Sentences with phrase «of nuclear arms control»

Paul Warnke's comment that the START talks were «conceived in sin» (as a result of grass - roots pressure) indicates the reluctance of the leaders of this administration to face the primary moral question of nuclear arms control and elimination.

Not exact matches

The Minuteman III can carry up to three nuclear warheads at once, but today, the missiles carry just one because of international arms control agreements.

While repudiating the notion that nuclear war in any circumstance can be a just war, the bishops say that they will tolerate for now the possession of nuclear weapons as long as serious efforts are made toward arms control.

This situation need not be static, and the moment the nuclear powers reach agreement on arms control or disarmament the UN can assume new functions that might be the functions of an incipient world government.)

Eighty - one per cent would like to see a step - up in arms - control negotiations with the Soviets, though only 46 per cent regard the use of nuclear weapons as «always morally wrong.»

In the specific case of Germany, they are still bound by the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany Some examples of the limitations set: Armed Forces of no more than 370,000 personnel - of whom at most 345,000 were to be in the Army and Air Force No manufacture, possession or control of NBC weapons Full application of the Nuclear Non -...

2016: Kurt Godfried — Dr. Gottfried, a recognized leader in the scientific community on missile defense and nuclear terrorism who was among the founders of the Union of Concerned Scientists, was honored for his long and distinguished career as a «civic scientist,» through his advocacy for arms control, human rights, and integrity in the use of science in public policy making.

He also served as an arms control expert at the U.S. State Department, where he monitored the nuclear programs of countries such as Iraq, Iran, North Korea, and the former Soviet Union.

«The letter, from some of the world's most knowledgeable experts in the fields of nuclear weapons and arms control, arrives as Mr. Obama is lobbying Congress, the American public and the nation's allies to support the agreement,» William J. Broad wrote in an article in the New York Times.

But that doesn't necessarily mean that the new leader is seriously considering cooperation with the West, warns Duyeon Kim, deputy director of nuclear non-proliferation at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington, D.C. Kim says that negotiations had been ongoing since before Kim Jong - il's death.

For an interlinked world to thrive, women must be further empowered to hold up their half of the sky — an issue that should demand as much attention as climate change and nuclear arms control.

In one instance, journalists used the images to document the construction of the Soviet Krasnoyarsk radar, an alleged violation of the antiballistic missile treaty, explains nuclear physicist Peter D. Zimmerman, former science adviser for arms control in the U.S. State Department.

But Gary Milhollin, director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control in Washington DC, says confidence in export restrictions is misplaced.

Whenever he leaves the United States, whether to do research or on vacation, Zia Mian, a nuclear arms control expert at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School (Princeton, N.J.) has to depart from an airport or port designated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

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.

He detailed how the crisis propelled the United States and the Soviet Union into a limited ban on nuclear testing and then to a series of arms control agreements in ensuing years.

But at a workshop cosponsored by AAAS, experts said the crisis also was an inflection point, leading to agreements to limit nuclear testing and curb proliferation and driving a cohort of scientists and engineers into the fields of arms control and science diplomacy.

Since joining the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2002, he has focused on promoting and conducting dialog between Chinese and American experts on nuclear arms control and space security.

She has served as the co-chairman for the U.S. Secretary of Energy's Nuclear Energy Advisory Council, and she was also appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Standing Committee on International Security and Arms Control, where she served eight years.

The world's nuclear enrichment programs should be under international control to prevent the development of nuclear weapons after the new arms deal with Iran expires in 10 to 15 years, said Frank von Hippel, a senior Princeton University research physicist and a former security advisor during the Clinton Administration.

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In the face of disarmament efforts that had been stalled for decades, civil society and like - minded states reframed nuclear disarmament from an arms control question to a humanitarian issue.

The letter states that autonomous weapons have been describes as «the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms» and argues it would only be a matter of time before they fall into the hands of terrorists, dictators and warlords who may use them for ethnic cleansing and to control their populace.