Sentences with phrase «nuclear weapons uses»

The ongoing campaign to ban nuclear weapons uses similar language.

Thus we live now with the fruits of the actions of early industrial capitalism, nuclear weapons used in World War II, the Green Revolution, widespread deforestation.

Indeed every other country which possesses nuclear weapons use exactly the same argument (deterrence) to maintain their right to possesses nuclear weapons, so why is only North Korea criticized?.

If everyone got rid of their nuclear weapons would be that any state could secretly build nuclear weapons use them to bully other states around.

Third, you show that nuclear weapons used intelligently and tactically can be decisive in a large land war.

However if we're that worried about wiping out a lot of coastal cities with sea level rise then perhaps we should think about sacrificing a desert somewhere and instead of dismantling so many nuclear weapons we use them to put enough dust into the stratosphere to cool the planet down.

Not exact matches

What's more, many countries, including the US, use nuclear weapons that can't be stopped after launch, even if they were sent in error or unjustified malice.

«The United States, though inherently hostile to North Korea, will get to know once our talk begins that I am not the kind of person who will use nuclear weapons against the South or the United States across the Pacific,» Moon's press secretary Yoon Young - chan quoted Kim as saying.

Nuclear weapons have been used exactly twice in combat — both times by the US, and both times dropped by a propeller aircraft over largely unprotected Japanese airspace at the close of World War II.

Speaking on Sunday, Fihn said the risk of nuclear weapons being used was now greater than during the Cold War.

Beatrice Fihn used her speech to describe nuclear weapons as «a madman's gun held permanently to our temple.»

ICAN, which is a coalition of smaller organizations, has long campaigned for a treaty that would ban the use of nuclear weapons.

Both South Korea and Taiwan have advanced civilian nuclear programs and technical knowledge that could be used for a weapons program.

Deployed nuclear weapons are attached to a delivery system and ready to use.

If North Korea's used a nuclear weapon, its deterrent capability would be gone.

When a country does not have nuclear weapons but has a peaceful nuclear program that could be used to produce nuclear weapons, it is said to be in a state of «nuclear latency.»

It uses tons of archival nuclear weapons footage — roughly a third of which the public has never seen before — overlaid with Cold War - era documents that are brought to life with eye - catching animation.

That plan should also include an agreement for the full accounting of all of Kim's atomic arms; a listing of all materials he can use to make additional nuclear weapons as well as a detailed accounting of North Korea's various offensive missiles.

In Wednesday's MSNBC interview, Trump said he would not rule out the possibility of using nuclear weapons to combat Islamic State militants.

And any use of nuclear weapons by the North will be met with a massive military response that is both effective and overwhelming,» Mattis said.

That is, Pyongyang will «launch a lengthy, complicated negotiation to get agreement on actions each party must take, and use this process to buy time for the development of the North's nuclear weapons program.»

The department controls the radioactive materials - plutonium, uranium and tritium - used in Americas nuclear weapons and in the reactors of nuclear - powered aircraft carriers and submarines.

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).

Asked whether Iran could use its existing agreements with Pyongyang to advance its own nuclear - weapons program, Pompeo called it «a real risk» and admitted that the CIA could miss such transfers of information.

Second, even after the deal, Iran continued to preserve and expand its nuclear weapons knowledge for future use.»

Ironically, Musk himself recently advocated the use of nuclear weapons, during an appearance this fall on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

«I want to tell all those who have fueled the arms race over the last 15 years, sought to win unilateral advantages over Russia, introduced unlawful sanctions aimed to contain our country's development... you have failed to contain Russia,» Putin said, later adding that «any use of nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies... any kind of attack... will be regarded as a nuclear attack against Russia and in response we will take action instantaneously no matter what the consequences are.

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Policymakers should adopt a more realistic focus on deterring Pyongyang from using its nuclear weapons rather than pursuing low - probability attempts to denuclearize the peninsula in short order.

Under that 2015 deal, Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear programme to satisfy world powers that it would not be used to develop weapons.

However, using the NIV translation (probably most inaccurate english translation), replacing «holy covenant» with UN, «western coastlands» or «Kittim» with U.S. and «abomination that causes desolation» with nuclear weapons, it's easy to see how The End could be sooner rather than later.

If Iran can get hold of a nuclear weapon, they are going to use it for sure against Israel, no matter how much consequences they might suffer.

«I pray that he'll be a good president and that he'll keep our country at peace — that he'll refrain from using nuclear weapons, and that he will promote human rights.»

Only the ingnorant would encourage the use of nuclear weapons.

Remember Martin, we are still the only country to ever use a nuclear weapon not once but I do believe twice.

What guides you in deciding whether fire - bombing a city or using nuclear weapons is permissible under the moral framework you try to live by?

In 2011, the group complained about an Air Force training presentation that used religion to teach the ethics and morality of using nuclear weapons.

What if, someone in the government decides that it would save lives and shorten the war if we used nuclear weapons again?

So the United Methodist bishops reject the traditional just - war argument because «we are convinced that no... use of nuclear weapons offers any reasonable hope of success» (p. 13) If we don't get peace, what might happen to us?

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.»

In 1945 Henry L. Stimson, secretary of war, recommended to President Truman the use of nuclear weapons against Japan to hasten the end of the war and save the Allied forces an estimated 1 million casualties in an assault upon mainland Japan.

so if you mean that irene is a punishment for the bad folks, then it's like using a nuclear weapon to hit a taliban jeep.

Many Christians, however, who were not pacifist, opposed the possible use of nuclear weapons and also opposed threats to use such weapons.

And if it is wrong to use nuclear weapons and wrong to possess them, it must also be wrong to manufacture them, since manufacturing inevitably means possession, and possession almost inevitably means use [August 15 - 22, 1984].

No one can use nuclear weapons the world is a zoo.

JGA: No one can use nuclear weapons.

I don't know what foolish things people and nations will permit themselves to do in the near future, what compacts we will make with hell through the use of nuclear and biological weapons, what ecological disasters we will actively perpetrate or merely permit to happen or what unprecedented human tragedy we will willingly or witlessly sponsor.

At its 1983 Vancouver Assembly the World Council of Churches adopted a report that announces: We believe that the time has come when the churches must unequivocally declare that the production and deployment as well as the use of nuclear weapons are a crime against humanity and that such activities must be condemned on ethical and theological grounds.»

Behind this statement is a conviction that nor only the use but also the development and manufacture of nuclear weapons is contrary to the gospel of Jesus Christ.