Sentences with phrase «against nuclear testing»

We didn't have an H - bomb on board the boat that sailed on the first Greenpeace campaign against nuclear testing.

Washington DC — September 1, 2010 — His Excellency Erlan A. Idrissov, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United States, and Dr. Paul F. Walker, Washington DC director of Global Green USA, both keynoted a reception at the University Club of Washington to commemorate United Nations «International Day Against Nuclear Tests.»

Not exact matches

North Korea says it conducted its sixth nuclear test with a powerful hydrogen bomb — a stark move against President Donald Trump's warnings.

The sanctions are the latest against third - country companies and individuals in an effort to exert greater economic pressure on Kim Jong Un's regime, which has conducted regular missile and nuclear tests in defiance of United Nations resolutions and has developed weapons that may be capable of hitting the continental U.S.

U.N. diplomats say the two countries have started discussions on a possible U.N. sanctions resolution in response to the nuclear test earlier this month, but Beijing has not said directly whether it will support tougher steps against North Korea.

CNBC's Chery Kang reports North Korea conducted another nuclear test as South Korea and the United States consider further actions against the North.

The rogue state has been on a growing standoff with the world, in particular with the United States for the past months, after proceeding with nuclear tests and being vocal against Washington.

India is also ramping up its nuclear and conventional deterrence against China by testing long - range missiles, raising a mountain strike corps for the border with China, enhancing submarine capabilities and basing its first squadron of French - made Rafale fighter jets near that border.

North Korea did say on Monday that the U.S. would pay a «due price» for spearheading a U.N. resolution against the country's recent nuclear test, according to Reuters.

Prime minister Shinzo Abe said Japan would make a firm response to North Korea's challenge against nuclear non-proliferation, calling its test a threat to Japan's security.

The state has lost another round in its legal fight against the Indian Point nuclear facility, with a federal regulator rejecting its effort to force the plant to undergo leak rate tests more often.

Britain demanded «significant» and «robust» action against North Korea today, after the Communist state successfully tested what may be a miniaturised nuclear device.

The worries come against the backdrop of North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile tests (SN: 8/5/17, p. 18) and an upcoming missile defense review from the U.S. Department of Defense, expected in May.

Physicists had to design computer simulations, tested against those mid-century analyses, to «predict what would happen if a weapon went off,» says Greg Spriggs, a nuclear weapon physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who is leading the project to scan and declassify the films.

Ke and his team hope that through continued testing the material will prove to be effective against cesium and other radioactive contaminants associated with nuclear plants.

8 Aside from Curie, one other person has nabbed a Nobel in two separate categories: Linus Pauling, who won the 1954 chemistry award and the 1962 peace prize for his fight against nuclear weapons testing.

As a peace activist you have demonstrated against underground nuclear testing, yet Cosmos 1 will be launched from a converted Russian ICBM, and suborbital tests were launched from a Russian nuclear sub.

«Hamid's tale, played out against the background of Pakistan's recent testing of a nuclear device, creates a powerful image of an insecure society toying with its own dissolution.»

Given the nuclear solution requires new reactor designs yet to be built even for demonstration and test purposes, and then the complexities of siting nuclear power plants near the calling water they need while defending them against flood waters makes construction of tested designs take a decade.

That missing radioactivity, originating as fallout from atmospheric nuclear tests during the 1950s and 1960s, routinely provides researchers with a benchmark against which they can gauge how much new ice has accumulated on a glacier or ice field.

We are also not convinced that international law as it stands supports the «unwilling or unable test» in relation to self - defense actions taken against non-state actors (discussed here and here), especially in the context of nuclear weapons.

Yesterday, the UN Security Council imposed fresh sanctions against North Korea a week after it conducted its sixth and largest nuclear test to date.