Sentences with phrase «new warheads»

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?»

We addressed the issues of managing an aging stockpile without testing in 2007 [see «A Need for New Warheads?»

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?»

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?

Based on the available data, we are confident that the current program of stockpile stewardship, with some modifications, can preserve the U.S. arsenal for the foreseeable future and that it isn't necessary — and may even be counterproductive — to pursue new warheads.

The only solution, they say, is to design and build new warheads.

Whilst there is no confirmation about how these facilities have been used by the government, theoretically, they would enable the production of new warheads as long as there is enough base materials (e.g. uranium) available.

But Mr Ingram estimated that the submarines could feasibly cost between # 18 billion and # 20 billion by themselves, far above the original # 11 billion estimate - with the new warheads and missile upgrades adding extra costs.

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

The new warhead will be bigger, thicker and heavier than the W76s, and therefore less likely to allow for that kind of failure, according to both Rottler and Goodwin.

The new warhead would work much the same as any other fusion bomb.

But critics say that the main reason for the tests is the development of a new warhead (This Week, 24 June).

Only with these new toys would the AWE scientists be able to continue to contribute to the long established information exchange between Britain and the US, feel competent in maintaining Britain's stockpile and feel able, should they be ever called on, to design a new warhead.

Ordinarily, new warhead pits are produced steadily by technicians at PF - 4 for installation in modernized weapons, to replace some of those pits withdrawn for testing, and to keep workers there trained and agile.

Generally, up to 10 of the first pits produced for a new warhead type are set aside for surveillance to assure they're safely constructed and potent before they're deployed.

Not exact matches

«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 United States wants to dismantle older warheads so that it can substitute some of them with newer, more lethal weapons.

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.

The New START Treaty signed by the United States and the Russian Federation in 2010 limited each side to 1,550 deployed strategic warheads.

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.

But new foreign secretary William Hague decided to reveal how many warheads Britain has during the debate on the Queen's Speech.

However today's poll showed that 54 per cent of voters would prefer not to put money into a new generation of Trident 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?»

The Times reports this morning that work on a new Mark 4A warhead has been taking place at the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

The new weapon would not fulfill a new strategic role in a changed world, but rather replace a portion of the W76 arsenal, due to concern over the aging warheads» ability to retain their full destructive potential in storage.

During a press conference and subsequent interviews, NNSA officials stressed that the design for the W76 replacement warhead is not a new one.

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.

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

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

The first is to continue what the government is doing and carry on as though nothing has happened — that is, expect the AWE scientists to produce new, safe warhead designs for ever and to be able to attract new blood.

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.

Anyway, there is much violence and blood shed, during the midst of which a twisted and disgruntled Russian music teacher makes off with one of the warheads and heads to New York to bomb the city.

From there, the whole X-Men connection continues, including the return of Negasonic Teenage Warhead (NTW, played by Brianna Hildebrand) and her new one - note Japanese girlfriend Yukio (Shioli Kutsuna from Oh, Lucy!).

Baccarin is largely out of the picture, Brianna Hildebrand's enjoyably snarky Negasonic Teenage Warhead is underused, and her new Japanese girlfriend's sole personality trait seems to be having purple hair.