Sentences with phrase «new nuclear warhead»

The second is to be ready to design a new nuclear warhead if called upon to do so.

What does it mean when the U.S. government announces plans to create the first new nuclear warhead in two decades?

And in early March, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California won the initial competition to design the nation's first new nuclear warhead in 20 years.

So if we choose, to go in the direction of a new nuclear warhead, we may find ourselves with adversaries who have also chosen to go ahead and develop their own nuclear weapons.

«Russia is developing and deploying new nuclear warheads and launchers,» the leaked review says, adding that these systems include «a new intercontinental, nuclear - armed, undersea autonomous torpedo.»

The Bush administration unveiled plans in April 2006 for a new complex to build all the components of new nuclear warheads — dubbed Complex 2030 for the year set for its completion.

Not exact matches

North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency calls the missile a «new ground - to - ground medium long - range strategic ballistic rocket» and says it was «capable of carrying a large, heavy nuclear warhead.»

Russia is currently working on a new hypersonic missile, which can carry nuclear warheads and breach existing missile defense systems, according to military experts.

Russia — the only potentially hostile major power in the UK's region — continues to deploy thousands of nuclear warheads, and has just launched a new class of ballistic missile submarine.

Although Dan Jarvis seems to be gathering donors and thinkers around him for the future... Although Peter Hyman, Joe Haines and Peter Kellner are recommending active resistance in the latest edition of the New Statesman... and although there are signs that the two biggest stars of the Twitterleft — Owen Jones and Mehdi Hasan — are becoming frustrated at Team Corbyn's competence... the chances are that May's tests of public opinion won't be catastrophic for the man who wants nuclear submarines without nuclear warheads.

The policy document, which by its own admission «is not about launching new initiatives», comes after it emerged Barack Obama was prepared to delay the deployment of a US missile shield in eastern Europe to help persuade Russia to begin cutting its stockpile of nuclear warheads.

This explained that there is no programme to develop a new UK nuclear warhead but referred to the work currently being undertaken to inform decisions, likely to be taken in the next parliament, on whether and how we may need to refurbish or replace our current warhead.»

Months later, in November, Lib Dem MP Nick Harvey asked the defence secretary in parliament «what meetings have taken place between UK and US officials on the research and development of new nuclear weapons, with particular reference to the reliable replacement warhead?»

Concerned that the United States» 10,000 - strong stockpile of atomic bombs are past their prime, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are vying to design the first new nuclear bomb in the United States since the W88 warhead in the mid-198New Mexico are vying to design the first new nuclear bomb in the United States since the W88 warhead in the mid-198new nuclear bomb in the United States since the W88 warhead in the mid-1980s.

What's more, a new warhead might undercut efforts to discourage nuclear proliferation abroad.

A new class of nuclear weapons is being designed to replace the W - 88 warhead, which is fired from submarines.

Despite the chaos following the breakup of the Soviet Union — which left 18,000 nuclear warheads in the hands of new and mostly poor nations — there is no evidence that any of our old adversary's tactical or strategic nuclear weapons ever left government control.

In light of these surprising new capabilities, the US had a problem: how could it protect the country from an incoming nuclear warhead?

You've got this article in the November — that's the issue — Scientific American, «A Need for New Warheads, «and right on page two of the article, you actually list my first three questions, and they are: What is the purpose of the U.S. nuclear arsenal?

And that's what makes the question of the reliable replacement warhead so vexing, is that whether we need this new potentially more reliable replacement weapon or not depends on what your view is of what our nuclear posture should be and how we should maintain our nuclear weapons complex and all those kinds of thorny problems.

The November issue of Scientific American features a special section called «Nuclear Weapons in a New World» — Dave's article is titled «A Need for New Warheads?»

But the first Reliable Replacement Warhead — and Complex 2030 behind it — is not designed with that goal in mind and, in the absence of policy statements from the current administration, it remains unclear what the role for nuclear weapons — old or new — in the U.S. might be.

For the first time in decades a new uranium rod fabrication plant is operating in New Mexico and it may soon be joined by as many as three others in the U.S.. That's because 2013 will see the expiration of an agreement with Russia that allows the U.S. to blend down the highly enriched uranium from decommissioned Russian nuclear warheads into the lower level enriched fuel used in U.S. nuclear reactors — a program known as «Megatons to Megawatts» that currently provides as much as 50 percent of U.S. nuclear funew uranium rod fabrication plant is operating in New Mexico and it may soon be joined by as many as three others in the U.S.. That's because 2013 will see the expiration of an agreement with Russia that allows the U.S. to blend down the highly enriched uranium from decommissioned Russian nuclear warheads into the lower level enriched fuel used in U.S. nuclear reactors — a program known as «Megatons to Megawatts» that currently provides as much as 50 percent of U.S. nuclear fuNew Mexico and it may soon be joined by as many as three others in the U.S.. That's because 2013 will see the expiration of an agreement with Russia that allows the U.S. to blend down the highly enriched uranium from decommissioned Russian nuclear warheads into the lower level enriched fuel used in U.S. nuclear reactors — a program known as «Megatons to Megawatts» that currently provides as much as 50 percent of U.S. nuclear fuel.

China's nuclear test last week probably signals an attempt to develop a new generation of smaller warheads, according to a dissident Chinese weapons scientist.

The Not New Thing Physicist Sidney Drell and former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George P. Shultz have all endorsed a «world free of nuclear weapons» and urged governments to work «energetically on the actions required to achieve that goal» [see «A Need for New Warheads?»

During the 495th Brookhaven Lecture, Istvan Dioszegi discussed the principles of neutron imaging and advancements to verify nuclear warheads, as well as why and how the technique might become a tool for verification under terms of the New START treaty.

The shutdown blocked, he said, the planned production of some new cores for nuclear warheads.

- The LRSO: Funding tripled to $ 654 million for the new nuclear cruise missile's refurbished W80 - 4 warhead.

It's a bald Escape From New York rip about a French gangster stealing a nuclear warhead and about the quest of two parkour guys to get it back.

He isn't sleeping because of the events that occurred the last time we saw Stark in The Avengers, during which New York City was attacked by aliens from a faraway world and our hero in the red - and - gold armor was nearly killed after saving the city from a nuclear warhead.

The specter this time isn't World War III, the Clock's longtime focus — disarmament treaties have slashed the numbers of nuclear warheads to a fraction of their Cold War peak — but a raft of terrifying new threats that, in the Bulletin's estimation, more than make up for the receding menace of nuclear holocaust.