Sentences with phrase «rogue nuclear states»

The problems facing us, many of them are global, like rogue nuclear states, like climate change, and other forms of environmental threats, like terrorists, like maximizing global wealth and prosperity, and none of these are going to be solved if we think of the international arena as one of each nation striving for its individual greatness.

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However, barring a nuclear war or a rogue state conducting more dangerous above - ground tests, this method has a limited lifespan.

The rogue state has been on a growing standoff with the world, in particular with the United States for the past months, after proceeding with nuclear tests and being vocal against Washington.

Sebastian Gorka, a senior White House national security official, has reiterated President Donald Trump's threats against North Korea, saying on Wednesday that the US would respond to escalating threats from the nuclear - armed rogue state.

Realism demands our preventing Iran or other rogue states from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Second, America should not allow rogue states to acquire nuclear weapons and must employ force to prevent them from doing so where required.

This questions the legitimacy given to nuclear weapons by military leaders as important «deterrents» and counters the widespread belief that, as Richard Price states, «nuclear weapons don't kill, rogues do».

The greatest nuclear fear today is that nuclear weapons find their way into the hands of terrorists or «rogue states», either through autonomous programmes of development or technology passed on, particularly from the former Soviet Union or China.

A policy of deterrence is useless against terrorists, and is less useful against «rogue states» such as Iran and North Korea, both of which are believed to possess nuclear weapons, because their motivations are not easily understood.

But Downing Street later attempted to allay his concerns, insisting the missile defence system is not aimed at Russia but rather a small group of rogue states with nuclear weapons.

He pledged the Tory government would never abandon Britain's nuclear deterrent, saying doing so would be «indefensible» in a world of rogue states developing nuclear weapons.

Was this was a rogue attack, launched individually by radicals who took control of a nuclear submarine, and not an act of state policy?

Doctor Atomic, a new opera about to open at the Met, brings nuclear proliferation, «rogue states» and the terrorists» dream of a dirty bomb back to the first «ground zero»

Now this fragile state of affairs is approaching breaking point, as a rogue nuclear strike has been ordered that will send the world into turmoil.

My idea of a thriller novel, with at least the plot potential of State Of Fear, has for years been a group of rogue scientists who drill down to near the magma of a volcano on a remote Indonesian island and drop a nuclear bomb down there to break things loose and start a real volcanic reaction — leaving us with lots of sulfates in the atmosphere.

A regional nuclear war in Central Asia, a global pandemic triggered by a modified version of HIV, or a rogue state weaponizing genetic engineering technology all come immediately to mind.

Does the NPT stop «rogue» states from acquiring nuclear weapons?

It is argued (p 11) that the standard of a threat being «instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation» is too rigorous to apply for a state faced with a nuclear - related threat, particularly, the one emanating from a rogue actor.