Sentences with phrase «weapons research at»

Boris Yeltsin shut down biological weapons research at Biopreparat in 1992.

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The first thing that's changed is that Consumer Internet and Genomics are Driving Innovation at scale In the 1950's and» 60's U.S. Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley's first microwave devices and semiconductor components.

North Korea has shown a persistent interest in computer technology since the early 1980s so it is conceivable that a country, which has launched long - range missiles and tested nuclear weapons has also developed a smartphone, said Kang Ho Jye, a research fellow at Ewha Institute of Unification Studies.

Food scientist Steven Schwartz, an Associate Director of the Food Innovation Center and Director, Center for Advanced Functional Foods Research and Entrepreneurship at the Ohio State University believes that functional foods may one day be an important weapon for helping to prevent illnesses.

Americans for Responsible Solutions advocates for barring people with domestic abuse convictions from buying firearms, for hardening penalties for illegal gun trafficking, federally funding gun violence research and for expanding and improving the national background check system, in order to cover weapons bought on the internet or at gun shows.

Other goals include increased funding for nuclear weapons research; increased research on nanotechnology; space station, moon, and Mars projects at NASA; work on hydrogen fuels; and support for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion project.

The government is also combining separate nuclear weapons research programs at Kahn's lab and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission under a new entity, the National Defense Complex, leaving the commission to manage civilian nuclear activities.

A research team based at The Rockefeller University has identified a potent new weapon against the Zika virus in the blood of people who have been infected by it.

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.

In fact, officials at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which funded the roborat team, have suggested that cyborg soldiers could control weapons systems — or be controlled — via brain chips.

The plea will come from beleaguered weapons designers at the US government's most renowned military research establishments, where shrinking defence spending has put many jobs at risk.

Toby Walsh, a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, who organized the boycott, fears that the research will be applied to autonomous weapons, which can include unmanned flying drones or submarines, cruise missiles, autonomously operated sentry guns, or battlefield robots.

David Franz, director of the National Agricultural Biosecurity Center at Kansas State University and a former specialist on biological weapons for the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, worries that smallpox, although extinct in the wild, could reemerge if thefts occurred in the two facilities that still keep samples.

At two hearings on the Hill today, U.S. lawmakers talked about the need to strengthen the monitoring of research on select agents, deadly microorganisms like anthrax and smallpox that could potentially be used as weapons.

«This is very positive,» agreed Chen Kane, senior research associate at the Monterey Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies, although she said precautions should be taken in case Syrian President Bashar al - Assad tries to conceal part of his chemical weapons stockpile as did dictators Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Moammar Gadhafi in Libya.

Stone objects collected by prehistoric hunters were effective as throwing weapons to hunt animals, research at Leeds Beckett University reveals.

«The events in Syria are historic and potentially precedent setting,» said Michael Moodie, a long - time specialist on chemical and biological weapons who is now an assistant director at the Congressional Research Service.

In fact, officials at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which funds the roborat team, have suggested that cyborg soldiers could control weapons systems — or be controlled — via brain chips.

«These are the most toxic chemical warfare agents ever developed,» says Jonathan Newmark, a neurologist in Burke, Virginia, who has helped develop countermeasures against such weapons at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) in Edgewood, Maryland, and other agencies.

«The idea is to use a less severe disease as a weapon against malignant melanoma,» says Dr. Jasper van den Boorn from the Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology of the University of Bonn, who previously researched this connection in his doctoral thesis at the University of Amsterdam and demonstrated the fundamental feasibility of this option.

For more clear - cut evidence that snails use insulin as a weapon, Joanna Gajewiak, a research assistant professor at the university, came up with a fast way to synthesize enough of the insulin to directly test its effects on fish.

At Southwest Research and Information Center, much of our work over the past 35 years has been to address the enormous legacy of nuclear's past and present — sick and dead people and contaminated land and water from uranium mining and milling, the world's first underground nuclear waste repository, and the political and economic power of the two nuclear weapons laboratories and their environmental impacts.

One key weapon against cancer is to supercharge T - cells — the foot - soldiers of the immune system — to better detect and kill tumors, and a new trial at the Children's Research Institute has delivered promising results, keeping cases of Hodgkin's lymphoma at bay for years at a time.

Dr. David Sinclair, Co-Director of the Biological Mechanisms of Aging at Harvard Medical School was named to the Times Magazine list of «Most Influential People in the World» after his research found a key cause of aging and a potential weapon to reverse it.

Then you need to upgrade your soldiers abilities, weapons, armor, equipment through the use of research, at the cost of supplies and unique materials collected from missions, get back out there and launch yet more missions.

As Lou begins noticing odd things happening at her lab — samples missing, notes misplaced — she turns to Six for guidance, because she's realized her research for a miracle drug could be turned into a chemical weapon.

The more men you kidnap via balloons to work at your base, the better your base and therefore your weapons research, which makes it easier to kidnap more men via balloons, which makes your base better, and so on.

Then you need to upgrade your soldiers abilities, weapons, armor, equipment through the use of research, at the cost of supplies and unique materials collected from missions, get back out there and launch yet more missions.

As long as you've researched a certain weapon type, you automatically have infinite amounts of its ammunition - but only at your base.

In our research, we set out to build a recommender system to help Destiny players improve at the game by suggesting different weapon loadouts and stat allocations.

Crafting an armor or weapon can seem like a chore at some point since you will have to do quite a bit of research.

And just a few months ago I took a research trip to Washington, DC to spend more time looking at various historical weapons and uniforms and considering their potential roles in upcoming projects.

Recent canvases (now on view at Jack Shainman Gallery's The School in Kinderhook, New York) embedded with acoustic foam respond to research into violent sounds, such as the air raid siren she heard as a child during the Gulf War; while others adopt poses from a U.S. military pamphlet filled with pictograms around scenarios involving hostages, smuggling, and weapon identification.

Now, I think it was in 1956 that atmospheric physicist and sometimes - weapons designer Gilbert Plass (who needed to know about IR to fire heat - seeking missiles up the tailpipes of jet fighter at high altitude) noted that CO2 in the upper troposphere could block the escape of IR to space: The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change, Gilbert Plass (1955)(abstract) In the full paper, available at the above link, Plass spells out the previous notion which his research overturned:

She said «in past discussions at the CCW, some states have expressed concern that a prohibition on autonomous weapons systems would have a negative impact on AI research more broadly.

An open letter authored by five Canadian experts in artificial intelligence research urges the Prime Minister to urgently address the challenge of lethal autonomous weapons (often called «killer robots») and to take a leading position against Autonomous Weapon Systems on the international stage at the upcoming UN meetings in Geneva.

But research and development activities should be banned if they are directed at technology that can only be used for fully autonomous weapons or that is explicitly intended for use in such systems.

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.