Sentences with phrase «used war weapons»

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The World War II - era German dictator, however, famously did use chemical weapons in gas chambers to exterminate millions of Jewish people, LGBTQ people, and others in Eastern Europe.

Nuclear weapons have been used exactly twice in combat — both times by the US, and both times dropped by a propeller aircraft over largely unprotected Japanese airspace at the close of World War II.

When Assad used chemical weapons a year later to kill 1,500 people outside Damascus, however, Obama wavered, saying he wanted to get approval from Congress before getting mired in another Middle East war.

Speaking on Sunday, Fihn said the risk of nuclear weapons being used was now greater than during the Cold War.

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It uses tons of archival nuclear weapons footage — roughly a third of which the public has never seen before — overlaid with Cold War - era documents that are brought to life with eye - catching animation.

Thankfully, there are weapons in the war on spam that companies can use to make sure their legitimate marketing messages aren't mistaken for spam.

Though the practice had been in use since the Korean War, Carlos Hathcock made the use of the M2.50 - caliber machine gun as a long - range sniper weapon a normal practice.

UN war - crimes investigators had previously documented 33 chemical attacks in Syria, attributing 27 to the Assad government, which has repeatedly denied using the weapons.

Last week, Spicer falsely claimed Hitler did not use chemical weapons during World War II and referred to concentration camps as «concentration centers.»

The UK has acknowledged that the intention of the strikes was not to turn the overall tide in the war and was essentially meant as a punitive action to compel Assad not to use chemical weapons.

So we have gotten to the point that public outcry against the use of rape as a weapon in war can be viewed as helping spread the very thing it is trying to fight.

Just 20 years after WWII, the West German army proposed a plan to use chemical weapons against the Soviet Union and its allies in the event of war.

In 2013, the former leader said the use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war would trigger an American military response.

No civilian should be able to access these weapons of war, which should be restricted for use by our military and law enforcement only.

According to Tearfund's Katie Harrison, who has visited many conflict and post-conflict situations around the world, rape is «constantly used as a weapon of war».

So if I have a business and my religion teaches that war and weapons of war are immoral... My business doesn't have to pay taxes because some of those taxes will be used to buy weapons or to support the war in Afghanistan???

What if, someone in the government decides that it would save lives and shorten the war if we used nuclear weapons again?

So the United Methodist bishops reject the traditional just - war argument because «we are convinced that no... use of nuclear weapons offers any reasonable hope of success» (p. 13) If we don't get peace, what might happen to us?

In 1945 Henry L. Stimson, secretary of war, recommended to President Truman the use of nuclear weapons against Japan to hasten the end of the war and save the Allied forces an estimated 1 million casualties in an assault upon mainland Japan.

The militant atheist Richard Dawkins uses science as a weapon in his war against religion.

The weapons they use in their global war against the poor include deception and disinformation, which are targeted at the U.S. people.

Most of the time, the just war tradition is used to test a particular war (or a strategy or a weapon) for its moral and legal acceptability.

It should be noted, however, that war continued, and continues, to be an instrument of statecraft — so long as it does not involve the use or threatened use of nuclear weapons.

using women and children as shield to protect weapons of war is evil in any civilized society.

But as I have noted, the actual face of recent warfare differs markedly from this, as it involves civil wars, uses of force by non-state actors, and massive harm to the innocent not from the use of horrific weapons but because they are made the direct targets of weapons ranging from knives to automatic rifles to suicide bombs.

A primary objective of education today, in homes, in schools, and through the mass media of communication, should be the full and forceful dissemination of knowledge about the extreme destructiveness of modern weapons of war and about the awful consequences for everybody which would result from their use in any large - scale conflict.

Within that functional world - village, we find now existing genocidal war (Indochina), cold war, nuclear weapons threats, conventional weapons threats, colonialism and neo-colonialism, wildly unbalanced use of resources so that a major part of the world population starves or verges on starvation while a minor part consumes lavishly, racism, ignorance, a defilement of the environment through pollution of air, water and soil, and reckless wastage of irreplaceable resources.

The lesson of history is: When a war starts, every nation will ultimately use whatever weapon has been available.

'» The technical discussions as to when or whether nuclear weapons can be used without violating just war criteria are irrelevant unless the question of escalation can be answered with certainty.

If so, he should read Hartshorne's «Note» at the conclusion of Reality as Social Process, published in 1953.41 There he speaks of pacifism as error and afirms his conviction that the United States should not renounce the use either of strategic bombing or nuclear weapons in its «Cold War» with Russia.

Jesus would not approve of funding for wars and would make line item cuts to funding that goes to corporations that create weapons or technology used to take lives.

Antagonism against the USA is further perpetrated by the leadership of the USA in Gulf War, military involvement in Somalia [both Muslim nations], and, as mentioned above, the continued economic blockade against Iraq and support and supply of weapons to the Israeli army (which has been used predominantly against the «intifada» [uprising] of the Palestinian youth beginning in 1987).

Thus we live now with the fruits of the actions of early industrial capitalism, nuclear weapons used in World War II, the Green Revolution, widespread deforestation.

I really do hate war and wish that not a cent of my taxes were used to buy or make weapons or fund troops who mass murder family's in foreign countries, but I don't have much choice do I because it's part of our national defense that I do appreciate, so I pay my damn taxes like real American's should.

This legally questionable action risks escalating further, as US defence secretary James Mattis has admitted, an already devastating conflict and therefore makes real accountability for war crimes and use of chemical weapons less, not more likely.»

The possession of nuclear weapons that are kept to deter their use by the other side has some justification, but the moment we accept the actual possibility of our using them to initiate the nuclear stage of a war, we are taking upon ourselves an unexamined moral responsibility.

If the simple answer to ending the violence is banning weapons then tell me why, after World War Two, when all those veterans who had been trained in using and did use high powered weapons, and in many cases did kill others, this nonsense didn't occur?

It also saddens me that we spend so much money on weapons of war, knowing that as soon as we make a better one, the others will only come up with even better ones causing us to have to spend more and more, that could be better used on more productive causes.

He will use them as leaders of a thousand and leaders of fifty; he will make them plow his plowland and harvest his harvest and make his weapons of war and the gear for his chariots.

The Vietnam war was not only a gross miscalculation, politically and militarily, but a moral wrong inflicted by a massive use of cruel weapons forbidden by international law, mostly against poor and innocent civilians.

Right now we are talking about a limited airstrike in retaliation for the use of weapons that have killed a very small fraction of the war dead.

This weapon began to be used in the Korean and Vietnam wars.

Sometimes I think I'd rather believe in a God that doesn't «answer» prayers than a God that gives me what I want for me and mine and lets children be raped or forced into drug habits and used as weapons of war.

With volume sales falling 3.6 % over the period, the steeper value decline has been driven by price cuts as bread is used as a key weapon in the ongoing price war.

With time to explore this land and her culture, Don Quixote, Velazquez's Las Meninas, and the Alhambra Palace come at your heart like a love - letter stuffed inside a Molotov cocktail, a weapon first used during «Le Guerra,» the Spanish Civil War, in 1936, a war between the Fascists of Franco and the RepublicaWar, in 1936, a war between the Fascists of Franco and the Republicawar between the Fascists of Franco and the Republicans.

Let's move ahead I don't see people going to war with bow and arrows those times are gone, the Roman Empire was great using bows and arrows but now it's guns and nuclear weapons but in our case we go to war with sticks and wipes hoping to defeat teams with Guns and nuclear weapons..

They fight over who is going to have custody, they use the kids as weapons in a war of words, and they do their best to poison their children's minds against the other parent.

It also makes no sense for Assad to use chemical weapons when he's winning the war and it would turn the US against him, but it makes a lot of sense for the rebels to frame him.

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