Sentences with phrase «of nuclear weapons by»

Yet, the range of scenarios potentially triggering such a first use of nuclear weapons by the US is indicative of a foreseeable possibility to use force not only in response but also in anticipation.

The IAEA has categorized four potential nuclear security threats (or, more accurately, nuclear security risks): the acquisition of nuclear weapons by theft; the creation of nuclear explosive devices using stolen nuclear materials; the use of radioactive sources in radiological dispersal devices (RDDs); and the radiological hazards caused by an attack on, or sabotage of, a facility or a transport vehicle.

As a result of this mission and others, all atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons by the United States was stopped.

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.

Use of nuclear weapons by the USA or any other nation would be a huge line to cross, legitimizing their use by all other nuclear powers.

We both strongly oppose the acquisition or testing of nuclear weapons by North Korea and we both want to see a resumption of the six party talks.

US President Donald Trump has called North Korean leader Kim Jong - Un «rocket man» in front of the United Nations, labelled him crazy and insane, and stated he was willing to halt Kim's pursuit of nuclear weapons by all means, while North Korea labelled Trump a «dotard.»

E.g., would neutral countries have any reason to support the possession of nuclear weapons by the US, but object to nuclear weapons by Iran?

Take steps to avert global destruction caused by the successful development of nuclear weapons by Iran.

And we are all frightened at the prospect of the use of nuclear weapons by terrorists against innocent civilian populations.

And any use of nuclear weapons by the North will be met with a massive military response that is both effective and overwhelming,» Mattis said.

Not exact matches

Nuclear weapons have been used exactly twice in combat — both times by the US, and both times dropped by a propeller aircraft over largely unprotected Japanese airspace at the close of World War II.

While the attack Thursday was the first of its kind by the US, Lowther said the bomb was «not even close to being a nuclear weapon» and he would «not make the argument that it's a symbol of escalation» in the conflict in Afghanistan.

However, peak testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere — the most potentially dangerous type of nuclear testing, as nuclear fallout could easily be dispersed by wind currents — occurred between 1961 to 1962 almost exclusively between the US and the USSR.

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.

He opened a 1983 convention of evangelists from 140 nations by urging the elimination of nuclear and biological weapons.

Trump is planning to meet with Kim by June, in search of a deal in which North Korea would give up his nuclear weapons.

The B61 is America's primary tactical nuclear weapon that can be carried by just about all of the US military's attack aircraft, from Marine Corps AV - 8B Harriers to the Air Force's B - 2 Spirit bombers.

«It's kind of like the old Robert McNamara saying,» says Chesky, referencing a comment about nuclear weapons by the controversial 1960s U.S. defense secretary to explain his own voracious pursuit of management knowledge.

Because enriched uranium is a component of nuclear weapons, the deal required a national security review by the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States.

In particular, the long - term challenges posed by transnational terrorism, by Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons, and by threats to Israel's security will require strong U.S. security commitments in the Middle East regardless of whether oil is also a major regional concern.»

Ahead of a meeting between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump, expected to be held by early June, North Korea expressed a serious intent to make its first summit with the United States a success, with Washington urging Pyongyang to give up all its nuclear weapons.

By Eli Yokley Week in Review The Trump administration President Donald Trump offered cautious praise after the leaders of North Korea and South Korea agreed to remove all nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula.

Israel's claim that Iran lied to the world about plans to build a nuclear weapon has been endorsed by Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state.

In... Israel's claim that Iran lied to the world about plans to build a nuclear weapon has been endorsed by Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state.

The letter continued: «Our ad reminds viewers that Kim Jong - un and his army of hackers have been stealing billions of dollars of Bitcoin and other digital currencies for the past few years, funding their rogue nuclear weapons programs and thwarting efforts by the rest of the world to sanction this behavior.»

«I accompany with prayer the positive success of the Inter-Korean summit last Friday and the courageous commitment assumed by the leaders of the two parts to carry out a path of sincere dialogue for a Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons,» the Catholic Church leader told pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter's Square on Sunday.

They talked about everything from types of weapons to survival and combat tactics in the event of a nuclear apocalypse, inspired by recent news from North Korea.

Domestically and internationally, Ahmadinejad is regarded by not a few as a capricious dictator whose presidency has included serious human rights violations, routine defiance of the United Nations, development of capabilities for nuclear weapons, and massive student protests against his government.

In recent years there has risen a new type of the same concern in that the advancement of human ability to control and manipulate the natural forces by means of science and technology has created life threatening situation in terms of the pollution, nuclear weapons, and intervention of the natural process with the unforseen consequences.

The briefing, taught for nearly 20 years by military chaplains at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, is intended to train Air Force personnel to consider the ethics and morality of launching nuclear weapons - the ultimate doomsday machine.

At a debate in Britain, David Lange was asked about the peace that we live in cast by the shadow of nuclear weapons, to which he quipped I can almost smell the uranium now!

Many Christians were active in campaigns to oppose nuclear weapons, although I personally was sad that this never became the position adopted by the Church of England.

While defense contractors say that there is no moral or religious dilemma for their employees, church leaders say that there is a problem, but one that can be solved by refusing to participate in the development or production of nuclear weapons and technology.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

Now it is up to the clergy, who more and more can begin to act on the convictions expressed by the U.N. report, which opens with the words «Alarmed by the threat to the very survival of mankind,» and proceeds:»... the accumulation of weapons, particularly nuclear weapons, today constitutes much more a threat than a protection for the future of mankind.

The «bounds of possible thought» about nuclear weapons may be set by the prevailing «nukespeak,» as Paul Chilton has pointed out (in Nukespeak [Comedia Publishing, 1982]-RRB- But through persistent «peacespeak» they can also be expanded, much as the bounds of possible thought about race were expanded by the civil rights movement — under the image - sensitive leadership of Christian ministers.

Thus Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, far from being the cockamamie «Stars Wars» scheme it was promptly dubbed by political adversaries and journalists stuck in the conventional thinking of the era, was the technological expression of the president's moral conviction that nuclear weapons were a grave danger that ought to be taken off - the - board in international public life.

The «fact» of nuclear weapons has been superseded by a more compelling fact: that human beings have a right to live free of the risk of mutual nuclear annihilation.

What is so wrong with these men (no woman has yet become known with this kind of message) that they can preach and rejoice in a God who actively wills the destruction of most of humanity, whose idea of peace is to destroy all contrary voices, and who calls us to be fellow destroyers by sanctioning build - ups of nuclear weapons?

Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev has followed his earlier initiatives in reducing nuclear weapons by making two announcements of momentous import: economically, socialism does not work, and politically, democracy is the road to the future.

The fear of nuclear annihilation, under which many live, can be attacked by efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

By contrast, the National Security Strategy paper speaks not of permanent superiority but of leadership, calls for a secure presence in space but not control of it (or cyberspace), implies the possibility of regime changes without stating it explicitly, and does not mention developing smaller nuclear weapons.

The number of lives saved by nuclear weapons probably exceeds all the advances in medical sciences combined.

The possession of nuclear weapons that are kept to deter their use by the other side has some justification, but the moment we accept the actual possibility of our using them to initiate the nuclear stage of a war, we are taking upon ourselves an unexamined moral responsibility.

Thirdly, the Christian nations, made economically strong by both their political imperialism and their advanced state of technology, have not only constructed the weapons for nuclear war but also been most to blame for the selfish exploitation of the non-renewable resources of the earth, for the accumulating mass pollution, for the gross interference with the delicate ecology of the planet.

The second profound social change is that we are now living in a nuclear age compounded by increasing international tensions, violence, terrorism, and the stockpiling of nuclear weapons.

MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES SYNONYMS 1.1 A particular system of values and principles of conduct, especially one held by a specified person or society: a bourgeois morality MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES 1.2 The extent to which an action is right or wrong: behind all the arguments lies the issue of the morality of the possession of nuclear weapons MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES

Until the monster weapons of the nuclear powers are controlled by world structures of peace and justice, mankind flirts daily with extinction.

Aghast by the church's historical «moral sausage - making» when it comes to the political outworking of the gospel in the area of U.S. nuclear weapons policy, Tyler Wigg - Stevenson — a Baptist minister and a nuclear policy expert — responded by launching the Two Futures Project (hereafter 2FP).