In clinical terms, this triage tent has seen a catalog of the effects of modern weapons on human life — gunshot wounds, blast wounds, shrapnel wounds, the occasional burns.
The tests were not conducted to study the effects of chemical and biological weapons on human health.
(The United States, Russia and China have, until now, refused to sign the treaty, the United States because of, among other things, opposition from the NRA that fears the treaty might be used to undermine the beloved second amendment and Russia and China that refuse to sign because of concerns about language banning the sale of weapons to human rights violators.
Since Norway hosted the first conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in 2013, the effect of the weapons on humans and the environment has taken center stage.
Greater transparency can help stop illegal sales, reduce the risk of arms being diverted to terrorist groups and criminals; stop the flood of weapons to human rights abusers, and stop the arms that are being used to violate humanitarian law in too many communities on too many days.
The group was challenging "inadequate gun laws that are currently placing value on assault weapons over that of human life" and were motivated by the recent shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead, a spokesperson for Indecline told the Associated Press.
Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
Now that the old slave routes are ungovernable and awash in weapons, tens of thousands of human beings who set out voluntarily find themselves trafficked, traded between owners, and forced to work as laborers or prostitutes.
Yet, if Mr Obama were to be accused of putting matters such as weapons and oil ahead of human rights and transparency in his dealings with the Saudi monarchy, he would not be the first.
A recent study from the German Marshall Fund of the United States has called the conflict zones "unresolved fragments of Soviet Empire [which] now serve as shipping points for weapons, narcotics, and victims of human trafficking, as breeding grounds for transnational organised crime, and last but not least, for terrorism".
