Sentences with phrase «of nuclear submarines»

Was this was a rogue attack, launched individually by radicals who took control of a nuclear submarine, and not an act of state policy?

Western countries have paid millions to help Russia dismantle its aging fleet of nuclear submarines in the area and safely store the nuclear material aboard them, but Mr. Kalenchenko said far less attention had been paid to the environmental risks of expanding oil shipments in the same area, most in single - hull tankers.

While Russia has a number of nuclear submarines still in active service, like the Oscar, Delta III, and the famous Typhoon class - submarines, the Borei II - class submarines are expected to be the backbone of Russia's SSBN fleet.

A few months ago defence secretary Phillip Hammond announced # 350 million funding for a new generation of nuclear submarines — a move which already seemed to rule out disarmament or even a change of course from a sea - based deterrent.

This kind of imagery was, for much of the 20th century, part of the eyes - only world of intelligence; from the design of a nuclear submarine to the movement of Israeli troops, one needed high - level clearance for a glimpse.

He argues that because the technological gap between advanced conventional boats and nuclear boats is slowly but surely closing (another unsubstantiated statement), with the former costing half as much, then the days of the nuclear submarine are numbered and it will be allowed to wither on the military vine.

Perched awkwardly on the edge of the seafront, as faceless and silver as the conning tower of a nuclear submarine, the awkwardly named Turner Contemporary, designed by David Chipperfield and opened in 2011, has zero ambition to blend in with its surroundings.

Headlines and shipping lanes aside, it's becoming clearer that the Arctic Ocean of our history and lore — an ice - locked region hostile to humans (except for seal - hunting Inuit and the crews of nuclear submarines)-- is transforming in summers to a place where ships may in a few decades find reliable short cuts between Asian manufacturers and distant markets, where polar bears may be fewer and thinner, where oil and gas rigs may increasingly dot the land and sea.

Northern Norway is the most densely populated area but Russia, which accounts for half of the Arctic coastline and has a fleet of nuclear submarines based at Murmansk, is the country keenest to extend its influence.

... once I had one of them tell me that the radiative greenhouse effect was proved by cavitation off of a nuclear submarine propeller... be aware that this is what they will do, how low they will go.

No amount of nuclear submarines will be able to stop that,» warns Mr Rahman, who was also a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the Nobel peace prize in 2007 for its work on climate change.

The confusing clicker is bristling with more buttons than the bridge of a nuclear submarine, and the most - used buttons like Menu and Volume + / - are much smaller than those on competing devices.

In this episode a young Joaquin Phoenix (then still Leaf Phoenix) guest starred as a kid who, apparently, takes control of a nuclear submarine to impress a pretty girl.