Sentences with phrase «reducing nuclear arsenals»

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The campaign against Britain's nuclear arsenal took a surprising turn today after efforts to reduce stockpiles came from an altogether different angle.

«He was a leader in the effort to reduce the size of the world's nuclear arsenal and to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

Reagan was convinced that the risk of catastrophic nuclear war was high, and he wanted to reduce the two superpowers» swollen arsenals.

The Bulletin's members at Thursday's press conference noted that leaders of nations equipped with nuclear weapons have expressed the desire to cooperate in reducing their arsenals and securing nuclear bomb - making material.

If we choose to reduce our arsenal to what is viewed by many as a credible deterrent, maybe 300, 400 weapons, which is vastly fewer than 10,000, but would still inflict, you know, horrific damage to anybody foolish enough to challenge us on that front, well then we'll be living in a slightly different world; or we could, as George Shultz, et al argued, «Try to work towards a world free of nuclear weapons in their entirety and put this destructive genie back in the bottle.»

In past negotiations aimed at reducing the arsenals of the world's nuclear superpowers, chiefly the U.S. and Russia, a major sticking point has been the verification process: How do you prove that real bombs and nuclear devices — not just replicas — have been destroyed, without revealing closely held secrets about the design of those weapons?

Humanity's failure to reduce global nuclear arsenals as well as climate change prompted the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to advance their warning about our proximity to a potentially civilization - ending catastrophe

Washington has also signed an agreement with Moscow about reducing their respective nuclear arsenals.

While part of the scientific discussion at the time of the amount of cooling is portrayed in your video, the most recent studies, including by myself, with modern computer models show that indeed even the current reduced American and Russian nuclear arsenals can still produce nuclear winter, threatening the entire human race with starvation.