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Torture, rape and ethnic cleansing have become highly effective, if often non-lethal, weapons in civil war.
We have been so consumed with seemingly objective discussions of politics, tactics, weapons, dollars and casualties.
How do we deal with our deepest differences, given the human propensity for conflict and the human genius at devising weapons of enormous destruction?
It is not getting other countries to arm themselves to the teeth with the weapons that we produce and we sell them.
But he's offering 84 billion dollars for the modernizing of nuclear weapons.
But it's going to modernize weapons we do not need and will not be gotten rid of in our lifetime, unless we get up off our ... and take action to make it happen, unless we begin to believe that all of the things that we've been hearing about in these last two days are elements of what come together to make human security.
It's two people, two warriors, dropping their weapons and reaching toward each other.
The only problem is, the first edged weapons only appeared about 200,000 years ago.
So somehow, for nearly two million years, we are killing animals without any weapons.
So no weapons, no speed, no strength, no fangs, no claws.
If you're wondering why the Tarahumara don't fight and don't die of heart disease, why a poor Ethiopian woman named Derartu Tulu can be the most compassionate and yet the most competitive, and why we somehow were able to find food without weapons, perhaps it's because humans, as much as we like to think of ourselves as masters of the universe, actually evolved as nothing more than a pack of hunting dogs.
But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.
I'm not interested in filming the violence and the weapons.
They're given weapons; they shoot for the logging camps; they get money.
Their major asset for developing nuclear weapons is the Natanz uranium enrichment facility.
You probably think that the force that I led was all steely-eyed commandos with big knuckle fists carrying exotic weapons.
And the same weapons are still here, and they are still armed.
And the Chinese gave this small ruling elite loads of military weapons and sophisticated technology in order to ensure that people like me would not speak out against this relationship.
George Bush thought he was going to invade Iraq, find a bunch of weapons of mass destruction, liberate the people and bring democracy to the Middle East.
However, this episode reveals the growing anxiety in the Western world regarding these emerging cyber weapons.
It so happens that these weapons are dangerous.
These virtual weapons can also destroy the physical world.
I'll quote General James Cartwright, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who says in a report to Congress that cyberattacks could be as powerful as weapons of mass destruction.
Yet, what you'll never hear from spokespeople from the Pentagon or the French Department of Defence is that the question isn't really who's the enemy, but actually the very nature of cyber weapons.
Similarly, if we'd had this talk 30 or 40 years ago, we would have seen how the rise of nuclear weapons, and the threat of mutually assured destruction they imply, prevents a direct fight between the two superpowers.
Cyber weapons have this peculiar feature: they can be used without leaving traces.
On the other hand, we know that these weapons give an advantage to attacking.
In this context, when you don't know if the potential enemy is preparing for defense or attack, and if the weapons give an advantage to attacking, then this environment is most likely to spark a conflict.
This is the environment that's being created by cyber weapons today, and historically it was the environment in Europe at the onset of World War I.
So cyber weapons are dangerous by nature, but in addition, they're emerging in a much more unstable environment.
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