Sentences with phrase «nuclear weapons option»

«My own view is they never decided to make a weapon but they wanted a nuclear weapons option,» von Hippel told the crowd.

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The intended payload for North Korea's ICBM program is a nuclear warhead (although chemical weapons like VX nerve agent, which the nation allegedly possesses and has used, are another option).

Trump on Tuesday hosted a discussion on options to respond to any North Korean aggression or if necessary to prevent Pyongyang from threatening the United States and its allies with nuclear weapons, the White House said in a statement.

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.

The army and navy in all honesty we did not know he held a 3rd dan black belt in sho rea, he had been trained in air born and air assault and nuclear weapons and their security on trident submarines so when somebody attacked him or use a weapon to intimidate him he considered only one option, deadly force had just been authorized.

The only other real option is that China steps forward and removes North Korea's ability to produce nuclear weapons.

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.

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.

Vajpayee has already announced his intention to review that policy with the option of making nuclear weapons an integral part of the country's national defense.

After spending about 10 years gathering meteorite samples, in 2000 Remo finally gained access to the perfect device for exploring the nuclear option: Sandia National Laboratories» Z machine, which happens to be the world's most powerful nuclear blast simulator, apart from nuclear weapons themselves.

The argument that, while openly renouncing nuclear weapons, Germany has maintained a nuclear option is very interesting.

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.

○ Germany's Cold War chemical weapons: Military planned to stockpile arsenal in 1960s ○ Middle East: CWB weapons a poor man's option to Israel's nuclear arsenal Global Warming - distance between America and Europe is steadily increasing.

You've probably heard the lunatic proposition floating around the web that the last resort option in stopping the oil gushing out of the the sunken Deepwater Horizon is to deploy some variety of nuclear weapon to blast

In fact, one can hardly imagine a more all - encompassing provision to include the option of anticipatory strike than the one envisaging the «employment of nuclear weapons in extreme circumstances to defend the vital interests of the United States, its allies, and partners» (p 21), as laid down in the NPR.

By including yet another option to respond by nuclear strike to conventional weapons development, the document waters down previous attempts to limit the scenarios giving rise for such an option to the potential nuclear threats only.

Understandably, the standard is considerably higher in respect of nuclear weapons, requiring the situation to be of the last resort kind, i.e. warranting the whole range of defensive options to be on the table.