First, the tail risks (low - probability, high - impact events) in the global economy — a eurozone breakup, the US going over its fiscal cliff, a hard economic landing for China, a war between Israel and Iran
over nuclear proliferation — are lower now than they were a year ago.
Not exact matches
«70 Acting on this belief, Wallis led his Sojourners community in
over forty public actions during the first six months of 1977, protesting such issues as the use of torture, the
proliferation of
nuclear armaments, and the government's repressive housing policies.
The original application for the GE Hitachi plant in 2009 set off a protracted debate
over whether the NRC, headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, sufficiently weighs
proliferation risks when licensing new types of enrichment technology (See «Laser plant offers cheap way to make
nuclear fuel»).
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.
The academies» study also stressed that concerns
over proliferation of
nuclear weapons may continue to outweigh the need to reform Western export controls, at least until Russia establishes effective export controls of its own.
And I haven't even begun on the issue of
nuclear proliferation, aided the world
over by the promotion of
nuclear power!
The EU has significantly tightened its sanctions regime against Iran
over the last two years in order to end the
proliferation of sensitive
nuclear activities and to halt the program the Western world fears is aimed at creating a
nuclear bomb.