Sentences with phrase «of a nuclear attack by»

Most of us might respond to the idea of a nuclear attack by diving under a nearby table.

Not exact matches

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a wild state of the nation address to the country's elites on Thursday, and he chose to conclude the speech by hyping up a bunch of doomsday nuclear devices and threatening to retaliate against anyone who attacks the US with nuclear force.

A recent example of this is Operation Orchard, the Israeli attack on a suspected Syrian nuclear facility that was enabled by a concurrent cyberattack to shut down Syria's air defenses.

While the attack Thursday was the first of its kind by the US, Lowther said the bomb was «not even close to being a nuclear weapon» and he would «not make the argument that it's a symbol of escalation» in the conflict in Afghanistan.

The B61 is America's primary tactical nuclear weapon that can be carried by just about all of the US military's attack aircraft, from Marine Corps AV - 8B Harriers to the Air Force's B - 2 Spirit bombers.

They will be momentarily awakened by the next attack, and may be wide awake if they are not among the victims of a nuclear or biochemical attack in a major metropolitan area.

The fear of nuclear annihilation, under which many live, can be attacked by efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

Corbyn's recent remarks, in which he undermined Labour policy by stating that he would never sanction a nuclear strike, and more recently when he changed his mind over the so - called «shoot - to - kill» policy in the event of a potential Paris - style attack in the UK, have deeply angered many members of the parliamentary group.

Defending his Democratic colleague in Congress from a barrage of attacks in his home district, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said that Rep. Jerry Nadler is still one of the most pro-Israel lawmakers in America — even after he enraged Orthodox Jews by voting for the Iran nuclear deal.

The United States has a two - man rule in place, and while only the president can order the release of nuclear weapons, the order must be confirmed by the Secretary of Defense (there is a hierarchy of succession in the event that the president is killed in an attack).

Was this was a rogue attack, launched individually by radicals who took control of a nuclear submarine, and not an act of state policy?

A report for the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) warns of a «stark» gap now exists between the reduced threat of a nuclear attack and the deterrent patrols operated by Britain's nuclear submarines.

Mrs May also shot down arguments thrown up by left - wing MPs that the threat of nuclear attack on the UK has diminished since the end of the Cold War.

The Labour leader, who says his support for unilateral disarmament is one of his defining political beliefs, responded to the row by pointing out that US nuclear weapons did not prevent the 9/11 terror attacks.

«A U.S. strike on Iran would be costly, causing significant loss of American life, likely lead to attacks and loss of life in Israel, yet would only postpone Iran's nuclear weapons development by a few years,» her office wrote.

Defending his Democratic colleague in Congress from a barrage of attacks in his home district, Hakeem Jeffries said this afternoon that Jerrold Nadler is still one of the most pro-Israel lawmakers in America, even after he enraged Orthodox Jews by voting for the Iran nuclear deal.

Congressman Jerrold Nadler said today he was disturbed and surprised by the «viciousness» of attacks against him after he announced last month he would support the Iran nuclear agreement.

That was the height of the Cold War, when nuclear arms and rhetoric escalated, and President Ronald Reagan envisioned a space - based anti-missile «shield» — promptly dubbed «Star Wars» by skeptics — that could thwart attacks by the «Evil Empire,» also known as the -LSB-...]

A group of international security experts polled by Senator Richard Lugar puts the average probability of a nuclear attack on U.S. soil within a decade at around 29 percent, still plenty terrifying.

Henceforth it would prepare for «total war,» a phrase coined by Admiral Arthur Radford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and wage an «instant, tremendous, and devastating» nuclear attack on the Soviet Union itself.

Created by the Norwegian government and funded by foundation donors, the vault is built to withstand centuries of climate change, natural disasters, and even a nuclear attack.

«We recognize that the gravest terror threat we face — a nuclear attack made possible by nuclear proliferation — requires a comprehensive strategy for reducing the world's nuclear stockpiles and preventing the spread of those armaments,» it says.

The single star general reluctantly accepts the task but is also distracted by the prospect of trying to locate Aya and determine if she survived the nuclear attacks.

He isn't sleeping because of the events that occurred the last time we saw Stark in The Avengers, during which New York City was attacked by aliens from a faraway world and our hero in the red - and - gold armor was nearly killed after saving the city from a nuclear warhead.

The script, by Carlton Cuse (Bates Motel, Lost), trades in Relatable 101 generics, framing a 9.5 Richter scale earthquake as the story of a nuclear family under attack, both from within (see: Emma's rich new boyfriend, played by Ioan Gruffudd) and without.

After the World War II bombings of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima, the threat of foreign attack on U.S. soil shifted from naval assault to air attack, particularly by aircraft carrying nuclear weapons.

In Absence of the Smoky God by Matt Stokes is a major new commission inspired by hidden Sheffield locations, sci - fi literature and Barry Hines» 1984 BBC TV production Threads, which portrayed a fictional cold - war nuclear attack on Britain.

The exhibition includes photographs from two of Griffin's early series» which employ potent metaphors; Copyright, 1978, a reproduction of the persecution of Jesus Christ in his own apartment and London By Night, 1983, which shows the aftermath of a fictitious nuclear attack on London, echoing the fear of the Cold War.

But by jumping so quickly to dismiss my column and the potential of geothermal, I question whether he truly is a nuclear gun for hire who attacks any suggestion of a reasonable alternative.

The IAEA has categorized four potential nuclear security threats (or, more accurately, nuclear security risks): the acquisition of nuclear weapons by theft; the creation of nuclear explosive devices using stolen nuclear materials; the use of radioactive sources in radiological dispersal devices (RDDs); and the radiological hazards caused by an attack on, or sabotage of, a facility or a transport vehicle.

Even with a decade or more of updating homeland protection measures (started under Clinton), while I'm not going to go so far as to say that most cities in the USA are still better prepared against a Soviet - era invasion and nuclear attack than commonplace weather emergencies... but I wouldn't be exaggerating by much to say so.

My more naive students are like this; my task is, by the end of the semester, to make them aware that regulation creates winners and losers and, by attacking «fossil fuel interests» you are actually supporting other business interests (nuclear, gas, renewables, carbon traders, etc).

This matters because the climate change debate has been hi - jacked, emissions made worse by the net effects of renewables for a fast lobbyist buck in fact, driven by ignorance and misleading attacks that lump clean low carbon gas with dirty high carbon coal, and old school anti-nuclear activists who oppose nuclear generation on factualy spurious grounds, while it is in physics and engineering fact by far the best solution on any measure, through promoting irrational fear unsupported in any area of the facts and proven physics they deceive the unknowing about with simply false or msleading «sience».

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This means that if a terrorist decides to unleash a nuclear attack where you are intending to travel or are already traveling, your cancellation, your emergency medical treatment, your evacuations, etc. will not be covered by your travel insurance plan — even if it's defined as a terrorist action simply because of the type of incident.

By exception conditions, I mean for e.g. no benifit given in case of terrorist attack or nuclear war etc..

According to another interpretation of proportionality, supported by Judge Higgins in her Dissenting Opinion to the Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion (para 5), which adopts a «means - end proportionality» approach with the focus on restoring state's defensive capacity, it is possible for a nuclear strike to be lawful, even if not commensurate to anticipated Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion (para 5), which adopts a «means - end proportionality» approach with the focus on restoring state's defensive capacity, it is possible for a nuclear strike to be lawful, even if not commensurate to anticipated nuclear strike to be lawful, even if not commensurate to anticipated attack.

Still, while the Obama version envisaged biological and chemical weapons development as additional scenarios to trigger nuclear response to non-nuclear threat, Trump's NPR reserves a much broader room for action by referring to «the evolution and proliferation of non-nuclear strategic attack technologies» (p 21).