Sentences with phrase «of global nuclear war»

Often imitated but never equalled, Metal Gear is a pixelated treatise on betrayal, genetics, politics, philosophy and the omnipresent threat of global nuclear war.

Much had been going on at a grassroots level that was indicating to the world the nature of a global nuclear war.

If it so happens that ten or twenty or fifty years from now all nuclear weapons have been abolished, a few of the persons who grow up in that post-nuclear era may read this essay at some point in their lives and glean from it a feeling for what it was like to live under the threat of global nuclear war.

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With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

We spoke of the global dimension of the social organisation of society, of the political not only the economic dimension of the problem of the problem of refugees throughout the world, the process of democratisation, the problem of private property, of taxation, of the problem of unemployment, of the state, of oil and its significance for the Gulf War, of the question of the right to live and of nuclear apartheid etc..

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

By contrast to the model of the two World Wars, as well as to imagined models of global nuclear holocaust, the actual face of warfare since 1945 has been that of civil wars and regional armed confliWars, as well as to imagined models of global nuclear holocaust, the actual face of warfare since 1945 has been that of civil wars and regional armed confliwars and regional armed conflicts.

Global warming, the ozone hole, overpopulation, starvation and malnutrition, war, unemployment, the destruction of species and the rain forests, pollution of water and air, pesticide and herbicide poisoning, errors in genetic engineering, erosion of topsoil, overfishing, anarchy and crime, the possibility of a nuclear mishap, chemical warfare or all - out nuclear war: together, or in some cases singly, these dangers threaten to «catch us unexpectedly, like a trap.»

O'Donovan advocates renouncing unilaterally any nuclear retaliation on cities and calls for a multilateral effort to reduce global tensions while upgrading limited war - fighting capabilities — his own form of nonpacifist realism.

The obvious practical meaning of all this is that the fundamental problems we face today — nuclear war, population growth, pollution, the intolerable gap between the rich nations and the poor ones, the intelligent use of scarce world resources — are global in scope.

Since then, different U.S. administrations have tried to make even the concept of MAD obsolete with the development of ballistic missile defense systems, culminating in the 1980s with the so - called «Star Wars» project of President Reagan aimed at deploying a global shield in space against nuclear ballistic missiles.

In addition to reducing the risk of nuclear war, U.S. reactors have also been staving off another global challenge: climate change.

While the Cold War has receded, arms control remains a global priority, driven by fears of terrorism, nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea, and creeping tensions between the United States and Russia.

«Global nuclear war can no longer be the continuation of rational politics, as it would bring the end of all life,» Gorbachev told the Politburo in 1986.

Water bears are so sturdy that they probably won't succumb to nuclear war, global warming or any astronomical events that wreak havoc on Earth's atmosphere — all of which could doom humans, says Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb.

In the midst of a global crisis, the USS Alabama receives an unconfirmed order to launch its nuclear missiles — signaling the start of Word War III.

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Unlike the Abstract Expressionist artists of the mid-20th century, who communicated the uncertainty and fear of a post World War II nuclear world, Pan's abstract painting evokes an idealistic, optimistic, global view.

In short, fear of nuclear war drove home images of radiation as an insidious contamination that was uniquely deadly on a global scale.

Back then, we were still focused on terms such as The Cold War, nuclear winter, the war on poverty, racism, the oil shock, the Middle East situation, and later on, towards of our «three score and ten» on Earth newer terms such as 9 - 11, terrorism and global warmiWar, nuclear winter, the war on poverty, racism, the oil shock, the Middle East situation, and later on, towards of our «three score and ten» on Earth newer terms such as 9 - 11, terrorism and global warmiwar on poverty, racism, the oil shock, the Middle East situation, and later on, towards of our «three score and ten» on Earth newer terms such as 9 - 11, terrorism and global warming.

For the world to emit in 2061 no more than 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide is as difficult a task as I could endorse today, taking into account the salience of other objectives to which I assign comparable importance, including preventing nuclear war, alleviating global poverty, and protecting the planet's biodiversity.

In a ranking of near - term «fatal discontinuities» in his 2008 book, «Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years,» Vaclav Smil puts asteroid collisions far below the persistent risk of large - scale war (particularly because so many nuclear weapons are still arrayed around the world), great earthquakes and tsunamis and pandemics, but above global warming (because of its gradual sGlobal Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years,» Vaclav Smil puts asteroid collisions far below the persistent risk of large - scale war (particularly because so many nuclear weapons are still arrayed around the world), great earthquakes and tsunamis and pandemics, but above global warming (because of its gradual sglobal warming (because of its gradual slope).

Finding myself in the same foxhole as Steve Schneider when the «Nuclear Winter «balloon went up — it was launched on the anniversary of Orson Welles» War of The Worlds Broadcast with a media graphics package prepared by the Creative Department of that great K - Street PR institution Porter Novell Inc., I remarked to him that it all seemed like a bad joke on Cold War policy analysts, played at the expense of the credibility of climate modeling on the eve of the global warming debate.

A global survey of experts and decision - makers shows they believe nuclear war, cyberattacks and environmental disasters are the likeliest threats to the world in 2018.

NASA computer models reveal what a small, regional nuclear war in one part of the world would do to the global climate and environment.

We work to reduce global warming emissions; develop sustainable ways to feed, power, and transport ourselves; fight the suppression, censorship, and manipulation of science; and reduce the threat of nuclear war.

While «preserving the endangered Bengal tiger» did make its way in to an early State Department press release on the summit, India's nuclear industry, the global war on terrorism and foreign investment in India were the dominate themes of the meeting.

What worries me is that the same clique pushing for a global CO2 tax are the same sociopaths rigging our economies and our financial system and promote a shooting war with a nuclear power to provide them with a scape goat when the house of cards collapses.

A regional nuclear war in Central Asia, a global pandemic triggered by a modified version of HIV, or a rogue state weaponizing genetic engineering technology all come immediately to mind.

I share the writer's belief that global warming, with the possible exception of the rising threat of nuclear war, is the single most important issue facing humanity.

I don't remember that much of the 70's, (born in 69) but there definitely was an apocalyptic gloom and doom, «end of the world» mentality going on, nuclear destruction, an ice age was coming, (due to CO2 and other pollutants) followed in the 80's, by fears of nuclear war and the take up of the catastrophic man made global warming vision.

Indeed regarding the N - word, Helen Clark reckons global warming is akin to the threat of nuclear holocaust that hung over the world during the Cold War.

UCS combines technical analysis and effective organizing and advocacy to create innovative, practical solutions for addressing global warming, sustainable food policy and agriculture, energy and transportation, fighting misinformation and reducing the threat of catastrophic nuclear war.

We are seeing climate disruption leading to rising food prices, loss of biodiversity, deteriorating ecosystem services, increased chances of vast epidemics and nuclear resource wars and a general reduction in the odds of avoiding the first catastrophic collapse of a global civilization.

More importantly, it doesn't look at the role of wealthy countries in contributing to the most important population - related problems that are global: climate disruption, toxification of the entire planet, the possibly insurmountable challenge of transitioning rapidly away from fossil fuels, looting of the seas, and increasing the risks of pandemics and nuclear war.

It would be good to be past todays well - financed skepticism about global warming, good if we all already understood that, in a world rife with potentially catastrophic threatsfrom nuclear war to genetic erosionglobal warming is one of the most serious.

The «continued rapid cooling of the Earth» (Global Ecology, 1971) meant that «a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery» (International Wildlife, July 1975).

If this happens, it will be like the arrival of the Messiah, to lead the charge to end global warming which is leading us all to desertification of our home, Planet Earth which will lead to fighting over the remaining fresh water and soil and nuclear world war III which will have no survivors and leave the planet earth our home permanently radioactive and uninhabitable.