Sentences with phrase «arm reduction»

The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty would limit both countries to 1,550 operational warheads each.

Washington DC — «The ratification today by a vote of 71 - 26 in the US Senate of the bilateral New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) between Russia and the United States marks an historic step forward in the global elimination of nuclear weapons,» stated Dr. Paul Walker, director of the Security and Sustainability Program of Global Green USA.

The technique offers a way out of a tricky catch - 22: to comply with nuclear arms reduction treaties, inspectors need to scrutinise nuclear warheads to verify that real missiles, not decoys, are being disarmed.

In 2010, the Bulletin found some hope in arms reduction treaties and international climate talks and nudged the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock back to six minutes from midnight from its previous post at five to midnight.

«While governments claim they are only ensuring the safety of their warheads through replacement of bomb components and launch systems, as the deliberate process of arms reduction proceeds, such developments appear to other states to be signs of substantial military build - ups.»

This will involve turning their fortified border into a «peace zone,» pursuing multilateral talks with other powers such as the United States, working toward arms reduction and ceasing «hostile acts,» according to the statement.

A joint declaration promised to pursue phased arms reduction, cease hostile acts, transform their fortified border and seek multilateral talks with other countries including the United States.

Then came the United States» cosmetic nuclear - arms reduction agreement with Russia, after canceling the Bush administration's promise to base antimissile systems in Poland and the Czech Republic.

The South and the North have also agreed to «gradually realise arms reduction when their military tension is removed and trust is practically established.»

Krauss and his Bulletin colleagues credit Obama's election as a major part of new arms reduction talks with Russia, the now - stalled negotiations with Iran to close its nuclear enrichment program, and the potential of a U.S. - led effort to secure all loose fissile material in four years.

To quote Ronald Reagan, the godfather of neo-conservatism, as he applied it to Soviet arms reductions, the key is to «trust and verify.»

We welcomed the recent announcement by the US to conclude a successor to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty which is due to expire in December 2009.»

The clock's hands were pushed all the way back to 11:43 p.m., 17 minutes to midnight, in December 1991, after the world's superpowers signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which at the time, seemed like a promising move toward nuclear disarmament.

Arms reduction treaties such as START, which reduced the number of delivery systems on each side by 80 percent in the 1990s, resulted in the destruction of hundreds of missiles and planes, including 365 huge B - 52 bombers chopped into pieces by a giant guillotine - like device in the Arizona desert.

It has frequently been noted that Stalin turned to the churches when he wanted help in getting the Russian people to rise up and fight Hitler, but it has less often been noted that the Soviet government also turns to church leadership — both Orthodox and Protestant — when it wants to take initiatives toward peace and arms reductions.