Sentences with phrase «such weapons of destruction»

«The source of weapons that make these killers formidable must also be investigated since law - abiding citizens are not meant to be going around with such weapons of destruction.»

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If the United States were to be the first to release this new means of indiscriminate destruction upon mankind, she would sacrifice public support throughout the world, precipitate the race for armaments, and prejudice the possibility of reaching an international agreement on the future control of such weapons.

To remove the moral obstacles to such a course, leaders, both political and religious, euphemize killing and the weapons of destruction and dehumanize the potential victims in order to justify their extermination.

In the resolutions adopted by the Evanston Assembly there is stated as one of the «two conditions of crucial importance which must be met, if catastrophe is to be averted»: «The prohibition of all weapons of mass destruction; including atomic and hydrogen bombs, with provision for international inspection and control, such as would safeguard the security of all nations, together with the drastic reduction of all other armaments.

Increasingly, it is used as a framework to understand and predict diverse security issues, such as the use and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction, cyberspace security, or its impact on culture and transformation processes in the military.

Not only have such negotiations never been held before — nuclear weapons remain the only class of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) not explicitly prohibited by international law — the process itself also marks a turning point in multilateral diplomacy.

I support a global ban on such weapons as part of our commitment to nuclear disarmament, as was successful with other weapons of mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons.

He writes that governments now recognise that national security in the turbulent conditions of the early 21st century must centre on the creation of public confi dence that normal life can continue even in the face of threats such as terrorism, proliferation of weapons and mass destruction and natural hazards.

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.

The ore taken from Nevada's Comstock load financed the means by which we preserved the Union during the Civil War, and Nevada has hosted aboveground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site, the result being a weapon of such mass destruction that it swiftly brought the end to the World War II conflict.

SRNL is committed to solving the complex problems of the times, such as the detection of weapons of mass destruction, the cleanup of contaminated groundwater and soils, the development of hydrogen as an energy source, the need for a viable national defense, and the safe management of hazardous materials.

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As a climate scientist who has worked on this issue for several decades, first as head of the Met Office, and then as co-chair of scientific assessment for the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change, the impacts of global warming are such that I have no hesitation in describing it as a «weapon of mass destruction».

Furthermore, such options seem to imply that there is no specific case of anticipatory self - defense against weapons of mass destruction (WMD), assimilating it within the «regular» self - defense framework, where the type of weapons does not actually matter.