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131619
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The first multinational conference dedicated exclusively to robotic warfare took place May 13-16 at the UN Office at Geneva as governments around the world confront the emerging technologies that policymakers call "lethal autonomous weapons systems" and headline writers have dubbed "killer robots." The three-day meeting featured diplomats, scholars, and activists debating the implications of new weapons that could automatically target and kill people without human control. Although few such weapons exist now, revolutionary developments in sensors and robotics have stoked fears in some quarters that these weapons systems could make warfare less risky for the attacker and therefore more indiscriminate, but raised hopes in others that they might reduce civilian casualties.
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Nuclear talks have yielded a framework that buys time for negotiation and reduces the risk of miscalculation on either side.
IT WAS LONG PAST MIDNIGHT IN GENEVA last November when the rumors began to fly. Iran and the world powers had just reached a deal on its nuclear program. An international crisis that had been building toward what seemed like war for more than a decade was now on the path to resolution. The deal, a haggard John Kerry confirmed, was real. It wasn't comprehensive-Iran would still be heavily sanctioned and heavily centrifuged-but it was unprecedented. All prior efforts had fallen apart.
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133605
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2014.
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It is relevant to recall the background to Pakistan's move to introduce this resolution. India was in a very difficult situation at the time. Kashmir was in flames due to a strong militant movement aided and abetted by Pakistan. Confrontation between the security forces and militants was an all too frequent occurrence. Moreover, India was far from being a rising power as is the case today. It had a minority government fighting for survival, hard put to address a myriad of serious problems like the demolition of the Babri Masjid and the subsequent Mumbai riots with an economy on the brink of bankruptcy. You would remember that a couple of years earlier, we had to mortgage gold to keep our economy afloat and India's diplomatic standing was, perhaps, at its lowest ever at that point in time. With hindsight, it is obvious that Pakistan had orchestrated its move to mount a resolution against us on Kashmir in tandem with its promotion of militancy there, so as to internationalise the issue and push us to the corner at a time when we were at our weakest.
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2014.
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This article is adapted from a paper, commissioned by the Geneva centre for Security policy, which appeared as chapter 2 of its report security in an world without nuclear weapons: visions and challenges, published in January 2014.
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