Sentences with phrase «nuclear weapons have»

It is my firm belief that we can not move out from under the shadow of Hiroshima and Nagasaki until we are ready to make that move collectively, and build a system of security that transcends borders, that focuses on the equal value of every human life, and in which nuclear weapons have no place.

It published two books, Nuclear War Survival Skills (foreword by H - bomb inventor Edward Teller), which argues that «the dangers from nuclear weapons have been distorted and exaggerated» into «demoralizing myths.»

Folks like Dyson who have thought a lot about nuclear weapons have a much higher threshold for things they call «catastrophic.»

Nuclear weapons have lent credence to the assumption on which the transcendental viewpoint is based; nature is structured and its structure is in some way knowable.

Whereas the nuclear weapons we have could kill millions.

The Bulletin's members at Thursday's press conference noted that leaders of nations equipped with nuclear weapons have expressed the desire to cooperate in reducing their arsenals and securing nuclear bomb - making material.

Major General Patrick Cordingley, who commanded UK forces in the First Gulf War, blew the whistle on this nonsense, and also argues that «Strategic nuclear weapons have no military use.»

She added: «Once nuclear weapons have been given up, it is almost impossible to get them back.

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.

No other force epitomizes the absolute destructive power humanity has unlocked in the way nuclear weapons have.

Nuclear weapons have been used exactly twice in combat — both times by the US, and both times dropped by a propeller aircraft over largely unprotected Japanese airspace at the close of World War II.

North Korea's drive for deliverable nuclear weapons has long been tied to a desire to ensure regime security.

Of the 31 countries that possess nuclear power plants, we have identified five where the acquisition of nuclear weapons would radically impact relations with their regional neighbors and global powers.

The first reference to that extreme plan was made in 1959 when the MoD warned that nuclear weapons had rendered the tunnel vulnerable but that it also provided the UK with a good option in terms of defence.

North Korea has shown a persistent interest in computer technology since the early 1980s so it is conceivable that a country, which has launched long - range missiles and tested nuclear weapons has also developed a smartphone, said Kang Ho Jye, a research fellow at Ewha Institute of Unification Studies.

Israel's claim that Iran lied to the world about plans to build a nuclear weapon has been endorsed by Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state.

In... Israel's claim that Iran lied to the world about plans to build a nuclear weapon has been endorsed by Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state.

The «fact» of nuclear weapons has been superseded by a more compelling fact: that human beings have a right to live free of the risk of mutual nuclear annihilation.

Without nuclear weapons we would have world wars repeatedly.

He says that the number of nuclear weapons has now reached «levels of redundancy of such grotesque dimensions as to defy rational understanding.»

«Protracted» means prolonged, dragged out; does that mean that nuclear weapons would be fired as long as someone were left alive to push the buttons, long after major cities had been destroyed and millions of humans killed?

Let's assume that Kim believes that actually using nuclear weapons would result in his destruction.

N Korea is run by a dictator who is currently threatening to use the nuclear weapons he has on a fairly flimsy pretext.

Whilst they are indeed awesome and extremely dangerous ordinance, policy on nuclear weapons has at root always been about symbolism.

Almost any conceivable use of nuclear weapons would kill innumerable civilians and cause enormous harm to the natural environment.

It clearly not true that nuclear weapons has prevented wars between nations that has them.

Opinion polls show that a significant majority of the public do not want to see Trident replaced, so cancelling plans for new nuclear weapons would be a vote - winner.

If everyone got rid of their nuclear weapons would be that any state could secretly build nuclear weapons use them to bully other states around.

Crucially, nuclear weapons would be included in a Labour government's strategic defence and security review.

The threat to humanity as a whole from nuclear weapons has led many to oppose them since their development.

But he added: «I don't think that anybody looking at the history of North Korea's plans to develop a nuclear weapon would want to be over-optimistic at this point.

«Bottom line: Iran possessing a nuclear weapon would be a game - changing event that can not and will not be allowed,» the senator wrote.

Anti-nuclear campaigners have also argued that under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Britain is obliged to reduce the number of nuclear weapons it has.

Theoretically, the use of nuclear weapons has to be discussed in the joint meetings of the seven.member Politburo Standing

But they're hard to locate and don't usually assemble in nice easy targetable formations, meaning that nuclear weapons would basically just be doing more collateral damage than conventional bombing.

There was little dissent in the House of Commons; nuclear weapons had almost bipartisan support until 1960, with only the Liberals dissenting in 1958.

Detecting a test of a nuclear weapon has become so effective and reliable that no nation could expect to get away with secretly exploding a device having military significance

According to Campbell, a triggering mechanism for nuclear weapons has gone missing in the Mediterranean, and Douglas wants Fathom to help find it.

The advent of nuclear weapons has ended this option; now military might lead to mutual assured destruction, and therefore the resolution of conflicts by the rule of international law has become a necessity.

The historical phenomenon of nuclear weapons has acted in several ways to revive the transcendental impetus in the arts.

The smoke from the fires started by nuclear weapons would block out so much sunlight that temperatures in the middle of continents would plunge to sub-freezing levels, even in the summer, and these effects would last for years.

He noted that every state that has developed nuclear weapons has done it with research reactors not power reactors.

[But] the proliferation of nuclear weapons has rendered modern war unthinkable, at least between the Western powers, so the traditional method of avoiding collapse by starting a war is no longer available.

Not exact matches

North Korea has long been largely shut to foreign investors, an isolation that deepened when the United Nations ratcheted up sanctions last year in an effort to curb its development of nuclear weapons.

NEW YORK, April 30 - Oil prices rose on Monday after Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran had lied about pursuing nuclear weapons after signing a 2015 deal with global powers, while U.S. stocks fell with declines in healthcare shares.

In Saudi Arabia earlier, Pompeo said that the U.S. would abandon the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, reached under President Donald Trump's predecessor, unless talks with European partners yield improvements to ensure the Islamic Republic never possesses nuclear weapons.

Though Kim has repeatedly vowed to rid his country of nuclear weapons, the promises remain totally one - sided as no one knows how many, or where, North Korea's nuclear arsenal is.

Israeli intelligence had discovered Iranian secret archives from a decade ago showing plans for nuclear weapons.

As a result of North Korea's secretiveness, it may have unaccounted for nuclear weapons floating around even after work towards denuclearization begins.

The decision hasn't been without controversy, given North Korean provocations, and constant threats from Pyongyang to launch its nuclear weapons.