Sentences with phrase «weapon at another human being»

War is one of the worst things to ever come into this world and to be honest I would much rather never have to fire a weapon at another human being.

Not exact matches

But the central thesis of «The Bomb,» and one Schlosser made strongly in «Command and Control» (which also premiered at Tribeca as a documentary film adaptation), is that mortifying accidents have happened, and will happen again: People are human and nuclear weapons are machines.

«I pray that he'll be a good president and that he'll keep our country at peace — that he'll refrain from using nuclear weapons, and that he will promote human rights.»

Jesus the Son of Marry (Peace and blessings be up on him) is known today to the Christian world as it is being described by John, Paul, Luke and others... whatever the way these human imagined him became the faith... record shows that the first book of NT was written at least 60 - 80 years after Jesus the son of Marry was taken away from this earth... and these writers used their vision as a weapon to get it to the brain of mankind... also there are debates among the Christian scholars that no one knows who is the writer of some of the gospels... someone else wrote it and used the names what we see today... i.e. no one knows when and who and how the Hebrew chapters were written... despite of lots of controversy on this, Christian scholars uses them to teach others...

Why it matters: President Buhari is scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on April 30, and both men would likely discuss further U.S. military assistance to Nigeria against the backdrop of serious human rights violations by security forces who use the same weapons to kill civilians.

Steve Goose, director of the Arms Division at Human Rights Watch said «Syria is expanding its relentless use of cluster munitions, a banned weapon, and civilians are paying the price with their lives and limbs», «The initial toll is only the beginning because cluster munitions often leave unexploded bomblets that kill and maim long afterward.»

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.

And he has done so at the particular intersection of science with public policy environment and the human condition where public and policy - maker confusion about the realities is more dangerous for the future of society than on any other science - and - policy question excepting, possibly, the dangers from weapons of mass destruction.

The pros to using robots are obvious: They minimize the risk to human life; they're impervious to chemical and biological weapons; they don't have emotions to get in the way of the task at hand; and they don't get tired like humans do.

Some of these substances are natural, but many are the result of human activity, such as the Chernobyl accident or nuclear weapons testing, and now releases at Fukushima.

However, his plan is not to offer a hand at some form of global reconciliation, but an all out war that will destroy the west with Wakanda's stockpile of vibranium, an alien tech that can create weapons that rivals the strongest deterrents human technology can come up with.

Its place as a sequel to «The Winter Soldier» is questionable at best, pitting Steve «Captain America» Rogers (Chris Evans) against Tony «Iron Man» Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) over the political ramifications of weapons - grade human beings.

No, Cabral's insight into the human condition was honed at another institution — a prison — where he spent five years for assault with a deadly weapon.

The latest trailer for God Eater 2, Namco Bandai's upcoming multiplayer action role - playing game, shows off the gameplay loop for which the series is known: Humans with huge weapons taking swipes at massive monsters.

Once developed, lethal autonomous weapons «will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend.»

Apart from the Nazi experiments, at least 13 humans have been killed by Compound 1080 accidents and use as a murder weapon.

Think of any science fiction scene where human soldiers plink away at armoured monstrosities, only to be slaughtered once the aliens open fire; that's what the start of X-Com felt like, especially when the aliens showed up with heavy weapons.

Accustomed to several centuries of peace and virtually disarmed, the humans have no other weapon at their disposal but an ancient starfighter, which has been taken from the Interguild Museum and restored to combat condition.

Some of these substances are natural, but many are the result of human activity, such as the Chernobyl accident or nuclear weapons testing, and now releases at Fukushima.

Weapons reviews must be grounded in new and robust international law that clearly and deliberately puts meaningful human control at the centre of all weapons development.

«As part of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, we have frequently heard from Canadians that they want to ensure that there is meaningful human control over weapons at all times.

At the campaign's opening briefing, Nobel Peace Laureate Ms. Jody Williams of the Nobel Women's Initiative, a campaign co-founder, rejected the notion that autonomous weapons systems are «inevitable» stating «this is a decision that we as human beings can make.

In January, Steve Goose and Ken Roth from Human Rights Watch talked with AI experts at the annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in Austin, Texas and at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland respectively, while ICRAC's Heather Roff presented on autonomous weapons at a conference in Puerto Rico for prominent scientists and AI researchers from industry and academia.

Ireland made its first public statement on the matter at the UN General Assembly in September 2013, stating that «our focus must always be to ensure respect for international humanitarian law and human rights,» principles that «must also apply to weapons which will be developed in the future, such as fully autonomous weapons systems.»

A declaration issued by the Nobel Peace Laureates at their Rome summit in December states, «we support the call for a pre-emptive ban on fully autonomous weapons (killer robots)-- weapons that would be able to select and attack targets without human intervention» and urges, «we must prevent this new form of inhumane warfare.»

The campaign seeks to prohibit weapons that would select and attack targets without further human intervention and hopes that will be the main subject for discussion at the GGE next year as states must make explicit where they draw the line in increasing autonomy in weapon systems.

After the matter of «lethal autonomous robots» was first raised at the Human Rights Council in May 2013, nations agreed in November 2013 to a Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) discussion mandate to address questions relating to the emerging technology of «lethal autonomous weapons systems.»

Albert Efimov, head of the robotics center at Russia's Skolkovo Foundation, was the only speaker to oppose a ban on fully autonomous weapons, but he however concluded that a «human being will always be in the loop» when it comes to autonomous weapons.

At the Chatham House conference, there were several panelists that were quite open that the value of human dignity required a human in the loop on such a momentous decision as who to kill that the ban should be in place even at a time when fewer civilian casualties would result from use of autonomous weaponAt the Chatham House conference, there were several panelists that were quite open that the value of human dignity required a human in the loop on such a momentous decision as who to kill that the ban should be in place even at a time when fewer civilian casualties would result from use of autonomous weaponat a time when fewer civilian casualties would result from use of autonomous weapons.

I share Dr. Gubrud's deep skepticism that even in a few decades will we have autonomous weapons that would be either better than humans at making IHL judgments or military judgments for that matter.

Also - in conflict zones dedicated robotic devices (small, autonomous and numerous) could be used to specifically deactivate all weapons without further human intervention - this would be a very good thing given the passions that are unleashed and at play in these situations.

Earlier in the day, at a packed hearing by the Senate Commission on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Human Rights, Williams urged the senators and parliamentarians present to consider what could be done domestically to support the campaign's call for a preemptive ban on fully autonomous weapons.