Sentences with phrase «said nuclear weapons states»

And Gordon Brown said nuclear weapons states could contribute to a huge reduction in nuclear weapons overall.

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday he told Kim during their secret meeting at the beginning of April that North Korea would have to agree to take «irreversible» steps toward shutting its nuclear weapons program in any deal with the United States.

«The United States, though inherently hostile to North Korea, will get to know once our talk begins that I am not the kind of person who will use nuclear weapons against the South or the United States across the Pacific,» Moon's press secretary Yoon Young - chan quoted Kim as saying.

When a country does not have nuclear weapons but has a peaceful nuclear program that could be used to produce nuclear weapons, it is said to be in a state of «nuclear latency.»

In Wednesday's MSNBC interview, Trump said he would not rule out the possibility of using nuclear weapons to combat Islamic State militants.

The United States has said it is willing to negotiate with the North if the country commits to get rid of its nuclear weapons, which Pyongyang has refused to do.

Trump on Tuesday hosted a discussion on options to respond to any North Korean aggression or if necessary to prevent Pyongyang from threatening the United States and its allies with nuclear weapons, the White House said in a statement.

These facts are consistent with what the United States has long known: Iran had a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program that it has tried and failed to hide from the world and from its own people,» the White House said in a statement.

Trump's ultimatum of «fire and fury» came after a Washington Post report said the pariah state was capable of building a miniaturized nuclear weapon.

The Democratic leader said the United States can not allow North Korea to have nuclear 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.

North Korea's leader, Kim Jong - un, has told South Korean envoys he is willing to negotiate with the United States on abandoning his country's nuclear weapons, and also said he would suspend all nuclear and missile tests while such talks were underway.

Democrats pounced: «Harry Wilson's willingness to revisit New York's ban on investing with Iran — a country on a quest to «wipe Israel off the map,» obtain nuclear weapons, and threaten the United States — is naive, at best, or callous, at worst,» said Jacobs.

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.

You can't say: «Iran, you can't have any nuclear weapons but we'll keep some, and so will the United States».

As I said after that vote, the Iran deal paved the way for a dangerous state sponsor of terrorism to achieve what it wanted most — nuclear weapons, and the means and funds to deliver them.

Mr. Faso, a thirty - plus - year - resident of Kinderhook, NY — Prof. Teachout moved to the district from New York City in January to run for the NY19 seat — strongly opposed the Obama Iran Nuclear Deal, saying that it gave billions of dollars to one one of the world's biggest sponsors of terrorism, virtually guarantees that Iran will get nuclear weapons, and poses an existential threat to the State of Nuclear Deal, saying that it gave billions of dollars to one one of the world's biggest sponsors of terrorism, virtually guarantees that Iran will get nuclear weapons, and poses an existential threat to the State of nuclear weapons, and poses an existential threat to the State of Israel.

Two in three Americans say President Donald Trump should not pull the United States out of the nuclear deal aiming to block Iran from developing nuclear weapons, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.

In terms of international affairs, Turner said Israel must continue to be an important ally of the United States, especially in a scenario where Iran is capable of producing nuclear weapons.

«When you get 20 or 30 states with nuclear weapons, somebody's going to get mad eventually,» he says.

«If the United States, the strongest nation in the world, concludes that it can not protect its vital interests without relying on new nuclear weapons for new military missions, it would be a clear signal to other nations that nuclear weapons are valuable, if not necessary, for their security purposes, too,» Sidney Drell, arms control expert and physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center said at the American Physical Society Conference in Denver this past March.

Typically, this process would take many years and several tests, although the collaboration with American weapon designers has helped to speed up Britain's programme in comparison with, say, the French (who carry out more nuclear tests per warhead design than the other nuclear weapons state).

Comparisons are difficult, Bronson says, but there are more nuclear weapon states today than in the 1950s.

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

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