Sentences with phrase «risk of nuclear war»

Just a few days prior the so - called «doomsday clock,» a visual metaphor that symbolizes the real - world risk of nuclear war, was moved up 30 seconds.

The panels that advise the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on its Doomsday clock have pushed the measure of the risk of nuclear war to just two minutes before midnight.

Both sides want to reduce the risk of nuclear war.

Even if the agreement decreases the risk of nuclear war, by removing the P5 from the war, it increases the risk of war in the Middle East.

In addition to reducing the risk of nuclear war, U.S. reactors have also been staving off another global challenge: climate change.

Pope Francis said his words are addressed to all people, much as his predecessor, Pope John XXIII, made a similar universal call to humanity in his 1963 encyclical, Peace on Earth, which came as the world faced the risk of nuclear war.

Not so long ago, thermonuclear war was also a big fear (BTW, the risk of nuclear war is still there, we just don't hear about it that often nowadays).

Such recycling, he argues, «would dramatically increase the risk of nuclear war.»

Whether or not this is an accurate reflection of the figure it is certainly non-zero, and anything that escalates the risk of nuclear war over a human lifetime should be met with concern, even if the risks of the escalating factor itself are blithely ignored.

Now we're on the brink again, with feckless leaders in North Korea and the U.S. raising the risk of nuclear war to a level not seen since the Cold War ended.

If there were any chance that more nuclear energy increased the risk of nuclear war, I would be against it.

Fact: These reactors would dramatically increase the risk of nuclear war.