Sentences with phrase «cold war weapon»

Featuring London's own Sally Hawkins as a lovelorn cleaner and long - time del Toro collaborator Doug Jones as a mysterious gilled creature - turned - Cold War weapon, it garnered 13 nominations.

And so how many American Cold War weapon - makers said to themselves, «I try to cause war for the sake of more money»?

Whatever you might choose to spend the money on instead, it is hardly treasonous to suggest that Britain's security would be better served by addressing contemporary security threats like cyber warfare, terrorism and climate change, none of which can be met with Cold War weapons of mass destruction.

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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.

Lewis wrote, noting that such salted weapons were featured in the 1964 science - fiction Cold War parody film «Dr. Strangelove.»

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

Perhaps one of the most shocking conspiracy theories that turned out to be true was a CIA program called MKUltra, which had the stated goal of developing biological and chemical weapons capability during the Cold War, according to Gizmodo.

The new armaments don't make the Stryker a fighting vehicle, but Meissel said the search for heaftier weapons stems from the reduction in manpower in Europe from 300,000 during the Cold War to about 30,000 now.

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.

Speaking to NBC News, the Russian leader denied he's sparking a new Cold War after he debuted an arsenal of new weapons.

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.

MOSCOW (AP)-- During the Cold War, Soviet scientists at a secret, high - security lab worked frantically to counter the latest U.S. chemical weapons.

«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.

Yet the Ford administration also negotiated the Basket Three human - rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, which turned out to be a powerful weapon in the hands of human - rights activists throughout the Warsaw Pact countries in the endgame of the Cold War.

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.

Nightmare thermonuclear weapons are poised in underground ICBM silos on both sides of 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 resultant peace is scarred by the enduring poverty that brought the war in the first place, and by the violence all too commonplace in countries where the «cold war» was fought — countries still awash in weapons.

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.

Some persons perhaps, crushed by the burden of medical expenses, had no objection to a cold - war garrison state as such, yet they could wonder about a nation that spent far more on weapons than on health coverage.

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.

Political communism failed due to the policy of encirclement by the Western powers, a war of attrition fought through proxy wars - otherwise known as the Cold War - a hot war between the two main powers would have been simply too dangerous given the preponderance of nuclear weapon technology on both sidwar of attrition fought through proxy wars - otherwise known as the Cold War - a hot war between the two main powers would have been simply too dangerous given the preponderance of nuclear weapon technology on both sidWar - a hot war between the two main powers would have been simply too dangerous given the preponderance of nuclear weapon technology on both sidwar between the two main powers would have been simply too dangerous given the preponderance of nuclear weapon technology on both sides.

Area residents who helped build the atomic weapons of the Cold War may now qualify for compensation.

All three of the main political parties are stuck in a dangerous Cold War time warp, unable to see that the world has changed and that modern security threats such as climate change and fundamentalism can't be tackled with nuclear weapons.

«It is a very expensive weapon system which was developed in the Cold War to meet the conditions of the Cold War which ended 17 years ago, and it is still capable of functioning fully for about another 15 years from now,» Mr Clarke said.

Mr Clegg said it was «dangerous» to commit tens of billions of pounds to a Cold War era weapons system, when US President Barack Obama saw the threats of the future coming from terrorists and failed states against which Trident would be no use.

Blair said although the Cold War had ended, the UK needed nuclear weapons, as no - one could be sure another nuclear threat would not emerge in the future.

The department has also recently awarded him $ 10 million as part of its Energy Research Center program so he can investigate new technologies to recycle nuclear waste and cleanup Cold War - era weapon production sites.

After the ban, space - based surveillance became a crucial component of the Cold War, with satellites serving as one part of elaborate early - warning systems on alert for the deployment or launch of ground - based nuclear weapons.

Even during the Cold War, Pantex workers dismantled nuclear weapons: mostly those that had passed their use - by date.

Japan began experimenting with biological weapons after World War I, and both the United States and the Soviet Union experimented with killer germs during the cold wWar I, and both the United States and the Soviet Union experimented with killer germs during the cold warwar.

During the Cold War, private companies such as Tronox's former parent company, Kerr - McGee Corp., operated uranium mines under U.S. government contracts, removing four million tons of ore that went into making nuclear weapons and fuel.

Cold War - era governments (including ours) backed uranium - based reactors because they produced plutonium — handy for making nuclear weapons.

The US used to generate the isotope as a by - product of cold - war nuclear weapons programmes.

Orent travels through history with the fleaborne pathogen, which was engineered as a biological weapon during the cold war and, in the form of resistant strains, still threatens the world today.

During the Cold War, the military emphasized packing as many warheads into one weapon as possible to generate maximum explosive yield, while also minimizing the overall weapon's weight to enable maximum range, resulting in weapons like the W76.

When the Atlantic Navigator docked in Baltimore harbor earlier this month, the freighter carried the last remnants of some of the nuclear weapons that the Soviet Union had brandished in the cold war.

Despite the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 — and thus the end of the cold war policy of mutually assured destruction — the U.S. maintains a stockpile of roughly 10,000 nuclear weapons.

The good news is that the production lines at the old Soviet radar factories in Russia have adjusted to the end of the Cold War, and are turning out microwave ovens instead of components for weapons systems.

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 immediate motivation for safe disposal is the radioactive waste stored currently at the Hanford Site, a facility in Washington State that produced plutonium for nuclear weapons during the Cold War.

In the wake of the Cold War, the Unites States and Russia had excess weapons - grade uranium and plutonium.

DURING the Cold War, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State was home to much of the plutonium industry that supplied the US nuclear weapons programme.

In a similar vein, he made vague but conciliatory comments about trying to find a way forward on two other long - standing nuclear waste issues: the cleanup of Cold War — related waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and the stalled construction of a plant in South Carolina designed to turn some 68 tons of plutonium scavenged from U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons into so - called mixed oxide fuel (MOX).

Play as one - of - four pulp inspired heroes as they fight swarms of terrifying robots with an arsenal of Cold War era weapons and experimental technology.