He possesses
an arsenal of nuclear weapons and the ballistic missiles to deliver them.
When the wife of a North Korean diplomat in Pakistan dies under suspicious circumstances, O is told to investigate, with a curious proviso: Don't look too closely at the details, and stay away from the question of missiles... Nuclear Showdown by Gordon Chang: Before his recent death, Kim Jong Il - or «The Great Leader», as he called himself - possessed
an arsenal of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that had the potential to decimate almost any point on the planet, and North Korea said it might sell weapons to others, thereby making itself the first «nuclear Kmart».
For while it might be true that most of today's great powers boast
an arsenal of nuclear weapons, military hardware is far from the only measure of national strength and influence.
Pompeo said North Korea's nuclear weapons program has developed at a «very rapid clip,» but that Kim is hoping for
an arsenal of nuclear weapons — «not one, not a showpiece, not something to drive on a parade route.»
Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled
an arsenal of nuclear weapons that will significantly boost the Kremlin's military capabilities.
Most of the specific commitments outlined in the official declaration signed by Kim and Moon focused on inter-Korean relations and did not clear up the question of whether Pyongyang is willing to give up
its arsenal of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
Not exact matches
Though Kim has repeatedly vowed to rid his country
of nuclear weapons, the promises remain totally one - sided as no one knows how many, or where, North Korea's
nuclear arsenal is.
Meanwhile, the North was firing off regular
weapons tests in a dogged march towards its goal
of developing a viable
nuclear arsenal that can threaten the US mainland.
The DPRK has obvious reasons to maintain at least a small
nuclear arsenal:
nuclear weapons offer defense against an alliance possessing overwhelming military advantages, a source
of international prestige, and a means to extort money and other benefits from neighbors.
... the non-
nuclear-
weapon states agree never to acquire
nuclear weapons and the NPT
nuclear -
weapon states in exchange agree to share the benefits
of peaceful
nuclear technology and to pursue
nuclear disarmament aimed at the ultimate elimination
of their
nuclear arsenals.
Mr Brown said that the UK should act not unilaterally but together with other countries to cut their
arsenal and prevent proliferation
of nuclear weapons by other countries.
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.
«He was a leader in the effort to reduce the size
of the world's
nuclear arsenal and to stop the spread
of nuclear weapons.
«In 2015, unchecked climate change, global
nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized
nuclear weapons arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence
of humanity,» the group said in a statement.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — Even when they're underground,
nuclear tests can be detected in the skies — and as a result, global satellite networks could become a powerful new tool in the
arsenal of weapons to help detect clandestine underground
nuclear explosions, a team
of scientists reported here today at the fall meeting
of the American Geophysical Union.
The Bulletin's members at Thursday's press conference noted that leaders
of nations equipped with
nuclear weapons have expressed the desire to cooperate in reducing their
arsenals and securing
nuclear bomb - making material.
The U.S. effort to reshape its
nuclear arsenal took a big step forward today with the announcement
of the winning design for a durable
nuclear weapon.
If we choose to reduce our
arsenal to what is viewed by many as a credible deterrent, maybe 300, 400
weapons, which is vastly fewer than 10,000, but would still inflict, you know, horrific damage to anybody foolish enough to challenge us on that front, well then we'll be living in a slightly different world; or we could, as George Shultz, et al argued, «Try to work towards a world free
of nuclear weapons in their entirety and put this destructive genie back in the bottle.»
So, the funding situation that we are in right now — in 1990s, we launched a program called the Stockpile Stewardship Program; it was intended to maintain the existing
nuclear arsenal for a number
of decades, if not indefinitely and that has been a huge bonus in terms
of actually understanding the physical processes
of nuclear weapons and getting away from
nuclear testing.
«My desire is to lead this agency in a thoughtful manner, surrounding myself with expertise on the core functions
of this department,» he said, promising to «protect and modernize» the nation's
nuclear -
weapons arsenal.
The Union
of Concerned Scientists has organized a letter, signed by Nobel prize — winning physicist Leon Lederman, urging President Obama to aggressively cut the number
of nuclear weapons in the U.S.
arsenal.
In past negotiations aimed at reducing the
arsenals of the world's
nuclear superpowers, chiefly the U.S. and Russia, a major sticking point has been the verification process: How do you prove that real bombs and
nuclear devices — not just replicas — have been destroyed, without revealing closely held secrets about the design
of those
weapons?
A third
of these are warheads — dubbed W76 — which, since 1978, have been deployed atop submarine - based ballistic missiles or stored in what is known as the Enduring
Nuclear Stockpile, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal ever
Nuclear Stockpile, according to Hans Kristensen, director
of the
Nuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal ever
Nuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation
of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators
of the original
nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal ever
nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's
nuclear arsenal ever
nuclear arsenal ever since.
Our
arsenals house roughly 24,000 plutonium pits,
of which some 10,600 are inside
nuclear weapons.
Britain and the US, with the support
of their wartime allies prevented West Germany from developing a
nuclear arsenal so its only route to recognition was via a multilateral
nuclear force, in which the control
of nuclear weapons was shared.
Dawn was installed earlier this year by the Department
of Energy's National
Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which conducts massive computer simulations to ensure the readiness of the nation's nuclear weapons a
Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which conducts massive computer simulations to ensure the readiness
of the nation's
nuclear weapons a
nuclear weapons arsenal.
I've always believed it was the «
nuclear weapon» in a writer's productivity
arsenal and transcription really is the Holy Grail
of dictation.
Our concerns about
nuclear weapons lead us to eliminate from consideration the general debt obligations
of the United States government (U.S. Treasuries) and
of Russia, which maintain more than 90 %
of the world's
arsenal of nuclear warheads.
«According to Wikipedia, The Convair B - 36 was a strategic bomber capable
of delivering any
of the
nuclear weapons in the U.S.
arsenal from inside its two bomb bays.
One hundred Hiroshima - sized bombs make up a mere 0.03 percent
of the worldwide
nuclear weapons arsenal.
A
nuclear exchange involving 100 15 - kiloton, Hiroshima - type
weapons is only 0.03 percent
of the total explosive power
of the world's
nuclear arsenal, he said.
Of the eight nations known to possess
nuclear weapons, even those with the smallest
nuclear arsenals, like Pakistan and India, are believed to have 50 or more Hiroshima - sized
weapons.
In that time, nine other states developed
nuclear weapons (South Africa later dismantled its program),
nuclear weapons were tested over 1,000 times and the global
nuclear arsenal ballooned to over 60,000 before dropping to the current total
of approximately 15,000.
Richland was founded on the heels
of the Hanford
Nuclear Project in the 1940s, and was the country's first large scale plutonium enrichment facility, producing the world's first atomic bomb and generating enough plutonium for over sixty - thousand weapons in the United States» nuclear a
Nuclear Project in the 1940s, and was the country's first large scale plutonium enrichment facility, producing the world's first atomic bomb and generating enough plutonium for over sixty - thousand
weapons in the United States»
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nuclear arsenal.