It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite when this would be. But the diplomacy - the meetings in the U.N. security council, the allegations about weapons of mass destruction, the martial language of Tony Blair and George W. Bush - all suggested a war was brewing.
Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.
We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.
Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.
In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?
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