Sentences with phrase «maintaining nuclear arsenals»

It is the justification virtually every nuclear state uses for maintaining nuclear arsenals, including the UK.

The Non-Proliferation Treaty states that only 5 countries have the right to maintain a nuclear arsenal the U.S., U.S.S.R. (now Russia), Great Britain, France and the People's Republic of China (PRC).

So during the height of the cold war, the U.S. maintained a nuclear arsenal that would be able to strike all Soviet Targets on Second Strike with the assumption that only 3 % of their launch platforms would survive the first strike with enough time to launch a second strike.

Only nine of them maintain nuclear arsenals.

Not exact matches

The DPRK has obvious reasons to maintain at least a small nuclear arsenal: nuclear weapons offer defense against an alliance possessing overwhelming military advantages, a source of international prestige, and a means to extort money and other benefits from neighbors.

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.

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► «Engineer Jill Hruby was named director of the Sandia National Laboratories on Monday, becoming the first woman to head one of three U.S. government labs charged with developing and maintaining the country's nuclear arsenal,» Warren Cornwall wrote at ScienceInsider on Tuesday.

So, the funding situation that we are in right now — in 1990s, we launched a program called the Stockpile Stewardship Program; it was intended to maintain the existing nuclear arsenal for a number of decades, if not indefinitely and that has been a huge bonus in terms of actually understanding the physical processes of nuclear weapons and getting away from nuclear testing.

Our concerns about nuclear weapons lead us to eliminate from consideration the general debt obligations of the United States government (U.S. Treasuries) and of Russia, which maintain more than 90 % of the world's arsenal of nuclear warheads.

In fact, if we are to maintain a credible deterrent to nuclear attacks launched at us, we must have a modern nuclear arsenal.

The ruling elites in Pakistan are much more interested in developing a nuclear arsenal and maintaining the corrupt government that favors its elites than they are in improving the infrastructure that would benefit the country overall.