Sentences with phrase «limited use of nuclear weapons»

Dismissing Christian pacifism as useless in the face of totalitarianism, he preferred moral action with muscle (the latter to be used prudently) and even sanctioned the limited use of nuclear weapons, to the dismay of some on the left.

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The Campaign for Democratic Socialism explicitly supported the unilateral renunciation of Britain's nuclear weapons, and the document «Policy for Peace», on which Gaitskell eventually won his battle at the 1961 Labour Conference, stated: «Britain should cease the attempt to remain an independent nuclear power, since that neither strengthens the alliance, nor is it now a sensible use of our limited resources.»

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.

We certainly need to limit human use of nuclear (and chemical, and... let's face it, most) weapons.

«The potential for terrorists to obtain a nuclear weapon or for states to develop nuclear weapons that could be used in limited regional wars will certainly increase with an increase in the number of nuclear energy facilities worldwide.»

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.