Sentences with phrase «nuclear security experts»

Most nuclear security experts believe that's how long it would take for as many as 400 land - based nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal to be loosed on enemy targets after an initial «go» order.

«We're talking about trillion - dollar consequences,» says panelist Frank von Hippel, a nuclear security expert at Princeton University.

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Schneider confirmed that the incident had occurred and that it had issued a security alert to customers of the technology, which cyber experts said is widely used in the energy industry, including at nuclear facilities, and oil and gas plants.

A group of international security experts polled by Senator Richard Lugar puts the average probability of a nuclear attack on U.S. soil within a decade at around 29 percent, still plenty terrifying.

Whenever he leaves the United States, whether to do research or on vacation, Zia Mian, a nuclear arms control expert at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School (Princeton, N.J.) has to depart from an airport or port designated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The workshop, held 3 to 4 October, attracted two dozen nuclear arms and security experts from government and diplomacy, industry, academia, and non-governmental organizations for off - the - record discussions, followed by a presentation for about 150 Georgia Tech students and faculty members.

Technological advances and science diplomacy will be crucial to a new generation of nuclear security, said experts gathered at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

«If the United States, the strongest nation in the world, concludes that it can not protect its vital interests without relying on new nuclear weapons for new military missions, it would be a clear signal to other nations that nuclear weapons are valuable, if not necessary, for their security purposes, too,» Sidney Drell, arms control expert and physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center said at the American Physical Society Conference in Denver this past March.

But Neile Miller, who was then the acting head of the National Nuclear Security Administration in Washington, says those experts specifically told her that Los Alamos didn't have enough personnel who knew how to handle plutonium so it didn't accidentally go «critical» and start an uncontrolled chain reaction.

Since joining the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2002, he has focused on promoting and conducting dialog between Chinese and American experts on nuclear arms control and space security.

Our professionally facilitated workshops and training courses provide excellent learning and peer - to - peer networking opportunities with a cross-section of the nuclear industry — from licensees and regulators to security experts, academics, law enforcement and vendors.

He knows what he's talking about too... the former Soviet is currently an expert consultant to the US Marine Corps, the US Secret Service, and federal nuclear security teams.

Allison, perhaps the world's leading expert on nuclear security, agrees: «The idea that suicidal terrorists would come in groups of 20 was not the basis on which nuclear power plants and their security systems were designed,» he points out.

Some experts share the view of the Director General of the United Kingdom Security Service, who said in August 2003: «It will only be a matter of time before a crude version of a [chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear] attack is launched at a major Western city»...

«There are so many [problems] from which to choose,» Sharon Squassoni, a military strategy expert and member of the Bulletin's Science and Security Board, said with a little laugh that I'll hear in my head as the nuclear fallout fills my lungs.

Michael A. Levi, a CFR expert on nuclear issues, says Iran's response to the Security Council's demand to halt its nuclear processing in return for concessions appears to be a compromise between hard...