Two final factors include how soon the eurozone economy bottoms out (there have been some recent signs of stabilization, but the monetary union's chronic problems remain unresolved), and whether Middle East tensions and the
threat of nuclear proliferation in the region — and responses to that threat by the US and Israel — escalate or are successfully contained.
«Faced with clear and present
dangers of nuclear proliferation and climate change, and the need to find sustainable and safe sources of energy, world leaders are failing to change business as usual.
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.
In order to understand the rationality of nation states and to ultimately deal with the
problem of nuclear proliferation, we need to understand rationality beyond a cost - benefit calculation and combine it with a cultural approach that emphasises established and familiar patterns of behaviour.
Its story deals in a heady
mix of nuclear proliferation, illegal cloning, double - crosses, and paranormal activity, and it moves at a rapid - fire pace for the duration of its 10 - hour campaign.
There was
talk of nuclear proliferation, differences in political ideology between nations, terrorism, torture, gene therapy, historical references I would have otherwise never learned about, and the list goes on.
«The excesses and atrocities of organized religion,» says Roy Abraham Varghese in his preface to Antony Flew's book There Is a God, «have no bearing whatsoever on the existence of God, just as the
threat of nuclear proliferation has no bearing on the question of whether E = mc2.»
Heavily influenced by anime and Hollywood movies, the audience is taken on a ride dealing with mechs, vampires, fat men on roller scares, a possessed arm, and long speeches about the
dangers of nuclear proliferation.
The government policy is also due, in part, to the emergence of new nuclear energy technologies that, if successfully developed and implemented, could increase nuclear plant safety while also reducing costs and the
risk of nuclear proliferation.
The interwoven issues of climate change and energy security,
of nuclear proliferation and disarmament, and of poverty, resource scarcity, forced migration, failed states and terrorism present complex nexuses of security threats.
DAVID NOONAN: These are breeder reactors; they produce plutonium and that maximises the risks of weapons and
of nuclear proliferation.