Brothers in arms
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War is the father of all things, Heraclitus believed. The military’s demand for better weapons and transportation, as well as tools for communication, detection and surveillance has driven technological progress during the past 150 years or so, producing countless civilian applications as a fallout. The military has invested heavily into high-energy physics, materials science, navigation systems and cryptology. Similarly, military-funded biomedical research encompasses the whole range from basic to applied research programmes (Fig 1), and the portion of military-funded research in the biological and medical fields is now considerable.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013