Sentences with phrase «for nuclear arsenals»

If the approach is successful, it could be considered for other sites where uranium was processed for nuclear arsenals or power plant fuel.

He previously told Business Insider that the idea was «deeply, deeply, deeply immoral» and that the US never considers weapons like this for its nuclear arsenal.

Throughout the Cold War, Hanford churned out plutonium for our nuclear arsenal.

The land was torn open for our nuclear arsenal and the Navajo people are still dying from the cancers and illnesses that it caused.

Not exact matches

Conway delivered her comments shortly after Trump posted tweets criticizing NBC in response to the network's report that he'd asked for a tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal this past summer.

The deal puts the defense tech company in a strong position as it bids for the right to upgrade the U.S.'s ground - based arsenal of Minuteman III nuclear - armed missiles, a procurement program with a value estimated at over $ 60 billion over its expected lifetime.

Pompeo said North Korea's nuclear weapons program has developed at a «very rapid clip,» but that Kim is hoping for an arsenal of nuclear weapons — «not one, not a showpiece, not something to drive on a parade route.»

But there is widespread skepticism about whether Kim is ready to abandon the nuclear arsenal his country has defended and developed for decades as what it says is a necessary deterrent against U.S. invasion.

As terrorist activities spread, it would be possible for nuclear war to be triggered by the irresponsible behavior of a relatively small group or nation, and for it quickly to escalate as the more responsible nations resorted to their nuclear arsenals to end the conflict.

Don't forget as well the potential epidemic of nuclear proliferation as other nations attempt to adjust to and defend themselves against Bush's preventive wars, while our own already staggering nuclear arsenal expands toward first - strike primacy and we expend unimaginable billions on futuristic ideas for warfare in outer space.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by America's foreign policy: its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear arsenal, its vulgarly stated policy of «full - spectrum dominance,» its chilling disregard for non-American lives, its barbarous military interventions, its support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, its merciless economic agenda that has munched through the economies of poor countries like a cloud of locusts.

Highlighting the ban on cluster bombs, he argued the case for outlawing nuclear arsenals was even more compelling.

Nicks waits for the post-window nuclear war to subside, and gives his very poor two cents on Arsenal's frugality.

For example the Chinese and the Russians have huge nuclear arsenals but in both cases they are defensive.

For example in North Korea, the max range of their nuclear arsenal, is very unlikely further than South Korea, which means, that they can't reach all the powers, which would, in a potential nuclear attack, would start nuclear strikes back against them.

Assuming that decision - makers make cost - benefit analyses when deciding to use force, China's doctrine calls for acquiring a nuclear arsenal only large enough to destroy an adversary's «strategic points» in such a way that the expected costs of a first strike outweigh the anticipated benefits.

For while it might be true that most of today's great powers boast an arsenal of nuclear weapons, military hardware is far from the only measure of national strength and influence.

Between 1999 and the 2011 revolution, Libya accepted responsibility for its citizens bombing Pan AM Flight 103, renounced terrorism, and eventually dismantled its nuclear arsenal.

It is the justification virtually every nuclear state uses for maintaining nuclear arsenals, including the UK.

«The British government will need to do far more, both with our own nuclear arsenal and with cooperation for international control of the nuclear fuel cycle, before these words can be moved beyond rhetoric.»

Most nuclear security experts believe that's how long it would take for as many as 400 land - based nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal to be loosed on enemy targets after an initial «go» order.

The U.S. effort to reshape its nuclear arsenal took a big step forward today with the announcement of the winning design for a durable nuclear weapon.

Scientific American's David Biello talks about his article in the November issue that examines America's nuclear arsenal and options for the future and Scientific American Mind magazine «sKaren Schrock gives us a rundown from the big neuroscience meeting, that she attended last week.

So, the funding situation that we are in right now — in 1990s, we launched a program called the Stockpile Stewardship Program; it was intended to maintain the existing nuclear arsenal for a number of decades, if not indefinitely and that has been a huge bonus in terms of actually understanding the physical processes of nuclear weapons and getting away from nuclear testing.

You've got this article in the November — that's the issue — Scientific American, «A Need for New Warheads, «and right on page two of the article, you actually list my first three questions, and they are: What is the purpose of the U.S. nuclear arsenal?

And similar theory holds for Iran; obviously they are under threat from this country and its vast conventional and nuclear arsenals, and therefore Iran might feel that it needs the game changer, known as a nuclear weapon, to protect itself from whatever our designs might be.

Before the work was halted in 2013, those overseeing the U.S. nuclear arsenal typically pulled six or seven warheads from bombers or missiles every year for dismantlement and invasive diagnostic testing.

Throughout its history, Centrus has been committed to the reduction of Cold War nuclear arsenals through the recycling of highly enriched uranium from nuclear warheads into low - enriched uranium to be used in fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.

A trailer has arrived online for HBO's upcoming dark comedy series The Brink starring Jack Black (Bernie), Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption), Pablo Schreiber (Orange Is the New Black) and Aasif Mandvi (Jericho)... When a rogue general seizes control of Pakistan and its nuclear arsenal, the fate of the world rests on the shoulders of -LSB-...]

«While almost two years in the making, this new decrease in dangerous and costly nuclear arsenals sets the stage for not only improved Russian - American relations, but also for much more effective global nonproliferation policies.»

Reports conducted by the congressionally - appointed National Defense Panel and Center for Nonproliferation Studies indicate the nuclear arsenal could cost as much as $ 1 trillion to modernize.

It just so happens that the PIN for launching the nuclear arsenal of my country also happens to be 322884.

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