Sentences with phrase «u.s. nuclear weapons facility»

The little - known hiatus has forced the directors of the three principal U.S. weapons laboratories to rely on other types of reliability tests, mostly conducted at other U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, when they promised in annual reports to the President and the Congress that the country's warheads will still explode in the manner intended by their designers.

Not exact matches

According to a report published by U.S. Department of Defense in 2001, China had provided Pakistan with nuclear materials and has given critical technological assistance in the construction of Pakistan's nuclear weapons development facilities, in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which China even then was a signuclear materials and has given critical technological assistance in the construction of Pakistan's nuclear weapons development facilities, in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which China even then was a signuclear weapons development facilities, in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which China even then was a sigNuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which China even then was a signatory.

But the contamination from the underground salt mine in the Chihuahuan Desert - where radioactive waste from U.S. nuclear labs and weapons facilities is deposited - was unlikely to have harmed the workers» health, inspectors said.

Her memoir is a brilliant piece of investigative journalism that reveals the truth about growing up in suburban Denver during the Cold War: next - door Rocky Flats was a U.S. Department of Energy facility that churned out plutonium «pits» for thousands of nuclear weapons.