Sentences with phrase «nuclear weapons stockpiled»

(1) There are tens of thousands of nuclear weapons stockpiled, with over 7,000 actually targeted and ready for instant use.

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.

NNSA maintains and enhances the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear explosive testing; works to reduce global danger from weapons of mass destruction; provides the U.S. Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion; and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the U.S. and abroad.

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.

For nearly 2 decades, NNSA has supported the construction and operation of NIF because ICF's miniature explosions can aid weapons scientists who are trying to maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile.

He told lawmakers that he is «excited and passionate» about advancing the core missions of the department, from maintenance and modernization of the nuclear weapons stockpile to the advancement of modern energy technologies.

Derek Updegraff SUMMARY Report: workshop on U.S. nuclear weapons Stockpile management Introduction

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This increase would support efforts by DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration, which manages the nuclear weapons stockpile, and the Office of Science to develop fast, cutting - edge exascale computers, paving the way for advanced climate modeling and biomedical applications.

Klotz declined to be interviewed but in a statement issued on June 19, in response to an article the Center published that day, said Los Alamos had «demonstrated improvements in its performance of operational tasks» and had worked to minimize the impact of the pause on «the safety and reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile.»

Congress established the NNSA in 2000 to enhance the safety, security, reliability and performance of the U.S nuclear weapon stockpile to provide a credible U.S. nuclear deterrence.

NNSA maintains the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear explosive testing; works to reduce global danger from weapons of mass destruction; provides the U.S. Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion; and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the U.S. and abroad.

It supports numerous far - left causes such as unilateral reduction in U.S. nuclear weapons stockpiles, opposes the vast majority of American foreign policy decisions, opposes pesticides and genetically engineered foods, opposes capitalism and actively promotes opposition to fossil fuel producers.

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The filmmakers hope to feed the movement to not only reduce nuclear stockpiles, but eventually to abolish nuclear weapons altogether.

-- IRD note: Maybe 1.4 % of a global stock bubble — but that's like saying a small nuclear bomb in the hands of a madman is just 1.4 % of the total stockpile of nuclear weapons.

In fact, according to a statement read on August 9, 2005, at a meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, he issued a fatwa declaring that «the production, stockpiling, and use of nuclear weapons are forbidden under Islam and that the Islamic Republic of Iran shall never acquire these weapons.»

The televangelists not only gave whole - hearted support to America's policy of stockpiling nuclear weapons, but encouraged people to look forward to the expected nuclear war with joyful expectation.

The second profound social change is that we are now living in a nuclear age compounded by increasing international tensions, violence, terrorism, and the stockpiling of nuclear weapons.

The cessation of nuclear testing and of the development of new weapons systems, and the subsequent reduction of existing stockpiles of weapons would stabilize the international balance of terror.

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.

«Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs with reference to the Statement during the Prime Minister's address to the US Congress that the UK would work with the United States of America to reduce stockpiles of nuclear weapons, what steps the Government is taking to achieve that objective.

When asked why this project is so important to him, he voiced the dominant perspective among weapon scientists at LLNL: He doesn't want nuclear weapons to be used and passionately believes the key to ensuring they aren't is to making sure the U.S. stockpile continues to be an effective deterrent.

How do we find out if other nations are secretly stockpiling nuclear weapons?

And it has been deeply involved in DOE's stockpile stewardship program, which aims to ensure the reliability of U.S. nuclear weapons.

Should the United States listen to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and others who call for new nuclear weapons to replace our aging stockpile?

Aliens would have to simultaneously deploy nuclear weapons a billion times more powerful than Earth's entire stockpile for us to see the gamma - ray burst from the explosion, and even then it is so brief that we're unlikely to be looking at the right time.

So, the funding situation that we are in right now — in 1990s, we launched a program called the Stockpile Stewardship Program; it was intended to maintain the existing nuclear arsenal for a number of decades, if not indefinitely and that has been a huge bonus in terms of actually understanding the physical processes of nuclear weapons and getting away from nuclear testing.

Three - quarters of its budget goes toward managing the nation's nuclear stockpile, cleaning up former nuclear sites, and preventing the further spread of nuclear weapons.

The new role is needed, Moses says, so that Atherton can coordinate with scientists in the three major user communities that NIF serves: nuclear weapons researchers involved in maintaining the U.S. stockpile, fusion energy researchers, and basic scientists working with materials and in other fields.

The global stockpile of highly enriched uranium stands at around 1,600 tons, enough for more than 60,000 nuclear weapons.

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.

A third of these are warheads — dubbed W76 — which, since 1978, have been deployed atop submarine - based ballistic missiles or stored in what is known as the Enduring Nuclear Stockpile, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal everNuclear Stockpile, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal everNuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal evernuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal evernuclear arsenal ever since.

America's aid package, unveiled during the Vancouver summit between Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin, commits the US to helping Russia improve the safety of its nuclear power plants, reduce air pollution and dismantle its stockpile of nuclear weapons.

Despite the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 — and thus the end of the cold war policy of mutually assured destruction — the U.S. maintains a stockpile of roughly 10,000 nuclear weapons.

The platform airs complaints with how the Obama Administration has handled efforts to maintain the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons and its moves to cut spending on missile defense — and promises Republicans would do better.

But Richard Garwin, a retired IBM physicist and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient who has long been a technical adviser on nuclear weapons and stockpile surveillance to the Defense Department and the NNSA, said the government had not been transparent enough about the long lapse in testing and production.

The U.S. and Russia, as well as other nations that have nuclear weapons, continue to retain extensive HEU stockpiles.

The nuclear - weapon states still have enough fissile materials in their weapon stockpiles for tens of thousands of nuclear weapons.

In a world that possess more than 10,000 nuclear weapons, the U.S. maintains a stockpile of more than 4,000 nuclear warheads.

And since Japan is the only non-nuclear-weapon state capable of reprocessing plutonium to make nuclear weapons, this may well explain why Japan's plutonium stockpile has also sounded alarm bells in the Western world.

○ 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.

The government, through its National Nuclear Security Administration, is concerned that our current stockpile of weapons exists beyond their original life cycle, meaning they may be inoperable.

Chemical engineer Gregory Ryskin calculated that a major oceanic methane eruption «would liberate energy equivalent to 108 megatonnes of TNT, around 10,000 times greater than than the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons.»