Sentences with phrase «war nuclear arsenals»

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.

Not exact matches

As terrorist activities spread, it would be possible for nuclear war to be triggered by the irresponsible behavior of a relatively small group or nation, and for it quickly to escalate as the more responsible nations resorted to their nuclear arsenals to end the conflict.

Don't forget as well the potential epidemic of nuclear proliferation as other nations attempt to adjust to and defend themselves against Bush's preventive wars, while our own already staggering nuclear arsenal expands toward first - strike primacy and we expend unimaginable billions on futuristic ideas for warfare in outer space.

Nicks waits for the post-window nuclear war to subside, and gives his very poor two cents on Arsenal's frugality.

War would be disproportionate - not to mention silly, to say nothing about futile given Russia's nuclear arsenal.

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.

Although the UK's nuclear arsenal guaranteed its continued global influence in the Cold War, it was the nuclear deterrence developed between the USA and the USSR - the belief that any attack would lead to massive nuclear retaliation and «mutually assured destruction» - that maintained the temperature between the 1950s and 1990s.

Trump again raised the prospect of nuclear war with North Korea, boasting in strikingly playground terms last night that he commands a «much bigger» and «more powerful» arsenal of devastating weapons than the outlier government in Asia.

Reagan was convinced that the risk of catastrophic nuclear war was high, and he wanted to reduce the two superpowers» swollen arsenals.

During the Cold War, the purpose of the United States nuclear arsenal was to deter nuclear threats to the United States, primarily from the Soviet Union.

In addition to a war of words between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong - un, the Bulletin's Science and Security Board flagged steps by all of the world's nuclear powers to enhance their nuclear arsenals.

Throughout the Cold War, Hanford churned out plutonium for our nuclear arsenal.

When we first designed First Strike there was a big divide on how people perceived nukes, the possibility of nuclear war and the state of the worldwide arsenal.

Any position on the likelihood of nuclear war is logically defensible; what was logically absurd was what happened with the fall of the Berlin Wall, when the Soviet arsenal fell into the hands of three separate unstable states, and everybody breathed a sigh of relief.

○ Germany's Cold War chemical weapons: Military planned to stockpile arsenal in 1960s ○ Middle East: CWB weapons a poor man's option to Israel's nuclear arsenal Global Warming - distance between America and Europe is steadily increasing.