Sentences with phrase «other nuclear weapons state»

Typically, this process would take many years and several tests, although the collaboration with American weapon designers has helped to speed up Britain's programme in comparison with, say, the French (who carry out more nuclear tests per warhead design than the other nuclear weapons state).

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The United States has been lying about Iran having a nuclear weapons program for decades, as well documented by Gareth Porter and other journalists.

Realism demands our preventing Iran or other rogue states from acquiring nuclear weapons.

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But when one state in a dispute has nuclear weapons and the other does not, the nuclear power can always threaten escalation to a point where its opponent has no defence.

If everyone got rid of their nuclear weapons would be that any state could secretly build nuclear weapons use them to bully other states around.

Concern was also expressed at the 2010 Conference about the lack of progress made in the Middle East and it was decided that a conference should be convened in 2012 - to be attended by all States of the Middle East — «on the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction.»

However, a number of other states have developed nuclear weapons since the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty, including India, Pakistan and Israel.

The other two - thirds of the firm are held by American defence firm Lockheed Martin and the British company Serco, meaning that the state no longer owns the programme which produces and maintains the country's nuclear weapons.

Signatories with nuclear weapons are explicitly prohibited from transferring any nuclear - weapons - related technology to any other state, «directly or indirectly».

Mr. Miller, along with the other Democrats, sought to again shine a spotlight on Iran's strained relationship with Israel and its efforts to build nuclear weapons, rebuffing claims that a new, more moderate Iranian head of state would mean an end to the perceived threat of the country.

As nuclear technology spread beyond the major superpowers, this potential application led to worries over uncontrolled proliferation of atomic weapons to other states or even to terrorist groups.

States that desired the benefits of nuclear power technology could sign the treaty and promise not to acquire nuclear weapons, whereupon the weapons - holding nations agreed to assist the others with peaceful applications.

Should the United States listen to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and others who call for new nuclear weapons to replace our aging stockpile?

«If the United States, the strongest nation in the world, concludes that it can not protect its vital interests without relying on new nuclear weapons for new military missions, it would be a clear signal to other nations that nuclear weapons are valuable, if not necessary, for their security purposes, too,» Sidney Drell, arms control expert and physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center said at the American Physical Society Conference in Denver this past March.

In a similar vein, he made vague but conciliatory comments about trying to find a way forward on two other long - standing nuclear waste issues: the cleanup of Cold War — related waste at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and the stalled construction of a plant in South Carolina designed to turn some 68 tons of plutonium scavenged from U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons into so - called mixed oxide fuel (MOX).

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

In that time, nine other states developed nuclear weapons (South Africa later dismantled its program), nuclear weapons were tested over 1,000 times and the global nuclear arsenal ballooned to over 60,000 before dropping to the current total of approximately 15,000.

As North Korea is increasing uncertainty through its nuclear weapon programs and other acts of espionage, not to mention increasing the public's distrust of centralized financial authorities by hacking state banking, people in the region are turning in record numbers to cryptocurrency as an alternate economic system.

Georgetown University Medical Center (Washington, DC) 05/2007 — 01/2010 Imaging Science and Information Systems Center — Insert Title • Train, supervise, and assure the work quality of a team of 3 - 6 regional analysts • Write analytical summaries of open source collections of biological threats and other national security threats • Develop and refine indication and warning methodologies and taxonomies for biological and radiological threats • Offer guidance and expertise on intelligence community interagency fusion cell for H1N1 «swine flu» • Assist in research and development work on plant health project • Conduct case studies on state and non-state actor biological weapons programs and orphan source radiological incidents • Participate in multi-agency tracking of nuclear proliferation activities in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East • Perform project lead duties, participate in the selection process of new employees, and assist with performance appraisals • Awarded the National Intelligence Medallion for organizational work on Project Argus