Sentences with phrase «possession of nuclear weapons»

A new world order based on the possession of nuclear weapons emerged after the Second World War.

Possession of nuclear weapons could be seen as the ultimate bargaining tool in international diplomacy, instantly giving any nuclear state a seat at the top table.

Yet both possession of nuclear weapons and the maintenance of demographic vitality are pathways to the same outcome: a stronger Britain.

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?

This year, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed that «the Iranian nation has never pursued and will never pursue nuclear weapons», and linked the issue to religion, stating that «the Islamic Republic, logically, religiously and theoretically, considers the possession of nuclear weapons a grave sin and believes the proliferation of such weapons is senseless, destructive and dangerous».

For Christians this was evident several years ago when the Roman Catholic bishops of the United States condemned even the possession of nuclear weapons as a violation of the just war ethic.

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

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.

While repudiating the notion that nuclear war in any circumstance can be a just war, the bishops say that they will tolerate for now the possession of nuclear weapons as long as serious efforts are made toward arms control.

Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea wrote the possession of nuclear weapons into their constitution as a guarantor of their security.

Not exact matches

It is correct to say, as Robert McAfee Brown does, that the possession and manufacture of nuclear weapons are immoral.

In the specific case of Germany, they are still bound by the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany Some examples of the limitations set: Armed Forces of no more than 370,000 personnel - of whom at most 345,000 were to be in the Army and Air Force No manufacture, possession or control of NBC weapons Full application of the Nuclear Non -...

The ban treaty, if it is adopted, will most likely be made up of a relatively short text declaring the use, possession, and transfer of nuclear weapons unlawful.

They claim that the possession and use of nuclear weapons can not be reconciled with the principles of the laws of war.

The Council called on all states to sign up to the NPT and to set «realistic goals» to strengthen, at the 2010 Review Conference, all three of the Treaty's pillars - disarmament of countries currently possessing nuclear weapons, non-proliferation to countries not yet in possession, and the peaceful use of nuclear energy for all.

India received photomultiplier tubes and Israel took possession of «streak» cameras, high - speed cameras that nuclear weapons testers use to capture images of explosions.

However, when criminal Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne) learns the identities of Fine and all the other top agents, Cooper volunteers to head into the field to take Boyanov down and retrieve the nuclear weapon she is in possession of before she sells it off to someone who means to use it.

At the time, the United States was the world's sole nuclear power, although the Soviet Union had begun the work that would lead to its possession of atomic weapons by 1949.