Word: weaponeering
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...Mace is primarily a defense weapon,” Openshaw said. “A fee and fingerprinting seem extreme...
Howard Dean didn't get it. Al Gore had no clue. The high-tech secret weapon of this election isn't blogging or viral e-mail or any other sexy buzzwords. It's something mundane and under the radar and totally unsexy: data. Both the Democrats and the Republicans have amassed vast secret databases of information about voters, which they jealously guard on the simple theory that the more you know about people, the easier it is to get their vote...
Maathai, 64, founder of the Green Belt Movement, says the Nobel committee "is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war: managing our natural resources." She has inspired devotion but also controversy, suggesting that AIDS is a biological weapon that the West planted in Africa to wipe out the black race...
...according to the report, former officials say they "heard him say or inferred" that he "intended to resume" developing his chemical- and nuclear-weapon capability--though biological warfare no longer interested him--once sanctions were lifted. The regime had "no formal written strategy or plan" to do so, but lieutenants say they "understood" that was his goal "from their long association with Saddam and his infrequent, but firm, verbal comments to them...
WHAT WE THOUGHT THEN At the U.N., Powell warned that Saddam had two key components for building a nuclear weapon--the expertise and a working design--and he was doing his best to obtain the third, nuclear material. Powell noted that Iraq had been aggressively trying to acquire aluminum tubes that could be used to enrich uranium...