Stories tagged "weapons" - Page 10

Unmanned fighters now come armed to the threads. But are they really ready for combat in the Iraq war?

Thousands of sheep died one night in 1968 in Skull Valley, Utah. Army officials got busy drafting a denial. They had been testing Cold War chemical and biological weapons, one of which was called vx.

Throughout the Second World War, the town of Hillersleben, Germany was home to one of the Third Reich's most crucial weapons research centers. At a sprawling facility nestled in the forested hills, a contingent of 150 engineers and physicists developed an

Autonomous, gun-totting robots, developed for warfare, could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and may one day unleash a robot arms race, says an expert on artificial intelligence.

Essentially, if the President or Congress decides that we are at war then the Secretary of Defense does not need anybody's consent to test chemical or biological agents on human beings. Gives one pause during these days of a perpetual "war on terror."

Police chief, Commander Shaun Sawyer talks about the fight against violent teenagers who roam Londons streets. As head of the Violent Crime ­Directorate, he insists the Met will conquer the shocking surge in youth violence.

Pay no attention to the sick and the dying. The Government says it is anything but DU. Agent Orange was all in the mind, too. Birth defects and cancer are coincidence in Govspeak.

China is developing weapons that would disable its enemies' space technology such as satellites in a conflict, the Pentagon said in a report released on Monday.

The US will be spending a whopping $24 billion on unmanned systems technology by 2013, and I'm guessing that at least a fraction of this cost is going towards robot intelligence--i.e. programming them to figure out who to kill, what weapon to use, and...

We have had eight years of government by lying. It's not that lies and deception weren't practiced by governments before the advent of the Cheney/Bush regime, but this administration more than any other before it clearly believes that democracy and integr