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Dual-use refers to technology with both civilian and military applications.
China, U.S. Use Same Tracking Base Jeremy Page 2011
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Dual-use equipment and technology can be used for both military and civilian purposes.
How Europe's Companies Are Feeding Iran's Bomb Benjamin Weinthal 2009
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Dual-use technologies needed to make nerve agents were sold to Iraq during the Reagan and Bush I administrations (when Saddam Hussein was something of a secret ally) and the stockpiles of nerve agents were then blown up by U.S.
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Dual-use technologies used to be exceptions; even things you'd expect to be dual use, like radar systems and toilets, were designed differently for the military.
America's Dilemma: Close Security Holes, or Exploit Them Ourselves 2008
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Dual-use technologies used to be exceptions; even things you'd expect to be dual use, like radar systems and toilets, were designed differently for the military.
America's Dilemma: Close Security Holes, or Exploit Them Ourselves 2008
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Dual-use technology is technology that can be used for peaceful as well as military purposes.
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Dual-use Defense Department research and development programs;
Technology For Economic Growth In America ITY National Archives 1993
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Dual-use Defense Department research and development programs;
Technology For Americas Economic Growth ITY National Archives 1993
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Dual-use technologies include manufacturing processes as well as products.
Technology For Economic Growth A Report Part 2 Of ITY National Archives 1993
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"Dual-use" items are defined as "liable to be used, side by side with their civilian purposes, for the development, production, installation or enhancement of military capabilities and terrorist capacities."
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