Sentences with phrase «away from a nuclear weapon»

That is why he has successfully blocked any serious attempt to replace the butcher Assad's regime in Syria, and that is why Russian policy has been a serious obstacle to keeping Iran away from a nuclear weapon.

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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.

Investigative journalist William Langewiesche tracks the proliferation of nuclear weapons, focusing his story on Pakistani scientist A. Q. Khan, who stole plans and equipment from the West and peddled the technology to countries hostile to Western interests: «That same afternoon a small group of Pakistanis associated with the weapons program, including, of course, A. Q. Khan, gathered in a concrete bunker in Chagai, facing the chosen mountain seven miles away.

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Helium - 3 has been emitted by our sun for billions of years and is carried by solar winds, but Earth has a magnetic field that deflects these particles away, so the only helium - 3 found on earth is from bi-products of nuclear weapons and this is extremely scarce.