Pakistan, too, might reject an offer of the safeguard technology because it would have to share its own nuclear design secrets with the United States to create a compatible system.
This research is "technology driven" in the sense that we will quantify the capabilities of a wide range of safeguards technologies of interest to regulators and policy makers; a key benefit to this approach is that the techniques are being tested in a unified manner.
They include safeguarding behaviour, information technology and community relations programmes.
His approach: developing software tools that safeguard computer technologies as they are created.
The second direction Microsoft could take with Osterhout's IP is doing what many large tech companies are these days: safeguarding their own technologies and current/future products while also making sure that they get a cut of royalties on other successful products if they feel they could infringe on IP.
As well as safeguarding entertainment broadcasts, the technology has military applications, says Dr Denning.The greatest potential for linking the virtual and physical worlds, however, is on mobile devices that can access the corresponding region of cyberspace from anywhere in real space.
What there might be is a more open and balanced discussion about how we adapt to new threats and technologies whilst safeguarding the intimacy, dignity and trust that human beings crave.
It also has many practical goals, including the better prediction and mitigation of space weather to safeguard space-based technology, improved modelling of the Earth's ionised atmosphere for communications and global positioning applications, and a deeper understanding of the contribution of natural variability to long-term and short-term global change.
In a situation where best practice regarding resources should be used with the aim of safeguarding health, evaluation of health technology is of crucial importance.
Landrieu also called for a 30-day review "to find out what went wrong and determine what new safeguards and technology must be put in place to prevent future tragedies of this magnitude".
