I stood in the back of the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Washington, where I was a parishioner for nearly 20 years, and I cried.The New York Times opinion11 Jun 2021
Scharre, author of “Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War,” recounted this episode in a speech this year at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, laying out the stakes as the artificial intelligence revolution spreads further onto the battlefield.
Fresh thinking isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But tampering with a legacy built over decades raises serious questions, especially when the State Department’s human rights bureau and Congress have so far been excluded from the process.
In the mid-1990s, Laura Holgate, then a senior Defense Department official, was in Moscow leading a delegation to discuss ways the United States could help the Russians secure plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons.
(Editorial Observer): I first interviewed Richard Lugar of Indiana in January 1985, shortly after he became chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the first time, and left the encounter unimpressed. He seemed to lack the international expertise of his predecessor, Sen. Charles Percy, R-Ill., and I wondered where the leadership would come from on that crucial committee.
(Editorial Observer): Rep. Max Rose thinks Congress has surrendered its national security authority, ceding too much power to presidents to make war and enter into international agreements.
(Editorial Observer): The indigenous peoples of the Amazon rain forest are the shock troops in the struggle against climate change. “We are the first ones to be affected,” says Sônia Guajajara, one of Brazil’s best known indigenous leaders.
Twitter can be a soul-crushing place where people leave inhibition behind as they launch invective in 280-character volleys, usually aimed at someone they don’t know and assume they will never have to face.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo raised the rhetorical stakes earlier this month when he urged the world to isolate Iran and promised to “expel every last Iranian boot” from Syria.
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