Sentences with phrase «american weapons expert»

American weapons expert Otto (Kevin Kline) naps over his Nietzsche (and another book that seems to be titled Ninja), and, upon being startled awake, first expertly shoots the alarm clock that woke him, then looks baffled and doofy.

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Besides targeting sources of weapons technology, the curbs were the first time the United States sought to directly attack North Korea's daily consumer trade, said Peter Harrell, a sanctions expert at the Center for a New American Security.

So, in November 2016, in private discussions with American experts, including one of the authors, North Korean officials hinted they might be willing to exercise restraint in the testing of ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons if the United States and South Korea adjusted the exercises to make them less threatening.

«The letter, from some of the world's most knowledgeable experts in the fields of nuclear weapons and arms control, arrives as Mr. Obama is lobbying Congress, the American public and the nation's allies to support the agreement,» William J. Broad wrote in an article in the New York Times.

But an expert panel he chairs, chartered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes ScienceNOW, has had certain criticisms of the RRW program, warning that skyrocketing costs of maintaining current weapons and making new ones will put the weapons lab in a «very challenging» position.

«If the United States, the strongest nation in the world, concludes that it can not protect its vital interests without relying on new nuclear weapons for new military missions, it would be a clear signal to other nations that nuclear weapons are valuable, if not necessary, for their security purposes, too,» Sidney Drell, arms control expert and physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center said at the American Physical Society Conference in Denver this past March.

The agency has been converted to a civilian research program, and many former weapons experts in Russia are engaged in joint medical research with American scientists.

Tom Grant, an American research fellow based at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge described the relationship between international law and science, but as a «neutral expert» did not directly address concerns over fully autonomous weapons.