Transhumanists argue that another scientific quantum leap has transported us from the human to the transhuman era ? a time when humankind itself is being manipulated and enhanced, leading to an unknown future where man, machine and technology will merge with startling results.
Lobbying Congress for funds to research and develop new nuclear weapons, Bush has opened the back door to the doctrine of a "fightable" nuclear war, one in which the use of small or limited nuclear weapons would be possible or even desirable to defeat ruthless and unconventional enemies.