Sentences with phrase «more nuclear capability»

Not exact matches

The Saudi government wants nuclear power to free up more oil for export, but current and former American officials suspect the country's leaders also want to keep up with the enrichment capabilities of their rival, Iran.

One of the more impending crises is a conflict between Iran and Israel over Irans nuclear capabilities.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

The government's rhetoric is no more convincing in this case than in its dubbing of missiles of first - strike nuclear capability as «Peacekeepers.»

overall, Iran's actions question the deterrent value of nuclear capabilities — if anything, it makes others that much more desperate to join the club.

I don't know much about China but I noticed that in many areas (space exploration, aircraft carriers, nuclear weapons...), they seem more interested in demonstrating and maintaining a basic capability than really competing with other powers.

North Korea and Iran, whose relations with the U.S. are more strained, do not yet have the capability to inflict massive nuclear harm on this nation.

Exactly 1 week after the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan and knocked out critical nuclear fuel cooling capabilities at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Amano was here to urge the Japanese government to more fully cooperate in sharing information with IAEA and the world community.

«With more than half a century of experience in the nuclear power business we look forward to providing engineering expertise and technical capability to help advance the development of SMR - 160,» GEH President and CEO Jay Wileman said.

And, despite having more than 30 new nuclear reactors under construction, China's new nuclear capability was still a fraction of new coal energy.

[D] espite additions of substantial wind, solar, and nuclear capacity, when properly adjusted for capacity factor (the amount of annual energy produced per unit of capacity) to reflect production capability, the amount of new coal energy added to the China grid last year exceeded new solar energy by 17 times, new wind energy by more than 4 times, and even new hydro by more than 3 times.

A simple cost analysis (apparently beyond the capability of the Times) would clearly show slar thermal to cost roughly 6 times more than a nuclear plant and provide (unreliable) electricity costing at least 4 times more, even when using the Fanatasyland estimate by unreliable sources like Woolard of BrightSource Energy.