Sentences with phrase «small nuclear weapon»

Could have used a small nuclear weapon but he might have been accused of overkill, and the use of nuclear weapons might have affected his life insurance rates.

The explosion came as a surprise and brought in energy comparable to a small nuclear weapon.

By contrast, the National Security Strategy paper speaks not of permanent superiority but of leadership, calls for a secure presence in space but not control of it (or cyberspace), implies the possibility of regime changes without stating it explicitly, and does not mention developing smaller nuclear weapons.

Not exact matches

ICAN, which is a coalition of smaller organizations, has long campaigned for a treaty that would ban the use of nuclear weapons.

-- IRD note: Maybe 1.4 % of a global stock bubble — but that's like saying a small nuclear bomb in the hands of a madman is just 1.4 % of the total stockpile of nuclear weapons.

For example, the bishops maintain that the first use of even the smallest counterforce nuclear weapons is always wrong, but they recognize that others within the church community might come to a different conclusion.

The most striking instance is the small group of military men who control nuclear weapons.

The DPRK has obvious reasons to maintain at least a small nuclear arsenal: nuclear weapons offer defense against an alliance possessing overwhelming military advantages, a source of international prestige, and a means to extort money and other benefits from neighbors.

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.

Finding solutions to the challenges of moving from small numbers of nuclear weapons to zero in ways which enhance security

But plenty of smaller earthquakes, most not even felt by humans, occur across the world every day due to detonations, such as nuclear weapons testing or mining, or rising magma linked to volcanic activity.

Though too small to end civilization — unlike the asteroid that may have doomed the dinosaurs — Apophis could pack a punch comparable to a large nuclear weapon.

Small modular reactors may help with two of the biggest challenges facing the nuclear industry: the growing stores of waste from existing reactors and residue from the mass production of nuclear weapons as well as the overall safety of nuclear power.

Coherent neutrino scattering detectors could lead to practical applications as well: Small - scale neutrino detectors could eventually detect neutrinos produced in nuclear reactors to monitor for attempts to develop nuclear weapons, for example.

In 2005 Congress asked NASA to extend its survey to include objects as small as 460 feet (140 meters) across — not dinosaur - killers but still big enough to outdo the largest nuclear weapon ever tested if they ever cross paths with Earth.

Yes, the threat of war between major powers has declined, he notes, but the ability of small groups or even individuals to wreak enormous havoc — with nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons, not to mention jumbo jets — has grown.

North Korea has said it has carried out a «higher level» nuclear warhead test explosion which will allow it to finally build «at will» an array of stronger, smaller and lighter nuclear weapons.

Camera company Kodak maintained a small nuclear reactor and weapons - grade uranium in a basement at its headquarters in Rochester, New York, for over 30 years.

Investigative journalist William Langewiesche tracks the proliferation of nuclear weapons, focusing his story on Pakistani scientist A. Q. Khan, who stole plans and equipment from the West and peddled the technology to countries hostile to Western interests: «That same afternoon a small group of Pakistanis associated with the weapons program, including, of course, A. Q. Khan, gathered in a concrete bunker in Chagai, facing the chosen mountain seven miles away.

But a document newly obtained by the Washington, D.C. — based Federation of American Scientists (FAS)-- founded by the creators of the original nuclear bomb in 1945 and monitoring the weapons ever since — reveals that in recent years the U.S. target list has expanded to include so - called «regional proliferators,» smaller states seeking to acquire such weapons of mass destruction.

Normally, radiocarbon dates have error ranges of several centuries, but the researchers could improve the estimates because the smallest sharks measured showed the «bomb pulse» — a huge increase in global radiocarbon released from the hundreds of nuclear weapons tested in the 1950s and»60s.

The CTBT would prohibit the U.S. and every other signatory from conducting test explosions, no matter how small, of nuclear weapons underground, in space or anywhere else.

China's nuclear test last week probably signals an attempt to develop a new generation of smaller warheads, according to a dissident Chinese weapons scientist.

The unlikely source of much of the recent information comes from data sent back to earth by a small satellite designed to detect clandestine nuclear weapons tests.

Its bulk would either send a small asteroid on a different trajectory, or in the case of a bigger one, it would be fitted with a nuclear weapon that would do its job (hopefully, for everyone alive at the time) with a bang.

To detect very small quantities of mobile radioactive elements in the groundwater at former nuclear weapons production sites, researchers have developed a new type of sensor.

Small amounts of caesium - 134, caesium - 137, and iodine - 131 were released into the environment during nearly all nuclear weapon tests and some nuclear accidents, and are not otherwise produced in nature.

As if to make up for Kelly's small role (even though she is supposed to be in a leadership position), she keeps turning up in places an unarmed and untrained woman never ought to be, like in the street chasing a terrorist attached to a nuclear weapon.

Forgetting for a moment the movie's many slick but false moves, and the manner in which it contrives to put Palicki in first workout clothes and then a cocktail dress, what's most notable about «Retaliation» is the litany of small indignities it foists upon its big - stakes, wham - bang conceit, like the fact that the American President's national popularity is said to soar after, in the wake of a nuke going missing, he decides to push for a worldwide nuclear disarmament summit; or that Israel — who's never officially admitted to possessing nuclear weapons — is part of the gathering, along with global pariah North Korea.

In the universal network we can not accept the presence of nuclear weapons because even a small change can trigger it.

In this scheme, both ends of the fuel cycle are handled by a small group of countries, mainly the nuclear weapons states in the original proposal.

«I might say, parenthetically, I believe there are national security and common security aspects to the whole globalization challenge that I really don't have time to go into today, so I'll just steer off the text and say what I think briefly, which is that as we open borders and we increase the freedom of movement of people, information and ideas, this open society becomes more vulnerable to cross-national, multinational, organized forces of destruction: terrorists; weapons of mass destruction; the marriage of technology in these weapons, small - scale chemical and biological and maybe even nuclear weapons; narco traffickers and organized criminals, and increasingly, all these people sort of working together in lines that are quite blurred.

Of the eight nations known to possess nuclear weapons, even those with the smallest nuclear arsenals, like Pakistan and India, are believed to have 50 or more Hiroshima - sized weapons.

Muller and Andrews find themselves between two extremes: the imperialist «let the third world chew on humanitarian intervention» (small smart wars, drones, renditions, Gitmo, NATO humanitarian intervention — third world has noticed the difference North Korea, India, Pakistan, (not Israel) have developed nuclear weapons — Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria have not) and the autarchical / regional conglemerations with no participation or involvement from the imperialist countries.

A small island nation with less than 60,000 inhabitants best known internationally as a former test site for nuclear weapons is joining the hottest new trend...