Sentences with phrase «weapon stockpiles in»

Since the US began destroying its chemical weapon stockpiles in 1986, Craig Williams has been monitoring the process to ensure that safe disposal methods are in place.

At that point, Russia stepped in and brokered a deal to eliminate Assad's chemical weapons stockpile in exchange for the US backing down.

The Army wants to change the way it destroys part of its chemical weapons stockpile in Colorado, but some people worry that could increase the chances of contaminating the air.

Not exact matches

Instead of following through on his threat to hit Assad in response, Obama agreed to let Russia step in and deal with the chemical - weapons stockpile.

The stockpiling began in the 1990s, as Congress implemented the military - transfer program to equip police with automatic weapons and armored trucks to better protect themselves against drug gangs and neutralize armed assailants like the two men who carried out the Columbine High School massacre.

-- IRD note: Maybe 1.4 % of a global stock bubble — but that's like saying a small nuclear bomb in the hands of a madman is just 1.4 % of the total stockpile of nuclear weapons.

Sheriff Lombardo said on Wednesday that the authorities wanted to know if something happened in his life that led him to stockpile weapons.

In fact, according to a statement read on August 9, 2005, at a meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, he issued a fatwa declaring that «the production, stockpiling, and use of nuclear weapons are forbidden under Islam and that the Islamic Republic of Iran shall never acquire these weapons.»

The second profound social change is that we are now living in a nuclear age compounded by increasing international tensions, violence, terrorism, and the stockpiling of nuclear weapons.

Mark Koemke, the Michigan short - wave broadcaster much favored in militia circles, advises the stockpiling of gold, weapons and tools.

Now he's going to team where he'll be another weapon in an arsenal stockpiled with them.

Another argument against the false flag operation «theory»: in the past USA (or Western) reaction to chemical attacks has been puntual (Obama forcing Syria leaving its chemical weapons stockpiles, Trump launching an attack against the base from where the attack was launched).

Warnings from the head of MI6 lead the committee to conclude: «There has to be a significant risk that some of the country's chemical weapons stockpile could fall into the hands of those with links to terrorism, in Syria or elsewhere in the region — if this happens, the consequences could be catastrophic.»

America and Russia recently agreed to significantly reduce their own weapons stockpiles and last week's G8 summit brought suggestions that Britain might include Trident in international disarmament talks.

«Senator Umoru should have explored how to support the military in ridding his district of criminals that were stockpiling arms instead of trying to cover the connection his constituents have with the recovered weapon caches, which have been described as capable of destabilizing neighboring states,» the statement added.

Abdullah is accused of stockpiling weapons in various locations in Broome County; he was indicted for 15 counts of criminal possession... Continue reading →

NNSA maintains and enhances the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear explosive testing; works to reduce global danger from weapons of mass destruction; provides the U.S. Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion; and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the U.S. and abroad.

And it has been deeply involved in DOE's stockpile stewardship program, which aims to ensure the reliability of U.S. nuclear weapons.

So, the funding situation that we are in right now — in 1990s, we launched a program called the Stockpile Stewardship Program; it was intended to maintain the existing nuclear arsenal for a number of decades, if not indefinitely and that has been a huge bonus in terms of actually understanding the physical processes of nuclear weapons and getting away from nuclear testing.

As Syrian rebels gain ground in fierce fighting, the Syrian government has acknowledged its stockpiles of chemical weapons (CW)-- by announcing that they will not be used against Syrians, only foreign invaders.

The new role is needed, Moses says, so that Atherton can coordinate with scientists in the three major user communities that NIF serves: nuclear weapons researchers involved in maintaining the U.S. stockpile, fusion energy researchers, and basic scientists working with materials and in other fields.

Here are some other top successes: destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons globally as well as local stores of DDT in Tanzania; new cooking stoves to eliminate indoor air pollution in Ghana; separating copper mine tailings from the local water supply in Chile; alternative fuels to reduce air pollution in New Delhi as well as treating arsenic in well water in West Bengal; removing lead - contaminated soil in the Dominican Republic and Russia; reducing mercury vapors from artisanal gold mining in Indonesia; and new sewage systems to clean up contaminated Suzhou Creek in Shanghai.

CSTSP has conducted, participated, or co-sponsored several projects assessing nuclear forensics technologies; the reliable replacement warhead; nuclear weapons in 21st Century national security; nuclear weapon stockpile management, safety, and security; nuclear energy issues having relevance to...

A third of these are warheads — dubbed W76 — which, since 1978, have been deployed atop submarine - based ballistic missiles or stored in what is known as the Enduring Nuclear Stockpile, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal ever since.

«This is very positive,» agreed Chen Kane, senior research associate at the Monterey Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies, although she said precautions should be taken in case Syrian President Bashar al - Assad tries to conceal part of his chemical weapons stockpile as did dictators Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Moammar Gadhafi in Libya.

These features make the material promising for use in protective equipment worn by soldiers, such as gas masks, and for destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons, such as those currently building up in Syria.

Despite the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 — and thus the end of the cold war policy of mutually assured destruction — the U.S. maintains a stockpile of roughly 10,000 nuclear weapons.

The only growth in this declining industry is in the dismantling of an aged stockpile, and to do that job you need years of experience in building the weapons.

Klotz declined to be interviewed but in a statement issued on June 19, in response to an article the Center published that day, said Los Alamos had «demonstrated improvements in its performance of operational tasks» and had worked to minimize the impact of the pause on «the safety and reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile.»

But Richard Garwin, a retired IBM physicist and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient who has long been a technical adviser on nuclear weapons and stockpile surveillance to the Defense Department and the NNSA, said the government had not been transparent enough about the long lapse in testing and production.

Since then, DOE's three weapons labs have used supercomputer simulations to ensure the safety and reliability of the stockpile, along with replacing components — such as heavy water in thermonuclear bombs — that decay or degrade.

Congress established the NNSA in 2000 to enhance the safety, security, reliability and performance of the U.S nuclear weapon stockpile to provide a credible U.S. nuclear deterrence.

NNSA maintains the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear explosive testing; works to reduce global danger from weapons of mass destruction; provides the U.S. Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion; and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the U.S. and abroad.

Tularaemia was one of the biological weapons stockpiled by the US military in the late 1960s, but the supply was subsequently destroyed.

The nuclear - weapon states still have enough fissile materials in their weapon stockpiles for tens of thousands of nuclear weapons.

In a world that possess more than 10,000 nuclear weapons, the U.S. maintains a stockpile of more than 4,000 nuclear warheads.

And since Japan is the only non-nuclear-weapon state capable of reprocessing plutonium to make nuclear weapons, this may well explain why Japan's plutonium stockpile has also sounded alarm bells in the Western world.

We are also introduced to the CIA's section chief and his agents who are actively gathering intelligence on the flow of the seized weapons and to prevent the stockpiling of these weapons in the hands of enemies.

After a handful of bad intelligence reports and fruitless raids on supposed stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon) begins to question his superiors and their motivation in Iraq.

January 23, 2018 • The story of the standoff between federal agents and a fringe religious group called the Branch Davidians — suspected of stockpiling weapons — is now being retold in a six - part miniseries.

He says North Korea sails cargo ships off the coast of California with intercontinental ballistic missiles hidden below deck and that China is stockpiling weapons in Mexico.

It's a little odd to be running around in a Tom Clancy game with a realistic world and weapons and yet find yourself facing off against a boss wearing civilian clothes but somehow requiring a small stockpile's worth of ammunition to kill.

However, if one of your plans was to stock up on an ungodly amount of Los Santos smackers by buying it in the real world, then using it to stockpile a worthy arsenal of weapons and vehicles, I'm happy to report that you're officially S.O.L.

It supports numerous far - left causes such as unilateral reduction in U.S. nuclear weapons stockpiles, opposes the vast majority of American foreign policy decisions, opposes pesticides and genetically engineered foods, opposes capitalism and actively promotes opposition to fossil fuel producers.

○ Germany's Cold War chemical weapons: Military planned to stockpile arsenal in 1960s ○ Middle East: CWB weapons a poor man's option to Israel's nuclear arsenal Global Warming - distance between America and Europe is steadily increasing.

Sarin gas, the chemical agent used in August's deadly attacks in Syria, is one of the chemical weapons stored in Madison County, Kentucky — home of 2006 Goldman Prize recipient Craig Williams, who has dedicated his life to the safe disposal of the United States» chemical weapons stockpiles.

Williams was awarded the Goldman Prize for the major role he played in ensuring that safe disposal methods were put in place at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky and at chemical weapon stockpile incineration sites all over the country.

A cabinetmaker by trade, Craig E. Williams is a decorated Vietnam War veteran who successfully convinced the Pentagon to stop plans to incinerate stockpiles of chemical weapons stored in multiple locations around the United States.

It was a major victory for Williams and his allies when the Army announced in 1996 that it would use a safer water - based process to destroy the weapons at the Maryland and Indiana stockpile sites, while suspending funds for incinerators in Colorado and Kentucky.

Williams was awarded the Prize for the major role he played in ensuring that safe disposal methods of were in place for eradicating chemical weapon stockpiles all over the country.