Sentences with phrase «weapon scientists»

«Historically we have sought to take weapon scientists from potential enemies and teach them something useful to do other than weapon science,» she said.
She highlighted Alex Dehgan, a former AAAS science policy fellow at the State Department who persuaded former Iraqi weapons scientists to help rebuild their country.
When asked why this project is so important to him, he voiced the dominant perspective among weapon scientists at LLNL: He doesn't want nuclear weapons to be used and passionately believes the key to ensuring they aren't is to making sure the U.S. stockpile continues to be an effective deterrent.
For nearly 2 decades, NNSA has supported the construction and operation of NIF because ICF's miniature explosions can aid weapons scientists who are trying to maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile.
During the first few years of operation, the race for ignition took up 80 % of NIF's time; now energy must take a back seat while weapons scientists play with the new toy.
Feedback suspects that this is partly because Russian and American weapons scientists have a lot in common these days — starting with the lack of job security that stems from their new friendship.
China's nuclear test last week probably signals an attempt to develop a new generation of smaller warheads, according to a dissident Chinese weapons scientist.
Much productive work might be achieved if this book became required reading for nuclear weapons scientists and antinuclear activists, as a way of overcoming the stereotypes that preclude debate.
The different languages of scientist and industrialist, patient and clinician, weapons scientist and antinuclear activist, Russian and American scientists are brought to life in the intricacies of their daily dealings with one another.
The question of who has the right to involve themselves in scientific and technological progress, whose imagined future world is to prevail, is dealt with in several chapters: Kim Laughlin's piece on protest groups after the chemical accident at Bhopal in 1984; Kathleen Stewart's description of the «bitter faiths» in science and technology expressed by residents near the site of a proposed nuclear waste dump; Hugh Gusterson's chapter about Sylvia, a weapons scientist.
Part of the rationale for building NIF was that weapons scientists could use it to validate simulations of nuclear explosions and so keep the country's nuclear stockpile safe and working properly.
In brief, the weapons scientists interviewed by staff editor David Biello concurred with the conclusion of a 2002 report by a committee of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS): that the ongoing stockpile stewardship program can maintain and verify the reliability of U.S. nuclear weapons without explosive testing.
They reveal that nuclear weapons scientists had planned to check 29 plutonium cores with invasive testing at Los Alamos over the past four years.
Joining the festivities for this installment are Anthony Hopkins (a weapons scientist dubbed the «rock star of conceptual mass - killing» and «Da Vinci of death»); Catherine Zeta - Jones (a KGB agent and former paramour described as «Frank Moses's kryptonite»); and Lee Byung - hun («the best contract killer in the world» — a title the film so wishes to emphasize that it bestows it on him twice, verbatim, in the span of five minutes).
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