Sentences with phrase «global nuclear arsenal»

In that time, nine other states developed nuclear weapons (South Africa later dismantled its program), nuclear weapons were tested over 1,000 times and the global nuclear arsenal ballooned to over 60,000 before dropping to the current total of approximately 15,000.

Humanity's failure to reduce global nuclear arsenals as well as climate change prompted the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to advance their warning about our proximity to a potentially civilization - ending catastrophe

Not exact matches

Although the UK's nuclear arsenal guaranteed its continued global influence in the Cold War, it was the nuclear deterrence developed between the USA and the USSR - the belief that any attack would lead to massive nuclear retaliation and «mutually assured destruction» - that maintained the temperature between the 1950s and 1990s.

«In 2015, unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity,» the group said in a statement.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — Even when they're underground, nuclear tests can be detected in the skies — and as a result, global satellite networks could become a powerful new tool in the arsenal of weapons to help detect clandestine underground nuclear explosions, a team of scientists reported here today at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

«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.»

○ Germany's Cold War chemical weapons: Military planned to stockpile arsenal in 1960s ○ Middle East: CWB weapons a poor man's option to Israel's nuclear arsenal Global Warming - distance between America and Europe is steadily increasing.