Sentences with phrase «developing nuclear weapon capabilities»

President Obama has vowed to veto any measure opposing the Iran agreement, which would lift economic sanctions in return for prohibiting the country from developing nuclear weapon capabilities.

«Whereas Iraq has consistently breached its cease - fire agreement between Iraq and the United States, entered into on March 3, 1991, by failing to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction program, and refusing to permit monitoring and verification by United Nations inspections; Whereas Iraq has developed weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological capabilities, and has made positive progress toward developing nuclear weapons capabilities» — From a joint resolution submitted by Tom Harkin and Arlen Specter on July 18, 2002

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'' (North Korea) has been expanding its nuclear capabilities and developing the technology to create nuclear weapons.

In 1993, the then president Frederik Willem de Klerk openly admitted that the country had developed a limited nuclear weapon capability.

«I will continue working with my colleagues on the House Armed Services Committee to ensure our military has the capabilities they need to address any threats posed by this rogue regime, and to ensure that the administration is pursuing a strategy to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons.»

The numerical capability developed in computers in World War II remains valuable today for such tasks as nuclear weapons simulations.

Some nations claimed to be developing nuclear energy capabilities when they were in fact attempting to develop a weapon, 36 but these claims were transparently false to virtually all observers.