Sentences with phrase «which used nuclear weapons»

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ICAN, which is a coalition of smaller organizations, has long campaigned for a treaty that would ban the use of nuclear weapons.

It uses tons of archival nuclear weapons footage — roughly a third of which the public has never seen before — overlaid with Cold War - era documents that are brought to life with eye - catching animation.

The intended payload for North Korea's ICBM program is a nuclear warhead (although chemical weapons like VX nerve agent, which the nation allegedly possesses and has used, are another option).

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Nuclear deterrence is morally unacceptable because it relies on the credibility of the intention to use nuclear weapons: we believe that any intention to use weapons of mass destruction is an utterly inhuman violation of the mind and spirit of Christ which should be in us... [David Gill, editor, Gathered for Life (Eerdmans, l984), Nuclear deterrence is morally unacceptable because it relies on the credibility of the intention to use nuclear weapons: we believe that any intention to use weapons of mass destruction is an utterly inhuman violation of the mind and spirit of Christ which should be in us... [David Gill, editor, Gathered for Life (Eerdmans, l984), nuclear weapons: we believe that any intention to use weapons of mass destruction is an utterly inhuman violation of the mind and spirit of Christ which should be in us... [David Gill, editor, Gathered for Life (Eerdmans, l984), p. 75].

But the dominant system tries to neutralise these fears using a «non-proliferation treaty» of nuclear weapons which imposes what some call nuclear apartheid, that is to say, giving certain countries the right (the five of the Security Council, but also Israel) to hold such arms.

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 scenario in which North Korea could use nuclear weapons is the scenario when they are invaded, for example by US.

Indeed every other country which possesses nuclear weapons use exactly the same argument (deterrence) to maintain their right to possesses nuclear weapons, so why is only North Korea criticized?.

Decides that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations, in addition to submitting the required biannual declarations, the Government of Iraq shall provide to UNMOVIC, the IAEA, and the Council, not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution, a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, including any holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, subcomponents, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment, the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological, and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material;

It is a totalitarian regime, which means fewer controls preventing a single individual deciding to use the nuclear weapons.

The UK has not deployed control equipment requiring codes to be sent before weapons can be used, such as the U.S. Permissive Action Link, which if installed would preclude the possibility that military officers could launch British nuclear weapons without authorisation.

It would suggest to allies and enemies the world over that use of nuclear weapons is acceptable, and they might set their own parameters for using such weapons, which could be at odds with our own parameters.

But the six - hour debate, in which Mrs May said she would use nuclear weapons if pushed, split Labour MPs three ways and sparked extraordinary scenes of open civil war between them.

The Campaign for Democratic Socialism explicitly supported the unilateral renunciation of Britain's nuclear weapons, and the document «Policy for Peace», on which Gaitskell eventually won his battle at the 1961 Labour Conference, stated: «Britain should cease the attempt to remain an independent nuclear power, since that neither strengthens the alliance, nor is it now a sensible use of our limited resources.»

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation, which watches out for nuclear weapons tests worldwide, looked at its data for the last few days to see if its infrasound — below the range of human hearing — recordings, normally used to seek out the muffled crump of underground tests, contained any signature of an aircraft expNuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation, which watches out for nuclear weapons tests worldwide, looked at its data for the last few days to see if its infrasound — below the range of human hearing — recordings, normally used to seek out the muffled crump of underground tests, contained any signature of an aircraft expnuclear weapons tests worldwide, looked at its data for the last few days to see if its infrasound — below the range of human hearing — recordings, normally used to seek out the muffled crump of underground tests, contained any signature of an aircraft explosion.

He cites the UN's investigation of Iraq's nuclear weapons programme after the Gulf War, which showed that the programme used a variety of technologies which were supposedly imported for civilian purposes.

A few years ago, DARPA, which prides itself on promoting far - out projects, proposed spending $ 30 million on a «hafnium bomb,» a type of nuclear weapon intended to release energy from atomic nuclei without either fission or fusion, using an approach similar to how energy is extracted from electrons in a laser.

These reactors therefore «breed» plutonium, which can be used to make more fuel or nuclear weapons.

Essentially all nuclear fuel recycling is performed using a process known as PUREX (plutonium uranium extraction), which was initially developed for extracting pure plutonium for nuclear weapons.

At Sandia National Laboratory, Myers works on the Z machine, the world's most powerful pulsed - power facility and x-ray generator, which produces high energy density plasmas that are used to study fusion and the physics of nuclear weapons.

Lying far above the Arctic Circle, the Russian archipelago of Novaya Zemlya is one of the most remote places on Earth, which is precisely why these mountainous, wind - swept islands were used as the Soviet Union's main nuclear weapons test site from 1955 to 1990.

Since a by - product of reprocessing is plutonium, which can be used to make nuclear weapons, President Carter ordered the end of reprocessing, citing security risks.

And dictators use the threat of AGW to get other countries to give them nuclear tech, which they use to make weapons.

Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs sharply criticized the NPR (see here in Russian), in particular, for lowering the threshold of the use of nuclear weapons and allowing the use of nuclear weapons in «extreme circumstances», which are not limited to military scenarios and with military scenarios covering almost any use of military force.

However, when one takes into account the mode of response, which is the use of nuclear weapons, the threshold set by the Caroline formula seems justified, requiring, at the very least, to establish an undisputable need to defend state's «vital interests».

The NPR is essentially based upon the strategy of deterrence (which Judge Oda considered «legitimized by international law» in his Dissenting Opinion to the Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion (para 45)-RRB-, presuming nuclear weapons to be used efficiently so long as they are not actuallNuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion (para 45)-RRB-, presuming nuclear weapons to be used efficiently so long as they are not actuallnuclear weapons to be used efficiently so long as they are not actually used.

The current NPR, as well as Obama's, reserves the right for the US to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapon states, which are not in compliance with their non-proliferation obligations.

In this context, the very use of the concept of «vital interests» should be viewed as problematic, having regard to the standard of «the very survival of a state», which the ICJ considered as possibly justifying self - defense by means of nuclear weapons (Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion, panuclear weapons (Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion, paNuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion, para 97).