Sentences with phrase «nation using nuclear weapons»
Why should anyone be worried about a nation using nuclear weapons when it never has and isn't threatening to?
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The intended payload for North Korea's ICBM program is a nuclear warhead (although chemical weapons like VX nerve agent, which the nation allegedly possesses and has used, are another option).
I don't know what foolish things people and nations will permit themselves to do in the near future, what compacts we will make with hell through the use of nuclear and biological weapons, what ecological disasters we will actively perpetrate or merely permit to happen or what unprecedented human tragedy we will willingly or witlessly sponsor.
Not only did they become the first and only nation to use nuclear weapons against another, they did it twice.
Without prior notice to the NATO nations, United States troops are not allowed to use nuclear weapons in Europe.
After all, they are the only nation to use a nuclear weapon in war.
Use of nuclear weapons by the USA or any other nation would be a huge line to cross, legitimizing their use by all other nuclear poweUse of nuclear weapons by the USA or any other nation would be a huge line to cross, legitimizing their use by all other nuclear poweuse by all other nuclear powers.
The U.S. government cracked down after both nations tested nuclear weapons in May 1998, requiring U.S. organizations to obtain a license before shipping civilian materials deemed to have a dual military use to more than 300 institutions (Science, 24 July 1998, p. 494).
The Tehran Research Reactor is used mainly for producing medical radioisotopes, not weapons, but Iran's dogged effort to produce fuel for it sparked the latest international crisis over the nation's nuclear ambitions — and helped motivate the July 2015 nuclear deal to constrain them.
Between 1985 and 1992, the GAO concluded, the US government issued 55 000 licences for exports of dual - use technology to 36 nations known or suspected to be developing nuclear weapons.
The Obama administration has called on all nations to minimize the amount of plutonium possessed because it could be converted for use in nuclear weapons.
This would help nations track and restrict the production of fissile materials that can be used in nuclear weapons.