Sentences with phrase «nuclear debate»

Military chiefs call for party politics to be kept out of nuclear debate during election, yet it is one thing on which the two main parties agree

All these factors heighten the importance of the present nuclear debate.

If there is any hint from our political leaders that the use of nuclear weapons is regarded once again as one of the prerogatives of power in a «close hold,» then at the very least the nuclear debate ought to serve the purpose of forcing openness, or what Jacques Ellul called «unmasking.»

But a second cause for depression is how magnificently rubbish these nuclear debates generally are.

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.

Despite West's experience as First Sea Lord, the Labour peer says Corbyn has never sought his counsel on defence or the nuclear debate.

Arguably, the biggest impact of Fukushima on the nuclear debate, ironically, has been to force agrowing number of pro-nuclear environmentalists out of the closet, including us.

This enters the nuclear debate, just as with the climate debate, via the precautionary principle.

Monbiot has missed, in his nuclear debate, an opportunity to reflect on his perspective, and on the perspective of his new - found opponents, his one - time fellow campaigners.

There are some interesting parallels developing between the highly charged and polarised climate and nuclear debates.

Has Fukushima changed the nuclear debate?

He refers to the nuclear debate as»... a natural experiment in the politicization of science,» and optimistically bets that anti-nuclear liberals will be more open minded and respectful of the scientific evidence than conservatives.