Sentences with phrase «threatened with their nuclear weapons»

«We must stop a situation where North Korea miscalculates and threatens us with nuclear weapons or where the United States considers a pre-emptive strike.»

To oversimplify a bit, you consent to not building nuclear weapons, and you get peaceful nuclear power, and a promise by the nuclear powers not to be threatened with their nuclear weapons.

Not exact matches

«You (implying the West) didn't listen to us before, but you will listen now,» she said, adding that Russia has threatened the US with nuclear weapons before.

Trump's administration has threatened military action if necessary to stop North Korea from obtaining an intercontinental ballistic missile that can strike the U.S. with a nuclear weapon.

Trump on Tuesday hosted a discussion on options to respond to any North Korean aggression or if necessary to prevent Pyongyang from threatening the United States and its allies with nuclear weapons, the White House said in a statement.

In recent years there has risen a new type of the same concern in that the advancement of human ability to control and manipulate the natural forces by means of science and technology has created life threatening situation in terms of the pollution, nuclear weapons, and intervention of the natural process with the unforseen consequences.

The search today for some minimal order under law must go on in the threatening world of nations, some armed with nuclear weapons, and others preparing to be so armed.

Nuclear weapons, unleashed to shorten a war, now threaten us all with annihilation, and, even when unused, waste billions of dollars in resources.

• Millions of people realize that nuclear weapons threaten everyone together with the biosphere and are trying to find ways of eliminating them.

The White House threatened Israel with an imposed solution, something no previous administration had undertaken, and threatened to demand that Israel abandon nuclear weapons.

The message is clear: there can be no moral or legal justification for threatening whole populations with devastating and indiscriminate nuclear weapons.

Based on America's reluctance to use nuclear weapons, and America's desire not to risk American cities, Kim may believe he can attack a neighbor, perhaps even with a nuclear weapon, without fear of a nuclear response from America so long as he maintains the ability to threaten America directly but doesn't actually attack America.

After all, even if Israel does possess nuclear weapons, the fact remains that it is the only country on the planet that has been threatened with its very existence.

So, in November 2016, in private discussions with American experts, including one of the authors, North Korean officials hinted they might be willing to exercise restraint in the testing of ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons if the United States and South Korea adjusted the exercises to make them less threatening.

North Korea appears to have achieved its goal of being able to threaten the U.S. with nuclear weapons, which combined with President Trump's rhetoric about North Korea means that South Korea and Japan have to wonder how much U.S. interests line up with their security concerns.

Democrats pounced: «Harry Wilson's willingness to revisit New York's ban on investing with Iran — a country on a quest to «wipe Israel off the map,» obtain nuclear weapons, and threaten the United States — is naive, at best, or callous, at worst,» said Jacobs.

«But what did they expect running a candidate from Brooklyn whose views on everything from raising taxes, to forcing hardworking families to pay for campaign ads, to giving billions of dollars to Iran to build nuclear weapons with which to threaten Israel are miles outside the political mainstream?

The tycoon has also threatened to partially withdraw support from Nato and scrap a deal with Iran over nuclear weapons.

While the superpowers were busy threatening to destroy each other with nuclear weapons, Albert B. Sabin turned to a surprising ally to test his new oral polio vaccine — a Soviet scientist

Nuclear weapons: what could go wrong with a weapon that threatens the annihilation of millions of people at the touch of a figurative button?

The Soviets even threatened to bomb the British with nuclear weapons.