Sentences with phrase «to use nuclear weapons»

Using a nuclear weapon against terrorists is a last resort.

It was the first time a country ever used a nuclear weapon in combat and it instantly killed over 80,000 people.

There is exactly one country that has ever used nuclear weapons to attack.

As a matter of fact I think that when they get the chance they will use nuclear weapons on somebody, next year perhaps.

I would like to gain more information about what would happen if someone did use nuclear weapons.

No first strike means a commitment not to use nuclear weapons unless they are used on you.

Why should anyone be worried about a nation using nuclear weapons when it never has and isn't threatening to?

Not only did they become the first and only nation to use nuclear weapons against another, they did it twice.

After all, they are the only nation to use a nuclear weapon in war.

The unilateral repudiation of using nuclear weapons against the Russians or any other national group is a valid political policy sustained by moral law and upheld by international law as well.

Jeremy Corbyn has a long history of opposing British military involvement overseas and has already effectively come out against using nuclear weapons if elected Prime Minister.

The madman will not even state that he would not use nuclear weapons on Europe.

Policymakers should adopt a more realistic focus on deterring Pyongyang from using its nuclear weapons rather than pursuing low - probability attempts to denuclearize the peninsula in short order.

Asked whether prime ministers should always have the option of using nuclear weapons as a last resort, Burnham, the shadow home secretary, said: «I think so, I do, because if a deterrent is to mean what it says then that is an option that prime ministers have to keep.»

However, I would like to know in what situation would it be likely for North Korea to actually use nuclear weapons?

India and China are the only countries with nuclear weapons and an official «No First Use» policy in place that states they will only use their nuclear weapons as a retaliatory action.

But in the case of the Korean peninsula, United States troops do have the power to start using nuclear weapons without any consent from the people, including the Korean commanders.

Shadow defence secretary and frontbench colleagues attack Labour leader for saying he would never use nuclear weapons if prime minister

so if you mean that irene is a punishment for the bad folks, then it's like using a nuclear weapon to hit a taliban jeep.

Jimmy the Greek gave two - to - one odds that some power would use nuclear weapons within the next ten years.

If there were a rebellion, Kim might use nuclear weapons domestically and then claim that the destruction was the result of foreign action.

The USA is an imperialistic country which divided the world into «good» (NATO) and «bad» or «shit holes» as Trump said and it is one of the few countries which used nuclear weapons against civilians.

One could also argue that the US would try to avoid using nuclear weapons against North Korea in the case of a retaliation attack in order to prevent larger tensions with Beijing and more risks to South Korea.

Other nuclear states: India, for one, but mainly Russia and China... Are too much of a threat if they responded using nuclear weapons.

However, I must disagree with abelenky slightly — I believe there is one case where using a nuclear weapon on terrorists makes sense: If the objective is to destroy a bioweapon.

U.S. officials feel that limiting plutonium is important to promote nuclear nonproliferation and prevent terrorist acts using nuclear weapons.

Addressing the second mobilization of the Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, King urged an end to the war, and warned that if the United States used nuclear weapons in Vietnam the earth would be transformed into an inferno that «even the mind of Dante could not envision.»

UGM plans to save Earth by using nuclear weapons to destroy Red Rose in space.

It was the soft left that got most bothered by nuclear power, for reasons that had more to do with pacifism and the thought that the USSR might one day use nuclear weapons against the US, or someone else might get involved in an exchange like India and Pakistan or S Africa.

During the campaign, Trump claimed to «love war,» asked, multiple times, during security briefings why the U.S. doesn't use nuclear weapons, and pledged to «bomb the shit» out of Isis and steal their oil.

«I pray that he'll be a good president and that he'll keep our country at peace — that he'll refrain from using nuclear weapons, and that he will promote human rights.»

It is generally acknowledged that if North Korea did use nuclear weapons on the US, the US would then destroy it.

But the six - hour debate, in which Mrs May said she would use nuclear weapons if pushed, split Labour MPs three ways and sparked extraordinary scenes of open civil war between them.

Let's assume that Kim believes that actually using nuclear weapons would result in his destruction.

Speaking after one year on the job, Pompeo also said the CIA believes Kim would not only use nuclear weapons to stay in power, but to threaten to reunify the divided Korean Peninsula under his totalitarian regime.

The DPRK are unlikely to ever use Nuclear weapons unless attacked first.

Also, North Korea seems much more unpredictable regime with little ties to the rest of the world and as such more of a worry than countries like France or Israel, which everybody, even their enemies, broadly expect to act rationally and use nuclear weapons as a last resort.

After all, even according to Waltz's own theory, Israel would never use its nuclear weapons against Iran even if Hezbollah or any of Iran's other allies repeatedly attacked it.

NK will retain the capacity to use nuclear weapons on SK for the foreseeable future.

Without prior notice to the NATO nations, United States troops are not allowed to use nuclear weapons in Europe.

The public were overwhelmingly against using nuclear weapons against countries that do not have nuclear weapons (5 % support with 87 % against), or who have nuclear weapons but are not using them (11 % support with 77 % against).

«If there is some country out there that is angry enough at the United States to use a nuclear weapon against us, why would they opt to reduce the amount of damage they impose in an attack?»

«The United States, though inherently hostile to North Korea, will get to know once our talk begins that I am not the kind of person who will use nuclear weapons against the South or the United States across the Pacific,» Moon's press secretary Yoon Young - chan quoted Kim as saying.

If North Korea's used a nuclear weapon, its deterrent capability would be gone.

In Wednesday's MSNBC interview, Trump said he would not rule out the possibility of using nuclear weapons to combat Islamic State militants.