Sentences with phrase «halted weapons tests»

North Korea has already effectively halted weapons tests since firing a missile in late November believed to be capable of reaching any city in the U.S..

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Pauling has said that the situation is «alarming,» and 9,000 scientists including 36 Nobel - prize winners signed a petition in 1958 calling for a halt to weapons testing.

This test follows North Korea's demands for $ 500 million to halt its missile exports, as well as threats to revive its nuclear weapons program if it does not get more money.

Shuttering a key part of PF - 4 abruptly halted two types of sensitive work done nowhere else in the United States, for roughly the next four years: The invasive sampling and analysis of selected aging nuclear weapons cores to ensure that intact models could all still function as intended; and the production of new cores that could be fit into more modern nuclear weapons or replace those pulled apart in testing.