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If Iraq's occupation gives impetus to legal challenges that free Africans from the burden of odious debts, then the war will have succeeded in dismantling at least one weapon of mass destruction.
Georgia has taken the path that lambs (small countries) normally choose when facing wolves (major powers), brandishing law as a weapon.
Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, on the other hand, are tolerated but not accepted;North Korea’s de facto nuclearization is considered intolerable; and Iran’s nuclear program was curbed before a weapon could be developed.
The ban treaty would prohibit so-called nuclear sharing arrangements, whereby allies of nuclear weapon states could store weapons on these states’ territory.
Other states, which have their own civil nuclear capacity, have the potential to develop a weapon.
Heavy-handed diplomatic pressure – such as threats to exclude Russia from the G8 – must be a weapon of last resort.
An incident in Moldova two years ago involving highly enriched uranium – which can be used in a nuclear weapon – illustrates both the scale of the threat and the possibility of effective counter-measures if countries take the problem seriously.
A disciple of the philosopher Karl Popper, Soros has promoted open societies as the ultimate guarantee of freedom from tyranny and religious or ideological indoctrination, and as a powerful weapon against rising social inequality.
But in other ways Russia has been unhelpful – using energy resources as a political weapon, for example, and in their resistance to positive political changes in neighboring countries.
The danger is that they might be tempted to use a nuclear weapon, act irresponsibly in the belief that such weapons shield them, or sell one to terrorists.
Likewise, rather than seeking those truly responsible for the Lockerbie bombing, the United States and the United Kingdom wielded the tragedy as a diplomatic weapon against Libya.
Data provided by diagnostic devices could be a potent weapon in containing these outbreaks.
Providing the hope that comes with education, health care, and the prospect of a job is a far more effective weapon than a drone to combat an insurgency that feeds on despair, poverty, joblessness, and the absence of basic services.
Failure at today’s London conference is also likely to be used as a rhetorical weapon against the large Western governments, and to provide a rationale for implementing new forms of state capitalism.
Perhaps some of the impetus for Indian women’s radicalism stems from the raw punitiveness with which rape is sometimes deployed – that is, as a weapon or a way to enforce social control.
Ridicule can be an effective weapon.
Water can even be wielded as a weapon.
In the many manifestations of the ongoing and growing information war(s), the pro-freedom-of-information forces need a new weapon.
Egyptians’ enduring hope for their soccer team after Salah’s injury was not rooted in the knowledge that there was some other secret weapon waiting to dazzle the crowd.
It is something that must be defended; so-called "enabling laws" that suspend the rule of law are the first weapon of dictators.
Clearly, Ak Zhol used accusations of impropriety as a weapon against the government parties.
Meanwhile, the credibility of Draghi’s atomic weapon is being undermined.
The dilemma concerning Iran is whether a power imbued with an “absolute” ideology can be allowed to be in control of an “absolute” weapon.
The sexual act is used as a form of torture, or even, in some cases, as a deadly weapon.
Most Europeans who have been dealing with the issue also assume that Iran is aiming at capacities that would eventually make available all options, including quick development of a nuclear weapon, rather than actually acquiring, let alone testing, a weapon and thereby violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
His weapon of choice was democracy.
A weak agreement that lacks adequate verification mechanisms and leaves Iran with sufficient enrichment capacity for short-term weapon development would do more harm than good.
Normative taboos may also become relevant in the cyber realm, though here the difference between a weapon and a non-weapon depends on intent, and it would be difficult to forbid – and impossible to prohibit reliably – the design, possession, or even implantation for espionage of particular computer programs.
Moreover, Saddam may already possess a weapon of mass destruction but has been deterred from using it.
Domestically, too, the nine-dotted line may cause problems for the government by presenting critics with a useful weapon.
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