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During his last run for the presidency, in 2012, Russian leader Vladimir Putin startled US military experts with a mysterious pledge to develop novel kinds of weapons to counter the West’s technological edge. Armies of the future, he said, would need weapons “based on new physical principles” including “genetic” and “psychophysical” science.

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