As the third revolution in warfare emerges after gunpowder and nuclear weapons—experts and campaigners fear that the weaponization of artificial intelligence, and the drive to develop lethal autonomous weapons systems (Laws), could bring the world closer to such a state than ever before.
And it is the weaponization of a drone, the briefing explains, that sets the aircraft apart by providing not only an intelligence and surveillance advantage, but precision strike capabilities for coordinated attacks with special operations forces on the ground.
One thing is crystal clear: The tricky business of answering the 'bot or not' question is important — and increasingly so, given the weaponization of online disinformation.
In a United Nations draft resolution put forward by the Russian Federation and China in October 2014, member states were asked to vote against the weaponization of space and the "threat or use of force against outer space objects," stressing an urgency to prevent an outer space arms race.
So it seems that the seven-year old conflict between the Sudanese government and rebels, with its many facets including the weaponization of most tribes, continues unabated - and prevents millions of displaced people from returning home.
Some derided it as the "weaponization of aid," and many charitable groups refused to take on projects in conflict areas, leading to an American reliance on mostly for-profit private contractors.
The 24-year-old Fox began thinking seriously about the weaponization of commercial and consumer drone technology six years ago, when he founded WhiteFox Defense.
By that year, however, China's global network of communications satellites, backed by the world's most powerful supercomputers, will also be fully operational, providing Beijing with an independent platform for the weaponization of space and a powerful communications system for missile- or cyber-strikes into every quadrant of the globe.
But as the North steps closer to the weaponization of its nuclear devices and missile tests, some hard-line members of Ms. Park's governing Saenuri Party called for South Korea to secure its own "nuclear deterrent," while the main opposition party urged Ms. Park to help defuse the tension by sending a special envoy to the North.
When asked how realistic the weaponization of Marburg is, Slenczka was blunt: "Biological-weapons strategists must be pretty damn desperate if they jump at something just because it has a high lethality," he said.
