Sentences with phrase «nuclear arsenal»

This was made possible by introducing weapons on each car including machine guns, mines and even nuclear arsenal.

George F. Kennan's 1981 appeal for an immediate 50 percent reduction of nuclear arsenals across the board no longer sounds so fanciful today as we enjoy a relaxation of nuclearist awe.

CRITICS of the Justice Department's prosecutions say the government risks repeating the mistakes made in the case against Wen Ho Lee, who was charged with stealing secrets connected to the U.S. nuclear arsenal in 1999.

The evening started off on a somber note with Cohen pouring 10,000 BB gun pellets into a metal container to illustrate the power of the United States» nuclear arsenal in front of a stunned audience.

If the approach is successful, it could be considered for other sites where uranium was processed for nuclear arsenals or power plant fuel.

Japan and South Korea never developed nuclear arsenals because the US nuclear umbrella protected them.

President Donald Trump wanted to increase the U.S. nuclear arsenal by nearly 10 times, NBC News reported Wednesday.

Humanity's failure to reduce global nuclear arsenals as well as climate change prompted the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to advance their warning about our proximity to a potentially civilization - ending catastrophe

It is the justification virtually every nuclear state uses for maintaining nuclear arsenals, including the UK.

The campaign against Britain's nuclear arsenal took a surprising turn today after efforts to reduce stockpiles came from an altogether different angle.

«While almost two years in the making, this new decrease in dangerous and costly nuclear arsenals sets the stage for not only improved Russian - American relations, but also for much more effective global nonproliferation policies.»

They argued for a review to weigh up these issues and ask whether Britain's security is best served by going ahead with business as usual, reducing nuclear arsenals, adjusting nuclear posture or eliminating nuclear weapons.

In that time, nine other states developed nuclear weapons (South Africa later dismantled its program), nuclear weapons were tested over 1,000 times and the global nuclear arsenal ballooned to over 60,000 before dropping to the current total of approximately 15,000.

That's not so much a problem for Scotland — nuclear weapons are not a membership requirement — as for Britain, whose entire nuclear arsenal is based aboard submarines at the Faslane naval base in western Scotland.

The film's target audience is younger generations who will inherit these decades - old nuclear arsenals.

Generating the codes that govern the U.S. nuclear arsenal used to require two NSA staffers to share a «no - lone» room for hours at a time.

I came to the bleak conclusion, the last time I went inside, that it had become ridiculous, like so many other British pretensions — from our Cold War superpower nuclear arsenal to our strange belief that we are good at sport.

Don't forget as well the potential epidemic of nuclear proliferation as other nations attempt to adjust to and defend themselves against Bush's preventive wars, while our own already staggering nuclear arsenal expands toward first - strike primacy and we expend unimaginable billions on futuristic ideas for warfare in outer space.

The DPRK has obvious reasons to maintain at least a small nuclear arsenal: nuclear weapons offer defense against an alliance possessing overwhelming military advantages, a source of international prestige, and a means to extort money and other benefits from neighbors.

This strategy would ensure the future of jobs at Pantex even after the American nuclear arsenal has been dismantled.

The scientists said about 40 countries possess enough plutonium or uranium to construct substantial nuclear arsenals.

Throughout its history, Centrus has been committed to the reduction of Cold War nuclear arsenals through the recycling of highly enriched uranium from nuclear warheads into low - enriched uranium to be used in fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.

During the Cold War, the purpose of the United States nuclear arsenal was to deter nuclear threats to the United States, primarily from the Soviet Union.

(This is a clear typo; the world nuclear arsenal is about 5,000 megatonnes of TNT.

The US has long relied on the doctrine of «mutually assured destruction» — that is, having a spread - out, autonomous, and effective nuclear arsenal that would return fire should another nuclear power attack — with the intent of deterring any nuclear attacks.

President Donald Trump has spoken about expanding the US nuclear arsenal and, in regard to Russia's weapons program developments, has said «let it be an arms race.»

President Donald Trump, meanwhile, has spoken about the need to create a new nuclear arsenal.

Among other options, the savings could have paid a large portion of the bill to rebuild the nation's aging nuclear arsenal, or the operating expenses for 50 Army brigades.

Probably the danger of a possible nuclear holocaust, created especially by the powerful nations that produce nuclear arsenals, combines with the interpretation of this situation by the preachers in our midst.

Meanwhile, the North was firing off regular weapons tests in a dogged march towards its goal of developing a viable nuclear arsenal that can threaten the US mainland.

Highlighting the ban on cluster bombs, he argued the case for outlawing nuclear arsenals was even more compelling.

For example the Chinese and the Russians have huge nuclear arsenals but in both cases they are defensive.

Although the UK's nuclear arsenal guaranteed its continued global influence in the Cold War, it was the nuclear deterrence developed between the USA and the USSR - the belief that any attack would lead to massive nuclear retaliation and «mutually assured destruction» - that maintained the temperature between the 1950s and 1990s.

He took aim at NBC, which made him a star on The Apprentice, after it reported he wanted to boost America's nuclear arsenal almost tenfold.

Estimates as to the size of the Israeli nuclear arsenal vary between 75 and 400 nuclear warheads.

Surface based nuclear arsenals will have much more rapid communications available, and can react more quickly, with better information.

In making their deliberations about how to update the clock's time, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists focused on the current state of nuclear arsenals around the globe, disastrous events such as the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, and biosecurity issues such as the creation of an airborne H5N1 flu strain.

In our March issue, Scientific American called for taking the U.S. nuclear arsenal off high alert because of this and other such near misses.

If confirmed, a new analysis would double the number of tests the country is known to have conducted and suggest that North Korea is trying to develop powerful warheads for its fledgling nuclear arsenal.

Safety issues make plans to clean up a mess left over from the construction of the U.S. nuclear arsenal uncertain

During the 1950s and 1960s, Pugwash stood for opposition by scientists to the rapid build - up of vast nuclear arsenals by the great powers.

A third of these are warheads — dubbed W76 — which, since 1978, have been deployed atop submarine - based ballistic missiles or stored in what is known as the Enduring Nuclear Stockpile, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal ever since.

A massive nuclear arsenal may provide little deterrent against the use of such weapons by terrorists or nonstate entities.