"Nuclear proliferation" refers to the spread or increase in the number of countries or groups possessing nuclear weapons. It means more and more nations or organizations gaining access to these powerful and destructive weapons.
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But some arms - control groups have been opposed to the agreement, arguing that it increases the risk
of nuclear proliferation.
In essence, there are many, many reasons to question whether both sides will adhere to the agreement, and
nuclear proliferation in the region is highly problematic.
Similar reasoning was applied in three different contexts; the employment tribunal, a case relating to
Iranian nuclear proliferation and a claim for damages for foreign torture.
Shadow foreign secretary William Hague has called on the government to step up its efforts
against nuclear proliferation, comparing the issue in importance to climate change.
The report concludes with a dozen recommendations for policymakers, including reducing subsidies to existing reactors, adopting market - oriented approaches to uranium mining royalties and waste management financing, and incorporating the costs of
preventing nuclear proliferation and terrorism into economic assessments of new reactors.
Their 33 - year - old leader, Kim Jong - un, appears utterly unfazed, persistently pursuing a paranoid push for
nuclear proliferation at literally all costs.
Some people in the middle east might in fact benefit from the tensions, because it diverts the attention of the United States and might give another precedent case for getting away
with nuclear proliferation.
He appealed to the U.S. to rejoin the Paris climate accord and create a «low - carbon economy» because «there is no Planet B.» He said remaining with America's allies in the Iran nuclear deal, at least until some replacement is negotiated, is the best path for fighting terrorism, preserving peace and
avoiding nuclear proliferation.
A historian by training, her research interests
include nuclear proliferation and nonproliferation, nuclear energy industry, East Asian security, U.S. foreign policy, two Koreas, and the Cold War.
First, the tail risks (low - probability, high - impact events) in the global economy — a eurozone breakup, the US going over its fiscal cliff, a hard economic landing for China, a war between Israel and Iran
over nuclear proliferation — are lower now than they were a year ago.
We have in the past signed test ban treaties, promoted efforts to
limit nuclear proliferation, joined with other nations in a variety of international undertakings.
The minister stressed the UK would continue to work towards
cutting nuclear proliferation, but said the government's plans to renew Trident were not hypocritical and were fully compliant with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
In a modest victory for efforts to
block nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism, Russia has agreed to shut down its last three nuclear reactors that produce weapons - grade plutonium.
Since neutrinos aren't held up by matter, we can use them to peer beneath the Earth's surface, deep out into space, and even within nuclear reactors, potentially to
monitor nuclear proliferation agreements — not bad for a particle that is barely there.
«Indefinite storage of plutonium is not a good idea,» agrees Paul Leventhal of the Nuclear Control Institute, a pressure group based in Washington DC that
opposes nuclear proliferation.
According to Joseph Cirincione, an expert on
nuclear proliferation who now heads the Ploughshares Fund, Poneman is a «solid, sober, moderate, nice guy» who doesn't push his own personal views.
Doctor Atomic, a new opera about to open at the Met,
brings nuclear proliferation, «rogue states» and the terrorists» dream of a dirty bomb back to the first «ground zero»
Blaming scientists for the extinction of such species is like blaming Albert Einstein or Marie Curie for cold
war nuclear proliferation.
Clark's new techniques using capillary electrophoresis and microchip technology may allow for real - time field screening of plutonium and other materials by
nuclear proliferation investigators and forensic scientists at the Department of Homeland Security.
We learn about Florence Ponting (Saoirse Ronan), a classical violinist who dreams of concert halls and
protests nuclear proliferation on the side, and Edward Mayhew (Billy Howle), a student of history with a home life marked by restrained chaos due to his mother's brain damage.
Specifically, most urgent problems such as resource depletion, environmental pollution, over-population, deforestation, the Greenhouse Effect, unchecked militarism, and
rampant nuclear proliferation are studied to provide our students with a better understanding of the complexity of these interrelated issues.
During the eight years I worked in the White House, every
single nuclear proliferation threat we had to deal with was connected to a reactor program.
Lovins sees the biggest benefit from the death of nuclear as making it easier to
stop nuclear proliferation since suspect nations could no longer claim they were just making electricity.
This presents an immense opportunity for Australia to create a «closed cycle» nuclear industry, virtually eliminating the industry's risk to populated areas while simultaneously
eliminating nuclear proliferation risk through containing the entire industry in one highly secure location.
The National Iranian Tanker Company is the main carrier for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps - designated National Iranian Oil Company and a key element in the petroleum supply chain responsible for generating energy revenues that support the
illicit nuclear proliferation activities of the Government of Iran.
The sanctions included, inter alia, the freezing of assets and economic resources of entities presumed to be linked to Iran's
nuclear proliferation program.
The dispute was heard by the General Court before going to the ECJ, where it was held that Bank Mellat was not a state - owned bank — the Council had not been able to accurately verify the extent to which the state had any shareholding in the bank, nor was it the case that the bank was
supporting nuclear proliferation.