Sentences with phrase «weapons programs at»

Albright's job will be temporarily filled by mechanical engineer Bret Knapp, a LLNL veteran who is now principal associate director for weapons programs at the rival Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday he told Kim during their secret meeting at the beginning of April that North Korea would have to agree to take «irreversible» steps toward shutting its nuclear weapons program in any deal with the United States.

«We believe that by hitting Barzeh in particular we've attacked the heart of the Syrian chemicals weapon program,» Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie told reporters at the Pentagon.

In addition to firing at least 23 missiles in 2017, North Korea put the progress of its nuclear weapons program on full display, testing a miniaturized hydrogen bomb in September.

Meanwhile, at the same event on Tuesday, some of the U.S. military's top weapons buyers said their service branches would have to halt or drastically cut hundreds of acquisition programs if Congress doesn't pass a new budget.

Sung - Yoon Lee of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University has doubts that North Korea is sincere about taking «meaningful action» on its nuclear weapons program.

The Obama administration at the time was eager to improve relations with Iran and stall its nuclear weapons program.

Pompeo said North Korea's nuclear weapons program has developed at a «very rapid clip,» but that Kim is hoping for an arsenal of nuclear weapons — «not one, not a showpiece, not something to drive on a parade route.»

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 (Reuters)- Western powers said on Saturday their missile attacks struck at the heart of Syria's chemical weapons program, but the restrained assault appeared unlikely to shift the course of the 7 - year - old civil war.

«We believe that by hitting Barzeh in particular we've attacked the heart of the Syrian chemicals weapon program,» Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie said at the Pentagon.

«We are committed to the permanent, verifiable, irreversible dismantling of North Korea's weapons of mass destruction program, and to do so without delay,» Pompeo said at his swearing - in ceremony at the State Department in Washington.

Those who speak out against abortion and family practice and at the same time support cuts in education, school lunch funding, decry reasonable control of weapons and other programs that help children can not call themselves Christians.

M1 Garand in.308 (no, it's not my personal defense weapon, it's 30 - year old USGI surplus that I use at Regional CMP (civilian marksmanship program) events.

Here it's important to note that Russia always had the view that there was no evidence that Iran's nuclear program was used for a weapons program so there were no legal grounds for adopting a chapter 7 UNSC resolution for which the requirement is not only that there must be a problem but that this problem must put international peace and security at risk.

The biggest problem is that Iran has previously insisted on refining nuclear material above 5 % at about 20 %, which is much closer to the nuclear weapons threshold, and consequently many observers believe that Iran is not building a power program, but a weapons program in spite of the fact that they are not yet making weapons.

Republican former Sen. Al D'Amato on Tuesday praised the Democrat who unseated him 1998 for opposing the the agreement aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear weapons program in exchange for lifting economic sanctions.

The government is also combining separate nuclear weapons research programs at Kahn's lab and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission under a new entity, the National Defense Complex, leaving the commission to manage civilian nuclear activities.

While such ideology - driven critics have long existed (especially in the United States) their fervor and the weapons at their disposal have increased in the recent years, says Michael Halpern, who is program manager at the Center for Science and Democracy of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) in Washington, D.C.

But the AAAS panel found that substantial upgrades to the current infrastructure would be needed anyway to carry out the RRW program, including at least a doubling of the current assembling and disassembling work at the Pantex nuclear weapon assembly facility as well as a significant increase in the amount of plutonium pits produced at the TA - 55 facility.

The program ensures effective citizen involvement in decisions about the future of the nuclear weapons complex relative to stopping approval of new production facilities and promoting disarmament and safer waste management and disposal at Department of Energy (DOE) sites.

Frank Graziani has spent 27 years at the Laboratory where he has advanced the science of the national weapons program, nurtured and developed new staff and has collaborated with technical staff at all levels, all labs, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the broader academic community.

You'll discover new costumes and scenes, level up, purchase accessories and weapons at the shop, and fuse materials to craft update programs that give you boosts.

Like Clue, there can be several different outcomes as to who did it and with which weapon at the end of the program.

Schools in the program for at least three years saw a 70 % drop in discipline incidents with and without weapons during that period.

At the war's conclusion, the technology and the scientific experts ended up in the United States and the USSR, thereby boosting these countries» weapons programs, escalating the conflict that became known as The Cold War.

Since Iran's program appears to be aimed at weapons production, he concludes, the time of decision for action is fast approaching.

Created by Winnie Song as her thesis for the MFA program at the NYU Game Center, Badblood is a split - screen game that drops two players in the same field armed with various weapons, and asks them to stalk and kill each other.

Disarm / Clock (2013)-- one of a group of works started in 2008 in which weapons collected by the Mexican army and city governments are transformed into peaceful tools for the betterment of society and culture — functions as both a timepiece and an instrument, programmed to perform on its own at regular intervals.

Ms. Miriam Struyk, program director for security and disarmament at PAX (formerly IKV Pax Christi), a co-founder of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots that produced the campaign's first animated short film, the 2014 report Deadly Decisions on fully autonomous weapons, and who is leading an interfaith initiativeto collect statements of support.

Some of the aspects of the bill that many do not support include the fact that there is no ban on assault - style weapons and the bill includes a program that would give districts the ability to opt in or out of allowing teachers to be armed at schools.

In addition to extensive industrial offerings, the Mile High City is involved in government and military programs including the Renewable Energy Laboratory and former nuclear weapons plant at Rocky Flats.

• Secured procurement of $ 2,500,000 materiel handling equipment for new 240,000 square foot warehouse distribution centers at Joint Repair Parts Command and General Depot Command • Succinctly managed 71 deployment taskings for Eighth Air Force personnel; always 100 % on - time Deployment Requirement Manning Document delivery to base Installation Deployment Officer • Coordinated with Air Force Global Strike Command on tasking verifications — slashed deployment shortfalls by 50 % • Co-lead with item manager on critical B - 52 brake mission capable issues; production up over 60 % — kept 76 B - 52s combat primed • Spearheaded transfer of 439 Headquarters Eighth Air Force weapons to 2 BW — vital assets valued at $ 290,000 available for redistribution • Remarkable leadership; revamped Eighth Air Force deployment process — slashed late responses by 65 % and reclamas by 25 % • Prepped 175 9MMs and 266 M16s for Combat Arms Training and Maintenance inspection — 100 % compliant for 1st time in 2 years; reorganized annex space — 40 % more • Oversaw 2 peninsula wide Staff Assistance Visits; assessed 5 sites and $ 1,800,000,000 War Reserve Materiel program; 497 findings 98.4 % fixed — Air Support Group prepped to ace Unit Compliance Inspection • Launched premier vehicular support to NASA and FEMA teams during Space Shuttle Columbia crisis • Quickly transitioned flight from Strategic Command exercise to wartime status in aftermath of September 11th attacks — 27,000 gallons of JP - 8 issued to Air Force One and escort aircraft; base efforts lauded by President