Sentences with phrase «from using its nuclear weapons»

Policymakers should adopt a more realistic focus on deterring Pyongyang from using its nuclear weapons rather than pursuing low - probability attempts to denuclearize the peninsula in short order.

«I pray that he'll be a good president and that he'll keep our country at peace — that he'll refrain from using nuclear weapons, and that he will promote human rights.»

The high likelihood of a defeat of North Korea to the US and South Korea, followed by the implosion of the country, would be more than enough to deter any impulses of Pyongyang from using its nuclear weapons.

This picture is powerful enough to dissuade the communist regime from using its nuclear weapons.

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From time to time, however, individuals like Nobel Peace Prize laureate and unaligned UN spokesman Sean MacBride have condemned the use of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction as an «international crime.»

But in the case of the Korean peninsula, United States troops do have the power to start using nuclear weapons without any consent from the people, including the Korean commanders.

Citing current tension from the North Korean administration, Reiss - Andersen added: «We live in a world where the risk of nuclear weapons being used is greater than it has been for a long time.»

Are there any ways that he can gain from nuclear weapons without using them?

Based on America's reluctance to use nuclear weapons, and America's desire not to risk American cities, Kim may believe he can attack a neighbor, perhaps even with a nuclear weapon, without fear of a nuclear response from America so long as he maintains the ability to threaten America directly but doesn't actually attack America.

Decides that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations, in addition to submitting the required biannual declarations, the Government of Iraq shall provide to UNMOVIC, the IAEA, and the Council, not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution, a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, including any holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, subcomponents, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment, the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological, and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material;

Therefore, such a prognosis would be a powerful deterrence to prevent Kim Jong - un from ever using his nuclear weapons.

Fast reactors can thus minimize the risk that spent fuel from energy production would be used for weapons production, while providing a unique ability to squeeze the maximum energy out of nuclear fuel.

A few years ago, DARPA, which prides itself on promoting far - out projects, proposed spending $ 30 million on a «hafnium bomb,» a type of nuclear weapon intended to release energy from atomic nuclei without either fission or fusion, using an approach similar to how energy is extracted from electrons in a laser.

The contaminated sites, on floodplains in the upper Colorado River basin, operated from the 1940s to the 1970s to produce «yellowcake,» a precursor of uranium fuel used in nuclear power plants and weapons.

Even though federal laws limit the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) to be used only for defense transuranic (plutonium - contaminated) waste from nuclear weapons, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed actions to expand WIPP to three additional missions in 2012 - 2013.

The environmental threat from the use of nuclear weapons is still with us, and the only way to prevent this from occurring is to get rid of the weapons.

It's extremely difficult and costly to make weapons grade material from the used fuel from modern civilian nuclear power plants.

It's very difficult to make weapons from used fuel from modern civil nuclear power stations.

Beyer then switched tactics, and compared Democrats» advocacy for carbon dioxide regulations to former Vice President Dick Cheney's arguing for the use of «enhanced interrogation» on the «one percent chance» it could prevent al - Qaida from getting a nuclear weapon.

Plenty of countries are content to patronize a government that not only brutally tramples basic human rights, degrades women and persecutes gays, but also uses the currency it collects from oil sales to build nuclear weapons so it can threaten... Continue Reading»

My point is that any country that wants nuclear weapons will not use civilian nuclear power plants, nor use the spent fuel from them.

Lying far above the Arctic Circle, the Russian archipelago of Novaya Zemlya is one of the most remote places on Earth, which is precisely why these mountainous, wind - swept islands were used as the Soviet Union's main nuclear weapons test site from 1955 to 1990.

extreme heat; or b) a nuclear winter; or most likely c) extreme heat followed by a nuclear winter — Joe Neubarth writes: «The program is running and we are rushing to an abrupt end... Global Average Surface Temperature (GAST) is going up to 17ºC in the next few years — this will kill @ 7 billion people... When about 6 billion people have died from global heating, they will use nuclear weapons to refreeze the Arctic...»

Evidence for this is obvious as thorium reactors have not been developed as they can not be used to make nuclear weapons and have suffered from the same lack of development as renewables.

Our problems with nuclear power plants stems from an early design that used fuel that was friendly towards making weapons; lithium does not have that problem.

After the development of the first nuclear weapons, scientists from a variety of disciplines appealed to world leaders to «remember your humanity, and forget the rest» and end the threat of use of nuclear weapons.