Sentences with phrase «credible nuclear threat»

Basically, North Korea has to keep testing its missiles to achieve a credible nuclear threat to the US, but to do so it has to test missiles that fly beyond its borders.

However, she added, «It does nothing to change the long - term calculations of the North Korean leader about his need for a credible nuclear threat to ultimately protect his regime.»

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But NK has an habit to show - off how developed its nuclear and missile industries are as a way to get - what they believe to be - some leverage, and each time they do so the threat becomes more credible and the USA has more justification for a preemptive strike.

While there will be no single technological silver bullet, the time has come for those who take the threat of global warming seriously to embrace the development and deployment of safer nuclear power systems as one among several technologies that will be essential to any credible effort to develop an energy system that does not rely on using the atmosphere as a waste dump.