Sentences with phrase «arms control expert»

«If the United States, the strongest nation in the world, concludes that it can not protect its vital interests without relying on new nuclear weapons for new military missions, it would be a clear signal to other nations that nuclear weapons are valuable, if not necessary, for their security purposes, too,» Sidney Drell, arms control expert and physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center said at the American Physical Society Conference in Denver this past March.

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.

He also served as an arms control expert at the U.S. State Department, where he monitored the nuclear programs of countries such as Iraq, Iran, North Korea, and the former Soviet Union.

Arms control experts estimate that dismantling the warheads will release about 100 tonnes of plutonium.

Instead, let's get the arms control experts and the cyber experts together and see what we can do to reduce the chances of a damaging cyber war.

CCW, where military, legal and other arms control experts are involved, could provide an appropriate venue to address these issues.

Not exact matches

«The letter, from some of the world's most knowledgeable experts in the fields of nuclear weapons and arms control, arrives as Mr. Obama is lobbying Congress, the American public and the nation's allies to support the agreement,» William J. Broad wrote in an article in the New York Times.

According to Michael Krepon, an arms - control expert and co-founder of the Stimson Center think tank in Washington, D.C., that was because both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. realized how vulnerable their satellites were — particularly the ones in «geosynchronous» orbits of about 35,000 kilometers or more.

Syria's decision, under international pressure, to accede to the Chemical Weapons Convention and allow destruction of its chemical weapons is an arms control milestone in the Middle East, experts said at a AAAS - hosted discussion, and it is possible the task could be accomplished by 1 July 2014 as...

But at a workshop cosponsored by AAAS, experts said the crisis also was an inflection point, leading to agreements to limit nuclear testing and curb proliferation and driving a cohort of scientists and engineers into the fields of arms control and science diplomacy.

The first issue of Science & Diplomacy includes articles by senior scientists, diplomats, and policy - makers, including U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R — Indiana), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in arms control; Robert D. Hormats, U.S. under secretary of state for economic growth, energy, and the environment; South African Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor; and Alice P. Gast, Lehigh University president and U.S. science envoy to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.

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

«I never aspired to be a lab director,» says Drell, who is the daughter of prominent SLAC theorist and arms - control expert Sidney Drell.

Since joining the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2002, he has focused on promoting and conducting dialog between Chinese and American experts on nuclear arms control and space security.

After coming across a size - altering chemical substance, biophysicist and nanotechnology expert Dr. Henry «Hank» Pym decides to become a superhero and, armed with a helmet that controls ants, Pym will shrin k down to the size of an insect to become the sleuth detective, Ant Man.

«There aren't very good analogies,» University of Maryland arms - control expert John Steinbruner told me.

David Victor, one of the world's leading energy experts, notes: «With a deal this complicated and difficult, the fewer countries you need to reach an agreement, the better the chances are... A well - managed disaster [at Copenhagen] could be as constructive as the collapse of the 1986 Reykjavik summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, which broke down in the final hours yet helped pave the way for later arms control.»

The International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC), a founder of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, has issued a statement endorsed by more than 270 engineers, computing and artificial intelligence experts, roboticists, and professionals from related disciplines that calls for a ban on fully autonomous weapons.

Several of these experts established a non-governmental organization in 2009 entitled the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) to call for international action.

Individual experts (e.g. roboticists, ethicists, scientists) are encouraged to join the International Committee on Robot Arms Control (ICRAC).

AI expert Toby Walsh of the University of New South Wales was centrally involved in these efforts and the campaign welcomes his nomination, along with the other signatories, as «arms control person of the year» by the Washington DC - based Arms Control Associatarms control person of the year» by the Washington DC - based Arms Control Assoccontrol person of the year» by the Washington DC - based Arms Control AssociatArms Control AssocControl Association.

The chair and vice-chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) gave expert presentations at the meeting, which ICRAC had urged be convened since 2009.

The UN Secretary General's advisory board is comprised of disarmament, arms control, and non-proliferation experts from a range of backgrounds, including government.

«Governments need to listen to the experts» warnings and work with us to tackle this challenge together before it is too late,» said Professor Noel Sharkey, Chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC), a founding member of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.