Sentences with phrase «nuclear weapons part»

The program was started by the nuclear weapons part of the DOE so that the performance of hydrogen bombs could be understood without further testing.

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Retired Gen. Roger A. Brady, who was responsible for American nuclear weapons in Europe as part of his past role as commander of the U.S. Air Force there, turned to Apple support this year when he noticed something suspicious on his computer.

Part of the NIF's mandate is to provide an environment to recreate the conditions of nuclear weapons.

«I accompany with prayer the positive success of the Inter-Korean summit last Friday and the courageous commitment assumed by the leaders of the two parts to carry out a path of sincere dialogue for a Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons,» the Catholic Church leader told pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter's Square on Sunday.

As part of his «State of the World» address, Pope Francis asked world leaders to stand up for more conversations toward peace in Korea and an enforced ban on nuclear weapons.

The issue of nuclear weapons dominated the 1950s and a good part of the «60s.

The Iraq War, however, is not being fought with nuclear weapons and is in fact part of a strategy — whether wise or not is another question — aimed at, among other things, preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear capacity.

Within that functional world - village, we find now existing genocidal war (Indochina), cold war, nuclear weapons threats, conventional weapons threats, colonialism and neo-colonialism, wildly unbalanced use of resources so that a major part of the world population starves or verges on starvation while a minor part consumes lavishly, racism, ignorance, a defilement of the environment through pollution of air, water and soil, and reckless wastage of irreplaceable resources.

Neither can Russian responsibilities be ignored, since their nuclear weapons are ready to strike any part of the Korean peninsula.

Even though, India has been the largest trading partner of UAE and 27.15 % of UAE's immigrants are Indian, UAE had a strategic relationship with Pakistan in that they funded Pakistan's nuclear weapons program and helped Pakistan to smuggle various parts and accessories of Pakistan's nuclear industry.

U.S. agents had intercepted a German ship named the BBC China carrying parts for a Libyan nuclear - weapons - production program, and Libya, in subsequently renouncing its nuclear ambitions, had named Pakistan, and particularly the Khan Research Laboratories, as the supplier of what was to be a complete store - bought nuclear - weapons program.

[111] Alex Salmond said it would be «perfectly feasible» to join NATO while maintaining an anti-nuclear stance and that Scotland would pursue NATO membership only «subject to an agreement that Scotland will not host nuclear weapons and NATO continues to respect the right of members to only take part in UN sanctioned operations».

North Korea, a peculiar country that managed to secure generations of totalitarian rule, is, indeed, itself a contradiction: the elite on the top try to make use of nuclear weapons — the technology of modern social invention, to maintain social culture and tradition that has long been lost in other parts of East Asia.

By divesting the state from any business with corporations who fuel Iran's terrorist activities and pursuit of nuclear weapons, we are doing our part to make the world a safer, more secure place.

The US was instrumental in Ukraine relinquishing its nuclear weapons (which were left on its soil after the collapse of the Soviet Union) by ensuring that the country became part of its «Partnership for Peace.»

The UK maintains a sub-strategic «tactical» nuclear capability: «battlefield» nuclear weapons that are not part of a deterrent strategy.

I support a global ban on such weapons as part of our commitment to nuclear disarmament, as was successful with other weapons of mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons.

Despite international efforts, there was «no realistic prospect of a world without nuclear weapons in the foreseeable future», Mr Browne said, adding that no such weapons had been used in 50 years because, in part, countries like Britain had a deterrent.

CND vice-president Dr Rebecca Johnson — who stood for the Greens at the last election and has taken part in the blockading of the Faslane naval base near Glasgow - will be in Parliament this afternoon to make the case against 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?

The department has also recently awarded him $ 10 million as part of its Energy Research Center program so he can investigate new technologies to recycle nuclear waste and cleanup Cold War - era weapon production sites.

NEW DELHI, INDIA — Pakistan has removed one of its top nuclear scientists as part of a major reshuffling of the country's nuclear weapons program.

Part of the reason is obvious: It needs the expertise to improve and maintain the nation's nuclear weapons stockpiles, and it needs people to replace the first generation of nuclear plant operators and engineers, many of whom are now retiring.

After the ban, space - based surveillance became a crucial component of the Cold War, with satellites serving as one part of elaborate early - warning systems on alert for the deployment or launch of ground - based nuclear weapons.

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.

In November, DOE and the National Nuclear Security Agency — the part of DOE that oversees nuclear weapons — outlined joint plans to build an exascale machine bNuclear Security Agency — the part of DOE that oversees nuclear weapons — outlined joint plans to build an exascale machine bnuclear weapons — outlined joint plans to build an exascale machine by 2024.

«He's part of a triumvirate of Bush appointees who are committed to making further modifications in the U.S. nuclear weapons program,» says Marylia Kelley of Tri Valley CAREs, an anti-nuclear group based in Livermore, California, noting that Obama also has retained Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the head of the U.S. Strategic Command, General Kevin Chilton.

The former nuclear weapons facility at Savannah River, Ga. — also part of the Manhattan Project — has been successfully vitrifying weapons waste for years, but only one fuel separation process was used there.

But it seems clear that more flexible and broader targeting has officially been a part of U.S. nuclear weapons policy since at least 2003.

Part of the rationale for building NIF was that weapons scientists could use it to validate simulations of nuclear explosions and so keep the country's nuclear stockpile safe and working properly.

Orr's job, which Moniz created last year as part of a reorganization of DOE's top leadership, involves overseeing all of DOE's science research programs, including 10 national laboratories that do not work on nuclear weapons.

A complete ban on nuclear testing is a major part of the US policy to stop the spread of 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.

In an April report on costs associated with the NNSA's ongoing nuclear weapon modernization campaign, the GAO disclosed the existence of an internal NNSA report forecasting that PF - 4 will be unable to meet a congressional demand for production of 30 new pits per year by 2026, as part of a 30 - year, $ 1 trillion nuclear weapons update.

Mayak is part of a once - secret nuclear weapons complex built in 1948 known as Chelyabinsk 40.

The 3,500 - ton WATCHMAN detector will be installed in a mine on the northeast coast of England as part of international nuclear weapon non-proliferation efforts.

When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, brilliant U.S. nuclear specialist Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman) discovers the accident is really part of a diabolical plot to cover up the theft of the weapons.

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.

Forgetting for a moment the movie's many slick but false moves, and the manner in which it contrives to put Palicki in first workout clothes and then a cocktail dress, what's most notable about «Retaliation» is the litany of small indignities it foists upon its big - stakes, wham - bang conceit, like the fact that the American President's national popularity is said to soar after, in the wake of a nuke going missing, he decides to push for a worldwide nuclear disarmament summit; or that Israel — who's never officially admitted to possessing nuclear weapons — is part of the gathering, along with global pariah North Korea.

reporters, who would then dutifully report that anonymous administration officials believed Saddam Hussein had acquired aluminum tubes as part of his nuclear weapons efforts... and then Cheney would go on all the Sunday morning talk shows and get to say, «Don't take my word for the aluminum tube stuff — even the

Designs screenprint poster for a Russell Sherman concert to benefit the nuclear weapons freeze campaign; begins spending part of each summer in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he and Gail Mazur are visiting critics at the Fine Arts Work Center.

The second part of the exhibition, in Bataan, includes the 36 - minute film Crossroads (1976), assembled from archival footage of the Operation Crossroads Baker nuclear weapons test conducted at Bikini Atoll on 25 July 1946.

Visitors will be able to see photographs from Greenham Common, a peace camp established to protest nuclear weapons on British soil in the 1980s which saw women from Sheffield take part, and a Crookesmoor Against the Poll Tax banner, alongside song sheets, newsletters and badges produced in the city.

Most Americans (86 %) correctly identify the Earth's inner layer, the core, as its hottest part, and nearly as many (82 %) know uranium is needed to make nuclear energy and nuclear weapons.

Thankfully, a big part of the problem with the Chernobyl explosion was horrible communist management and serious reactor design flaws (partly because they needed access to the core to get plutonium for nuclear weapons, as far as I know).