Sentences with phrase «for weapons control»

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Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control added six individuals and 10 companies and other entities to its sanctions list, saying they have helped people previously penalized for North Korea's weapons development, facilitated North Korea's energy sector and enabled entities to bypass sanctions to get access to the U.S. and international financial system.

As the DOJ's complaint against the merger argues, the resulting conglomerate might «use its control of Time Warner's popular programming as a weapon to harm competition» by raising the prices it charges other cable networks for Time Warner entertainment or limiting distribution of content from other producers.

Therefore the military would have to target «not only nuclear infrastructure but command and control facilities, key leaders, artillery and missile units, chemical and biological weapons facilities, airfields, ports, and other targets deemed critical to regime survival,» according to the report for Congress.

As George W. Bush's undersecretary of state for arms control, Bolton was a supporter of the invasion of Iraq and was confident that Iraqi president Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

They will try and keep AI weapons under human control, help AI systems learn what humans want, and develop an ethical system for AI.

Since his push to enact a ban on assault weapons and wider background checks for gun owners collapsed on Capitol Hill in 2013, gun control has slipped down the list of White House priorities, below a legacy - building Iran deal, an opening with Cuba and reform of the immigration system.

While speaking at the Austin, Texas, student march for gun control on Saturday actor Matthew McConaughey urged law - abiding gun owners to «take one for the team» and give up their «assault weapons.»

America's attention to gun control often focuses on a few specific measures: universal background checks, restrictions on people with mental illnesses buying firearms, and an assault weapons ban, for example.

Once it became clear that a majority of the Florida Legislature was not inclined to ban all assault weapons, Senator Oscar Braynon, a Democrat, proposed an amendment to the gun control bill that would have halted AR - 15 sales for two years.

The bump stock ban is among several proposals Trump has made to tighten gun controls after the Florida shooting, such as improving reporting to the background check system and raising the legal age for purchasing assault - style weapons from 18 to 21.

The madcap meeting with Trump on guns, which was meant to add clarity and more urgency to the debate, instead saw the president undermining the importance of «due process,» calling for «comprehensive» gun control, and even humoring the idea of an assault weapons ban — all somewhat unexpected positions for a GOP president to hold.

The Air Force did not like the weapon, however, and the arms control community was appalled by the difficulties it created for treaty verification.

While repudiating the notion that nuclear war in any circumstance can be a just war, the bishops say that they will tolerate for now the possession of nuclear weapons as long as serious efforts are made toward arms control.

the last subway incident was a hate crime, guns are here and they are not going anywhere, I support stricter gun control laws, ban all assault weapons, and sever punishment for the crimes committed with firearms, no insanity plea accepted, just hang them

If the United States were to be the first to release this new means of indiscriminate destruction upon mankind, she would sacrifice public support throughout the world, precipitate the race for armaments, and prejudice the possibility of reaching an international agreement on the future control of such weapons.

For specific information on the illegal weapons shipments and flow of drugs, see Leslie Cockburn, Out of Control (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987).

They continued to warn the public of the destructive power of atomic weapons and the urgent need for international controls.

It's a little silly that the poster picture for this article about gun control shows a plain ol' pistol, when the debate (currently) is about military - style assault weapons.

By contrast, the National Security Strategy paper speaks not of permanent superiority but of leadership, calls for a secure presence in space but not control of it (or cyberspace), implies the possibility of regime changes without stating it explicitly, and does not mention developing smaller nuclear weapons.

In the resolutions adopted by the Evanston Assembly there is stated as one of the «two conditions of crucial importance which must be met, if catastrophe is to be averted»: «The prohibition of all weapons of mass destruction; including atomic and hydrogen bombs, with provision for international inspection and control, such as would safeguard the security of all nations, together with the drastic reduction of all other armaments.

As an essential member of the Army's weapons maintenance team, the PATRIOT system repairer is primarily responsible for performing field level maintenance on the PATRIOT system, a combat missile system that features a phased array radar set and control station.

Forcing sex Withholding sex Rude stories or gestures Double standards Using sex as a weapon Punishing you for not complying Making sexual threats with objects Talking dirty Laughing at you Shaming Intimidation to do unwanted acts beyond comfort level Sex as a form of control Sexualizing in public Rape Possessiveness Mocking of body parts Accusations Sex for favors Pornography

For example, the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty reads: Each nuclear - weapon State Party to the Treaty undertakes not to transfer to any recipient whatsoever nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or control over such...

This means that the key to building a weapon, and consequently controlling weapons development is controlling the refinement of U-235 (which is necessary for the creation on Plutonium - 239).

Students at a Brooklyn rally organized by Borough President Eric Adams, declared war on lawmakers who have resisted meaningful gun control, and registered for their own weapons — the right to vote.

Cuomo says the changes being discussed in D.C. to bolster gun controls are «incremental at best,» and he slammed Florida Sen. Marco Rubio for saying the SAFE Act allows people to modify an automatic weapon by removing a piece of «plastic» to make it legal,» inisting: «He doesn't know what he's talking about.»

ALBANY - Top New York Democrats praised the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal Monday to hear a case challenging the state's assault - weapons ban, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo calling it a «victory for common sense gun control laws.»

«We want to prevent mass shootings from happening and while this could have happened with other types of weapons, NeverAgain believes school safety should be priority right now, not just background checks,» said Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Kali Clougherty, 18, referring to a campaign for gun control.

Here's an idea for gun control, no nutbag Democrats should be allowed to purchase any type of weapon and they should pass a mental stability test to vote.

It ends with a call for state and federal lawmakers to reject campaign contributions from gun rights groups like the NRA, enact stricter licensing and registration requirements for guns, a ban on «all classes of weapons that do not serve the specific uses of personal protection and sport shooting» and other gun control measures.

The ATF wrote letters in 2010 and 2013 explaining how current laws — the Gun Control Act (1968) and National Firearms Act (1934)-- do not provide an avenue for the bureau to regulate the gun attachments, which enable shooters to fire semiautomatic weapons at nearly the rate of automatic ones, according to CQ - Roll Call.

The incident re-ignited Cuomo's push for new gun control measures nationally in order to tighten the flow of illegal weapons into New York.

Drawing a stark contrast between herself and Trump and renewing her calls for stricter gun control in the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton declared that «weapons of war have no place on our streets.»

But over time, Higgins said he came to see the NRA responding to reasonable gun control measures in a knee - jerk way, too, and blocking sensible measures such as background checks for those who buy weapons at gun shows.

But Bratton argued Thursday that gun violence has been on the decline in the Big Apple for decades thanks to stricter gun control and also praised a 1994 federal assault weapons ban that expired in 2004.

The letter comes as gun control advocacy groups and some Republican lawmakers who voted no blast the law, which tightens the state's assault weapons ban, limits the number of rounds in a high capacity magazine and tightens criminal penalties for illegal weapons.

Cuomo, who supports the microstamping of bullet casings, wouldn't say which gun control measures he would push for on the state level in a news conference earlier today, though he called a provision in the state's ban on assault weapons that grandfathers in high - capacity ammunition magazines manufactured before the ban took effect a loophole in the law.

The New York State Arms Collector's Association has been holding the show at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center for over 30 years, but this year they agreed to even tighter controls on weapons sales in the wake of the new legislation.

The ad, which was paid for by the state Democratic Party Cuomo controls, also cites his current push for a law that would take guns from all convicted domestic abusers and his call to «stop Washington from allowing concealed weapons to cross state lines.»

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The Post-ABC poll also finds that 58 percent of adults say stricter gun control laws could have prevented the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, but there is no rise in support for banning assault weapons compared with two years ago and the partisan divide on this policy is as stark as ever.

Here's the scoop: The index finger release button means better control and better security for the weapon's owner.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

Hence the term gene drive for this prospective new weapon in pest control.

Once Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts reviewed her case and approved the drug's release, Luciana would qualify to receive Pentostam, an old, toxic, but powerful weapon containing the heavy metal antimony.

«If the United States, the strongest nation in the world, concludes that it can not protect its vital interests without relying on new nuclear weapons for new military missions, it would be a clear signal to other nations that nuclear weapons are valuable, if not necessary, for their security purposes, too,» Sidney Drell, arms control expert and physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center said at the American Physical Society Conference in Denver this past March.

Nuclear weapons and strategic policy attract increasing public concern, but systems for command, control, communications and intelligence may be just as important in deterring nuclear attack and preventing escalation

The committee's investigation also uncovered «dozens» of instances of suspect counterfeit electronic parts installed or delivered to the military for use on thermal weapons sights, missile - control computers and military aircraft, including the Boeing C - 17 Globemaster III and Lockheed Martin C - 130J Super Hercules military transport.

Bryan Barrass, an official at the UN special commission who is responsible for disposing of chemical weapons, says that the US could afford to take its time because its stockpile was safely under control.

The main weapon for controlling carbon dioxide emissions, being proposed in both Brussels and Washington, is a carbon or energy tax.