“The emergence of autonomous weapons systems and the prospect of losing meaningful human control over the use of force are grave threats that demand urgent action.”
“The prospect of a future where the decision to take a human life is delegated to machines is abhorrent.”
“Pentagon Confirms Russia Has a Submarine Nuke Delivery Drone.
This is very bad news.
The existence of Status-6 was originally greeted with some skepticism — the weapon sounds so horrible, so devastating, so completely over the top it is difficult to process that someone would actually want to build such a thing. Unfortunately for all of mankind, it appears that it is very real.”
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“Save the mission, save the ship, save the reactor,
“I still have one torpedo and two main engines.”
“If I have to die on this mission, I intend to die with an empty torpedo room.”
The panicked communication that a fire had broken out in the middle level of the forward compartment came over his headphones, since the boat was rigged-for-ultraquiet with the 1MC general announcing speakers disabled.
Lieutenant Anthony Pacino felt the hard shot of adrenalin hit his system as he selected the ship-wide circuit and barked into his boom microphone. “
Pacino hurriedly pulled on his emergency air breathing mask with the fireproof hood, took an experimental breath of the dry, hot air and frowned through the mask’s faceplate at the navigator. The control room they stood in was on the widest deck of the boat, straddling the centerline of the cylindrical hull of the submarine. In the forward compartment. In the forward compartment’s middle level. The very same level as the fire.
“Navigator,” Pacino ordered, “get the fuck to the scene and see what the hell is going on.”
The rigged-for-ultraquiet submarine
