Word: weaponeering
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...have warrants for assault with intent to murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon," said Acting Chief of Police Henry Breen...
...answer to the above "problem" is the familiar line that "guns don't kill people--people kill people." Yeah, right. The inescapable reality of violent incidents is that, with every increase in the ferocity of the assailant's weapon, from knife to revolver to semiautomatic weapon, the death toll rises exponentially...
...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists claims that Iraq was nowhere near completion of a nuclear weapon, and that only the Administration's hyperbole sold the idea. Professor Charles Maier reasonably wonders whether the tens of thousands of soldiers on the Basra road could not have been given more of a chance to leave their vehicles before being slaughtered. Was the slaughter necessary...
...heavily padded "model mugger," the women in the program learn how to fend off misogynist terrorists of all types. According to a recent article about Model Mugging, "of the 28 graduates who were attacked" after taking the course, "two chose not to fight because their assailant carried a weapon, six disabled their attacker long enough to escape, and 20 knocked out their assailant in less than five seconds...
...gulf war has sharply transformed the survival prospects for some of the military's most expensive weapons systems. Before confronting Saddam Hussein's forces, the $1.1 million Bradley fighting vehicle had been derided as a firetrap that left its underprotected three-member crew vulnerable to a fiery death from an enemy hit. The $3.2 million M1A1 Abrams tank was criticized as an overpriced gas-guzzler prone to mechanical breakdowns. The $11.7 million Apache was depicted as difficult to maintain in a desert. The Patriot was just another overpriced antiaircraft weapon never tested against missiles in combat. But now, says Gordon...