Word: weaponeering
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Copney was seen leaving Kirkland House immediately after the shooting carrying a gun, police say. That weapon, a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol, has been recovered and determined to have been in Copney's possession immediately after the murder. A report of the incident by prosecutors says that the pistol was of the same caliber as casings found at the scene, and a jacket worn by Copney the day of shooting also tested positive for gunshot residue...
...government over independence for the Basque territories in the country's north. So why, then, when the organization is weaker than ever and has lost any immediate chance of restoring the peace process after it broke the 2006 cease-fire, does it continue to use violence as a political weapon...
...There's only one species that had the sort of weapon to inflict this injury," Churchill says. "And that's us [humans...
...kinetic energies consistent with a thrown spear, the pig's rib bore damage resembling Shanidar 3's isolated rib puncture. What's more, Churchill found that the weapon that killed Shanidar 3 entered at about a 45-degree downward angle. According to Churchill, "That's consistent with the ballistic trajectory of a thrown weapon, assuming that Shanidar 3 - who was about 5 ft. 6 in. [1.67 m] tall - was standing." Churchill also found that Shanidar 3's rib had started healing before he died. By comparing the wound with wounds documented in medical records from the American Civil...
This emphasis on the nuclear issue is disproportionate. Iran is allowed to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The latest National Intelligence Estimate suggests that Iran doesn't have a nuclear-weapons program - although it once did, and could easily resume weaponization at any time. But let's assume the worst: say Iran is working on a bomb; say it acquires one in the next few years. Only Benjamin Netanyahu and assorted American neoconservatives believe - or pretend to believe - that Iran might actually use it, given Israel's overpowering ability to strike back. Most observers...