Renowned creators, technologists, and forward-thinkers teamed up to tackle this dystopian ideal, resulting in a cutting edge overview of the digital cultural landscape and investigating how innovative technologies can be used as both a creative tool and a weapon for understanding.
The basic mechanics of moving, shooting, using cover, solving puzzles, employing weapons properly and understanding the overall environment are universal, no matter whether the enemies are aliens or Nazis or zombies or gangsters or any of the other categories we use to denote "acceptable to kill".
Given that weapons are first and foremost fighting structures, biomechanical approaches are an especially promising direction for understanding weapon design.
The war in Afghanistan has created an appetite for understanding the weapons and tactics that are being used there.
"In our view, it seems completely ridiculous that the regular armed forces, who are actually on the attack and in some places have the so-called rebels surrounded and are finishing them off, that in these conditions" would use prohibited chemical weapons, Mr. Putin said, "understanding quite well that this could be a reason for sanctions on them, including the use of force.
I'm speaking to William J. Perry, who has been Secretary of Defense but also started as a mathematician, understanding these weapons and what they do; has lived his 70 years in this world, as an adult.
In Washington to sign the memorandum of understanding on preventing weapons smuggling into Gaza, she was absent when Israel declared a cease-fire, damaging her image of relevancy.
As federal officials search for more powerful tools to investigate biological terrorism, universities across the country are destroying collections of laboratory agents crucial for understanding how biological weapons work and tracing their sources.
Success in the weapons business is "largely about understanding how the customer thinks," says Hudson, sitting stiffly in her chair and signaling, ever so subtly, that the interview is coming to a close.
War? Are we weapon-wielding barbarians incapable of understanding another woman's life choices?
