Sentences with phrase «of nuclear warheads»

The number of nuclear warheads on a Trident II was limited to eight and the number of missiles on each submarine was limited to 20 by nuclear treaties.

Take on any of the five single - player campaigns around the world including: terminating a drug lord in Peru, dealing with a hostage situation in Chad, halting a biological attack by terrorists in Indonesia, battling through a civil war against insurgents in Uzbekistan, and stopping the potential launch of a nuclear warhead on the Russian island of Novaya Zemlya.

Russia — the only potentially hostile major power in the UK's region — continues to deploy thousands of nuclear warheads, and has just launched a new class of ballistic missile submarine.

I'm personally more worried about badly secured and aging stockpiles of nuclear warheads than about active nuclear power plants, but an economic argument can be made about these plants (many need huge subsidies, cost more than planned, etc).

But to avert the dangers of future proliferation — for example, if rogue nations or terrorists gained control of nuclear warheads — actually disposing of the bombs themselves and their fuel should be a goal of future treaties, Danagoulian says.

The number of nuclear warheads in an alert state is about 14900 (look here), of which there are about 1800 in the U.S.A. and Russia together.

The delicate, potentially deadly dismantling of nuclear warheads at Pantex, while little noticed, has grown increasingly urgent to keep the United States from exceeding a limit of 1,550 warheads permitted under a 2010 treaty with Russia.

Even if the use of nuclear warheads were avoided, the outbreak of an international conflict using more conventional but highly sophisticated weapons remains possible.

Similarly, our prayers for healed bodies are inhibited by the presence of nuclear warheads and warmaking everywhere, and by all forms of social injustice.

Now, the second part of the agreement is known to be false; even if several START treaties brought down the number of nuclear warheads of the USA and the USSR / Russia, it is clear that the atomic powers are not willing to give up that power.

But detailed provisions for the physical dismantlement of nuclear warheads and delivery platforms will have to be left for a later date.

«This report suggests nothing has changed in the long - announced plans for maintaining and ultimately upgrading the UK's stock of nuclear warheads.

«The standardisation of the nuclear warhead will enable [North Korea] to produce at will and as many as it wants a variety of smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear warheads of higher strike power,» the North said.

The Obama administration has lowered the number of nuclear warhead types to 12, from 23 in 1990, and there are plans to take another 50 % cut over the next decade.

The experiments were conducted on pristine foam that was never exposed to heat and samples that were subjected to increasing temperatures that would be encountered with the thermal decay of a nuclear warhead.

When a collection of nuclear warheads is stolen in rural Russia, the U.S. Government takes careful notice of the situation, putting nuclear expert Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman) on the case, despite her limited field experience.

An Air Force pilot matches wits with a renegade colleague who is threatening to detonate a pair of nuclear warheads.

If you must know, it's of the formulaic «soldier of fortune coaxed of retirement and reassembles a crack team of commandos in order to save the world from his diabolical nemesis in possession of a nuclear warhead» variety.

The dust jacket describes the paradigmatic moment in Woody Allen's 1973 movie, Sleeper, in which a future Rip Van Winkle awakens to learn that civilization was destroyed when «a man by the name of Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear warhead.»

Our concerns about nuclear weapons lead us to eliminate from consideration the general debt obligations of the United States government (U.S. Treasuries) and of Russia, which maintain more than 90 % of the world's arsenal of nuclear warheads.

Yet, the U.S. has no avowed nuclear enemies as in the days of the Soviet Union and certainly none that would require thousands of nuclear warheads to deter or destroy, according to critics of the RRW plan.

The policy document, which by its own admission «is not about launching new initiatives», comes after it emerged Barack Obama was prepared to delay the deployment of a US missile shield in eastern Europe to help persuade Russia to begin cutting its stockpile of nuclear warheads.

He accidentally gains control of a nuclear warhead and decides to take control of earth and destroy the humans should they ever return.

Describing what he called a «more open» policy, Hague said Britain's total number of nuclear warheads would not exceed 225, including the maximum 160 already declared as «operationally available».

In December 2006, the government proposed that after Trident expired in the 2020s, the number of nuclear warheads should be cut further from 200 to a maximum of 160.

In December Mr Blair indicated that the current four submarines could be cut to three, while the number of nuclear warheads could also fall by 20 per cent.

He said submarine numbers may be cut from four to three, while the number of nuclear warheads would be cut by 20 % to 160.

Israel successfully launches a first strike on Iran, taking out all of their nuclear sites and six of their nuclear warheads.

The specter this time isn't World War III, the Clock's longtime focus — disarmament treaties have slashed the numbers of nuclear warheads to a fraction of their Cold War peak — but a raft of terrifying new threats that, in the Bulletin's estimation, more than make up for the receding menace of nuclear holocaust.