Sentences with phrase «became nuclear states»

Years later, when both Pakistan and India became nuclear states this question returned to me with greater urgency.

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«Indeed, the United States is set on a course toward nuclear war by refusing to accept that North Korea has become a nuclear power.»

In the US, for instance, a proposal to force California's two nuclear power plants — which generate 16 percent of the state's electricity — to shut down immediately when the Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in Nonuclear power plants — which generate 16 percent of the state's electricity — to shut down immediately when the Nuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in NoNuclear Waste Act of 2012 becomes law, would cause rolling blackouts, spikes in electricity rates and billions of dollars in economic losses each year, according to the state's nonpartisan analyst, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in November.

In light of the human rights standards — rights that have received almost unanimous acceptance from the UN member states — it is becoming obvious to the average person that planning a nuclear war against a neighboring country is a horrendous crime against all humanity.

A punitive expedition against a prospective threat to American security turned into an exercise in nation - building, the nation - builders turned into hostages, and the hostages to Iranian threats become the excuse to concede nuclear capability to a terrorist state.

«In 2004, the Hollands became the first intact nuclear family in the United States to undergo body burden testing.

She argued that the agreement, which Secretary of State John Kerry helped broker, would force Iran to shut down its nuclear program and prevent it from becoming an atomic power.

State Senator Martin Golden, a Brooklyn Republican and EITC supporter, warned in March that religious groups would use a «nuclear option» if the tax credit does not become law soon.

Senior administration officials recently enlisted the state's other nuclear operator, Exelon Corp., in a scheme to delay the final decision to close FitzPatrick until the clean energy standard's effect on nuclear profits becomes more clear.

Those two also became the last nuclear tests the United States conducted before President George H. W. Bush signed a law imposing a moratorium on all nuclear weapons testing, on 2 October 1992.

In a 7 August interview with Der Spiegel, Israel Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon called the deal «a historic mistake» that will «allow Iran to become a military nuclear threshold state.»

«Dale Klein told me that those three nuclear applications will be approved,» she told the State of the Planet conference at Columbia University today, the 29th anniversary of the accident at Three Mile Island in Middletown, Pa. (Subsequently, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the then Ukrainian Soviet Republic melted down in April 1986 in what would become the worst nuclear power accident in history, spreading radiation as far away as North America and leading to the evacuation and resettlement of more than 336,000 people).

Before Daniel Ellsberg became the iconic whistleblower of his time with the 1971 release of the Pentagon Papers, which revealed the history of the United State's involvement in Vietnam, he had a decision to make: Should he also reveal the insanity at work in the nuclear war planning of the United States and the Soviet Union?

Weinberger, born in Kingston, Jamaica, the daughter of an Afro - Carribean mother and a White American father, moved to the US and grew up at a time when legal interracial marriage, and the multiracial nuclear family, was still relatively novel (interracial marriage became legal in the United States in 1967, Weinberger was born in 1973).

I also, as some could predict, planned to ask how nuclear power fits, given the reality that a swift shutdown of the state's and region's nuclear reactors is unlikely and, without nuclear generation the challenge of a swift from fossil fuels becomes that much bigger.

The outlook for nuclear power has dimmed since last year's Outlook, but China continues to lead a gradual rise in output, overtaking the United States by 2030 to become the largest producer of nuclear - based electricity.

New Jersey just became the latest state to legislate subsidies for its two remaining nuclear plants at a cost to residents of $ 300 million a year.

If New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo succeeds in his effort to close Indian Point nuclear power plant, carbon emissions will spike and the state will become more dependent on fossil fuels than it has been since 2000, a new Environmental Progress (EP) analysis finds.

He gives the headline: «I want South Australia to become a nuclear powered state.

«There is no power source that doesn't benefit from federal and state incentives, so it's highly unlikely that coal and nuclear are becoming uncompetitive due to incentives for renewable energy,» said Abigail Ross Hopper, the president and chief executive of the Solar Energy Industries Association.

The 60 - day congressional review period has expired, and last week the State Department outlined its plan to put in place an accord that aims to prevent Iran from becoming nuclear - armed.