Sentences with phrase «threat of nuclear attack»

Do the young today worry subconsciously about their future, as we did under the threat of nuclear attack during the Cold War?

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.

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.

The US has lived under threat of nuclear attack for over 50 years.

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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).