"Imaginary Weapons" wants to make the hafnium bomb a symbol of bad weapons science masquerading as good old American know-how at the Pentagon.
The confrontation at Obolensk is another example of how the basic capitalist imperative for enterprises to be self-sustaining can clash, often alarmingly, with the old remnants of Soviet weapons science.
But by helping to destroy these grotesque weapons, science has gone some way to redeeming its earlier activities.Dig deeper: The shadow of Ypres: how a whole class of weapons came to be seen as indecent (August 2013) The West should arm Syria's rebels (January 2014) A new "caliphate" is declared in Iraq (July 2014).
Their broad portfolio of research ranges from nuclear weapons science and basic physics to better batteries and renewable energy technologies.
The other skull depicts the target chamber of the controversial National Ignition Facility (which is designed to aid future bomb design) and warns: "Nuclear weapons science?
Founded in 1943 on an isolated mesa to build the first atomic weapon, Los Alamos has become a sprawling facility with a $2.2 billion budget and nearly 12,000 employees engaged in everything from weapons science to climate modeling.
Meanwhile, Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) said last week that he would like to see the government drop another high-profile investigation at the Los Alamos lab, this one involving the loss and recovery of two computer disks holding classified weapons information (Science, 23 June, p. 2109).
Halo's arsenal consists of weapons from science fiction.
Barter, Energy Weapons, Explosives, Guns, Lockpick, Medicine, Melee Weapons, Repair, Science, Sneak, Speech, Survival, Unarmed are your options.
Beginning on the day black rain fell on Hiroshima, nuclear weapons shaped environmental science.
