Sentences with phrase «of nuclear arsenals»

The book culminates in a highly detailed and gripping account of the meeting of the two leaders in Reykjavik in 1986, where, against all odds, they managed to halt the buildup of nuclear arsenals.

In making their deliberations about how to update the clock's time, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists focused on the current state of nuclear arsenals around the globe, disastrous events such as the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, and biosecurity issues such as the creation of an airborne H5N1 flu strain.

... the non-nuclear-weapon states agree never to acquire nuclear weapons and the NPT nuclear - weapon states in exchange agree to share the benefits of peaceful nuclear technology and to pursue nuclear disarmament aimed at the ultimate elimination of their nuclear arsenals.

Even if all the nuclear powers got together and agreed to dispose of their nuclear arsenals, they would still be nuclear powers, just latent ones».

For example in North Korea, the max range of their nuclear arsenal, is very unlikely further than South Korea, which means, that they can't reach all the powers, which would, in a potential nuclear attack, would start nuclear strikes back against them.

The U.S. is conducting a broad overall of its nuclear arsenal, a process that began under the Obama administration, but comes amid heightened tensions with North Korea.

The total cost of our nuclear arsenal since the Manhattan Project started is estimated at $ 5.8 trillion.

The answer to question one is — what is the purpose of the nuclear arsenal at this point?

Biello: Well, it depends on what kind of nuclear arsenal you want to have.

Please, do something else intelligent, like promise to be rid of the nuclear arsenal by detonating it in uninhabitted American forests.

Update to the game of international nuclear poker: The US opens the game with a $ 350 billion ramp up of our nuclear arsenal.

Not exact matches

Though Kim has repeatedly vowed to rid his country of nuclear weapons, the promises remain totally one - sided as no one knows how many, or where, North Korea's nuclear arsenal is.

The US has long relied on the doctrine of «mutually assured destruction» — that is, having a spread - out, autonomous, and effective nuclear arsenal that would return fire should another nuclear power attack — with the intent of deterring any nuclear attacks.

And it also lifts scientists in the authoritarian nation who are working to build an arsenal of missiles with nuclear warheads that can reach the US mainland.

North Korea has stopped short of saying it has any intention of abandoning its nuclear arsenal, with Kim making clear that nukes remain a «treasured sword.»

What's more, the acceleration and frequency of testing show not only Kim's nuclear ambitions but also that the nation has developed an arsenal.

A resumption of Pyongyang's torrid testing pace in pursuit of its goal of a viable arsenal of nuclear - tipped missiles that can hit the U.S. mainland had been widely expected, but the apparent power and suddenness of the new test still jolted the Korean Peninsula and Washington.

Most of the specific commitments outlined in the official declaration signed by Kim and Moon focused on inter-Korean relations and did not clear up the question of whether Pyongyang is willing to give up its arsenal of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.

Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled an arsenal of nuclear weapons that will significantly boost the Kremlin's military capabilities.

Kim told a ruling party meeting in Pyongyang on Friday his regime would suspend tests of atomic bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles after achieving its goal of building a nuclear arsenal, the official Korean Central News Agency reported.

The deal puts the defense tech company in a strong position as it bids for the right to upgrade the U.S.'s ground - based arsenal of Minuteman III nuclear - armed missiles, a procurement program with a value estimated at over $ 60 billion over its expected lifetime.

Pompeo said North Korea's nuclear weapons program has developed at a «very rapid clip,» but that Kim is hoping for an arsenal of nuclear weapons — «not one, not a showpiece, not something to drive on a parade route.»

Trump agreed to the possibility of a historic meeting between himself and the North Korean leader late on Thursday after South Korean envoy Chung Eui - yong told him Kim was «frank and sincere» about negotiating on his country's nuclear arsenal.

And Putin's comments follow months of Trump's call to strengthen the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

They try to overcome and defend themselves against this feeling of powerlessness through a massive increase in nuclear arms, and they try to conquer their fear and reassure themselves by asserting that we can prevail if we do indeed multiply our nuclear arsenal.

As terrorist activities spread, it would be possible for nuclear war to be triggered by the irresponsible behavior of a relatively small group or nation, and for it quickly to escalate as the more responsible nations resorted to their nuclear arsenals to end the conflict.

Don't forget as well the potential epidemic of nuclear proliferation as other nations attempt to adjust to and defend themselves against Bush's preventive wars, while our own already staggering nuclear arsenal expands toward first - strike primacy and we expend unimaginable billions on futuristic ideas for warfare in outer space.

Probably the danger of a possible nuclear holocaust, created especially by the powerful nations that produce nuclear arsenals, combines with the interpretation of this situation by the preachers in our midst.

The evening started off on a somber note with Cohen pouring 10,000 BB gun pellets into a metal container to illustrate the power of the United States» nuclear arsenal in front of a stunned audience.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

Meanwhile, the North was firing off regular weapons tests in a dogged march towards its goal of developing a viable nuclear arsenal that can threaten the US mainland.

The START treaty would resume mutual inspections of U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, while limiting both nations to 1,550 warheads and 700 launchers each.

He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by America's foreign policy: its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear arsenal, its vulgarly stated policy of «full - spectrum dominance,» its chilling disregard for non-American lives, its barbarous military interventions, its support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, its merciless economic agenda that has munched through the economies of poor countries like a cloud of locusts.

If we had got a Top striker, Top DM, another Top LW, our Arsenal would be a Trident Submarine with loads of Trident nuclear missiles

The new Start treaty between the US and Russia in 2010 was a case - in - point: the reduction in the nuclear arsenal was relatively small, but the direction of travel was clear.

The DPRK has obvious reasons to maintain at least a small nuclear arsenal: nuclear weapons offer defense against an alliance possessing overwhelming military advantages, a source of international prestige, and a means to extort money and other benefits from neighbors.

The Non-Proliferation Treaty states that only 5 countries have the right to maintain a nuclear arsenal the U.S., U.S.S.R. (now Russia), Great Britain, France and the People's Republic of China (PRC).

So during the height of the cold war, the U.S. maintained a nuclear arsenal that would be able to strike all Soviet Targets on Second Strike with the assumption that only 3 % of their launch platforms would survive the first strike with enough time to launch a second strike.

So we can conclude that somewhere between the nuclear arsenal sizes and structures of North Korea and the USA we have a phase change from minimal deterrence to soemthing else.

Assuming that decision - makers make cost - benefit analyses when deciding to use force, China's doctrine calls for acquiring a nuclear arsenal only large enough to destroy an adversary's «strategic points» in such a way that the expected costs of a first strike outweigh the anticipated benefits.

For while it might be true that most of today's great powers boast an arsenal of nuclear weapons, military hardware is far from the only measure of national strength and influence.

The issue that should be seriously talked about is whether Israel's survival is dependent on possession of nukes; and how does this nuclear arsenal create incentives in the middle - east to proliferate nukes throughout the region

Estimates as to the size of the Israeli nuclear arsenal vary between 75 and 400 nuclear warheads.

«The British government will need to do far more, both with our own nuclear arsenal and with cooperation for international control of the nuclear fuel cycle, before these words can be moved beyond rhetoric.»

Mr Brown said that the UK should act not unilaterally but together with other countries to cut their arsenal and prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons by other countries.

Trump again raised the prospect of nuclear war with North Korea, boasting in strikingly playground terms last night that he commands a «much bigger» and «more powerful» arsenal of devastating weapons than the outlier government in Asia.

«He was a leader in the effort to reduce the size of the world's nuclear arsenal and to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists says all nuclear states are investing in modernising their arsenals.

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«In 2015, unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity,» the group said in a statement.