While President Obama ponders new legal and moral guidelines to govern America's growing use of armed robot aircraft, the world outside the White House is engaged in a revolutionary frenzy of building, arming and flying killer drones. Small, inexpensive and lethal, drones enable everyone from terrorists to the Chinese People's Liberation Army to engage in what the Pentagon acknowledges is a new arms race with "alarming" consequences. More than 50 countries operate surveillance drones and, increasingly, are fitting them with weapons."
The American government has declared themselves judge jury and executioner when ordering targeted assassinations with bombings from predator drones. At the same time new technologies are being developed to increase the capabilities of the Orwellian surveillance grid.
