Sentences with phrase «on weapons programs»

It's about time Christians realized that taking care of the poor, the elderly, and the disabled is far more important and more morally correct than spending on weapons programs and professional sports stadiums.

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«The multilateral talks with Iran that culminated in the deal to verifiably prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon were focused squarely on Iran's nuclear program,» Price said in a statement to Business Insider.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday he told Kim during their secret meeting at the beginning of April that North Korea would have to agree to take «irreversible» steps toward shutting its nuclear weapons program in any deal with the United States.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 (Reuters)- Air strikes by U.S., British and French forces crippled Syria's chemical weapons program and all missiles launched hit their targets, the Pentagon said on Saturday as President Donald Trump declared «Mission Accomplished.»

Formal talks on North Korea's nuclear program collapsed in 2009, and Kim has accelerated his efforts to obtain the ability to strike the U.S. with a nuclear weapon.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 - Air strikes by U.S., British and French forces crippled Syria's chemical weapons program and all missiles launched hit their targets, the Pentagon said on Saturday as President Donald Trump declared «Mission Accomplished.»

In addition to firing at least 23 missiles in 2017, North Korea put the progress of its nuclear weapons program on full display, testing a miniaturized hydrogen bomb in September.

Seoul's presidential Blue House rejected criticism on Tuesday that next month's Winter Games will be the «Pyongyang Olympics,» saying the event will help defuse tensions over North Korea's weapons programs.

Oil prices which are near 2014 highs, surged on Monday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented what he called evidence of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program.

Iran has said it will ramp up its nuclear program if the deal collapses and a senior Iranian official said on Tuesday that Tehran might quit a treaty designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons if Trump scraps the agreement.

Following Israel's reveal of a massive trove of stolen documents which they say shows that Iran has lied about their nuclear ambitions, the White House put out a now - amended statement on Monday, which said Iran currently «has» a secret nuclear weapons program.

The White House brushed off a major «typo» in the statement it issued on Iran's nuclear weapons program, instead shifting the blame onto the Obama Administration for entering the deal in the first place.

The United States on Wednesday declared North Korea a «primary money laundering concern,» and moved to further block its ability to use the U.S. and world financial systems to fund its weapons programs.

Meanwhile, at the same event on Tuesday, some of the U.S. military's top weapons buyers said their service branches would have to halt or drastically cut hundreds of acquisition programs if Congress doesn't pass a new budget.

That is, Pyongyang will «launch a lengthy, complicated negotiation to get agreement on actions each party must take, and use this process to buy time for the development of the North's nuclear weapons program.»

Sung - Yoon Lee of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University has doubts that North Korea is sincere about taking «meaningful action» on its nuclear weapons program.

Pompeo said North Korea's nuclear weapons program has developed at a «very rapid clip,» but that Kim is hoping for an arsenal of nuclear weapons — «not one, not a showpiece, not something to drive on a parade route.»

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 (Reuters)- Western powers said on Saturday their missile attacks struck at the heart of Syria's chemical weapons program, but the restrained assault appeared unlikely to shift the course of the 7 - year - old civil war.

There is no good reason to renege on the nuclear deal, so they are reduced to spinning dishonest tales about a nuclear weapons program that doesn't exist.

WikiLeaks said it was refraining from disclosing usable code from CIA's cyber arsenal «until a consensus emerges on the technical and political nature of the C.I.A.'s program and how such «weapons» should be analyzed, disarmed and published.»

Included in the proposals is a contentious, $ 67 million voluntary program to arm school staff, including teachers, trained by law enforcement to carry concealed weapons on campus.

Democrats offered a slew of amendments over eight hours of debate on the bill, including a permanent ban on assault weapons and the elimination of the armed - teacher program.

The shadow war between Israel and Iran in Syria is heating up, and on Monday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised the stakes by revealing that Tehran is secretly maintaining its nuclear - weapons program.

And the Israeli leader's speech contained no evidence that Iran had restarted its weapons program or in any way violated the limits on nuclear activities like enrichment set up by the deal — which the IAEA has repeatedly confirmed Iran is abiding by.

The letter specifically noted Trump's efforts to impose sanctions on foreign businesses and banks doing business with North Korea to get the authoritarian nation to drop its nuclear weapons program.

Oil prices were pulling back after surging last week ahead of the U.S. - led missile attack on Syria's chemical weapons program.

The Moral Majoritarians who entered a profound covenant with Catholics against abortion went on to oppose the bishops» program on, for example, nuclear weapons and the economy.

«Whereas Iraq has consistently breached its cease - fire agreement between Iraq and the United States, entered into on March 3, 1991, by failing to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction program, and refusing to permit monitoring and verification by United Nations inspections; Whereas Iraq has developed weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological capabilities, and has made positive progress toward developing nuclear weapons capabilities» — From a joint resolution submitted by Tom Harkin and Arlen Specter on July 18, 2002

The biggest problem is that Iran has previously insisted on refining nuclear material above 5 % at about 20 %, which is much closer to the nuclear weapons threshold, and consequently many observers believe that Iran is not building a power program, but a weapons program in spite of the fact that they are not yet making weapons.

Also, Russian officials claim that while the Russian chemical weapons program and everything connected to it had been verifiably destroyed under foreign supervision, other countries like the UK, Slovakia, Sweden and the Czech Republic have carried out «intense research» on nerve agents like «Novichok» until today and are likely to possess samples of these substances (Which would be of interest if «Novichok» was indeed the poison used in the attack).

Call me an optimist but I like to think that every single nuclear weapons program on the planet is «deterrent».

Republican former Sen. Al D'Amato on Tuesday praised the Democrat who unseated him 1998 for opposing the the agreement aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear weapons program in exchange for lifting economic sanctions.

Meeting in the White House's West Wing, the Democratic governor, Biden and staff members for both discussed Obama's proposed program of executive and legislative action — including a federal ban on assault weapons and high - capacity magazines that would eliminate differences «across state borders,» Malloy said.

The program, which aims to reduce the number of illegal handguns and other firearms on the streets, will reward participants who surrender eligible weapons with a $ 200 pre-paid cash card, no questions asked.

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.

Known as a strong backer of India's nuclear establishment, Singh in 2008 staked the future of his government on passage of the landmark Indo - U.S. civilian nuclear agreement, which allows India, once ostracized over its nuclear weapons program, to buy civilian nuclear technology.

But I was afraid of governments launching gigaton nuclear weapons on spacecraft, as was a Russian colleague who had participated in the Soviet weapons program and had some wonderful stories about nuclear tests that went wrong.

Investigative journalist William Langewiesche tracks the proliferation of nuclear weapons, focusing his story on Pakistani scientist A. Q. Khan, who stole plans and equipment from the West and peddled the technology to countries hostile to Western interests: «That same afternoon a small group of Pakistanis associated with the weapons program, including, of course, A. Q. Khan, gathered in a concrete bunker in Chagai, facing the chosen mountain seven miles away.

But the biggest impact of the replacement weapons program might be on the global nuclear arms situation.

Orr's job, which Moniz created last year as part of a reorganization of DOE's top leadership, involves overseeing all of DOE's science research programs, including 10 national laboratories that do not work on nuclear weapons.

This is even more evidence that spending on science is dwarfed by the significant costs of our weapons program.

This adaptation of the popular espionage paperback centers on a cell deep in the Ruskies» spying program in which cadets are trained to use sexuality as a weapon.

Programmed to age faster than the average human, the man - made trifecta are bona fide killing machines, and The Patriots intend on using their new recruits as weapons.

B - Lock n» Load with R. Lee Ermey: The Complete Season One Unrated Available on DVD Gunnery Sergeant, drill instructor, Vietnam veteran, and larger - than - life actor R. Lee Ermey (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) shows us 4 DVDs worth of weapons, from pistols to tanks to rockets, in this addictive little History Channel original program.

Florida senators narrowly gave their approval Monday to a sweeping school safety bill that would pour millions of dollars into hardening schools and increasing mental health services but would exclude most teachers from participating in a controversial «school marshal program» meant to allow school employees to carry concealed weapons on campus.

The wages in the military are sane but the amount spent on too many weapons programs is too high.

This is particularly true with regards to its Department of Defense (DoD) business, in which the military only works with a few trusted companies, with proven expertise in delivering on important weapons programs and IT services platforms.

Recruits underwent a fourteen - week training program focusing on basic weapons skills, marching drills, military tactics, and physical education.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Inside, he finds that, despite the ship appearing to be extremely old and out of use, there are weapons to be found, programs to be hacked, and an almost infinite amount of drones and robots that are bent on destroying him.