Sentences with phrase «weapons stockpile as»

«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.

Not exact matches

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.

Even though Syrian officials agreed to destroy their massive stockpiles of chemical weapons more than a year ago, a disturbing new report from a watchdog agency found evidence that mustard gas was used as recently as August.

The federal agency that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile is expected this week to release a report on the best site option for the United States as it looks to ramp up production of the plutonium cores that trigger nuclear warheads.

Yesterday, Mr Brown said Britain's stockpile would not be reduced unilaterally and argued for a better weapons inspection regime as an incentive.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

If ratified, the ban would affect existing stockpiles as well as any future weapons.

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.

Funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the research may ultimately lead to better control of earth - penetrating missiles designed to destroy deeply buried targets such as enemy bunkers or stockpiles of underground weapons.

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.

The U.S. and Russia, as well as other nations that have nuclear weapons, continue to retain extensive HEU stockpiles.

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Charity: Wakanda seems to stockpile weapons as if it were the United States.

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.

Or, more earnest, see where America's as - yet - undestroyed stockpiles of chemical weapons are and how much it will cost to get rid of them.