Sentences with phrase «force of a nuclear weapon»

In other words, if the launch is unsuccessful, the rocket could explode with the force of a nuclear weapon.

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Introducing nuclear weapons into this process forces a nation to move with caution because the risk of massive retaliation is great.

Retired Gen. Roger A. Brady, who was responsible for American nuclear weapons in Europe as part of his past role as commander of the U.S. Air Force there, turned to Apple support this year when he noticed something suspicious on his computer.

The B61 is America's primary tactical nuclear weapon that can be carried by just about all of the US military's attack aircraft, from Marine Corps AV - 8B Harriers to the Air Force's B - 2 Spirit bombers.

In 2011, the group complained about an Air Force training presentation that used religion to teach the ethics and morality of using nuclear weapons.

In recent years there has risen a new type of the same concern in that the advancement of human ability to control and manipulate the natural forces by means of science and technology has created life threatening situation in terms of the pollution, nuclear weapons, and intervention of the natural process with the unforseen consequences.

The briefing, taught for nearly 20 years by military chaplains at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, is intended to train Air Force personnel to consider the ethics and morality of launching nuclear weapons - the ultimate doomsday machine.

In 1945 Henry L. Stimson, secretary of war, recommended to President Truman the use of nuclear weapons against Japan to hasten the end of the war and save the Allied forces an estimated 1 million casualties in an assault upon mainland Japan.

Despite the slogan («Peace Is Our Profession») of the Strategic Air Command of the U.S. Air Force, which has been in charge of strategic nuclear weapons as well as the high altitude bombing of Vietnam, having more and fancier weapons will not make us more safe, and these weapons will not prevent war or save lives.

And since he and others argue that stateless actors are near - immune to the threat of nuclear force, the overall deterrence value of such weapons are heavily discounted.

And to prevent them from being killed, America's military leaders argue that force can not be employed to prevent the murderers of American soldiers from acquiring nuclear weapons.

In the specific case of Germany, they are still bound by the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany Some examples of the limitations set: Armed Forces of no more than 370,000 personnel - of whom at most 345,000 were to be in the Army and Air Force No manufacture, possession or control of NBC weapons Full application of the Nuclear Non -...

Any hypothetical military engagement where a nuclear armed country were to be in danger of being completely overrun would change the calculation on whether they would be willing to use nuclear weapons, but Russia probably would not, for example, use their nuclear weapons as a deterrent against attacks against their conventional troops in Ukraine, even if they were in danger of being forced out of Ukraine completely because the retaliation would cost much more to them than what they would be losing.

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«But what did they expect running a candidate from Brooklyn whose views on everything from raising taxes, to forcing hardworking families to pay for campaign ads, to giving billions of dollars to Iran to build nuclear weapons with which to threaten Israel are miles outside the political mainstream?

Fifth, the bomb used to split the asteroid would need to explode with the force of a hundred billion one - megaton bombs, millions of times the total yield of all nuclear weapons ever detonated.

Subsequent testing has shown that not to be the case, at least in the opinion of many physicists — many highly respected physicists — and so the supporters of the RRW have moved onto other rationales for why we would need these including margin, which is your, I guess, confidence, that a nuclear weapon will explode as it is intended to; it will deliver exactly, say ten kilotons of destructive force or one megaton or whatever the desired explosive force is.

Britain and the US, with the support of their wartime allies prevented West Germany from developing a nuclear arsenal so its only route to recognition was via a multilateral nuclear force, in which the control of nuclear weapons was shared.

Analysts estimate the cuts could force layoffs of at least 7000 employees at about a dozen of the labs not involved in nuclear weapons work.

The little - known hiatus has forced the directors of the three principal U.S. weapons laboratories to rely on other types of reliability tests, mostly conducted at other U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, when they promised in annual reports to the President and the Congress that the country's warheads will still explode in the manner intended by their designers.

When you're facing the imminent arrival of an asteroid which will hit the Earth with the force of «10,000 nuclear weapons» you're going to have to look at seriously modifying your workout because your usual pilates and hot yoga session just isn't going to cut it.

Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. centers on CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer), two foes forced to put aside their differences, to team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organization, bent on creating nuclear weapons with the goal of world domination.

In his debut 1954 film, he's a terrifying force of nature, a nigh - unstoppable behemoth unleashed by man's nuclear folly, and only defeated by a weapon even worse than an atom bomb.

The original 1998 game follows the fortunes of Solid Snake, a soldier who infiltrates a nuclear weapons facility to neutralize the terrorist threat from Foxhound, a renegade special forces unit.

The plot, in case anyone's forgotten, concerns the recruitment of legendary soldier Solid Snake; forced out of retirement to confront a terrorist organisation who have made threats to the US government and are holding the world at ransom with the threat of a nuclear weapon.

We are given to the belief that, in making nuclear weapons, humankind has penetrated both the structure of the atom, said to be the basic code to matter, and that of the sun, the pre-eminent physical force in our universe.

In addition, the Committee requires the modernization and replacement of forward - deployed nuclear weapons, dual capable fighter - bomber aircraft and perhaps the development of intermediate range nuclear weapons... Over the next decade, the United States plans to spend $ 348 billion on its nuclear forces, or about $ 35 billion a year, according to a 2015 Congressional Budget Office report.

«I might say, parenthetically, I believe there are national security and common security aspects to the whole globalization challenge that I really don't have time to go into today, so I'll just steer off the text and say what I think briefly, which is that as we open borders and we increase the freedom of movement of people, information and ideas, this open society becomes more vulnerable to cross-national, multinational, organized forces of destruction: terrorists; weapons of mass destruction; the marriage of technology in these weapons, small - scale chemical and biological and maybe even nuclear weapons; narco traffickers and organized criminals, and increasingly, all these people sort of working together in lines that are quite blurred.

Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs sharply criticized the NPR (see here in Russian), in particular, for lowering the threshold of the use of nuclear weapons and allowing the use of nuclear weapons in «extreme circumstances», which are not limited to military scenarios and with military scenarios covering almost any use of military force.

Yet, the range of scenarios potentially triggering such a first use of nuclear weapons by the US is indicative of a foreseeable possibility to use force not only in response but also in anticipation.