Sentences with phrase «weapon programme»

While this won't stop their nuclear weapons programme completely, it may convince them to scale down their efforts.
He got his job in government as a result of his work on a top secret weapons programme involving lasers.
No explanation as to how this agent came to be used in the United Kingdom; no explanation as to why Russia has an undeclared chemical weapons programme in contravention of international law.
Kim Jong - un must dismantle his entire nuclear weapons programme before the US makes any concessions to North Korea, John Bolton, President Trump's...
Prime Minister Clement Attlee authorised a British nuclear weapons programme in 1947, two years after the USA dropped its first atomic bombs on Japan.
He cites the UN's investigation of Iraq's nuclear weapons programme after the Gulf War, which showed that the programme used a variety of technologies which were supposedly imported for civilian purposes.
Tony Blair told parliament before the war that intelligence showed Iraq's nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons programme was «active», «growing» and «up and running».»
@Don: cut defence spending or Trident and lose a bunch of marginal seats — most of the $ on Trident goes to the US, so you could always announce conventional weapons programmes providing the same jobs in whichever docks would lose out.
International observers said the shipments represented attempts to bolster outlawed weapons programmes in both countries and deepen a decades - long alliance in defiance of rigid international sanctions.
Although the defence department's position appears to have been undermined by the economic imperative, some hardline officials are still concerned that technology such as supercomputers could be diverted to clandestine weapons programmes similar to those set up in Iraq or North Korea.
The three waves of strikes hit the capital Damascus, as well as two locations near the city of Homs, destroying important infrastructure at sites connected with the Syrian regime's chemical weapons programme, the Pentagon said.
The Chilcot report into the Iraq War will be published on the 6th July, and around the same time the Conservative government is expected to bring forward a vote on replacing Britain's Trident nuclear weapon programme — two issues which a divided Labour party will have to navigate with caution.
1998 The US and UK launch a bombing campaign, Operation Desert Fox, to destroy the country's weapons programme after Iraq ends cooperation with UN Special Commission
Surely they weren't taken in by that claim Blair made at the G8 summit in Evian in 2003: «Speaking at the G8 summit in Evian, Mr Blair said he stood» 100 %» by the evidence shown to the public about Iraq's alleged weapons programmes.
Oil prices rose on Monday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stepped up pressure on the United States to pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, presenting what he called evidence of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons programme.
Two earlier summits between the leaders of North and South Korea, in Pyongyang in 2000 and 2007, failed to halt the North's weapons programmes or improve relations in a lasting way.
Kim Jong - un must dismantle his entire nuclear weapons programme before the US makes any concessions to North Korea, John Bolton, President Trump's... Kim Jong - un must dismantle his entire nuclear weapons programme before the US makes any concessions to North Korea, John Bolton, President Trump's... Kim Jong - un must dismantle his entire nuclear weapons programme before the US makes any concessions to North Korea, John Bolton, President Trump's...
Indeed, the only moments in which North Korea has opened dialogue on halting its weapons programme have coincided with promises of American - North Korean reconciliation and security guarantees.
When responding to a question on Iran's nuclear weapons programme he said «we should blow them up first».
He also wants to scrap Britain's nuclear weapons programme, and tuition fees in England.
The US has imposed sanctions on a dozen Russian and Chinese companies and individuals it accuses of helping North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.
At a secret meeting in January 1947, Attlee and six cabinet ministers, including Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, decided to proceed with the development of Britain's nuclear weapons programme, [34] in opposition to the pacifist and anti-nuclear stances of a large element inside the Labour Party.
Meanwhile Livingstone, who is a strong opponent of the Trident nuclear weapons programme, is a co-convenor of Labour's wider International Policy Commission, working alongside Hilary Benn.
The decision, which is largely symbolic because the firms do not do business with Iran, comes two days after the US announced new sanctions on a number of foreign firms accused of collaborating with Iran's weapons programme.
An unintentional whistleblower, his remarks to the BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan, about how the Blair government had exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam's weapons programme, provoked an intense and ugly row between Downing Street and the BBC, leading ultimately to Kelly's death.
It could be the end of a five - year - long struggle for the Iranian scientist, who has said all along that he was punished for refusing to help a covert nuclear - weapon programme.
Vil Mirzayanov, the scientist accused of revealing state secrets about Russia's chemical weapons programme, says international pressure secured his release from prison last month.
The Prosecutor General's office in Moscow has dismissed the case against Vil Mirzayanov, the scientist accused of revealing state secrets about Russia's chemical weapons programme.
If we accept that the UK doesn't really need a nuclear weapons programme, but does need good jobs for talented scientists and engineers, could the same money and talent pool now working on nuclear arms be used to create a crewed space programme for the country instead?
The US used to generate the isotope as a by - product of cold - war nuclear weapons programmes.
Most of this material went into nuclear weapons programmes, mostly in Russia and the US.
Analysts who are sifting through documents recovered from Iraq's nuclear weapons programme have concluded that scientists working on the programme «took Saddam Hussein for a ride».
The article further alleged that poor waste disposal procedures make the institute a health hazard for the population of Moscow, and that the $ 25 million which the US has given Russia for the elimination of chemical weapons is being diverted to prop up the military industrial complex — including the chemical weapons programme.
«Atomgrad», the once - secret city in the Urals which produced plutonium for the Soviet nuclear weapons programme, has become the first city in Russia to launch its own currency, the «augram».
A third approach — which is currently considered unacceptable by all the political parties — is to call a halt to the British nuclear weapons programme and, over a period of years, scale down and eventually dismantle the arsenal.
About 500 lost their jobs in the CSIR in 1989 and, since 1990, as South Africa wound down its nuclear weapons programme, 5400 have been made redundant from the AEC.
DURING the Cold War, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State was home to much of the plutonium industry that supplied the US nuclear weapons programme.
Now begins the slow and hazardous task of cleaning up Hanford and more than a dozen other sites across the US that were also part of the weapons programme.
In 1990, de Klerk gave orders to end South Africa's nuclear weapons programme; the process of nuclear disarmament was essentially completed in 1991.
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