Mr. de Maizière proposed much tighter European regulations to register such weapon conversions and to crack down on internet arms sales.
Under the 1994 deal, the United States had offered light-water reactors as energy aid because they were less suitable for weapons conversion.
Whether the American queue of weapons plutonium awaiting conversion into reactor fuel will grow longer is not clear; first, a president would have to declare additional material as surplus.
Co-cultures of normal human fibroblasts and MCF7 cells indicate that cancer cells use oxidative stress as a weapon to trigger the conversion of adjacent fibroblasts into myo-fibroblasts [ 69].
The Pope was quoted by Israel's Haaretz newspaper as saying in a speech after the concert that "to achieve peace one has to be committed, leaving behind violence and weapons, committed to the conversion of people and communities, to dialogue, to the patient search for possible understandings".
With the conversion kit, the weapon can be modified at a machine shop or a well-equipped home workshop to function as a submachine gun.
The Windows release of the independently developed game, Bastion includes a weapon inspired by Portal 2s Conversion Gel and turrets; its developer Supergiant Games received writing assistance from Eric Wolpaw and McLain voiced new lines for the turrets.
Dubbed the "laptop of death," it contained over 1,000 pages of documents allegedly from 2001 to 2003 concerning the redesign of a ballistic missile's re-entry vehicle, high-explosives testing for a nuclear weapon detonator, and a uranium conversion system.
The illegal conversion of decommissioned weapons, from starter pistols to Kalashnikovs, takes place all over Europe.
The draft request for military spending proposes to buy more unmanned surveillance drones and high-technology reconnaissance aircraft, to enhance defenses for troops against chemical and biological weapons, and to speed the conversion of two Trident nuclear submarines to carry cruise missiles.
