Killer robots: Legality and ethicality of autonomous weapons

Killer Robots: Legality and Ethicality of Autonomous Weapons

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-204

  Krishnan, Armin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

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