Sentences with phrase «nuclear arms race»

They simply don't get into the «nuclear arms race in negativity» the way other couples tend to do when bringing up a problem.

Though the treaty was intended to limit the Cold War nuclear arms race, it has created obstacles to private space exploration.

Dr Fox warned in response that Britain could find itself disadvantaged in a «new nuclear arms race».

In 2010, the Supreme Court case Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission ignited the equivalent of a campaign nuclear arms race.

His latest book is Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race

A world without our alliances would see multiple local nuclear arms races, proxy wars, and stateless regions that could become havens for terrorist groups, and refugee migrations.

It may also help us to keep in view the risks of an unlimited nuclear arms race as compared with the risks involved in disarmament.

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.

Countdown to Zero (PG for mature themes, smoking and mass destruction) Doomsday documentary examining the dire prospects for humanity as a consequence of the ever escalating nuclear arms race.

Presumably nuclear Iran wouldn't be even such big problem on its own, but nuclear arms race in Middle East would be a really scarring perspective.

The report's proposals ultimately failed in the United Nations Security Council, being deemed unsatisfactory to both U.S. and Soviet interests, and the Cold War nuclear arms race was on.

In his announcement, the governor called the decision of the Supreme Court's worst and said, «This decision ignited the equivalent of a campaign nuclear arms race and created a shadow industry in New York — maligning the integrity of the electoral process and drowning out the voice of the people.

Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race.

Such a development, should it come to fruition, could have a larger impact of minimizing the threat of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, Katz said.

For me, the existential threat of nuclear weapons didn't really click until a few years ago, when I wrote a feature story that focused on a byproduct of the nuclear arms race.

Pompeo also warned that North Korea could sell nuclear - weapon and ballistic - missile technology and research to other countries, including Iran, which could set off a nuclear arms race.

Its crowning achievement was stopping the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union from expanding into space.

Where the «MAD» acronym — mutually assured destruction — characterized the nuclear arms race, that acronym stands for «mutually assured doubt» in the cyber arms race, according to one researcher, because you can never be sure what attack will occur.

Where the nuclear arms race pits the larger countries against each other, the cyber arms race includes a much larger number of combatants since it is open to almost anyone with cash and a computer, according to a front - page article in the Wall Street Journal.

The press didn't bother to cover other religious bodies» declarations, but covered this one because the bishops «held hearings around the country that sought the advice of top experts with a variety of perspectives on the nuclear arms race.

For instance, when speaking eschatologically about the nuclear arms race, a preacher would refer to such things as the blasphemy of destroying God's handiwork and the idolatry of the bomb, not simply to a nuclear freeze.

For example, in «game theory,» an aptly named part of high academic economics, it has been discovered that games (such as the nuclear arms race or participation in an economy) can not be played with prudence - only rules.

The author uses Kierkegaard's thought as a help in understanding three momentous events in 20th century history — the Holocaust, Stalin's purges, and the nuclear arms race.

Psychologists David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton, in The Caveman and the Bomb: Human Nature, Evolution, and Nuclear War (McGraw - Hill, 1985), express this view with their useful observation that «the nuclear arms race goes on because people allow it» (p. 22, their emphasis).

In this connection, I have three brief comments to add: (1) The heart of the paper is an attempt to use Kierkegaard's thought as a help in understanding certain momentous events in 20th century history — the Holocaust, Stalin's purges, and the nuclear arms race.

Consequently, the Church should not just focus on fighting abortion, but also the nuclear arms race, capital punishment and poverty; and promote health care, immigration reform and benefits for the unemployed....

At the hub of a concerned effort among Protestant churches for revitalization is the struggle for a just peace among the nations, It is the false use of money that continues to make the nuclear arms race possible, now again under the new nuclear doctrine.

Now it is time for our leaders to exercise their considerable talents in the «politics of self - interest» by stopping the nuclear arms race instead of continuing to justify and stockpile the means of mutual suicide.

It is no coincidence that the origins of American soft just war theory can be traced to the nuclear arms race and the turn against the Vietnam War.

Again, reason is showing the folly of the nuclear arms race, that it is foolish to destroy an enemy if the consequence is self - destruction.

I mean problems like the nuclear arms race, inflation, the population explosion, pollution, world hunger, the energy shortage, health care, welfare, and so on.

I have a pile of essays downstairs, I suppose 15 or 18, which are more or less talks I've prepared around the country on all sorts of subjects, but mostly reflections on Indochina and also the nuclear arms race — sometimes from the scriptural viewpoint, sometimes from a purely political one.

Either of them could safely have stopped the nuclear arms race unilaterally many years ago.

(And we might emphasize here also the «impossible» task of bringing about any resolution of the nuclear arms race and what seems to many reasonable people the «inevitable» extinction of human life if the momentum continues according to the «logic» inherent in present international politics).

I remember a Good Friday when Bob Brown and Daniel Berrigan led a day of prayer and education concerning U.S. involvement in the nuclear arms race.

At some point, the nuclear powers - that - be decided that the nuclear arms race underway at the time could only end badly.

The foreign secretary adopted a firm line towards Iran, warning it had no right to spark a «nuclear arms race in the Middle East.»

«It doesn't have the right to set off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, and it doesn't have the right to undermine the stability of its neighbours.»

Yet the site, part of the White Sands missile range, is open two days each year to pilgrims to this «ground zero» of the nuclear arms race.

As with the space race and the nuclear arms race, the United States and Russia have long competed to be the world's largest producer of natural gas and petroleum — crude oil and other hydrocarbons trapped underground.

Cleaning up some of the world's worst hotspots is not a job for humans; reports on the robots built to deal with the legacy of the nuclear arms race

The rush to patent stretches of human DNA has parallels with the nuclear arms race, says the head of Britain's Medical Research Council, Dai Rees.

THE American atomic bombs that dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 signalled the end of the Second World War — and the start of the Cold War and the nuclear arms race.

In «The Voice of the Dolphins,» which is a tale about how the nuclear arms race ultimately ended in the 1980s, he wrote in the 1960s that there was a joint U.S. - Soviet study center in Vienna and that they enlisted dolphins, who had the biggest cranial capacity of any mammal, and they taught them language and they taught them math and the dolphins worked up all these wonderful solutions that won them Nobel Prizes.