Word: weaponeering
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According to the student, one of the assailants, who was wearing a mask, demanded that she give her money to him and threatened that his companion had a knife. The second youth pulled out the weapon, which the student said looked like a "steak knife...
...antibody does not provide a guaranteed cure. In the study, 30% of the patients receiving the treatment died (vs. 50% of those who did not receive it). Still, HA-1A appears to be one more high-tech weapon U.S. soldiers can count...
They say it's Saddam Hussein's last weapon: the sight of Iraqi civilians killed and maimed by American bombs. Even if Saddam did not actually arrange for the martyrdom of these innocents, he has been using dead civilians in an attempt to undermine his opponents' resolve. But he needs help. So he has invited in the media of the nations allied against him, while carefully restricting what they can see and report. And -- presto! -- the media send the images he wants around the world. Are journalists aiding and comforting the enemy? Should somebody pull the plug...
...journalism and patriotism. Consider those dreadful pictures of civilian casualties. Civilian casualties are inevitable and arguably justified in fighting a just war. But in a democracy, people have the right to make that decision for themselves. And they can't decide if they don't know. Saddam's propaganda weapon of advertising civilian casualties could succeed only by persuading people that the war is a bad idea and ought to cease. But if that did happen -- if enough people were genuinely convinced -- then, indeed, the war ought to cease...
Biological weapons are a far greater threat than chemical agents. Iraq is thought to have a limited capability to attack with biological agents, which pound for pound are deadlier than any other weapon, except for nuclear bombs. U.S. officials maintain that the masks handed out to the troops will also filter out most airborne germs. Yet there is no easy way to know immediately when such elements are present. All front-line combat troops have been inoculated against anthrax, which is considered Iraq's most likely germ choice, but not against many other potential diseases like tularemia and plague...