Sentences with phrase «nuclear superpowers»

The clock has been wound backwards before, in the wake of the Cold War or during times when nuclear superpowers expressed interest in not mutually assuring destruction.

In past negotiations aimed at reducing the arsenals of the world's nuclear superpowers, chiefly the U.S. and Russia, a major sticking point has been the verification process: How do you prove that real bombs and nuclear devices — not just replicas — have been destroyed, without revealing closely held secrets about the design of those weapons?

Not exact matches

We even entertained the morality that it was better to destroy our entire species than allow one superpower to «win» an all - out nuclear war, and I can't think of a worse crime than that.

Currently the Korean peninsula is not self - reliant but is rather absolutely dependent on the nuclear war strategies of the superpowers in general and those of the United States in particular.

The intervening years had seen World War II; the rise of the United States to «superpower» status as (in its own view) the guarantor of the security of the «free world,» a status underwritten by nuclear power and illustrated by the United States» participation in a United Nations «police action» in Korea; and rapid economic growth and high prosperity.

America's extended nuclear umbrella had seemed viable in the early post-war years when the United States maintained overwhelming superiority in these weapons, but grew increasingly questionable as Soviet gains in nuclear and missile technology ushered in the era of superpower parity and «mutually assured destruction».

The absence of the threat of spontaneous superpower conflict takes some of the urgency and purism out of the nuclear debate; the economic context has been comprehensively reconfigured by Thatcherism; and on Europe almost all Labour MPs, including the leader, and most Labour voters, supported membership.

Reagan was convinced that the risk of catastrophic nuclear war was high, and he wanted to reduce the two superpowers» swollen arsenals.

But because any hostile action against those satellites could easily escalate to a full nuclear exchange on Earth, both superpowers backed down.

While the superpowers were busy threatening to destroy each other with nuclear weapons, Albert B. Sabin turned to a surprising ally to test his new oral polio vaccine — a Soviet scientist

As nuclear technology spread beyond the major superpowers, this potential application led to worries over uncontrolled proliferation of atomic weapons to other states or even to terrorist groups.

The clock's hands were pushed all the way back to 11:43 p.m., 17 minutes to midnight, in December 1991, after the world's superpowers signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which at the time, seemed like a promising move toward nuclear disarmament.

Mao felt that the world's superpowers didn't respect him, and he was convinced that only a nuclear deterrent would guarantee the security of the new People's Republic of China.

Relationsbetween the two superpowers deteriorated very quickly, leading to anincreasingly rapid nuclear arms race and a dangerous standoff in the ColdWar.Domestically, Eisenhower began the modernization and integration of Americanroads into the interstate highway system, modeled after the autobahn, whichhe saw in Germany.

Meanwhile, a group of neo-Nazi terrorists have obtained a nuclear warhead, thought lost in a failed Israeli mission in 1973, and will use it to escalate the tension between the two superpowers into a full - out nuclear war.

He decides that the world is going in the wrong direction amidst political talk of nuclear weapons and superpowers.

An explosion occurs on the Klingon moon known as Praxis (an allusion to the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl), which makes the Klingon race face possible extinction, as their way of life crumbles, rendering them a superpower no longer (akin to the breakup of the USSR).

Following the nuclear destruction of the Middle East, the oil - producing nations of South America form the Federation in response to the economic crisis, quickly growing to become a global superpower.

The superpower nuclear standoff gave us fifty years of relative peace, we had cheap energy from inherent over-supply of oil, grain supply increased faster than population growth and the climate warmed due to the highest solar activity for 8,000 years.