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>> are we building a bigger bunker buster so that we can knock out what they have with a larger -- >> im not -- i cant comment on anything like that. look, we -- the president of the united states is in a position that he can guarantee americas security as is. so -- but im not speculating on anything. >> why do you think that he is -- ahmadinejad or whoever is calling the shots, the mullahs, the clerics why are they talking about moving the weapon systems the facilities making them more availabl...

We talked about the fact, of all of the countries that contribute to nato, only the united states is really on the cutting edge in terms of new equipment and new ability in the changing wording. >> and -- changing world. >> you hit the nail on the head in terms of personnel but the military is about people, first and foremost and we can en chance the contribution of the individual but that is the enhancement and the equipment and the kit, the latest weapon systems and the individuals that were b...

A machine delegated with the decision to kill human. proponents of autonomous weapon systems respond that its all just a matter of programming one of them american robotics expert ronald arkin is working on an ethical standard that can be programmed into. military robots. the systems will not only decide when to shoot they will decide when not to shoot warfare is becoming so fast right now that human beings are not capable of making intelligent informed decisions you can put that capability into...

Human decision making about a good deal about whats useful for people and whats not about a concrete situation human intelligence is still required for that. an international ban on autonomous weapons systems would only be possible with the unanimous support of the united nations but with the u.s. and russia both opposed thats highly unlikely. to get more now on this controversial topic is an associate fellow at the german council on foreign relations if this is on military technology and innova...

A clue. the volume of data that digital assistants need in order to learn is immense thats cause for concern to many where is this data stored can it be exploited how can we protect our privacy questions that no digital assistance in the world can help us. all they also call artificial intelligence machine learning because the robots are doing just that learning to become well more intelligent theyve come fall ready but how far will they go how far will we let them go what if we allow them to co...

Never come to pass the come up the guarnteed to comply with international humanitarian law in many ways theyre on predictable you dont know what theyre going to do and all the un to secure the circumstances that can happen in warfare is a very strong chance that were going to get a new arms race like the cold war was against human dignity to have a machine delegated with the decision to kill a human. proponents of autonomous weapon systems respond that its all just a matter of programming one of...

And ought to fish and intelligence forseen technological leaps over the past years which underneath was seen so for example just seven eight years ago needing expense for it so it would take at least another decade for an eye to be to be a human player in the game of go and then two or three years afterwards it happened so its really difficult to see the technological development of those two and align key technologies which if they convert such an autonomous weapon systems so its difficult to f...

Sessions who is not defending world listen by unveiling a new generation of nuclear weapons. he used his annual state of the nation address to it out what he calls an invisible -- invincible him and not sufficiently loyal. on top of all that, another shake-up might be coming. nicolle wallace reported the intercontinent had ballistic missile one he says will render white house is preparing to replace h.r. mcmaster as early missile defense systems useless said to have a longer range as next month....

Drills so far this year their reaction has been much more muted according to south korean officials who met with kim jong un last month they said that he told them privately that you understood the need for these drills and that they would go forward. for their part south korea and the united states say that the rules are fairly routine and they have in fact cut them down there about a month shorter than they have been in the past and will feature some major weapon systems including an aircraft ...

Tensions military tensions between the u.s. and russia im not sure if we want to call it an arms race but we certainly are seeing some reciprocal actions on both sides that indicate that both militaries want to ramp up i mean for years the weve known that russia is developing these type of weapon systems and thats caused the u.s. to readdress its nuclear proposals basically we saw a white paper a couple months ago come out of the the pentagon saying that the u.s. should lower the threshold it ha...