Sentences with phrase «weapons has led»

The threat to humanity as a whole from nuclear weapons has led many to oppose them since their development.

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President Donald Trump hailed the U.S. - led intervention in Syria as «perfectly executed,» adding that the military campaign to degrade Bashar Assad's chemical weapons capability had accomplished its goals.

Though Iran initially had no idea it was attacked by a cyber weapon, believing its scientists and engineers were incompetent due to the failures, eventually the code escaped and worldwide infections led computer researchers to study it, and the idea of leaving «no trace» of the attacker was gone.

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A working group led by Vice President Joe Biden is seriously considering measures that would require universal background checks for gun buyers and track the movement and sale of weapons through a national database, the newspaper said.

The exchange of U.S. - led military exercises and North Korean weapon tests has become a time - honored tradition.

The link between the electric weapon and serious injury remains unclear; some people may hurt themselves in a fall after being Tasered while other risk factors include hypertensive heart disease or drug use, leading some to conclude that the problem has more to do with officer accountability.

Thanks to advanced tools such as lead trajectory and predictive lead scoring, savvy entrepreneurs have more weapons at their disposal than ever before in the quest for higher - quality lead generation.

NEW YORK, April 30 - Oil prices rallied on Monday after Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran had lied about pursuing nuclear weapons after signing a 2015 deal with global powers, while global stock indexes dipped with the S&P 500 led down by losses in technology.

Lead attorney Matt Gonzalez has argued that the weapon was a SIG Sauer with a «hair trigger in single - action mode» — a model well - known for accidental discharges even among experienced shooters.

The group quickly determines the mission team's potential strength (knowledge of the terrain), potential weakness (susceptibility to disease), assumptions being factored into the decisions (they do not face nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons), things they must not do (damage property, which would lead to loss of popular support), the principle information requirements, high - value targets, and so on through a checklist of easily overlooked considerations.

Lead attorney Matt Gonzalez said his client had never handled a gun and was scared by the noise, prompting him to fling the weapon into the bay, where a diver fished it out a day later.

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The Carnegie Russia and Eurasia Program has, since the end of the Cold War, led the field of Eurasian security, including strategic nuclear weapons and nonproliferation, development, economic and social issues, governance, and the rule of law.

Following last Friday night's coordinated missile attack by a coalition of U.S., U.K. and French forces against Syrian chemical weapons facilities, there was a high level of consternation about whether the barrage of targeted airstrikes would escalate into a dangerous and wide - ranging military engagement between the Assad - led Syrian government backers (Russia, Iran, Hezbollah) and NATO forces.

One of Mr. Pollack's sons, Hunter, said he would prefer that educators carried weapons, arguing that more firearms on campus would lead to safer schools.

A person that believes they have been called by an invisible being to lead a nation and that has codes to nuclear weapons is about as scary as it gets in this world.

(A fact conveniently ignored by Bush critics) And frankly I think they likely did have the weapons as most of the world's security analysts believed, but hell with as much lead time as we publicly gave them to remove them is it any wonder they were no longer there by the time action was taken?

Moreover, de-emphasis on weapons on our part would help to correct the image the Russians have of us as a threat to them and provide an initial step which could lead to mutual disarmament.

He seems never to have asked whether the church's support of all that is thought to be progress, including weapons research, always and in all spheres leads to a more complete realization of humanity.

With leading receiver Javon Wims headed to the NFL draft, UGA can't have too many weapons around Jake Fromm — or Justin Fields, or whoever's running the offense in Athens.

Instead, they ended up having a force - off over the weapon that led to its destruction.

What's more, with so many weapons on this team I thought it was far more likely that he'd lead the team in assists than in scoring.

She has been the ultimate offensive weapon with three goals and four assists and leads the team with 10 points.

The admission by the UK government that the Saudi - led coalition used UK - made BL - 755 cluster munitions during the armed conflict in Yemen, comes months after Amnesty International and British media outlets reported that these weapons had been used in the country.

Some parts of cyber weapons have become increasingly standardized, such as exploit tool kits, leading to an increase in efficiency.

The group's focus has led them to also zero in on companies like Starbucks and Staples, which allow for people to carry concealed weapons onto store property.

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.»

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.

«I just find it very hard to believe that two individuals such as this could have obtained the weapons, the explosives, put it all together, arranged this on their own,» the New York Republican said Thursday on CNN's «The Lead with Jake Tapper.»

«A U.S. strike on Iran would be costly, causing significant loss of American life, likely lead to attacks and loss of life in Israel, yet would only postpone Iran's nuclear weapons development by a few years,» her office wrote.

He reiterated that the farmers and herdsmen's clashes which had led to loss of lives and property were caused by the influx of weapons into the country through the trans - Saharan routes.

Noel Sharkey, a roboticist at the University of Sheffield, UK, who has criticised the use of autonomous weapons, fears that miniaturisation will lead to an escalation in use and pave the way for their global proliferation.

The unfolding event led to the temporary shutdown of several other related sites and has led an FBI official to say that the disruption of the Internet is the greatest active risk to the U.S. other than weapons of mass destruction.

However, he was an unlikely choice as leader of the team assembled to build the first nuclear weapons since he was not an experimental physicist, nor had he led any kind of project before.

Physicists had to design computer simulations, tested against those mid-century analyses, to «predict what would happen if a weapon went off,» says Greg Spriggs, a nuclear weapon physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who is leading the project to scan and declassify the films.

Cheap, durable and readily available, lead has been used in weapons and other products since the Romans first mined it more than 2,500 years ago.

A team of researchers, led by Sangeeta Bhatia, an associate professor at HST and in M.I.T.'s department of electrical engineering and computer science, report in Advanced Materials that they have developed and tested injectable multifunctional nanoparticles — particles billionths of a meter in size — that they expect to become a new, potent weapon against cancer.

It's a busy time for nuclear - policy analysts: Just days after President Obama told a crowd of 20,000 in Prague that the U.S. had a «moral responsibility» to take the lead in ridding the world of nuclear weapons, two groups have come forward with their own blueprints for doing so.

This situation has led to doubts and uncertainties about the roles and missions of nuclear weapons and their value against 21st century security threats, including allies» uncertainties about U.S. assurances as they relate to emerging nuclear - armed neighboring states.

Published online ahead of print in the leading microbiology journal Molecular Microbiology, the researchers have identified a building block common to many types of bacterial «virulence factors» (the bacterial proteins which act as weapons to cause disease, such as toxins or degrading enzymes).

After the war, the project's lead physicist, Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg, suggested he had moral qualms about delivering the weapon to the Nazis.

8/5/16 While Barack Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima as the first sitting U.S. president in May highlighted again the need to eliminate nuclear weapons, Japan's major anti-nuclear group, which has led the movement for 60 years at home and abroad, sees a rocky road ahead as its membership declines with the passing of atomic bomb survivors.

The good news is that some parts of this shopping list are checked off with style and grace: Tony and Pepper are still, at heart, the leads in a screwball comedy — and Downey and Paltrow are top form here; the new villain has the comics» Crimson Dynamo's name — Ivan Vanko [Mickey Rourke]-- but instead of wearing the hopelessly out of date crimson armor, wields a pair of plasma whips that can slice and dice even Stark's fancy suit; and finally, there's Justin Hammer [Sam Rockwell — who was a finalist in casting Stark], a hi - tech weapons manufacturer who got Stark's old Department of Defence contracts even though he's not nearly as talented.

And so with revenge in his back pocket and a lead on the perpetrators, a retaliatory Paul Kersey («The Grim Reaper» per the local media) is born and streetwise criminals will have to get used to experiencing his unsavory wrath by way of assault weapons, surgical instruments and blunt objects.

While MNU tries to decipher the aliens» advanced weapons technology (leading to one disturbing scene set in a research lab that Dr. Mengele would have loved), affable but clueless Wikus yearns to surmount claims of nepotism.

This has led to all sorts of gripes throughout the years, as whenever Bungie tweaks Destiny's weapon balance for PvP, it can have a negative impact on PvE and vice versa.

Carefully balancing out armor against your choice of weapon can lead to a powerful build, such as how in many previous Monster Hunter games a combination of a Greatsword with the Focus and Crit Draw skills would lead to a near unstoppable damage output.

It's a true - life delve into the darker side of US Cold War foreign policy, involves drugs and weapons smuggling, and has a charismatic lead who lands himself in colossal amounts of bother.

As the events leading up to the American Revolution heat up in the North, Spanish forces plan to take control of Louisiana in the South — but they have yet to reckon with Aveline, a deadly Assassin who will use every weapon and ability in her arsenal to win freedom for her land and her people.