Sentences with phrase «military weapons testing»

... Other proponents of the «chemtrails» theory say it is an attempt to control global warming, while some cite far more sinister goals, such as population control and military weapons testing.»

Beginning in the 1980s, Gowin's interests expanded into landscape and aerial photography, with a focus on the environmental effects of modern agriculture, industry, and military weapons testing.

Not exact matches

The exchange of U.S. - led military exercises and North Korean weapon tests has become a time - honored tradition.

«No military system is 90 percent effective,» said Philip E. Coyle III, who once ran the Pentagon's weapons - testing program and recently left a White House security post.

I put Ron Paul to the side because, even if the Republicans do someday nominate a gold standard supporter who wants sharp defense cuts, but it won't be this year, won't be someone who thinks he wants to zero out nuclear weapons production, and military nuclear propulsion production, transportation, and testing, and it won't be a ex-publisher of racist newsletters who can't fully come clean.

A major independent testing lab for our military and law enforcement can not conduct any further testing because Cuomo's laws prohibit firearms manufacturers from shipping military grade weapons to them for testing.

The U.S. government cracked down after both nations tested nuclear weapons in May 1998, requiring U.S. organizations to obtain a license before shipping civilian materials deemed to have a dual military use to more than 300 institutions (Science, 24 July 1998, p. 494).

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

Here, in New Mexico, the only test of the weapon prior to its military use was carried out in July 1945.

Detecting a test of a nuclear weapon has become so effective and reliable that no nation could expect to get away with secretly exploding a device having military significance

The U.S. military uses the islands as training grounds, weapons test sites, and as a strategic defensive location.

The exhibition includes Maisel's photographs and video projections based on his work at Dugway Proving Ground, a classified military setting in Utah's Great Salt Lake Desert devoted to testing and development of chemical and biological weapons and defense systems.

Buried histories, from military bunkers to weapons - testing sites, have long obsessed film - makers Jane and Louise Wilson.