Sentences with phrase «nuclear weapons expert»

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In a 2015 article in Foreign Policy, Jeffrey Lewis, an expert on nuclear policy at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, dubbed the weapon «Putin's doomsday machine.»

And while the U.S. has yet to verify that the weapon was a hydrogen bomb, experts widely agree that the detonation created an explosion exceeding previous North Korean nuclear tests.

U.S. intelligence experts say Pyongyang believes it needs the nuclear weapons to ensure its survival and have been skeptical about diplomatic efforts, focusing on sanctions, to get Pyongyang to denuclearize.

His off - the - cuff speaking habit led him to make extreme statements on sensitive subjects (such as nuclear weapons) that alarmed foreign policy experts, but his partisans viewed such outbursts as evidence of his authenticity.

Aghast by the church's historical «moral sausage - making» when it comes to the political outworking of the gospel in the area of U.S. nuclear weapons policy, Tyler Wigg - Stevenson — a Baptist minister and a nuclear policy expert — responded by launching the Two Futures Project (hereafter 2FP).

Some foreign policy experts have taken Kim's announcement last week that North Korea would no longer test nuclear weapons as a positive sign, but the leader also said his country didn't need to continue the testing because he already knows how effective the weapons he has are.

So my question is: Do foreign policy experts or diplomats take seriously the idea of a productive dialogue between the US and North Korea, and under what kind of conditions would they be likely to suspend their nuclear weapons program?

So, in November 2016, in private discussions with American experts, including one of the authors, North Korean officials hinted they might be willing to exercise restraint in the testing of ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons if the United States and South Korea adjusted the exercises to make them less threatening.

«Over 100 military and defence experts, backed by the Obama administration, are calling for a new global programme to eliminate nuclear weapons,» Mr Sauven added.

An expert in judging his audience — a former CND member one day, and a man who is prepared to annihilate millions of people with a nuclear weapon the next.

In asserting that the explosions on 11 and 13 May provide «enough data» to continue the country's nuclear weapons program without further testing, the two government experts hope to free up the hands of politicians who want India to join the 149 countries that have agreed to the ban.

«The letter, from some of the world's most knowledgeable experts in the fields of nuclear weapons and arms control, arrives as Mr. Obama is lobbying Congress, the American public and the nation's allies to support the agreement,» William J. Broad wrote in an article in the New York Times.

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.

LLNL nuclear weapon physicist Gregg Spriggs is leading a team of film experts, code developers and interns on a mission to hunt down, scan and reanalyze what they estimate to be 10,000 films of the 210 atmospheric tests conducted by the U.S. between 1945 and 1962.

The arguments for the reliable replacement warhead include, obviously, reliability, which is in the title of it, although that has somewhat been put to rest by expert study of the plutonium pets that rest at the center of a nuclear weapon; these are the key items for making a nuclear explosion.

«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.

Experts at the workshop suggested scientific evaluation of vast amounts of data from a wide range of sources will be a means of detecting clandestine nuclear weapons activity.

Meanwhile, armaments experts are probing a dinosaur fetus inside a fossilised dinosaur egg with analytical equipment normally reserved for studying the workings of nuclear weapons.

LOOKING for a fresh outlet for their skills, intelligence experts at a US nuclear weapons laboratory are helping the credit - card giant MasterCard International to develop techniques for detecting fraud.

With two of the four experts remaining in her Washington office overlooking the national mall, Miller picked up the phone and called the lab's director, Charles McMillan, at his own office on the idyllic Los Alamos campus in the New Mexico mountains, where nuclear weapons work is financed by a federal payment exceeding $ 2 billion a year.

Michael Bernardin is considered the nation's expert in electromagnetic pulse (EMP) physics created by high - altitude nuclear detonations, and he is nationally recognized for his understanding of weapons physics.

«Nuclear weapons and climate change are precisely the sort of complex existential threats that can not be properly managed without access to and reliance on expert knowledge,» the scientists wrote in their report.

String theory was reformulated from hadronic string theory in the 70s, and global warming received its first major publicity in 1975 from a founding conference organized by anthropologist Margaret Mead and 1950s RAND Corporation nuclear weapons fallout prediction expert Dr William Kellogg.

The result, these experts say, is tantamount to a nuclear weapons standoff: Companies with formidable patent portfolios can use them as cudgels against rivals, while those with fewer patents risk being eaten alive in court.