Sentences with phrase «faces from nuclear weapons»

For nearly 65 years, the clock has served as an international symbol of the level of risk — figurative midnight — that the world faces from nuclear weapons.

Not exact matches

Small modular reactors may help with two of the biggest challenges facing the nuclear industry: the growing stores of waste from existing reactors and residue from the mass production of nuclear weapons as well as the overall safety of nuclear power.

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.

Their enthusiasm stems from an inescapable truth: now the old enemy in the shape of the Soviet Union has collapsed, nuclear weapons designers and those employed on projects for the Strategic Defense Initiative are facing redundancy unless they can find a new adversary on which to focus.

The Obama administration, and the State Department in particular, face a long list of urgent issues, from Iran's nuclear weapons program to trade disputes with China.

When we face an existential threat, from either nuclear weapons or environmental chaos, successful presidents find a way to overcome an obstructive Congress.

We face a growing threat from rogue regimes that seek or have already obtained nuclear weapons.