Sentences with phrase «nuclear weapons into»

It is only reasonable to expect that North Korea would require credible assurances that the United States will not introduce or threaten to introduce US nuclear weapons into the region in the future.

In a similar vein, he made vague but conciliatory comments about trying to find a way forward on two other long - standing nuclear waste issues: the cleanup of Cold War — related waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and the stalled construction of a plant in South Carolina designed to turn some 68 tons of plutonium scavenged from U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons into so - called mixed oxide fuel (MOX).

Recently the Philippines has legislated a law declaring that those who bring nuclear weapons into the territory of the Philippines will be imprisoned for a sentence of at least six years and up to a maximum of thirty, and that all airplanes or ships carrying nuclear bombs will be arrested.4 There have been indications that the United States has explored plans to relocate the United States military from the Philippines to Taiwan.

Introducing nuclear weapons into this process forces a nation to move with caution because the risk of massive retaliation is great.

Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea wrote the possession of nuclear weapons into their constitution as a guarantor of their security.

Not exact matches

It was even suggested that if criminals got their hands on these atomic hearts, they could turn them into nuclear weapons.

The group quickly determines the mission team's potential strength (knowledge of the terrain), potential weakness (susceptibility to disease), assumptions being factored into the decisions (they do not face nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons), things they must not do (damage property, which would lead to loss of popular support), the principle information requirements, high - value targets, and so on through a checklist of easily overlooked considerations.

The Wall Street Journal in August spoke with a South Korean trader who provided perhaps the best insight into why: «If war breaks out with North Korea and they fire a nuclear weapon, it becomes a matter of life or death, and at that point, what happens in the stock market is meaningless.»

Netanyahu's bottom line was that going back years, Iran lied about its nuclear program and secretly pursued weaponization research that would allow it to convert its supposedly peaceful civil nuclear program into a weapons program.

President Trump long has railed against the Iran nuclear accord as «insane» and the «worst ever,» even though it has successfully curbed Iran's ability to develop or build a nuclear weapon since it went into effect in early 2016.

This is the third possibility: Life appears and in some cases develops into intelligent beings, but when it reaches the stage of sending radio signals it will also have the technology to make nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction.

Billions upon billions of public dollars have gone into the production of nuclear weapons.

They best just bow down because America will turn that country into a hellish lava pit with the detonation of Nuclear weapons... Pakistan is a disgrace because they will stab you in the back.

In recent years, as scholars have explored Ronald Reagan's foreign policy with greater access to primary - source documents, something utterly baffling to the conventional wisdom of his time (and ours) has come into focus: Reagan, determined to win the Cold War, was also eager to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

«Whereas Iraq has consistently breached its cease - fire agreement between Iraq and the United States, entered into on March 3, 1991, by failing to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction program, and refusing to permit monitoring and verification by United Nations inspections; Whereas Iraq has developed weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological capabilities, and has made positive progress toward developing nuclear weapons capabilities» — From a joint resolution submitted by Tom Harkin and Arlen Specter on July 18, 2002

The US is far more likely to attack a nuclear North Korea than one with conventional weapons — it changes North Korea into a danger to US citizens.

Metaphor is like the nuclear weapon of communication, bypassing rational scrutiny, striking deep into people's subconscious.

EDCA clearly provides that the materials the US military may bring into the country «shall not include nuclear weapons,» in compliance with the Philippine Constitution.

Some people state that Ghana maintains several research reactors ready on standby for the processing of highly enriched uranium (HEU) into tactical nuclear weapons (TNW).

The greatest nuclear fear today is that nuclear weapons find their way into the hands of terrorists or «rogue states», either through autonomous programmes of development or technology passed on, particularly from the former Soviet Union or China.

«Even when you destroy 99 % of our nuclear weapons, the remaining 1 % can still bomb you back into the stone age».

Labour splits over Trident burst into the open again today amid claims senior MPs could be sidelined as the party decides whether to ditch its support for Britain's nuclear weapons.

JON SOPEL: Now you went into the last election, the Labour Party did with a very clear manifesto and unless I'm very much mistaken I don't think there was any reference to nationalising key parts of the industrial and financial sectors, getting rid of nuclear weapons, slashing defence spending and higher tax rates for the better off?

Although nuclear weapons attest to the conversion of matter into immense amounts of heat and light, doing the reverse is not so easy.

Pervez Hoodbhoy, a Bulletin member and head of Quaid - i - Azam University's physics department in Pakistan, called for a moratorium on the development of materials that go into nuclear weapons and on testing nuclear weapons.

The testing of nuclear weapons in the 1950s spewed a lot of radioactive carbon 14 into the air.

In particular, a relatively new form of nuclear technology could overcome the principal drawbacks of current methods — namely, worries about reactor accidents, the potential for diversion of nuclear fuel into highly destructive weapons, the management of dangerous, long - lived radioactive waste, and the depletion of global reserves of economically available uranium.

During the Cold War, private companies such as Tronox's former parent company, Kerr - McGee Corp., operated uranium mines under U.S. government contracts, removing four million tons of ore that went into making nuclear weapons and fuel.

But the news today is that many of these goods did not have to be smuggled into secret nuclear weapon facilities.

Most of this material went into nuclear weapons programmes, mostly in Russia and the US.

But the RRW program may simply be designed to address a more fundamental concern: ensuring that the U.S. retains the capacity to build and field nuclear weapons well into the future.

It will also provide increased confidence in the weapon's «margin,» says J. Stephen Rottler, vice president for weapons engineering and product realization at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., which will be responsible for integrating the nuclear explosive into weapons systems such as missiles.

Sandia National Laboratories has sent a mock B61 - 12 nuclear weapon speeding down the labs» 10,000 - foot rocket sled track to slam nose - first into a steel and concrete wall in a spectacular test that mimicked a high - speed accident.

8 That same year, six Milwaukee teens hacked into Los Alamos National Lab, which develops nuclear weapons.

Such nuclear reactors can actually «consume» plutonium via fission (transforming it into other forms of nuclear waste that are not as useful for weapons).

«We're going to take plutonium oxide that's a powder, turn it into fuel form, put it in the reactor, make it more radioactive, and then put that into the ground,» Loewen admits, which would also render it unfit for nuclear weapons.

The plant is supposed to convert plutonium from weapons into fuel for nuclear power plants, but the study triggered fears that DOE wanted to pull the plug on the project, whose cost has ballooned from $ 4.9 billion to $ 7.7 billion.

It was meant to safeguard the nuclear technology of any given country and make sure it is not being converted into nuclear weapons.

Shuttering a key part of PF - 4 abruptly halted two types of sensitive work done nowhere else in the United States, for roughly the next four years: The invasive sampling and analysis of selected aging nuclear weapons cores to ensure that intact models could all still function as intended; and the production of new cores that could be fit into more modern nuclear weapons or replace those pulled apart in testing.

She also discusses how this research could be applied to technologies to identify materials being produced for nuclear weapons in order to help prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.

Nuclear reprocessing, weapons tests, and nuclear accidents, such as the 2011 catastrophe in Japan, release xenon radioisotopes into the atmoNuclear reprocessing, weapons tests, and nuclear accidents, such as the 2011 catastrophe in Japan, release xenon radioisotopes into the atmonuclear accidents, such as the 2011 catastrophe in Japan, release xenon radioisotopes into the atmosphere.

Since the end of the Soviet Union, the U.S. and Russia have been engaged in a nuclear non-proliferation effort designed to reduce the world's supply of HEU by diluting, or «blending down,» the weapons grade material into reactor grade material, sometimes called «turning megatons into megawatts.»

Under a landmark agreement between the United States and Russia, 500 metric tons of former Soviet nuclear weapons material was converted into fuel for America's civilian power reactors.

But no worries... there's no need to get Bruce Willis into a space shuttle and have him save us with a nuclear weapon -LSB-...]

Small amounts of caesium - 134, caesium - 137, and iodine - 131 were released into the environment during nearly all nuclear weapon tests and some nuclear accidents, and are not otherwise produced in nature.

Kelly, a scientist who worked on bombs and is now trying to save the world from them, is drawn into what Devoe keeps referring to accusingly as the «real world,» as in «In the real world, nuclear weapons are heading toward Iran!»

In a great transitionary, associative image to the next segment many eons later, the tossed bone (tool / weapon) instantly rotates and dissolves into a white, orbiting space satellite from Earth - a technological instrument, tool, weapon (orbiting nuclear platform) or machine from another era that was ultimately derived from the first tool - weapon.

However, when criminal Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne) learns the identities of Fine and all the other top agents, Cooper volunteers to head into the field to take Boyanov down and retrieve the nuclear weapon she is in possession of before she sells it off to someone who means to use it.

It transpires that someone has leaked a document on to the internet claiming that Frank and Marvin took part in a covert, cold war plot to smuggle a new type of nuclear weapon, designed by Dr Edward Bailey (Anthony Hopkins) into Moscow.

Susan Cooper is suddenly thrust into the field and must go undercover to prevent a crazy Bulgarian arms dealer from selling a nuclear weapon to terrorists.