Sentences with phrase «weapons expert for»

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Besides targeting sources of weapons technology, the curbs were the first time the United States sought to directly attack North Korea's daily consumer trade, said Peter Harrell, a sanctions expert at the Center for a New American Security.

Many experts predict that full autonomy for weapons could be achieved in 20 to 30 years, and some think even sooner.

«They're smart people,» Richard M. Lloyd, a weapons expert who has written a critique of Iron Dome for engineers and weapons designers, said of the system's makers in an interview.

ESPN fantasy football expert predicts receiving yards for new Bears weapons - Bears Wire - ESPN's Mike Clay projected the receiving yards for every player in the NFL, and he thinks Mitchell Trubisky could break 4,000 passing yards.

«Over 100 military and defence experts, backed by the Obama administration, are calling for a new global programme to eliminate nuclear weapons,» Mr Sauven added.

For the past five years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) weapon physicist Greg Spriggs and a crack team of film experts, archivists and software developers have been on a mission to hunt down, scan, reanalyze and declassify these decomposing films.

Most nuclear security experts believe that's how long it would take for as many as 400 land - based nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal to be loosed on enemy targets after an initial «go» order.

Once Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts reviewed her case and approved the drug's release, Luciana would qualify to receive Pentostam, an old, toxic, but powerful weapon containing the heavy metal antimony.

But an expert panel he chairs, chartered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes ScienceNOW, has had certain criticisms of the RRW program, warning that skyrocketing costs of maintaining current weapons and making new ones will put the weapons lab in a «very challenging» position.

The arguments for the reliable replacement warhead include, obviously, reliability, which is in the title of it, although that has somewhat been put to rest by expert study of the plutonium pets that rest at the center of a nuclear weapon; these are the key items for making a nuclear explosion.

Science for diplomacy: engaging experts to revitalize the biological weapons convention Kirk Lancaster University of Chicago

«If the United States, the strongest nation in the world, concludes that it can not protect its vital interests without relying on new nuclear weapons for new military missions, it would be a clear signal to other nations that nuclear weapons are valuable, if not necessary, for their security purposes, too,» Sidney Drell, arms control expert and physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center said at the American Physical Society Conference in Denver this past March.

Meanwhile, armaments experts are probing a dinosaur fetus inside a fossilised dinosaur egg with analytical equipment normally reserved for studying the workings of nuclear weapons.

LOOKING for a fresh outlet for their skills, intelligence experts at a US nuclear weapons laboratory are helping the credit - card giant MasterCard International to develop techniques for detecting fraud.

Michael Bernardin is considered the nation's expert in electromagnetic pulse (EMP) physics created by high - altitude nuclear detonations, and he is nationally recognized for his understanding of weapons physics.

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Divisions include airborne which are stealthier in their footwork as they are faster yet simultaneously quieter before firing at enemies with suppressed weapons; armoured brings the heaviest weaponry; expeditionary force is equipped with shotguns; infantry are capable of leading the attack with bayonet charges in close quarters combat or holding position to take on enemies at mid to long range through rifle battles; and mountain are expert snipers with sharpshooter focus for precise sniping from a distance.

If a player wants to become an expert sniper, for instance, the game may match them with a highly skilled sniper so that they can be encouraged purchase the weapons and items used by the skilled player.

Andy, what struck me most in this article, besides the frustration noted in the words from these experts that it is NOT that difficult to retrofit schools for better safety in seismic activity, was your statement, «but we live in a world content to spend more than $ 1 trillion a year on armies and weapons.

There are quite a number floating around written by (for example) neuroscientists (TJ Nelson), computer engineers (Petschauer), and experts in geomagnetics - regarding - military - weapons (Slade somebody - or - other, via the late John Daly's website).

In a recent review of Ontario and British Columbia cases during the 2007 calendar year for a 2008 CLE paper we were doing on expert evidence, we found experts had testified in approximately 300 cases, and their expertise covered an astonishing array of issues - computers, chemistry, motor cycle gangs, the drug trade, mental health, weapons, alcoholism, psychiatry, orthopedic surgery, occupational therapy, appraisals, internal medicine, valuations, legal fees, negligence in relation to fires, anthropology, linguistics, demography, ecology, ethnobotany, custody and access, vocational testing, and marine surveying.»

The International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC), a founder of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, has issued a statement endorsed by more than 270 engineers, computing and artificial intelligence experts, roboticists, and professionals from related disciplines that calls for a ban on fully autonomous weapons.

The next milestone for the international process concerns is the CCW's Fifth Review Conference on 12 - 16 December 2016, where states are expected to decide whether to continue the deliberations on lethal autonomous weapons systems and, if so, whether to formalize the mandate to a Group of Governmental Experts and increase the time dedicated to substantive deliberations in 2017.

In Canada, particularly, this year's defence review offered an opportunity for the government to hear from a number of experts on autonomous weapons systems.

On 20 October, the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the UN and the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots held a briefing for First Committee delegates featuring artificial intelligence expert Professor Toby Walsh of the University of New South Wales, who helped draft and was one of the first signatories on the July 2015 artificial intelligence open letter calling for a ban on autonomous weapons.

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For that reason the UK took part in the productive informal meeting of experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems in April this year at the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW).

The signatures to the statement were collected by Professor Noel Sharkey and other member of ICRAC, a not - for - profit organization comprised of scientists, ethicists, lawyers, roboticists, and other experts that formed to address the potential dangers involved with the development of armed military robots and autonomous weapons.

A Group of Governmental Experts could pave the way for a decision by states at their Fifth CCW Review Conference in late 2016 to adopt a negotiating mandate aimed at swiftly achieving a new Protocol VI on fully autonomous weapons.

The UK and US expressed support for the CCW process to address lethal autonomous weapons systems but did not indicate if that includes establishing a Group of Governmental Experts.

Canada, France, UK, and the US supported establishing the CCW Group of Governmental Experts last December, but remain unambitious in their overall goals for the process by proposing a focus on sharing best practices and achieving greater transparency in the conduct of legal reviews of new weapons systems.

United Kingdom (23 October) In the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) we thank France for leading a productive, informal meeting of experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems in May.

It supports the recommendation to create a Group of Governmental Experts and urges states to identify an ambitious outcome for such a «GGE» to work towards by aiming to negotiate a new CCW protocol retaining meaningful human control of weapons systems and individual attacks.

According to an article by Russell published on the 2016 Davos website, many members of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics have joined more than 3,000 AI experts in signing a 2015 open letter calling for a ban on autonomous weapons.

In a statement, press release, and briefing for delegates, the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots urged states at First Committee to articulate their views on autonomous weapons concerns and indicate support for more work through an open - ended Group of Governmental Experts that can step - up the pace though expanded discussions.

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.

Canada supported a proposal for nations to begin addressing the matter and officials have confirmed that Canada will participate in the first CCW experts meeting on «lethal autonomous weapons systems» next month at the UN in Geneva.

Ambassador Biontino will likely recruit representatives to serve as «friends of the chair» for the various sessions, such as Ambassador Simon - Michel of France, chair of the 2014 CCW experts meeting on autonomous weapons.

Campaign to Stop Killer Robots (10 October)-- «We call on states to pursue a revised mandate at the CCW's annual meeting on 22 — 24 November 2017 that continues the Group of Governmental Experts and requires that it meet for at least four weeks in 2018 to lay the groundwork necessary to negotiate a new CCW protocol on lethal autonomous weapons systems.

The report by Heyns, who addressed the 2014 experts meeting and issued a 2013 report calling for a moratorium on autonomous weapons systems, recommends that the Human Rights Council «remain seized» with the issue and «make its voice heard as the international debate unfolds.»

Tom Grant, an American research fellow based at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge described the relationship between international law and science, but as a «neutral expert» did not directly address concerns over fully autonomous weapons.

It is time for experts from governments to make explicit where they draw the line in increasing autonomy in weapon systems and determine how to retain meaningful human control over weapons systems.

The campaign calls on states to continue the Group of Governmental Experts and require that it meet for at least four weeks in 2018 so that it can «lay the groundwork necessary to negotiate a new CCW protocol on lethal autonomous weapons systems.»

Japanese robotics experts are scheduled to provide expert presentations at the first Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) experts meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems in Geneva on 13 - 16 May 2014, including Mr. Hajime Wakuda, director for defense industry, aerospace at Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and Dr. Heigo Sato from Takushoku University.

At the CCW's Fifth Review Conference last December, states established the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on lethal autonomous weapons systems and scheduled for it to meet twice in 2017.

On Friday, 15 April, states attending the CCW meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems (another term for killer robots) agreed by consensus to recommend that deliberations on the topic continue with the formation of an open - ended Group of Governmental Experts.

Last year, women accounted for 42 % of expert speakers at the CCW meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems (14 of 34 speakers), while it was 33 % in 2015 (10 of 30 speakers) and zero in 2014 (0 of 18 speakers).