Alternatively, they may opt to field crude, but functional atomic weapons, foregoing the sort of underground testing that the American military requires in order to validate and assure the reliability of its sophisticated nuclear weapons designs.
Associate Professor Gregg Suaning, of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering and a project leader in the national bionic eye consortium, Bionic Vision Australia (BVA), said the new, 98-channel microchip, now undergoing preliminary lab testing, was a major step towards the goal of a functional bionic eye.