's surface

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