Sentences with phrase «stockpile of nuclear warheads»

The policy document, which by its own admission «is not about launching new initiatives», comes after it emerged Barack Obama was prepared to delay the deployment of a US missile shield in eastern Europe to help persuade Russia to begin cutting its stockpile of nuclear warheads.

I'm personally more worried about badly secured and aging stockpiles of nuclear warheads than about active nuclear power plants, but an economic argument can be made about these plants (many need huge subsidies, cost more than planned, etc).

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The federal agency that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile is expected this week to release a report on the best site option for the United States as it looks to ramp up production of the plutonium cores that trigger nuclear warheads.

Concerned that the United States» 10,000 - strong stockpile of atomic bombs are past their prime, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are vying to design the first new nuclear bomb in the United States since the W88 warhead in the mid-1980s.

5113 Number of operational warheads in the U.S. nuclear stockpile, according to the Pentagon.

The remainder of the fuel comes from government stockpiles and dismantled Russian nuclear warheads.

A third of these are warheads — dubbed W76 — which, since 1978, have been deployed atop submarine - based ballistic missiles or stored in what is known as the Enduring Nuclear Stockpile, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal everNuclear Stockpile, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal everNuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal evernuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal evernuclear arsenal ever since.

In the course of changing the world to what we want it to be, «we have to maintain the [nuclear warhead] stockpile as safe and reliable.»

Among them: warheads carried by America's nuclear submarines and land - based intercontinental ballistic missiles, plus an older type of warhead still stockpiled for use by strategic bombers.

That, in turn, has led to an increase of Japan's plutonium stockpile to an amount that could produce about 6,000 nuclear warheads.

In a world that possess more than 10,000 nuclear weapons, the U.S. maintains a stockpile of more than 4,000 nuclear warheads.

The Stockpile Stewardship program ensures the safety, security, and reliability of these warheads without nuclear testing.