Sentences with phrase «for nuclear testing»

In March 2003, for instance, seismometers detected a disturbance coming from near Lop Nor, a dried - up lake in western China that the Chinese government, which signed but hasn't ratified the test ban treaty, has used for nuclear tests.

Granite is far better than Mururoa's basaltic rock for nuclear tests.

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Well aware voters punished the Democrats for their perceived inability to govern, Abe's team is taking pains to act quickly when crises erupt, such as this month's North Korean nuclear test.

«China will probably continue to press for diplomatic talks, arguing for the suspension of North Korean nuclear device and missile tests in exchange for the suspension of U.S. - South Korean military exercises,» Evans said in a note Wednesday.

Urgency over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions have escalated recently with United States seeing indications that North Korea may be preparing for a new missile test - launch soon, U.S.officials said last week before President Donald Trump's inauguration.

North Korea had already made some concessions ahead of the summit, including a declaration that it would stop missile and nuclear tests and drop its previous demands for US troops to withdraw from the peninsula.

It's therefore logical to assume that for the sake of its own security, North Korea will not risk escalating beyond the point of sporadic missile and nuclear tests.

Last year, after their sixth successful test, they declared themselves a nuclear power and promised the end of famine for all its people.

«The North will carry out additional nuclear tests and continue to push for the development of miniaturized, diversified nuclear warheads,» South Korea's National Intelligence Service said, according to lawmakers who spoke with Yonhap.

So Pyongyang's renouncement of land - based nuclear tests, for now, appears to be motivated by more than mere diplomatic concerns.

North Korea has tested intercontinental ballistic missiles before, but researchers found them prohibitively small for delivering a heavy nuclear device halfway around the world to the continental US.

Sept. 3, 2017: The rogue regime carries out its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, saying it detonated an advanced hydrogen bomb designed for a long - range missile.

It has been angered by Pyongyang's repeated nuclear and missile tests and signed on to increasingly tough U.N. sanctions, but it has said it believes such steps are not the ultimate answer and called for a return to talks with North Korea.

LONDON — Nine Royal Navy sailors have been kicked off a British nuclear submarine after testing positive for cocaine, the Daily Mail reports.

The rogue state has been on a growing standoff with the world, in particular with the United States for the past months, after proceeding with nuclear tests and being vocal against Washington.

Wright said Wednesday's test launch is an incremental step for North Korea's nuclear weapons program, but emphasized that it's important not to dismiss.

«Our decision to suspend nuclear tests is part of the world's important steps for nuclear disarmament and our republic will join global efforts to completely suspend nuclear tests,» Kim said.

India is also ramping up its nuclear and conventional deterrence against China by testing long - range missiles, raising a mountain strike corps for the border with China, enhancing submarine capabilities and basing its first squadron of French - made Rafale fighter jets near that border.

India's foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment on Russia's ties with Pakistan, but has previously said that its own relations with Moscow have stood the test of time, and that the two nations are building up defense and energy relations, including collaboration on nuclear reactors in India.

Trump is unwilling to grant Pyongyang substantial sanctions relief in return for a freeze of nuclear and missile tests.

News that Kim Jong Un said North Korea would suspend nuclear and missile tests ahead of summits with South Korea and the US was also a bearish development for gold.

There could be several factors that had investors on edge — including news that North Korea had completed a fifth nuclear missile test and the European Central Bank had declined to announce additional measures to help stimulate Europe's sluggish economy — but many strategists pointed to a speech Friday morning by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren, in which he said that «a reasonable case can be made» for tightening interest rates in the U.S..

After months of missile and nuclear tests that raised tensions on the Korean Peninsula, Kim suddenly extended an olive branch, saying in his New Year's address on Jan. 1 that he would prepare for his country's participation in the Feb. 9 - 25 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics hosted by South Korea.

North Korea's announcement on Wednesday that it had successfully conducted a test of a hydrogen nuclear device added to a growing list of geopolitical worries for investors.

Under the proposal, North Korea would temporarily freeze nuclear and missile tests in return for a reduced American military presence in the Korean Peninsula.

North Korea did say on Monday that the U.S. would pay a «due price» for spearheading a U.N. resolution against the country's recent nuclear test, according to Reuters.

Earlier today, North Korean leaders tested nuclear weapons for the fourth time since 2006.

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But its pursuit of nuclear weapons, including missile tests over Japan, have made the reclusive state a regional security headache for decades and analysts fear the death could further strain relationships with its neighbours.

For example, building a «backpack» nuclear weapon still requires an industrial infrastructure and leaves a logistics trail; plus anyone wanting to rely on such a device would probably want to test it and there are systems in place to identify the seismic signatures of nuclear detonations.

North Korea's nuclear test Sunday was widely felt in northeast China and rocked some cities for as long as eight seconds, according to reports and accounts on social media.

«An earthquake happened in North Korea, everyone thinks at once it is a nuclear test,» said one user, cheekily adding «is it a form of greetings for the summit in Xiamen?»

An entire international body designed for restricting trade of nuclear materials was created in response to India's first test, and the US did impose sanctions on India for their tests in the 90's.

More context please: why are you asking about India, and hasn't India received sanctions in the past for conducting nuclear tests?

This test follows North Korea's demands for $ 500 million to halt its missile exports, as well as threats to revive its nuclear weapons program if it does not get more money.

The move followed condemnation and sanctions by the U.N. Security Council for North Korea's April 2009 launch of a suspected long - range missile and May 2009 test of a nuclear device.

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In Nevada, however, there is bipartisan opposition to the Yucca project, and the state's congressional delegation prepared a series of amendments meant to ensure that the House would consider key safety provisions for the project, which is located about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas and adjacent to the land where the government tested nuclear weapons.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for more weapons tests targeting the Pacific Ocean, Pyongyang announced — a day after his nation for the first time flew a ballistic missile designed to carry a nuclear payload over Japan.

So far, one of the biggest problems for North Korea in the weaponisation process has been delivery: although it has been able to develop and test nuclear devices, these have been too bulky and big to place on a missile.

But if the site is out - of - use for many years, one would expect Kim to bargain the end of nuclear tests for economic or diplomatic gains regardless of the US President's actions.

North Korea says it will hold a «ceremony» for the dismantling of its nuclear test site on May 23 - 25 in what would be a dramatic but symbolic event to set up leader Kim Jong Un's summit with President Donald Trump next month.

Scientists there conduct genetic screening, infectious disease monitoring and testing for nuclear, biological and chemical environmental contamination.

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«The plan included the immediate permanent closure of six nuclear power plants that had been temporarily shut down for testing in March 2011, and two more that have been offline a few years with technical problems.

NEW DELHI — Two of India's leading nuclear scientists say that there are no longer any scientific or technical reasons for the country to oppose the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

Global warming is altering — and threatening to erase — much more of the Marshall Islands than the shorelines of this independent Micronesian nation that once served as a Pacific Ocean nuclear weapons test site for the U.S..

And in a chapter on the radioactive elements carried in nuclear fallout, there's Pig 311, a sow that survived a nuclear test blast only to be used as propaganda for the weapons» supposed safety.

«Through international diplomacy built on established scientific achievement in nuclear testing verification,» Kemerait wrote, «Dr. Zerbo has fought to make this world safer for all the earth's inhabitants.»