Sentences with phrase «nuclear stockpile»

The budget increase will be for handling the country's nuclear stockpile and restart the controversial Yucca Mountain storage facility for nuclear waste.

Metal Gear Solid V contains a hidden ending, whereby if all players disarm their nuclear stockpile, a nuclear disarmament cutscene is triggered.

WHAT: When former Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) gets trapped inside the White House following a terrorist attack, he must rely on his special skills to rescue the President (Aaron Eckhart) from his captors before they detonate the country's entire nuclear stockpile on domestic soil.

At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and other DOE national labs, these systems will play a vital role in the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) core mission of ensuring the nation's nuclear stockpile in the absence of underground testing.

But that interruption of Los Alamos's pit production and testing — the latter of which is meant to substitute in part for full - scale explosive nuclear testing — has made some of those responsible for managing the nuclear stockpile uncomfortable.

We placed a lot of the nuclear elements in storage within the Pantex facility [the Texas plant operated by B&W Pantex, the company that helps manage the United States» nuclear stockpile], and we took the explosives to Los Alamos National Laboratory for evaluation.

Rep. Edward Markey (D — Mass.) told the Washington Post that the breakdown had «frightening implications» for the security of the U.S. nuclear stockpile.

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.

Part of the rationale for building NIF was that weapons scientists could use it to validate simulations of nuclear explosions and so keep the country's nuclear stockpile safe and working properly.

5113 Number of operational warheads in the U.S. nuclear stockpile, according to the Pentagon.

Three - quarters of its budget goes toward managing the nation's nuclear stockpile, cleaning up former nuclear sites, and preventing the further spread of nuclear weapons.

Omega's closure would have «irreversible and disastrous ramifications for maintaining the safety and reliability of our nuclear stockpile,» Richard Petrasso of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) Plasma Science and Fusion Center in Cambridge wrote in one letter to Representative Joe Kennedy III (D — MA).

In fact, says Marburger, the majority of the lab's funding goes for work on the U.S. nuclear stockpile and won't be transferred to the new department.

However, Lib Dem defence spokesman Nick Harvey reacted to today's speech by demanding a further cut in Britain's nuclear stockpile and new negotiations on full nuclear disarmament.

The success of atomic bombs lies in their not being used: State A does not attack state B because it fears B will use its nuclear stockpile in retaliation; thus, war does not erupt.

The filmmakers hope to feed the movement to not only reduce nuclear stockpiles, but eventually to abolish nuclear weapons altogether.

We need partners who believe that governments should be more concerned about the care of the aged and indigent than the protection of fertilized ova, flags and nuclear stockpiles.

It is estimated that present nuclear stockpiles contain the equivalent of 10 tons of TNT for every human being on the globe.

Hercules, Caesar, Colleoni: there is symbolized brute strength, military power, political power, economic power, the power to enslave and destroy; the power of international arms sales, nuclear stockpiles, oil cartels and transnational corporations; the spiritual power of imposed belief and religious triumphalism demanding obedience and maintaining an uncertain peace by the balance of terror, whether by threats of hell or atomic apocalypse.

Russian officials now keep a database of forensic characteristics of all major nuclear stockpiles in the country to better track down any material if ever stolen.

«We recognize that the gravest terror threat we face — a nuclear attack made possible by nuclear proliferation — requires a comprehensive strategy for reducing the world's nuclear stockpiles and preventing the spread of those armaments,» it says.

It urged world leaders to keep seeking to forcefully address climate change and to slash and secure nuclear stockpiles.

Not exact matches

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-- IRD note: Maybe 1.4 % of a global stock bubble — but that's like saying a small nuclear bomb in the hands of a madman is just 1.4 % of the total stockpile of nuclear weapons.

In fact, according to a statement read on August 9, 2005, at a meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, he issued a fatwa declaring that «the production, stockpiling, and use of nuclear weapons are forbidden under Islam and that the Islamic Republic of Iran shall never acquire these weapons.»

The televangelists not only gave whole - hearted support to America's policy of stockpiling nuclear weapons, but encouraged people to look forward to the expected nuclear war with joyful expectation.

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.

(1) There are tens of thousands of nuclear weapons stockpiled, with over 7,000 actually targeted and ready for instant use.

The second profound social change is that we are now living in a nuclear age compounded by increasing international tensions, violence, terrorism, and the stockpiling of nuclear weapons.

The cessation of nuclear testing and of the development of new weapons systems, and the subsequent reduction of existing stockpiles of weapons would stabilize the international balance of terror.

Meanwhile, implementation of the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers was on track after Iran shipped its stockpile of low enriched uranium out of the country, though it still had many other important things to complete, Rhodes said.

The federal agency that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile is expected this week to release a report on the best site option for the United States as it looks to ramp up production of the plutonium cores that trigger nuclear warheads.

The policy document, which by its own admission «is not about launching new initiatives», comes after it emerged Barack Obama was prepared to delay the deployment of a US missile shield in eastern Europe to help persuade Russia to begin cutting its stockpile of nuclear warheads.

Having a stockpile of a wide variety of nuclear weapons gives a state a much wider range of option not only if but how they want to perform a nuclear strike.

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

«Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs with reference to the Statement during the Prime Minister's address to the US Congress that the UK would work with the United States of America to reduce stockpiles of nuclear weapons, what steps the Government is taking to achieve that objective.

He also suggested Britain, like Japan, could retain a stockpile of safeguarded fissile material that could be turned into a nuclear missile within six to 24 months.

To spark a chain reaction, nuclear bomb makers need large stockpiles of particles.

When asked why this project is so important to him, he voiced the dominant perspective among weapon scientists at LLNL: He doesn't want nuclear weapons to be used and passionately believes the key to ensuring they aren't is to making sure the U.S. stockpile continues to be an effective deterrent.

NNSA maintains and enhances the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear explosive testing; works to reduce global danger from weapons of mass destruction; provides the U.S. Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion; and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the U.S. and abroad.

Concerned that the United States» 10,000 - strong stockpile of atomic bombs are past their prime, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are vying to design the first new nuclear bomb in the United States since the W88 warhead in the mid-1980s.

Part of the reason is obvious: It needs the expertise to improve and maintain the nation's nuclear weapons stockpiles, and it needs people to replace the first generation of nuclear plant operators and engineers, many of whom are now retiring.

«It's a very important prerequisite for the control of nuclear materials,» says Brian Chow of the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, who has analysed ways of reducing the world's plutonium stockpile.

At the summit, 47 countries pledged to prevent the theft of fissile material, which could be used to create a nuclear bomb, by securing all stockpiles within four years.

How do we find out if other nations are secretly stockpiling nuclear weapons?

And it has been deeply involved in DOE's stockpile stewardship program, which aims to ensure the reliability of U.S. nuclear weapons.

Should the United States listen to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and others who call for new nuclear weapons to replace our aging stockpile?

Aliens would have to simultaneously deploy nuclear weapons a billion times more powerful than Earth's entire stockpile for us to see the gamma - ray burst from the explosion, and even then it is so brief that we're unlikely to be looking at the right time.

So, the funding situation that we are in right now — in 1990s, we launched a program called the Stockpile Stewardship Program; it was intended to maintain the existing nuclear arsenal for a number of decades, if not indefinitely and that has been a huge bonus in terms of actually understanding the physical processes of nuclear weapons and getting away from nuclear testing.

For nearly 2 decades, NNSA has supported the construction and operation of NIF because ICF's miniature explosions can aid weapons scientists who are trying to maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile.