They work at the Royal Navy Armament Depot at Coulport and the Strategic Weapon Support Building at Faslane.

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Lieutenant Colonel Al-Kitbi said contracts would also be signed for armament and communications with France's Thomson-CSF and Anglo-Italian firm Alenia Marconi.

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While he was a realist on nuclear armament during his professional career, late in life Mr. Kampelman embraced the ideal of a nuclear-free world.

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Then, after the double-dip of 1937, it was re-armament and war.

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"Any battleground is an extremely toxic environment, " said Jean Pascal Zanders, a senior research fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies, who specializes in chemical and biological armament.

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And we spoke also about the question of armament.

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"My worry is there is another family that is going to suffer the loss that I did because their son didn't have the proper training, the proper armament, the proper munitions to do his job, " he later tells me.

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The Cornwall carries a 4.5 inch MK8 gun, Goal Keeper CIWS close in weapon systems, Sea Wolf anti-missile system, Harpoon missile launchers, two 20mm close range guns, Lynx MK8 helicopter armament, anti-ship missiles, and one of the most sophisticated command and control communications systems on water.

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Mr. TZIPI LIVNI (Foreign Minister, Israel): We believe that there is possibility - is of the Lebanese government, but we can support from ideas of effective forces that will help the Lebanese government in order to dismantle Hezbollah, to take them out of the south of Lebanon and to prevent re-armament of Hezbollah in the future.

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