Sentences with phrase «cold war nuclear»

The report's proposals ultimately failed in the United Nations Security Council, being deemed unsatisfactory to both U.S. and Soviet interests, and the Cold War nuclear arms race was on.

Other environmental concerns relate to the radioactive contamination of the Arctic Ocean from, for example, Russian radioactive waste dump sites in the Kara Sea [42] and Cold War nuclear test sites such as Novaya Zemlya.

It made sense considering the newly felt isolation and conformity of postwar American life and the long Cold War nuclear standoff.

A coming - of - age teen friendship tale set against the backdrop of Cold War nuclear anxiety and the burgeoning sexual revolution in mid -»60s London, «Ginger & Rosa» tackles the idea of bonds shattered by ideological differences and examines the sobering cost of the newfound intellectualism, which often came at the expense of proper nurturing and guidance.

Robert Aldrich's eye was as unsparing to his stylish but meaty direction as it was to the deeply cynical social commentary he applied to various periods of Cold War nuclear fears.

Still, it holds up as a fascinating look at 1950s culture, from pulp mystery novels to Cold War nuclear fears.

Throughout its history, Centrus has been committed to the reduction of Cold War nuclear arsenals through the recycling of highly enriched uranium from nuclear warheads into low - enriched uranium to be used in fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.

Blaming scientists for the extinction of such species is like blaming Albert Einstein or Marie Curie for cold war nuclear proliferation.

In another area, the proposed budget would provide almost $ 5.5 billion in new appropriations for DoE's environmental cleanup programs to address contamination from Cold War nuclear weapons production.

THE fallout from cold war nuclear tests may prove the undoing of drug barons.

Originating in US Cold War nuclear strategy, this theory holds that the key to winning a strategic conflict is enjoying the ability to escalate over your opponent at every rung of the «escalation ladder».

In 2007 and 2008, four doyens of U.S. Cold War nuclear policy — Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn — penned two now - infamous articles in the Wall Street Journal.

Or James Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense under Nixon and Ford, one of the foremost architects of late Cold War nuclear targeting strategy and nuclear force modernization.

Though the treaty was intended to limit the Cold War nuclear arms race, it has created obstacles to private space exploration.

Not exact matches

Looking to the success of the post Cold War - era, when the world dismantled 90 % of its nuclear weapons, Nunn and Lugar maintain that safe denuclearization can be achieved with proper planning.

Putin's appeal to nuclear might as a tool of persuasion and national power in 2018 represents a bygone era of Cold War competition, and doesn't really change anything.

Every person alive on the 71st anniversary of those attacks holds in their flesh radioactive remnants of the nuclear era — a period centered in the early decades of Cold War when nuclear nations conducted atmospheric tests of ever - larger bombs.

It includes market crashes, periods of high inflation, deflation, economic collapse, a nuclear missile crisis, a world war, a cold war and countless seemingly intractable crises.

Speaking on Sunday, Fihn said the risk of nuclear weapons being used was now greater than during the Cold War.

But as troubling as the largest civil defense drills since the height of the Cold War have been, the steps Russia has taken to improve its offensive nuclear capabilities likely overshadow them.

It uses tons of archival nuclear weapons footage — roughly a third of which the public has never seen before — overlaid with Cold War - era documents that are brought to life with eye - catching animation.

Throughout the Cold War immediately following the end of World War II, the world tested a mind - boggling number of nuclear weapons.

Formative experiences for the leading - edge boomer include the Cold War and nuclear threat, the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, the draft, the assassination of JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King, Jr., the sexual revolution, and Watergate.

As the cold war wound down, CEO James Yoh, a nuclear physicist by training, figured his best chance for growth would come from within.

The data center located inside a Cold War - era nuclear bunker is one of the most advanced office designs seen yet.

The Carnegie Russia and Eurasia Program has, since the end of the Cold War, led the field of Eurasian security, including strategic nuclear weapons and nonproliferation, development, economic and social issues, governance, and the rule of law.

A historian by training, her research interests include nuclear proliferation and nonproliferation, nuclear energy industry, East Asian security, U.S. foreign policy, two Koreas, and the Cold War.

Anton Troianovski reports: «He also warned that Moscow would consider any nuclear attack, of any size, on it or its allies an attack on Russia that would lead to an immediate response — adopting Cold War - style overtones that appeared to ramp up Russia's posturing against the West and its allies.

«Nuclear weapons must be banned,» Francis said, quoting a document issued by Pope John XXIII during the Cold War and adding that there is «no denying that the conflagration could be started by some chance and unforeseen circumstance.»

As church peace activists relentlessly chanted, during the Cold War America was often racist, indifferent to poverty, supported dictatorships, deployed nuclear weapons that could kill millions, and slew countless thousands in proxy wars.

In 1978, the «Second Cold War» gets tougher following the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and the decision taken by the United States to install a new nuclear missile generation (cruise missiles, Pershing II) in Western Europe.

Will our antiballistic defense system escalate or conciliate the cold war and the nuclear dilemma?

Indeed, our cold war with the Russians, with whom we wrestle on the edge of the abyss of a nuclear catastrophe, must be solved spiritually, but by what specific political methods?

Nuclear holocaust did not ensue, the cold war thawed, Israel lost the ear of the president, and the U.S. government continued to spend hundreds of billions on social reconstruction.

After tracing the long history of conflict between communities both national and imperial, he concluded that the struggle had «reached a climax in the cold war and the nuclear dilemma of the present day.»

Within that functional world - village, we find now existing genocidal war (Indochina), cold war, nuclear weapons threats, conventional weapons threats, colonialism and neo-colonialism, wildly unbalanced use of resources so that a major part of the world population starves or verges on starvation while a minor part consumes lavishly, racism, ignorance, a defilement of the environment through pollution of air, water and soil, and reckless wastage of irreplaceable resources.

She ran for Congress in 1952 and lost to a popular Democratic incumbent (she lost another congressional race under similar circumstances in 1970), but by then she was already a popular public speaker and formidable debater whose passions were unyielding anticommunism and a strong nuclear defense in the Cold War.

If so, he should read Hartshorne's «Note» at the conclusion of Reality as Social Process, published in 1953.41 There he speaks of pacifism as error and afirms his conviction that the United States should not renounce the use either of strategic bombing or nuclear weapons in its «Cold War» with Russia.

The churches at this point have a great responsibility not to advocate over-all idealistic solutions but to emphasize the distinctively Christian message that is relevant to these issues, to help their members to see the world without the characteristic American ideological blinders, to challenge many of the prevailing assumptions about the cold war and nuclear armaments, and to encourage the debate on public questions about which most people prefer to be silent.

In recent years, as scholars have explored Ronald Reagan's foreign policy with greater access to primary - source documents, something utterly baffling to the conventional wisdom of his time (and ours) has come into focus: Reagan, determined to win the Cold War, was also eager to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

The vulgar «realism» of the Beltway argues that deterrence proved effective in avoiding nuclear exchanges during the Cold War.

The Greenham Common peace camp protesters remained outside the RAF airforce base for over a decade but the nuclear missiles only left with the ending of the Cold War.

The Cold War required a military build up, on threat of nuclear war which was still believed to be winnable, and was punctuated with full fledged wars / military actions such as the Korean War and Vietnam WWar required a military build up, on threat of nuclear war which was still believed to be winnable, and was punctuated with full fledged wars / military actions such as the Korean War and Vietnam Wwar which was still believed to be winnable, and was punctuated with full fledged wars / military actions such as the Korean War and Vietnam WWar and Vietnam WarWar.

Originally released in German as 99 Luftballons and laterre - recorded in English with significantly altered lyrics, this Cold War - era song parodied the escalating nuclear standoff between the US and the Soviets in Europe.

Why were people concerned about nuclear war during the Cold Wwar during the Cold WarWar?

Pakistan is the only other country that achieved nuclear weapons after the end of the Cold War.

Four countries started developing nuclear weapons in response to Germany (with some extra Cold War drama for three of them, so they finished after Germany was no longer an issue).

India, Pakistan obtained their nuclear weapons in Cold War period.

The collapse of a tunnel containing radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear weapons complex in Washington State underscored what critics have long been saying: The toxic remnants of the Cold War are being stored in haphazard and unsafe conditions, and time is running out to deal with the problem.

So during the height of the cold war, the U.S. maintained a nuclear arsenal that would be able to strike all Soviet Targets on Second Strike with the assumption that only 3 % of their launch platforms would survive the first strike with enough time to launch a second strike.