Autonomous weapons an ‘Oppenheimer moment’, peer warns
UK Defence Journal [Unofficial]
June 6, 2026
A Conservative peer has told the House of Lords that autonomous weapons may represent a threshold as significant as the arrival of nuclear arms, warning that, unlike nuclear weapons, they are cheap, scalable and hard to contain.
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