Sentences with phrase «problems of nuclear weapons»

So, too, must the current problems of nuclear weapons dependency.

Not exact matches

While defense contractors say that there is no moral or religious dilemma for their employees, church leaders say that there is a problem, but one that can be solved by refusing to participate in the development or production of nuclear weapons and technology.

Moreover, this constant process is carried out as Christians wrestle self - consciously with problems of importance, such as the environmental crisis, hunger, poverty, nuclear weapons capable of omnicide, sexism, racism, classism, and anti-Judaism.

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.

The collapse of a tunnel containing radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear weapons complex in Washington State underscored what critics have long been saying: The toxic remnants of the Cold War are being stored in haphazard and unsafe conditions, and time is running out to deal with the problem.

«One of the problems with Iran is the question of whether you can prove or not that they have nuclear weapons.»

It touches on and in some cases helped create many of the greatest problems we have today — especially the existence and use of weapons of mass destruction, whether nuclear, biological or chemical.

And that's what makes the question of the reliable replacement warhead so vexing, is that whether we need this new potentially more reliable replacement weapon or not depends on what your view is of what our nuclear posture should be and how we should maintain our nuclear weapons complex and all those kinds of thorny problems.

That problem has been addressed by the design of a «new triad» — traditionally the three nuclear limbs comprising intercontinental ballistic missiles, air - delivered gravity bombs, and submarine - launched ballistic missiles — to include other weapons systems.

Asked about the persistence of the Los Alamos lab's problems, former NNSA director Miller smiled and said her colleagues at the nuclear oversight agency sometimes told the following joke: If Washington sent all three of America's nuclear weapons labs an order to study how to «jump,» they would all respond differently.

South Korean media reported that while issues of inter-Korean relations were largely worked out in advance, the thorniest problem of North Korea's nuclear weapons could not be pre-agreed.

«Nuclear weapons may solve the problem of securing the state,» he says.

Now, nuclear is a non-CO2 source, but it's had its own problems in terms of costs, big safety problems, making sure you can deal with the waste, making sure the plutonium isn't used to make weapons.

The 74 - page report assesses nuclear power's key problems and offers recommendations to strengthen nuclear plant safety, better protect facilities against sabotage and attack, ensure the safe disposal of nuclear waste, and minimize the risk that nuclear power will help more nations and terrorists acquire nuclear weapons.

But the theory is pretty compelling that a modest exchange of nuclear weapons will be a problem.

«It is far less important than other social problems such as poverty, infectious diseases, deforestation, extinction of species on land and in the sea, not to mention war, nuclear weapons and biological weapons.

Nuclear fission, as you all know better than I, as a long term alternative to fossil fuels, depends on development and wide use of nuclear breeder reactors with concomitant problems of proliferation of atomic weapons matNuclear fission, as you all know better than I, as a long term alternative to fossil fuels, depends on development and wide use of nuclear breeder reactors with concomitant problems of proliferation of atomic weapons matnuclear breeder reactors with concomitant problems of proliferation of atomic weapons materials.

Thankfully, a big part of the problem with the Chernobyl explosion was horrible communist management and serious reactor design flaws (partly because they needed access to the core to get plutonium for nuclear weapons, as far as I know).

Friends of the Earth Europe has expressed alarm that the Heads of State cast a role for nuclear power in Europe's energy future, without offering solutions to its unsolved problems: how to treat and store waste for thousands of years, the risk of serious accidents, the proliferation of nuclear weapon material and how to secure nuclear plants against terrorist attacks.