Sentences with phrase «arm control»

I worked in arms control for over 20 years.

Yet it is a cornerstone of arms control agreements that both sides work under the same rules and restrictions.

I did biological, nuclear, and conventional arms control.

The point is that there can be no such thing as meaningful arms control when weapons enter a war zone.

It is consistent to their world view and a prompt anticipation of the discussion of arms control which will inevitably follow.

Environmental and arms control groups are likely to press the government to convert the guidelines into mandatory rules.

This view is not shared by some experts in arms control however.

She also has been engaged in arms control and treaty verification activities.

That means bringing good scientific thinking to matters of arms control and intelligence and war and peace.

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots brings together a number of NGOs like Human Rights Watch, PAX and the International Committee for Robot Arms Control calling for such a ban.

Most research on arms control concentrates on retroactively limiting the destructiveness and number of conventional weapons.

Whenever he leaves the United States, whether to do research or on vacation, Zia Mian, a nuclear arms control expert at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School (Princeton, N.J.) has to depart from an airport or port designated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

«Tillerson has the right line, he's trying to dial down the pressure to make it clear that the U.S. doesn't want regime change in North Korea,» said Daryl Kimball, executive director at U.S. - based Arms Control Association.

So maybe some attorneys who wouldn't normally be inclined to attend such an event, even for the valuable credits, might just show up to see «Congressman Bob Barr, Esq.'s» keynote speech about international arms control treaties.

«Trust, but verify,» Poloncarz said, quoting former President Ronald Reagan's view on arms control with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

about PPPL intern Joseph Labrum helped build components for a «zero knowledge» system that may have applicability to future nuclear arms control agreements

«It's great that they persevered, with all the opposition,» says Frank von Hippel, a physicist and arms control expert at Princeton University.

His main antagonist is Otto Octavius (in the criminal underworld known as Doctor Octopus), a scientist equipped with mechanical arms controlled by his brainwaves.

The conferences have focused on international ocean affairs with topics ranging from arms control, and monitoring and surveillance in the oceans to management and conservation of marine resources; the feasibility of common shipping lines or on ocean development tax; and more recently on emerging issues and challenges presented by climate change, coastal cities and ocean related hazards.

«It's a positive step forward in many respects,» says David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington, D.C. - based arms control organization.

Sharkey introduces the International Campaign for Robotic Arms Control's «Scientists» Call» for a «ban on the development and deployment of weapon systems in which the decision to apply violent force is made autonomously.»

His responsibilities included the development and implementation of U.S. policy in such areas as peaceful nuclear cooperation, missile technology, space - launch activities, sanctions determinations, chemical and biological arms control efforts, and conventional arms transfer policy.

Fig trees that didn't bear fruit out of season would pretty much be toast and as far as arms control goes... «Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.»

He called arms control a delusion and insisted on the need for real disarmament.

Nuclear arms control efforts aimed at reducing the proliferation of materials which could be used in making weapons are complicated by regular shipments of highly - enriched uranium around the world.

And he thinks he should negotiate arms control agreements with the Soviet Union...

«It's new in the sense that we've never done this before, but it's not new in the traditional arms control sense,» says NNSA's John Harvey, director of policy planning staff.

The bulletin's authors, from its science and security board, say they are disturbed by the rising tensions on the Korean peninsula, the increasing emphasis and expenditure on nuclear weapons by major powers, the absence of arms control negotiations around the world, and the wavering political will to combat climate change.

The bionic arm controls are very unique to Bionic Command and even after playing for 30 minutes I still was not sure how to -LSB-...]

The CCW mandate has vaulted the challenge of dealing with killer robots to the top rank of traditional multilateral arms control and humanitarian disarmament, validating the importance and urgency of the issue and undercutting arguments that these weapons are «inevitable» and «nothing to worry about.»

(1) Take a leadership position in promoting a global, multilateral agenda around arms control in cyberspace.

Jones» case is different from those of two career foreign service officers, former undersecretaries of state Patrick Kennedy, the department's top management official, and Thomas Countryman, its top arms control officer, who had risen to politically appointed jobs and were asked to leave in January.

The U.S. and China are negotiating what could become the first arms control deal for cyberspace, where each country would agree that it will not be the first to use cyberweapons to cripple the other's critical infrastructure during peace time.

While repudiating the notion that nuclear war in any circumstance can be a just war, the bishops say that they will tolerate for now the possession of nuclear weapons as long as serious efforts are made toward arms control.

Placing arms control machinery in the hands of the United Nations would at the same time be a step in strengthening the latter.

It is indeed sobering to be told by an organization, representing two thousand scientists, that «it appears unlikely that the world will avoid a nuclear holocaust if another fifteen years pass without arms control agreements.»

The European Union must strengthen its failing arms control agreement, a report published by Saferworld today says.

For instance, the Carter Administration ended American control of the Panama Canal, and he continued arms control with the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with the Soviet Union.

The United States will consider proposals and concepts for arms control measures if they are equitable, effectively verifiable, and enhance the national security of the United States and its allies.»

Arms control specialist Cheryl Rofer argues that the nuclear weapon programs pursued by the dictatorships of Iran and North Korea were «Regime Change Deterrents»:

To prevent an escalation, a test ban for hypersonic missiles would provide a strong arms control mechanism.

Also check out the recent and relevant WMD Arms Control in the Middle East by Harald Muller.

Proposed arms control agreements or restrictions must not impair the rights of the United States to conduct research, development, testing and operations or other activities in space for the US national interests.»

U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D - Bayside) has joined the chorus of lawmakers calling for tighter arms control after a gunman in Arizona shot a U.S. congresswoman in the head and killed six others, including a federal judge and the 9 - year - old granddaughter of a former New York Mets manager.

When further developed for a possible arms control application, the technique would add bubbles from irradiation of a putative warhead to those already preloaded into detectors by the warhead's owner.

American arms control negotiators could not tell their Russian counterparts how much plutonium to look for in the sealed containers, and the Russians could not be left to make the measurement themselves.

Whereas the U.K., France, Russia and China have similar modernization efforts underway or planned, building the RRW1 might provide a dubious signal to the rest of the world as well as potentially provoke accusations of a violation of nuclear nonproliferation and arms control goals.