Sentences with phrase «us with nuclear weapons»

«I think the greatest threat to the world and to our two countries, and to all countries, is the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons, and specifically the attempt of Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.

Japan already lives with the knowledge that North Korea could most likely range Tokyo, home to a metro - area of almost 38 million, with a nuclear weapon.

«You (implying the West) didn't listen to us before, but you will listen now,» she said, adding that Russia has threatened the US with nuclear weapons before.

Formal talks on North Korea's nuclear program collapsed in 2009, and Kim has accelerated his efforts to obtain the ability to strike the U.S. with a nuclear weapon.

Trump's administration has threatened military action if necessary to stop North Korea from obtaining an intercontinental ballistic missile that can strike the U.S. with a nuclear weapon.

Given the choice between a major war to end the North's nuclear program and accepting a North Korea armed with nuclear weapons, South Korea would choose the latter.

«This is the only country that has ever been bombed with nuclear weapons.

On Monday, North Korea issued a stark warning to the US: If you attack us, we will retaliate with nuclear weapons.

Those prerequisites include terminating America's military presence in South Korea as well as ending the U.S. regional nuclear umbrella, a security arrangement in which Washington promises in - kind retaliation on behalf of close allies if they are attacked with nuclear weapons.

«We must stop a situation where North Korea miscalculates and threatens us with nuclear weapons or where the United States considers a pre-emptive strike.»

«If things continue along they way they're going, I think there's little doubt North Korea will eventually have the capability to hit targets in the US with nuclear weapons.»

Trump on Tuesday hosted a discussion on options to respond to any North Korean aggression or if necessary to prevent Pyongyang from threatening the United States and its allies with nuclear weapons, the White House said in a statement.

The risk of an inadvertent nuclear war is rising because of the entanglement of non-nuclear weapons with nuclear weapons and their command - and - control capabilities.

However, using the NIV translation (probably most inaccurate english translation), replacing «holy covenant» with UN, «western coastlands» or «Kittim» with U.S. and «abomination that causes desolation» with nuclear weapons, it's easy to see how The End could be sooner rather than later.

especially in a world with nuclear weapons and religious politicians!!

As the big lie grows that nuclear war can be won, the illusion grows that the ability to destroy other nations with nuclear weapons is the supreme exemplification of unilateral power in human affairs.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

Over the past year, Pyongyang has made big advances in being able to strike the US with a nuclear weapon.

The Iraq War, however, is not being fought with nuclear weapons and is in fact part of a strategy — whether wise or not is another question — aimed at, among other things, preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear capacity.

Eighteen top German physicists, including four Nobel prize winners, stated in 1957 that they would not work on projects having any connection with nuclear weapons.

The search today for some minimal order under law must go on in the threatening world of nations, some armed with nuclear weapons, and others preparing to be so armed.

I grew up in a nation whose Christian leaders were and are willing to destroy the planet with nuclear weapons and who seemingly go to war at the drop of a hat.

We look like a big dumb bully with nuclear weapons and we shove our views down other countries throats.

But when world leaders with nuclear weapons, as an extreme example, make serious global decisions because they believe their mythology to be history and their intuition to be the voice of the invisible man in the sky directing their actions — that makes me terrified!

This is not a political debate but the comment shocked me all the same.What War?Do you actually believe there will be a war with a country with Nuclear weapons and the world will survive it?

Based on America's reluctance to use nuclear weapons, and America's desire not to risk American cities, Kim may believe he can attack a neighbor, perhaps even with a nuclear weapon, without fear of a nuclear response from America so long as he maintains the ability to threaten America directly but doesn't actually attack America.

Up until recently Israel was the only country with nuclear weapons, and they have only ever used them passively, such as when they coerced the U.S. to intervene diplomatically in 1973.

Maybe you have a different definition of «friend» than I do, but mine does include a general interest in my friends not being struck with nuclear weapons.

Let us start with nuclear weapons: Why would a country pursue them?

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.

To oversimplify a bit, you consent to not building nuclear weapons, and you get peaceful nuclear power, and a promise by the nuclear powers not to be threatened with their nuclear weapons.

North Korea appears to have achieved its goal of being able to threaten the U.S. with nuclear weapons, which combined with President Trump's rhetoric about North Korea means that South Korea and Japan have to wonder how much U.S. interests line up with their security concerns.

But Downing Street later attempted to allay his concerns, insisting the missile defence system is not aimed at Russia but rather a small group of rogue states with nuclear weapons.

It has been claimed that «A country with nuclear weapons can not be defeated [at an acceptable cost], but it can be destroyed.»

Signatories with nuclear weapons are explicitly prohibited from transferring any nuclear - weapons - related technology to any other state, «directly or indirectly».

The future is sufficiently uncertain, in short, to justify sticking with a nuclear weapon.

Presently summarised as social democracy with nuclear weapons, but with proven flexibility to adapt, once in power, to nuclear weapons without social democracy.

An expert in judging his audience — a former CND member one day, and a man who is prepared to annihilate millions of people with a nuclear weapon the next.

In addition, anyone with nuclear weapons duties, in any branch of service, must routinely pass a Pentagon - mandated evaluation called the Personnel Reliability Program — a battery of tests that assess several areas, including mental fitness, financial history, and physical and emotional well - being.

With a nuclear weapon, you just fly a warhead out there and detonate it.

The Bulletin's members at Thursday's press conference noted that leaders of nations equipped with nuclear weapons have expressed the desire to cooperate in reducing their arsenals and securing nuclear bomb - making material.

While the superpowers were busy threatening to destroy each other with nuclear weapons, Albert B. Sabin turned to a surprising ally to test his new oral polio vaccine — a Soviet scientist

People are concerned about the prospect that North Korea could hit the U.S. with a nuclear weapon.

It's fading now, this knowledge of what Einstein bequeathed us, and in a few more generations I suppose all that will survive will be a vague awareness that he did something with nuclear weapons.

Joy renewed his call, stated earlier this year in a Wired magazine article, for checks on unhindered development and dispersion of potentially harmful technology: «Just as with nuclear weapons, we wouldnt want everyone to have a nuclear weapon in their garage when they have a bad day.»

«When you get 20 or 30 states with nuclear weapons, somebody's going to get mad eventually,» he says.

But even the No - dong could strike cities in South Korea and Japan, and some security analysts believe that North Korea has the capability to fit one with a nuclear weapon.

He connected nuclear war with Armageddon and believed he was predestined to do away with nuclear weapons.

Web resources: Nuclear Watch is a New Mexico — based watchdog group dealing with nuclear weapons policy and nuclear environmental issues: www.nukewatch.org

Its bulk would either send a small asteroid on a different trajectory, or in the case of a bigger one, it would be fitted with a nuclear weapon that would do its job (hopefully, for everyone alive at the time) with a bang.