Sentences with phrase «of weapons expert»

It followed January's information tribunal ruling that the Hutton inquiry into the death of weapons expert David Kelly should not be seen as the «final word» on the UK's decision to back the invasion of Iraq.

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In a 2015 article in Foreign Policy, Jeffrey Lewis, an expert on nuclear policy at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, dubbed the weapon «Putin's doomsday machine.»
Besides targeting sources of weapons technology, the curbs were the first time the United States sought to directly attack North Korea's daily consumer trade, said Peter Harrell, a sanctions expert at the Center for a New American Security.
«They're smart people,» Richard M. Lloyd, a weapons expert who has written a critique of Iron Dome for engineers and weapons designers, said of the system's makers in an interview.
The governor said he would seek to strengthen state laws to prevent the purchase or possession of weapons by any adult «when either a family member, community welfare expert or law enforcement officer files a sworn request and presents evidence to the court of a threat of violence involving firearms or other weapons
The United Nations human rights expert on Myanmar voiced deep concern on Tuesday at a sharply escalation in hostilities in Kachin state, citing reports of the army using aerial bombings, heavy weapons and artillery fire on civilian areas near China.
Then there is the problem of sorting out disagreements among experts who, while sharing a general strategic outlook, may disagree about whether a particular weapons system is stabilizing.
His off - the - cuff speaking habit led him to make extreme statements on sensitive subjects (such as nuclear weapons) that alarmed foreign policy experts, but his partisans viewed such outbursts as evidence of his authenticity.
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).
So my question is: Do foreign policy experts or diplomats take seriously the idea of a productive dialogue between the US and North Korea, and under what kind of conditions would they be likely to suspend their nuclear weapons program?
So, in November 2016, in private discussions with American experts, including one of the authors, North Korean officials hinted they might be willing to exercise restraint in the testing of ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons if the United States and South Korea adjusted the exercises to make them less threatening.
Over the past year he has diverted his energy to the many theories, encouraged by some disturbing and unanswered questions, surrounding the death of David Kelly, the government's highly respected weapons expert whose body was found in a wood near his Oxfordshire home on July 18 2003.
An expert in judging his audience — a former CND member one day, and a man who is prepared to annihilate millions of people with a nuclear weapon the next.
Baldwin was the Times journalist who named the weapons expert as the secret source behind the BBC's claim that the Blair government had «sexed up» a dossier about Iraq's «weapons of mass destruction'to justify going to war against Saddam Hussein.
For the past five years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) weapon physicist Greg Spriggs and a crack team of film experts, archivists and software developers have been on a mission to hunt down, scan, reanalyze and declassify these decomposing films.
In asserting that the explosions on 11 and 13 May provide «enough data» to continue the country's nuclear weapons program without further testing, the two government experts hope to free up the hands of politicians who want India to join the 149 countries that have agreed to the ban.
«The letter, from some of the world's most knowledgeable experts in the fields of nuclear weapons and arms control, arrives as Mr. Obama is lobbying Congress, the American public and the nation's allies to support the agreement,» William J. Broad wrote in an article in the New York Times.
But an expert panel he chairs, chartered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes ScienceNOW, has had certain criticisms of the RRW program, warning that skyrocketing costs of maintaining current weapons and making new ones will put the weapons lab in a «very challenging» position.
LLNL nuclear weapon physicist Gregg Spriggs is leading a team of film experts, code developers and interns on a mission to hunt down, scan and reanalyze what they estimate to be 10,000 films of the 210 atmospheric tests conducted by the U.S. between 1945 and 1962.
The arguments for the reliable replacement warhead include, obviously, reliability, which is in the title of it, although that has somewhat been put to rest by expert study of the plutonium pets that rest at the center of a nuclear weapon; these are the key items for making a nuclear explosion.
Syria's decision, under international pressure, to accede to the Chemical Weapons Convention and allow destruction of its chemical weapons is an arms control milestone in the Middle East, experts said at a AAAS - hosted discussion, and it is possible the task could be accomplished by 1 July 2014 as...
According to Hay, who is chairman of the Working Party on Chemical and Biological Weapons, a group of experts that monitors progress on the weapons treaties, Britain could give a «positive signal to other states by ratifying sooner rather than later».
Science for diplomacy: engaging experts to revitalize the biological weapons convention Kirk Lancaster University of Chicago
Experts at the workshop suggested scientific evaluation of vast amounts of data from a wide range of sources will be a means of detecting clandestine nuclear weapons activity.
Meanwhile, armaments experts are probing a dinosaur fetus inside a fossilised dinosaur egg with analytical equipment normally reserved for studying the workings of nuclear weapons.
The botched raid marked the debut of a new chemical weapon, one of many that worry experts.
With two of the four experts remaining in her Washington office overlooking the national mall, Miller picked up the phone and called the lab's director, Charles McMillan, at his own office on the idyllic Los Alamos campus in the New Mexico mountains, where nuclear weapons work is financed by a federal payment exceeding $ 2 billion a year.
Michael Bernardin is considered the nation's expert in electromagnetic pulse (EMP) physics created by high - altitude nuclear detonations, and he is nationally recognized for his understanding of weapons physics.
«Nuclear weapons and climate change are precisely the sort of complex existential threats that can not be properly managed without access to and reliance on expert knowledge,» the scientists wrote in their report.
Taking control of either E'lara, a ranged weapon expert, or Caddoc, a master swordsman, you must use a variety of weapons,
The same kind of doubling up is elsewhere in the film: T'Challa's beguiling bratty sister (a delightful Letitia Wright) is also the movie's brilliant weapons and cybernetics expert.
Valiant Digital and Bat in the Sun have released the first trailer for Ninjak vs. The Valiant Universe, the upcoming live - action digital series which sees Ninjak running a gauntlet of Valiant's greatest heroes; check it out below after the official synopsis... Colin King is Ninjak, MI - 6's deadliest intelligence operative, and weapons expert.
Malkovich's character, kind of a dim - bulb weapons expert, gets most of the funnier lines, while Mirren's suave and sexy senior gets in a few zingers herself.
I'm a fellow agent of his that is sort of his assistant and weapons expert, computer hacker, cyber sleuth.»
Most of the experts we talked to said not do that with as many horses, people and weapons as [we wanted].»
In spite of long stretches of time in which the character roam and wander, discussing the aliens» tactics (which they are experts at determining immediately), tossing out their theories of survival, and occasionally saying something about people or places back home, they are defined primarily by their weapons.
Of course as a gamer, my character became an expert hunter but it didn't stop me from becoming a great miner as well, especially due to the amount of enemies that can be found in the wilderness of Fantasy Life where a weapon is greatly needed to surviOf course as a gamer, my character became an expert hunter but it didn't stop me from becoming a great miner as well, especially due to the amount of enemies that can be found in the wilderness of Fantasy Life where a weapon is greatly needed to surviof enemies that can be found in the wilderness of Fantasy Life where a weapon is greatly needed to surviof Fantasy Life where a weapon is greatly needed to survie.
A former Special Ops soldier turned anti-poaching expert turned primatologist at San Diego Wildlife Reserve, he has a special bond with Rampage's famous gorilla, and desperately seeks to bring the wayward ape back from the mess caused by an industrial accident at the hands of nefarious evil - doers and genetic meddlers Engyne, who are fiddling with animal DNA in order to produce biological weapons.
He's a hitman, an expert at the handling of a weapon yet he accidentally fired his weapon accidentally shooting this guy in the face.
There were a number of places that offered packages of different weapons you can fire, accompanied and coached by a trained firearms expert.
Visualize thousands of warriors in the field, garbed in loin cloths and wielding weapons, such as ma'a (the sling, with which Maui warriors were experts at throwing stones) and ihe (a javelin spear, which Hawaii Island warriors excelled at using).
The new ships are the Mercantile Magnate (a maneuverable ship with many fields of fire), the Chaladonian Shrike (maneuverable and well - equipped to put out a broadside but with a fragile frame), the Fjord Baronies Crusader (a ship with powerful weapons that necessitates an expert crew), and the Anglean Corsair (a durable broadside ship with a complex engineering layout).
The best players can switch between tiles as quickly as Quake experts swap weapons, assembling dizzying towers, editing doors into walls, holes into floors, and spinning switchback stairs out of flat ramps.
His weapon of choice, the one - handed sword, makes him a swift attack expert.
Divisions include airborne which are stealthier in their footwork as they are faster yet simultaneously quieter before firing at enemies with suppressed weapons; armoured brings the heaviest weaponry; expeditionary force is equipped with shotguns; infantry are capable of leading the attack with bayonet charges in close quarters combat or holding position to take on enemies at mid to long range through rifle battles; and mountain are expert snipers with sharpshooter focus for precise sniping from a distance.
Whatever your weapon of choice is, we are the experts when it comes to free shooting games.
You start off your zombie killing fest, on the tropical island of Bonai, by choosing between one of four characters: Purna (firearms expert), Logan (throwing expert), Sam B (blunt weapons expert), and Xian Mei (sharp weapons expert).
Trained within a US intelligent agency so secret that not even the CIA knew it existed, Glas is an expert of counterintelligence and all kinds of weapons.
or the CAST speciality of ranged weapons expert?)
The only really good thing I enjoyed about my time with Drawn to Death was one particular power - up that changed my normal, gun - style weaponry to what appeared to be an amputee, armed with an endless supply of volleyballs; on command, my new weapon - slash - partner would lob said volleyball with expert - like precision.
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