Sentences with phrase «weapons research in»

2014: Omid Kokabee — the youngest recipient of the SFR Award, Mr. Kokabee was selected for demonstrating extraordinary courage in defending the freedom of scientists by his highly principled refusal to contribute to weapons research in his home country of Iran.

The stolen documents revealed a series of details about Iran's nuclear weapons research in the early 2000s, granular proof that Iran had been — contrary to its public statements — actively pursuing a bomb.

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The 105 missiles launched overnight in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack in Syria targeted three chemical weapons facilities, including a research and development in Damascus» Barzeh district and two facilities near Homs, Pentagon officials said.

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 componentIn 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 componentin 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.

The United States, France and Britain launched 105 missiles overnight in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack in Syria a week ago, targeting what the Pentagon said were three chemical weapons facilities including a research and development in Damascus» Barzeh district and two installations near Homs.

Bloomberg reported last year that an international monitoring body found traces of chemical weapons, including sarin gas, in an inspection of the Syrian government's Scientific Studies and Research Center.

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.

Officials from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons told the Obama administration early this year that its inspectors had found traces of two banned chemical weapons during an inspection of the Syrian government's Scientific Studies and Research Center in the district of Barzeh near Damascus, two administration officials told us.

Read more on how the AR - 15 became one of the weapons of choice for mass killers, and the research that tries to explain the high rate of mass shootings in the United States.

«The marketplace for new ideas has been corrupted by software patents used as destructive weapons,» the story's authors wrote, noting that last year, for the first time, Apple and Google spent more on patent litigation and intellectual property than on research and development, a striking fact that sharply illustrates how incentives have become skewed in the tech industry.

He seems never to have asked whether the church's support of all that is thought to be progress, including weapons research, always and in all spheres leads to a more complete realization of humanity.

This is an in - depth and far - reaching conversation that includes dialogue about euthanasia, blood transfusions, medical experimentation without consent, research fraud, vaccines as biological weapons, autism, the rape of autistic children, the rape of medical patients — especially during hospital birth, birth trauma, trauma - based mind - control, circumcision, satanism / luciferianism, psychopathy, Agenda 21, and the deliberate attempt to kill and / or render infertile and / or genetically mutate the human race.

If you look in our Pink Ribbon Series of self - defense weapons you'll find that a portion of the proceeds of the sale of these products benefits Breast Cancer Research.

U.S. agents had intercepted a German ship named the BBC China carrying parts for a Libyan nuclear - weapons - production program, and Libya, in subsequently renouncing its nuclear ambitions, had named Pakistan, and particularly the Khan Research Laboratories, as the supplier of what was to be a complete store - bought nuclear - weapons program.

Decides that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations, in addition to submitting the required biannual declarations, the Government of Iraq shall provide to UNMOVIC, the IAEA, and the Council, not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution, a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, including any holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, subcomponents, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment, the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological, and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material;

Also, Russian officials claim that while the Russian chemical weapons program and everything connected to it had been verifiably destroyed under foreign supervision, other countries like the UK, Slovakia, Sweden and the Czech Republic have carried out «intense research» on nerve agents like «Novichok» until today and are likely to possess samples of these substances (Which would be of interest if «Novichok» was indeed the poison used in the attack).

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.

Months later, in November, Lib Dem MP Nick Harvey asked the defence secretary in parliament «what meetings have taken place between UK and US officials on the research and development of new nuclear weapons, with particular reference to the reliable replacement warhead?»

(WBEN) A new poll from the Siena Research Institute shows extensive support - among both Republicans and Democrats in New York State — for a mandatory waiting period on gun purchases but a split over arming some teachers and possibly banning the sale of assault style weapons in the United States...

She also spoke of her other efforts in Congress, such as working to ban assault weapons and forming a bipartisan committee to research the causes and effects of gun violence.

Science policy is an area of public policy which is concerned with the policies that affect the conduct of the science and research enterprise, including the funding of science, often in pursuance of other national policy goals such as technological innovation to promote commercial product development, weapons development, health care and environmental monitoring.

Building on the team's previous research that shows holding a gun increases a person's inclination to see guns in the hands of others, «Armed and Attentive: Holding a weapon can bias attentional priorities in scene viewing» is forthcoming in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics.

Food could be a new weapon in shaking off the effects of jet lag after research in mice showed that the insulin released as a result of eating can be a key factor in restoring a disrupted body clock.

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.

The primary mission of the branch is to conduct research and development (R&D) programs in solid state electronics and related technologies that support U.S. Navy and Department of Defense (DoD) interests and capabilities in the full range of new weapons capabilities enabled by high - power solid state electronic devices.

Historically, the CDC had conducted research to try and learn, for example, whether people with guns in their homes were, in fact, safer than those without weapons.

He nevertheless chose to uphold the principle of the freedom of scientists to conduct research in the field of their choice and to refuse to participate in weapons research.

«Our research found that young people (aged 17 to 25 years) reported experiencing two distinct yet interrelated types of domestic abuse in their families of origin: physical which includes hitting, punching, kicking and use of a weapon; and, psychological abuse including arguing, name - calling or behaviour that is intimidating, isolating, manipulating or controlling.

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.

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.

Dubbed the «father of the Islamic bomb,» Khan headed the main nuclear weapons laboratory of Pakistan — the Khan Research Laboratories in Kahuta — from the mid-1970s until 2001.

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.

2014 Omid Kokabee is recognized for his steadfast courage in defending scientific freedom by refusing to participate in weapons - related research in Iran.

The study, published as a research letter in the June 29, 2014 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, is believed to be the first that examines physicians» attitudes, beliefs and behaviors regarding their emerging role in the assessment of physical and mental competency and the licensing of concealed weapons.

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

The agency has been converted to a civilian research program, and many former weapons experts in Russia are engaged in joint medical research with American scientists.

Most recently, SITU Research built an interactive platform for Amnesty International that organizes and visualizes their 2016 investigation and evidence of scorched earth and chemical weapons campaigns in the Jebel Mara region of Sudan.

The world's most advanced ionospheric research facility has in its lifetime faced allegations of being a «military death beam», a weapon of weather control and even a top - secret mind - control project.

S. Army Research Laboratory in Poughkeepsie, New York, an IBM pSeries 690 Turbo supercomputer is used for weapons development.

Now, research conducted by Rockefeller scientists under the direction of Seth Darst, the Jack Fishman Professor, and Elizabeth Campbell, a senior research associate in Darst's laboratory, offers hope for a new and potent weapon against tuberculosis.

«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.

«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.

In an article published in Moscow News last month, he claimed that, despite official assurances that the Soviet Union had discontinued production of chemical weapons in 1987, the institute had continued its chemical weapons research and had recently tested a new toxic agent in Kazakhstan — withouttheknow - ledge of Kazakhstan's President, Islam KarimoIn an article published in Moscow News last month, he claimed that, despite official assurances that the Soviet Union had discontinued production of chemical weapons in 1987, the institute had continued its chemical weapons research and had recently tested a new toxic agent in Kazakhstan — withouttheknow - ledge of Kazakhstan's President, Islam Karimoin Moscow News last month, he claimed that, despite official assurances that the Soviet Union had discontinued production of chemical weapons in 1987, the institute had continued its chemical weapons research and had recently tested a new toxic agent in Kazakhstan — withouttheknow - ledge of Kazakhstan's President, Islam Karimoin 1987, the institute had continued its chemical weapons research and had recently tested a new toxic agent in Kazakhstan — withouttheknow - ledge of Kazakhstan's President, Islam Karimoin Kazakhstan — withouttheknow - ledge of Kazakhstan's President, Islam Karimov.

«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.

And as a subject in Iran's research efforts, he hopes his experience will benefit future victims of these ghoulish weapons.

Payne researches autoimmunity, and a few years ago, a postdoctoral researcher in her laboratory, Christoph T. Ellebrecht, MD, took an interest in CAR T cell technology as a potential weapon against B cell - related autoimmune diseases.

Physiological tremor can be a big problem in certain situations, such as combat, and Pathak's work (funded by the U.S. Army Research Laboratories) focused on developing actuators in military equipment and weapons to offset users» tremors.

«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.