Sentences with phrase «nuclear weapons research»

The government is also combining separate nuclear weapons research programs at Kahn's lab and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission under a new entity, the National Defense Complex, leaving the commission to manage civilian nuclear activities.

Despite his administration's stated commitment to non-proliferation, President Obama's new budget actually includes more money for nuclear weapons research and facilities...

The stolen documents revealed a series of details about Iran's nuclear weapons research in the early 2000s, granular proof that Iran had been — contrary to its public statements — actively pursuing a bomb.

The scientific adviser to the Indian defense minister, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, said yesterday that all further nuclear weapons research can be done with computer simulations.

Abdul Qadeer Khan, head of the country's major nuclear weapons research lab, is credited with setting up Pakistan's uranium enrichment facilities.

The three systems were devised by Millitech of South Deerfield, Massachusetts, Raytheon of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and the Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) at Idaho Falls, which until recently concentrated on nuclear weapons research.

These new Energy Frontier Research Centers will provide a foundation of basic science for a top priority of DOE — tackling environmental cleanup of hazardous waste from nuclear weapons research and production,» said Cherry Murray, director of DOE's Office of Science.

Other goals include increased funding for nuclear weapons research; increased research on nanotechnology; space station, moon, and Mars projects at NASA; work on hydrogen fuels; and support for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion project.

Iran's loss of its nuclear weapons research is a humiliating blow.

The nuclear weapons research program he was discussing ended about 15 years ago.

The United Church Board for World Ministries has defined guidelines for its portfolio which exclude investments in corporations that are «direct contributors to nuclear weapons research and development, the production of key nuclear components for nuclear warheads, or the management of nuclear weapons facilities owned by the United States government.»