The US has lived under
threat of nuclear attack for over 50 years.
A report for the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) warns of a «stark» gap now exists between the reduced
threat of a nuclear attack and the deterrent patrols operated by Britain's nuclear submarines.
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.
Do the young today worry subconsciously about their future, as we did under
the threat of nuclear attack during the Cold War?
Not exact matches
The prospect
of a
nuclear attack towered over all other
threats.
Excising the Iranian
nuclear program through targeted air
attacks and subversion directed at regime change are the fail - safe means
of defanging the Iranian
threat.
1Technically the preemptive
attack would not need to end with the occupation
of the country; war is justified until it is clear that the
threat that started it has been removed (vg
nuclear weapons surrendered and facilities dismantled).
When we face a new
threat to our country from terrorist organisations, destabilised regions
of the world or cyber
attacks, is a
nuclear deterrent designed for the Cold War era still relevant?
The Department
of Homeland Security plans to close a New York - based laboratory that has helped the city's Police and Fire Departments develop systems to detect
nuclear and biological
threats, a move that some local officials fear could hamper the city's efforts to prevent and respond to terrorist
attacks.
The Administration has requested $ 366 million for the Domestic
Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO), whose job is to develop and deploy technologies to tackle the
threat of a radiological
attack on the United States.
«We recognize that the gravest terror
threat we face — a
nuclear attack made possible by
nuclear proliferation — requires a comprehensive strategy for reducing the world's
nuclear stockpiles and preventing the spread
of those armaments,» it says.
An unfocused, unfunny black comedy, Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb details the chaos that ensues after a
nuclear attack is mistakenly triggered against the Soviet Union - with the film following a host
of disparate figures, including George C. Scott's Buck Turgidson, Sterling Hayden's Jack D. Ripper, and Peter Sellers» title character, as they attempt to neutralize the
threat.
After the World War II bombings
of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima, the
threat of foreign
attack on U.S. soil shifted from naval assault to air
attack, particularly by aircraft carrying
nuclear weapons.
The IAEA has categorized four potential
nuclear security
threats (or, more accurately,
nuclear security risks): the acquisition
of nuclear weapons by theft; the creation
of nuclear explosive devices using stolen
nuclear materials; the use
of radioactive sources in radiological dispersal devices (RDDs); and the radiological hazards caused by an
attack on, or sabotage
of, a facility or a transport vehicle.
Still, while the Obama version envisaged biological and chemical weapons development as additional scenarios to trigger
nuclear response to non-
nuclear threat, Trump's NPR reserves a much broader room for action by referring to «the evolution and proliferation
of non-
nuclear strategic
attack technologies» (p 21).