Sentences with phrase «more nuclear weapons»

Artist Statement» No more nuclear weapons.
While I'm sure that the US are aware of the costs of preventing NK to build more nuclear weapons, they are probably also be aware of the risks of let NK continue developing their nuclear weapons.
They could have traded oil to him in exchange for one or more nuclear weapons.
Ahead of Tillerson «s speech, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to develop more nuclear weapons, according to North Korean state media on Wednesday.
«Poor Kevin [Ford] has watched more nuclear weapons footage, I think, than any living person,» says Schlosser.
Comparisons are difficult, Bronson says, but there are more nuclear weapon states today than in the 1950s.

Not exact matches

What's more, many countries, including the US, use nuclear weapons that can't be stopped after launch, even if they were sent in error or unjustified malice.
Nuclear physicists say such a weapon could cause a local tsunami, though they question its purpose and effectiveness, given the far more terrible destruction that nukes can inflict when detonated aboveground.
With geopolitical tensions extremely high, it's vital that all involved remember North Korea is about more than nuclear weapons, missiles and deterrence.
Fusion bombs are also on alert and ready to launch, and they are thousands of times more powerful than any nuclear weapons detonated during World War II.
Since 2011, Kim has fired more than 85 missiles and four nuclear weapons tests, which is more than what his father, Kim Jong Il, and grandfather, Kim Il Sung, launched over a period of 27 years.
North Korea, once again, made promise after promise while gaining more and more time to build evermore advanced nuclear weapons and missiles to mount them on.
Kim said Tuesday his country would keep making «more latest weapons and equipment» to «bolster up the nuclear force in quality and quantity», the country's official news agency KCNA reported.
Policymakers should adopt a more realistic focus on deterring Pyongyang from using its nuclear weapons rather than pursuing low - probability attempts to denuclearize the peninsula in short order.
As part of his «State of the World» address, Pope Francis asked world leaders to stand up for more conversations toward peace in Korea and an enforced ban on nuclear weapons.
the bishops state that «our No to nuclear war and weapons is more than a matter of ethical calculation.
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.
Despite the slogan («Peace Is Our Profession») of the Strategic Air Command of the U.S. Air Force, which has been in charge of strategic nuclear weapons as well as the high altitude bombing of Vietnam, having more and fancier weapons will not make us more safe, and these weapons will not prevent war or save lives.
Now it is up to the clergy, who more and more can begin to act on the convictions expressed by the U.N. report, which opens with the words «Alarmed by the threat to the very survival of mankind,» and proceeds:»... the accumulation of weapons, particularly nuclear weapons, today constitutes much more a threat than a protection for the future of mankind.
So he is going to have to cut the Defense Department's operations even more than he suggested, or increase the Defense budget by around 10 billion dollars to accommodate the department's new responsibilities or hope that nuclear weapons and military nuclear reactors will produce and maintain themselves.
Even if the use of nuclear warheads were avoided, the outbreak of an international conflict using more conventional but highly sophisticated weapons remains possible.
By that time, nuclear power plants will be spread throughout the world, and it is predicted that more than 35 countries will possess nuclear weapons (as opposed to seven now).
The «fact» of nuclear weapons has been superseded by a more compelling fact: that human beings have a right to live free of the risk of mutual nuclear annihilation.
It has brought us war, nuclear weapons, environmental destruction, slavery, genocide, and much more.
«Our love of technology is easy to understand but on the flip side nuclear \ biological weapons make it easier harm more people than ever before.»
The right to peace becomes more challenging as nuclear weapons become more immoral and more savage.
The new weapons of war — nuclear, chemical, biological — will only get more lethal and more widely available.
MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES SYNONYMS 1.1 A particular system of values and principles of conduct, especially one held by a specified person or society: a bourgeois morality MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES 1.2 The extent to which an action is right or wrong: behind all the arguments lies the issue of the morality of the possession of nuclear weapons MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES
Is there any limit to the things we may make and alter (heart transplants, artificial insemination, «test - tube babies,» nuclear weaponsmore than enough to destroy all forms of life on earth!)?
«From now on it will make more sense to describe a country's nuclear - weapons status not with a yes or a no but with a time schedule».
Ayman al - Zawahiri, the current leader of al Qaeda, has been seeking nuclear weapons for more than a decade.
However, there is another, even more likely way that a North Korean nuclear weapon could explode in a U.S. city: Kim could sell one to terrorists.
In the specific case of Germany, they are still bound by the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany Some examples of the limitations set: Armed Forces of no more than 370,000 personnel - of whom at most 345,000 were to be in the Army and Air Force No manufacture, possession or control of NBC weapons Full application of the Nuclear Non -...
There is also such complex question as Israel nuclear weapons, but it is much more custom situation, hardly comparable with India / Pakistan / North Korea examples
Maybe the US would believe that the Middle East would be more stable if nobody had nuclear weapons.
Can we define a cutoff point, beyond which a nuclear weapon program is built for more than minimum deterrence?
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.
The US is far more likely to attack a nuclear North Korea than one with conventional weapons — it changes North Korea into a danger to US citizens.
My question is, can we define a cut - off point or area between a «minimum deterrent» nuclear weapons program and a more offensive one?
With that understanding, a new negotiating strategy can be employed — one that should allow the North Korean regime to see a way of surviving without nuclear weapons, and that should be backed up by more powerful economic incentives and disincentives than before.
More bizarrely a group called Labour First claims that conference can not discuss nuclear weapons again until 2019 because of the «three - year rule».
The high likelihood of a defeat of North Korea to the US and South Korea, followed by the implosion of the country, would be more than enough to deter any impulses of Pyongyang from using its nuclear weapons.
Any hypothetical military engagement where a nuclear armed country were to be in danger of being completely overrun would change the calculation on whether they would be willing to use nuclear weapons, but Russia probably would not, for example, use their nuclear weapons as a deterrent against attacks against their conventional troops in Ukraine, even if they were in danger of being forced out of Ukraine completely because the retaliation would cost much more to them than what they would be losing.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for more weapons tests targeting the Pacific Ocean, Pyongyang announced — a day after his nation for the first time flew a ballistic missile designed to carry a nuclear payload over Japan.
One could also argue that the US would try to avoid using nuclear weapons against North Korea in the case of a retaliation attack in order to prevent larger tensions with Beijing and more risks to South Korea.
By divesting the state from any business with corporations who fuel Iran's terrorist activities and pursuit of nuclear weapons, we are doing our part to make the world a safer, more secure place.
We know this because the US hasn't invaded North Korea to prevent the development of nuclear weapons because of the more conventional threat to Seoul.
Leftwinger said his life has been a «moral opposition to nuclear weapons», as he seeks to retrain Faslane workers for more peaceful endeavours to protect jobs Labour leadership's team rejects accusations of antisemitism and says north London MP is «proud to represent a multicultural constituency»
Why should this argument be any more credible when it comes to nuclear weapons
The former doesn't have nuclear weapons yet, but the prospect of it obtaining them has caused widespread alarm in the international community, with US sanctions being imposed, and more recently with the very disputed nuclear deal.
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