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* «Pot» did not always refer to a cooking implement * British groups had always been a feature of pop music * The VW Beetle had always been the alternative to a North American car * There had always been a nuclear threat in a cold war * Queen Elizabeth II was the only monarch they remembered * Germany had always been two countries (well, so far as current affairs went — rather hard for that generation to avoid knowing the history before the division, though.)

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Such a development, should it come to fruition, could have a larger impact of minimizing the threat of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, Katz said.

Kohlbacher's comments come after acting South Korean President Hwang Kyo - ahn on Monday said despite Chinese hostility to the move, the deployment of the Thaad system can not be delayed in the face of a growing North Korean nuclear missile threat.

On Monday, Acting South Korean President Hwang Kyo - ahn on Monday said despite Chinese hostility to the move, the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile defense system can not be delayed in the face of a growing North Korean nuclear missile threat.

In addition to the threat of nuclear war, Soros expressed concerns about the Trump administration and the populist sentiments the president espouses.

After strong words from President Donald Trump promising «fire and fury» in response to continued threats from Pyongyang, North Korea threatened to launch a nuclear - missile attack on the US military in Guam.

Tensions have escalated since North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on September 3, but the rhetoric has reached a new level in recent days with leaders on both sides exchanging threats and insults.

North Korea's deputy UN ambassador, Kim In Ryong, echoed the sentiment on Monday: «Unless the hostile policy and the nuclear threat of the US is thoroughly eradicated, we will never put our nuclear weapons and ballistic rockets on the negotiating table under any circumstances,» Kim said, according to Reuters.

«After numerous discussions with President Trump, I firmly believe his strong stand against North Korea and its nuclear aggression gives us the best hope in decades to resolve this threat peacefully.

The first threat to the Iran nuclear deal comes in the form of the appointment of «Iran hawks» John Bolton as national security advisor (he replaces HR McMaster on April 9) and Mike Pompeo as secretary of state.

The South's president, Moon Jae - in, expressed worry that North Korea's growing missile threat could force the United States to attack the North before it masters a nuclear - tipped long - range missile, something experts say may be imminent.

From wildfires and horrific mass shootings to threats of nuclear war and community - flattening hurricanes, there is no denying that some pretty terrible things happened in 2017.

He will be responsible for advising Trump on a wide spectrum of national security issues, from the U.S. - led coalition against the Islamic State to China's aggressive actions in the South China Sea to North Korea's growing nuclear threat.

While the special counsel's investigation tries to determine whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, America's top nuclear commander described the nation as a paramount threat to the United States.

Just months ago, Trump and Kim were trading threats and insults as the North made rapid advances in pursuit of nuclear - armed missiles capable of hitting the United States.

In particular, the long - term challenges posed by transnational terrorism, by Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons, and by threats to Israel's security will require strong U.S. security commitments in the Middle East regardless of whether oil is also a major regional concern.&raquIn particular, the long - term challenges posed by transnational terrorism, by Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons, and by threats to Israel's security will require strong U.S. security commitments in the Middle East regardless of whether oil is also a major regional concern.&raquin the Middle East regardless of whether oil is also a major regional concern.»

The report, «Socionomics in a Nutshell» (December 1999), demonstrated in brief that in the realm of economics, politics, demographics, war and even the threat of nuclear destruction, events are not causal to social mood and stock market trends.

Changes in the threat of nuclear destruction do not affect stock prices; the social mood as reflected by the stock market affects the level of the threat.

The nuclear threat has put us in a unique position: we may be the first generation in a long time to understand Jesus on the subject of the end.

At the Honolulu Conference, where Doi was honored for his leadership in dialogue, he spoke of the growing threat of nuclear warfare, pleading that this development alone makes it imperative for Buddhists and Christians to come together in mutual understanding.

In my view, there are at least six key factors which have caused and continue to affect a global transformation of consciousness: the revolution in communications, globalization of the economy, a growing awareness of the degradation of the environment, demographic shifts, the threat of nuclear destruction and the advent of the new sciencIn my view, there are at least six key factors which have caused and continue to affect a global transformation of consciousness: the revolution in communications, globalization of the economy, a growing awareness of the degradation of the environment, demographic shifts, the threat of nuclear destruction and the advent of the new sciencin communications, globalization of the economy, a growing awareness of the degradation of the environment, demographic shifts, the threat of nuclear destruction and the advent of the new science.

But this historical dynamism has brought with it the idea of conquest and the consequent results in absolutisation of State power, world wars and threat of nuclear holocaust quite unknown to traditional societies.

If it so happens that ten or twenty or fifty years from now all nuclear weapons have been abolished, a few of the persons who grow up in that post-nuclear era may read this essay at some point in their lives and glean from it a feeling for what it was like to live under the threat of global nuclear war.

The combination of the ecological and nuclear threats leads to what is in the most straightforward sense a threat to the survival of the human race.

(CNN)- As Jews gathered together at sundown Wednesday to break the Yom Kippur fast, in some homes it wasn't just food that was being shared, but also opinion on the rising tension between the leaders of the United States and Israel over the threat posed by Iran's nuclear program.

From his analysis emerges perhaps the most important task of all for modern Christians: Christians should not only advocate peace to fend off the negative threat of nuclear war, but must articulate, espouse and live a positive vision and motivation for peace that is grounded in the biblical tradition.

If our concern is peacemaking — particularly the special urgency given that task by the nuclear threat — then we shall have to come to grips with those portions of the biblical witness in which the community of faith has been forced to deal with the violence and pain of conflict between peoples.

As the reality of the nuclear threat has come home to me and I have been caught up in the peace movement, the biblical ambiguity has continued to haunt me.

One school of thought holds that the possibility of disarmament is predicated upon the preceding or at least simultaneous settlement of outstanding political issues that have given rise to the armaments race in the first place, and that the threat of nuclear war has not materially affected this perennial functional dependence of disarmament upon a political settlement.

In the 1960s there was a new mood of optimism, although this was soon dispelled by the growing threat of nuclear war and by economic instability.

Another school of thought assumes that the threat of nuclear war has radically altered this traditional relationship, which was perennial only in appearance but was in fact dependent upon certain ephemeral factors no longer present today.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

This means, for one thing, reconsideration of the military threat to us in view of the fact that Mr. Khrushchev has a better understanding of the meaning of nuclear war than either the Chinese or some American Senators.

In case there were still any doubts about how serious this whole fake news trend has gotten, this weekend, it sparked threats of a real nuclear war.

This was not only because of the enormous amount of resources that the military in all countries were using up but also the ultimate threat of a nuclear war that might, in one stroke, destroy the life - support systems of the earth.

And, if I'm to be honest, at this point of my reflections my tolerance wears very thin indeed: in a world of mass murder and mass starvation, of unprecedented terror, odious tyrannies, and the threat of nuclear holocausts — in such a world there is something obscene about an order of priorities that starts off with bigger and better orgasms.

If our concern is peacemaking — particularly the special urgency given that task by the nuclear threat — then we shall have to come to grips with those portions of the biblical witness in which the...

A punitive expedition against a prospective threat to American security turned into an exercise in nation - building, the nation - builders turned into hostages, and the hostages to Iranian threats become the excuse to concede nuclear capability to a terrorist state.

«The excesses and atrocities of organized religion,» says Roy Abraham Varghese in his preface to Antony Flew's book There Is a God, «have no bearing whatsoever on the existence of God, just as the threat of nuclear proliferation has no bearing on the question of whether E = mc2.»

It may trust in the promise for redemption of human history even in the face of the threat of nuclear disaster.

On the other hand, there are horrendous dangers of worldwide misery implicit in the threat of nuclear war, extinction by ecological disruption, the explosion of population, and the political problems of governing the world's peoples during a period of such momentous crises.

With the ecological crisis, the threat of nuclear war, and international monetary problems, everyone is thinking in apocalyptic terms — except the liberal, contented church, which long ago made its peace with the present and trusted in tomorrow.

«The world may feel on a knife - edge with nuclear missiles pointing in every direction, but the threat of extermination is the daily reality for North Korean Christians.

Washington Wine Country's Nuclear Threat: A nuclear facility in Washington state's prime wine country is leaching radioactive groundwater and is one natural disaster away from Nuclear Threat: A nuclear facility in Washington state's prime wine country is leaching radioactive groundwater and is one natural disaster away from nuclear facility in Washington state's prime wine country is leaching radioactive groundwater and is one natural disaster away from Fukushi

Lib Dems in government pressed the nuclear button after a separate spat developed on Friday over Nick Clegg's plans to give under - sevens free school lunches, which is now under threat from the Department for Education.

This becomes increasingly likely if Israel feels boxed in by the many threats on its borders, including instability in Syria and Iranian nuclear proliferation.

There was one week in the summer where thanks to day - glo Cartman President Donald Trump, the threat of nuclear war was only knocked from the top headline spot because of a Nazi march and I had a bizarre realisation that maybe all the Indiana Jones films were instruction guides for survival all along.

Recent revelations of 25 possible intrusions (based on fake IDs) at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India's premier nuclear facility in Mumbai, highlights this threat.

The potential threat posed by Iran's claimed peaceful nuclear programme (going anything over 20 % uranium enrichment, defined as the «Red Line» by the Obama administration), should also be understood in the context of the unintended consequences of the norms and rules (of the regime itself) and the ways in which nations both «good» and «rogue», «rational» and «irrational» have come to define their own rights and obligations within a nuclear regime.

Gardiner has been a supporter of China in his shadow portfolios, in particular surrounding the development of Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, opposing inner - party disputes over criticism of Chinese involvement in the project, despite military and intelligence figures warning ministers that such involvement posed a threat to national security.