Sentences with phrase «of nuclear attack for»

The US has lived under threat of nuclear attack for over 50 years.

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But the risk of an American attack, however difficult, had to have made them very nervous — even if they were going to go for broke in developing a nuclear capability.

Building a missile system for the US is a fools errand costing trillions of dollars and even at 90 % success rate millions would die in a nuclear attack.

Why this matters: Code governing control systems at industrial sites has already been the target of attacks, and US officials recently warned Russian hackers are probing for security holes in software controlling critical infrastructure like nuclear facilities and dams.

William, In the words of david berlinski: «Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for Zyklon B, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental ballistic missiles, military space platforms, and nuclear weapons?

If a nuclear or biological attack occurs in a large city, many thousands of people could need a new home for an extended period of time.

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.

Any hypothetical military engagement where a nuclear armed country were to be in danger of being completely overrun would change the calculation on whether they would be willing to use nuclear weapons, but Russia probably would not, for example, use their nuclear weapons as a deterrent against attacks against their conventional troops in Ukraine, even if they were in danger of being forced out of Ukraine completely because the retaliation would cost much more to them than what they would be losing.

When we face a new threat to our country from terrorist organisations, destabilised regions of the world or cyber attacks, is a nuclear deterrent designed for the Cold War era still relevant?

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.

That was the amount of time they would be given in the outbreak of a nuclear attack — both to prepare for the worst and for the government to retaliate.

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.

Instead of watching out for a nuclear attack, the real danger is an attack on the submarines.

This question used identical wording to a Gallup poll back in 1955, and showed a significant fall in support for the use of nuclear weaponry since the height of the cold war — back in 1955 only 16 % of people would have opposed using the H - Bomb in response to a nuclear attack on Britain, while today 32 % would oppose nuclear retailiation.

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.

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.

For example, Iran did not publicly blame the United States and Israel, the presumed perpetrators of the Stuxnet computer virus attack on an Iranian nuclear facility in 2009 and 2010, because the Iranian government likely recognized that the two countries would be able to brush off Iran's recriminations.

Known as National Planning Scenario 1 (NPS1), that nuclear attack story line originated in the 1950s as a kind of war game, a safe way for national security officials and emergency managers to test their response plans before having to face the real thing.

Nuclear power's foes have also kept up an attack on the use of DOE loan guarantees for new reactors contending that the risks to taxpayers were too great unless the credit subsidy requirement was pushed far up.

The Administration has requested $ 366 million for the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO), whose job is to develop and deploy technologies to tackle the threat of a radiological attack on the United States.

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.

«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.

In Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, the nuclear DNA for clone army grown on the planet Kamino for the Galactic Republic came from the bounty hunter Jango Fett — Boba Fett «s father.

One accident, one rupture, one attack would have devastating effects on the lives of people today and for generations to follow, as one look at a victim of the Chernobyl nuclear accident would confirm.

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News for Nuclear Energy continually updated from thousands of sources on the web: VOX Attacks the Sierra Club for their Anti-Nuclear, Anti «Archaeology has the ability to open unimaginable vistas of thousands, even millions, of years of past human experience.»

The cell's new leader, Karrar, pushes Darwyn aside as plans progress for the nuclear attack on Los Angeles; Farik teaches a lesson about the terrorist way of doing business to an American philanthropist at a school in Yemen.

Southland Tales (R for sexuality, profanity, violence and drug use) Futuristic apocalyptic epoch, set in a Los Angeles which is a police state and on the brink of economic and environmental disaster in the wake of a nuclear attack on Texas.

Sure, soon after there was a nuclear device detonating in a major American city in Clear & Present Danger and Arnie as a vengeful fireman killing those responsible for the death of his family in a terrorist attack in the unfortunately named Collateral Damage.

Asher has held a variety of positions, but a lot of what he learned about leadership and sales he picked up in the Navy, where he served as captain of two nuclear - powered fast attack submarines before becoming the program manager for a billion - dollar software development program.

These range from broadside attacks for dreadnought class ships to nuclear missiles to heavy - hitting torpedoes to anti-missile lasers, healing pods, afterburners, special maneuvers, cloaks and loads more that will be unlocked through the fifty currently available levels of progression.

Nuclear had died from «an incurable attack of market forces,» crowed Amory Lovins in 1981, who claimed energy efficiency obviated the need for nNuclear had died from «an incurable attack of market forces,» crowed Amory Lovins in 1981, who claimed energy efficiency obviated the need for nuclearnuclear.

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.

Who cares about 8 % unemployment, the flatlined economy, abandoning Americans to die in Bengahzi, Joe Biden's buffonery, fast & furious, national debt, USA credit downgrade, trillion dollar annual budget deficits, deliberate sabotage of the coal industry, ACORN, failed foreign policy (Iran with nuclear weapons, bowing to China, stiffing U.K and Israel, etc) abysmal people judgement (Biden again, plus H. Clinton, T, Geithner; K. Sebelius; E. Holder, etc), stopping the pipeline for Canadian oil, blocking drilling in US land, secret «kill lists», ObamaCare, attacking religious liberty, you didn't build that, unseemly chest - pounding over bin Laden (GM is dying but bin Laden is coming back to life), 20 years of Jeremiah Wright, failure of crony capitalism deals with Solyndra - NextEra — Ener1 — Solar Trust etc., over 100 rounds of golf in 1st 3 yrs, choom, the Chevy Volt, insisting the Ft Hood massacre was «workplace violence», secret college transcripts, «clearly the Boston police acted stupidly», disregard of the Simpson - Bowles budget recommendations (after commissioning their work), and lots more irrelevant stuff.

Mr. Sullivan's letter to Secretary Johnson describes how the new anchorages could provide targets for terror attacks — two are located within three miles of the Indian Point nuclear plant — and that increased traffic of barges filled with crude oil and other hazardous materials raises the potential for collisions and spills, «which in the tidal Hudson would be difficult, if not impossible, to clean up without incurring immediate and long - term damage to drinking water resources and prime wildlife habitat.»

ELPC's founder - president, Howard Learner, joined forces with the coal industry coalition, the «BEST Coalition» — a front group for NRG, a big coal generator — to attack the legislation as a «bail - out» for nuclear, something much of the Illinois media dutifully repeated.

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».

Friends of the Earth Europe has expressed alarm that the Heads of State cast a role for nuclear power in Europe's energy future, without offering solutions to its unsolved problems: how to treat and store waste for thousands of years, the risk of serious accidents, the proliferation of nuclear weapon material and how to secure nuclear plants against terrorist attacks.

Dr. Lovelock, honored in 1997 with the Blue Planet Prize, which is widely considered the environmental equivalent of a Nobel award, has now come under attack from some environmentalists for his support of nuclear power as a way to avoid runaway «global heating» — his preferred alternative to «global warming.»

For example, most travel insurance plans specifically exclude any coverage for sickness, injuries, or other losses due to war, attacks using weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical, biological or other warfare — regardless of who commits the act or whether war has been declared or nFor example, most travel insurance plans specifically exclude any coverage for sickness, injuries, or other losses due to war, attacks using weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical, biological or other warfare — regardless of who commits the act or whether war has been declared or nfor sickness, injuries, or other losses due to war, attacks using weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical, biological or other warfare — regardless of who commits the act or whether war has been declared or not.

That strongly suggests that we have a nearly zero risk of a non-state actor successfully staging a nuclear attack of any kind within the United States — or anywhere else, for that matter.

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

It was not known until after the collapse of the Soviet Union that there were also tactical nuclear missiles deployed to Cuba and, for the only time, under direct authority of field commanders who could fire without further authority from Moscow, so if the US had decided to attack Cuba, as many urged JFK to do, there is a reasonable chance that local commanders would have begun a nuclear exchange.

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).

Elena Chachko has an interesting post at Lawfare discussing Israel's recent public acknowledgement of what the international community has long known: that it was responsible for the 2007 attack on the Al - Kibar nuclear reactor in Syria.

The employment of tactical nuclear weapons, which allow for the precise targeting, could be justified as a measure to halt the imminent attack, which, if occurring, would require much more destructive a response.

NWR broadcasts warnings and post-event information for all types of hazards: weather (e.g., tornadoes, floods), natural (e.g., earthquakes, forest fires and volcanic activity), technological (e.g., chemical releases, oil spills, nuclear power plant emergencies, etc.), and national emergencies (e.g., terrorist attacks).

The group behind the hacks, which FireEye identified as TEMP.Hermit, has made a name for itself out of bitcoin theft, including a 2015 attack on South Korea's nuclear industry.