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.
And so how many American
Cold War weapon - makers said to themselves, «I try to cause war for the sake of more money»?
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.
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.
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 sid
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 sid
War - a hot
war between the two main powers would have been simply too dangerous given the preponderance of nuclear weapon technology on both sid
war 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 w
War 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.