Sentences with phrase «since nuclear threats»

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The rial has lost almost half its value since September, partly due to fears of a return of economic sanctions if U.S. President Donald Trump carries out his threat to exit a nuclear deal with Tehran.

Tensions have escalated since North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on September 3, but the rhetoric has reached a new level in recent days with leaders on both sides exchanging threats and insults.

And since he and others argue that stateless actors are near - immune to the threat of nuclear force, the overall deterrence value of such weapons are heavily discounted.

The threat to humanity as a whole from nuclear weapons has led many to oppose them since their development.

Mrs May also shot down arguments thrown up by left - wing MPs that the threat of nuclear attack on the UK has diminished since the end of the Cold War.

The clock now reads six minutes from that end - of - days witching hour after it was changed during a press conference Thursday in New York City, citing an increased awareness and interest in stopping key threats to humanity (in particular nuclear conflict and global warming) since U.S. President Barack Obama took office about a year ago.

The doomsday clock was initially designed to communicate the threat from nuclear weapons, but has since been expanded to include cyber and biosecurity and the dangers of unsustainable climate change.

Payne's book in a nutshell: 1) politicians and most senior officials operate with the belief that there is a dependable «rational» basis for successful deterrence in which «rational» US opponents will respond prudently and cautiously to US nuclear deterrence threats; 2) the re-evaluation of nuclear strategy in expert circles since the Cold War exposes the deep flaws of Cold War thinking in general and the concept of «rational» deterrence in particular (partly because strategy was dangerously influenced by ideas about rationality from economics).

gov - Since at least March 2016, Russian government cyber actors — hereafter referred to as «threat actors» — targeted government entities and multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors.

Since at least March 2016, Russian government cyber actors — hereafter referred to as «threat actors» — targeted government entities and multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors.