Sentences with phrase «with nuclear attacks»

Pakistan Defense Minister Khawaja Asif apparently came across a headline that said, «Israeli Defense Minister: If Pakistan send ground troops to Syria on any pretext, we will destroy this country with a nuclear attack».

Unsettling news to be sure, given Pyongyang's propensity to threaten the U.S. and its close ally South Korea with a nuclear attack.

Not exact matches

«When the president announced his plans to attack [the Assad regime] and then pulled back, it was exactly the period in time when American negotiators were meeting with Iranian negotiators secretly in Oman to get the nuclear agreement,» Wall Street Journal reporter Jay Solomon told MSNBC last year.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a wild state of the nation address to the country's elites on Thursday, and he chose to conclude the speech by hyping up a bunch of doomsday nuclear devices and threatening to retaliate against anyone who attacks the US with nuclear force.

«When the president announced his plans to attack [the Assad regime] and then pulled back, it was exactly the period in time when American negotiators were meeting with Iranian negotiators secretly in Oman to get the nuclear agreement,» Solomon said.

On Monday, North Korea issued a stark warning to the US: If you attack us, we will retaliate with nuclear weapons.

The US has long relied on the doctrine of «mutually assured destruction» — that is, having a spread - out, autonomous, and effective nuclear arsenal that would return fire should another nuclear power attack — with the intent of deterring any nuclear attacks.

North Korea continues to demand that the U.S. remove nuclear weapon - capable aircraft from South Korea, offer a security guarantee that it will not attack North Korea or undermine its government, replace the current Korean Armistice Agreement with a peace accord, and establish formal diplomatic relations.

Those prerequisites include terminating America's military presence in South Korea as well as ending the U.S. regional nuclear umbrella, a security arrangement in which Washington promises in - kind retaliation on behalf of close allies if they are attacked with nuclear weapons.

North Korea, the dictator ruled nation has been threatening the US and its allies with a possible missile attack, which may also have a nuclear warhead...

Lets see... what did that mean in Nazi Germany... What did it mean in Soviet Russia... What does it mean in working in the executive levels of an oil company... a tobacco company... a slaughterhouse... what does it mean in being captain of a nuclear attack sub with armed with live nuclear missles... what does that mean in managing an «Apple» store in China... what does it mean in congress... how about being a member of Assad's team?

his book Religion in the Secular City, «In our day while the fundamentalists attack all that is wrong with the modern soul, they almost never mention the advent of nuclear weapons with their capacity to end human life on the globe.

As has been most aptly remarked, Jeremiah's action here «smacks of the same paradox as if a contemporary should forecast nuclear warfare and then proceed to buy a choice piece of real estate on Manhattan»; 2 yet even more — as if he did this with the sirens already warning of the fatal attack!

The president started yesterday morning with a Twitter attack on U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over alleged hypocrisy about the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

Based on America's reluctance to use nuclear weapons, and America's desire not to risk American cities, Kim may believe he can attack a neighbor, perhaps even with a nuclear weapon, without fear of a nuclear response from America so long as he maintains the ability to threaten America directly but doesn't actually attack America.

1Technically the preemptive attack would not need to end with the occupation of the country; war is justified until it is clear that the threat that started it has been removed (vg nuclear weapons surrendered and facilities dismantled).

The US is far more likely to attack a nuclear North Korea than one with conventional weapons — it changes North Korea into a danger to US citizens.

The day after Labour's non-dom announcement, Fallon launched a deliberately excessive attack on Miliband, suggesting he would betray the country by surrendering the Trident nuclear deterrent in order to reach a deal with the Scottish National party: «Miliband stabbed his own brother in the back to become Labour leader.

One could also argue that the US would try to avoid using nuclear weapons against North Korea in the case of a retaliation attack in order to prevent larger tensions with Beijing and more risks to South Korea.

It's a painfully delicate way to spend your week, with relations between the two nuclear states still tense and angry following the Mumbai attacks.

But they will be doing so with a new threat overhanging Britons — after Donald Trump today refused to rule out launching a nuclear attack on... us.

Nuclear experts are warning, using some of their most urgent language since Trump took office, that Hawaii's false alarm, in which state agencies alerted locals to a nonexistent missile attack, underscores a growing risk of unintended nuclear war with NorthNuclear experts are warning, using some of their most urgent language since Trump took office, that Hawaii's false alarm, in which state agencies alerted locals to a nonexistent missile attack, underscores a growing risk of unintended nuclear war with Northnuclear war with North Korea.

To introduce a unit on photosynthesis, for instance, he launches into a story from his childhood about building a fallout shelter with a friend after seeing a TV movie about a nuclear attack.

The mission would culminate with a squadron of the metallic silver RB - 47s, their undersides painted white to reflect the flash of a nuclear blast, flying in attack formation in broad daylight several hundred miles into Soviet territory.

That architecture took shape in the early 1960s, when the US air force asked Paul Baran at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, to come up with a military communications network that could withstand a nuclear attack.

But many nuclear physicists and engineers are not on board with nuclear airplanes, especially in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks during which terrorists plowed jumbo jets into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

The attack on the nuclear facility took place about a month after North Korea attacked Sony Pictures with wiper malware that zapped over 4,000 of the company's desktop computers and servers.

An unfocused, unfunny black comedy, Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb details the chaos that ensues after a nuclear attack is mistakenly triggered against the Soviet Union - with the film following a host of disparate figures, including George C. Scott's Buck Turgidson, Sterling Hayden's Jack D. Ripper, and Peter Sellers» title character, as they attempt to neutralize the threat.

With present day concerns surrounding nuclear power, earthquakes, EMP attacks and allowing nature to bring equilibrium to the earth, there are more than a few surprisingly good discussion points embedded in this monster romp.

He somehow believes the population is suffering from chemical wars or even nuclear attacks, and with his experience and vigilance from the over-a-decade time serving in the army, he has been preparing for an event like this by building a hideout that offers more than basic survival kits and fortification from outside attacks.

Of course, he's now escaped and is threatening Hunt with doomy warnings of incoming nuclear attacks.

Bad Robot is producing Valencia with star John Goodman, which follows a young woman who wakes up in a cellar and is told that a nuclear attack has devastated Earth.

Even the logic of deterrence — which the film suggests will be humanity's ruin, since it's the Soviet doomsday machine that will automatically trigger nuclear holocaust if Major Kong accomplishes his mission, and was built in order to deter any such attack — is still with us.

I think that price point along with a serendipitous news cycle that happened to place nuclear arms and attacks in peoples» minds more than perhaps is normal helped push my sales quite a bit.

When the Navy needed someone to build 28 Virginia class nuclear attack submarines, as well as 12 Columbia class ballistic missile subs, General Dynamics was one of the few companies with the facilities and technical background to get the job done, so it won the primary contractor position on both.

Packed with too many stars to mention, Jack Ryan, played by Alec Baldwin, finds himself on the nuclear submarine U.S.S. Dallas trying to convince its Captain, Bart Mancuso, that a Soviet submarine they are chasing is actually looking to defect, not to attack the U.S. with nuclear weapons as the Soviets claim.

I shot the photograph above during a brief excursion to the coast below the cliff - top town of Erice, Sicily, where scientists gathered last week to explore ways to limit the chances of devastating Internet assaults, overcome hurdles to securing nuclear waste, balance the production of biofuels with limits on agricultural land, and attack other «planetary emergencies» (in the quirky parlance of the organizer, Antonino Zichichi; Erice sits atop that bluff in the distance in the photograph).

Or althernatively do I team up with a bunch of Utopian socialists who are pushing to wipe the moon clean out with a massive nuclear attack?

Those groups have attacked the proposed rule, tried to block new nuclear plants in Georgia and South Carolina, and are all on the record supporting the replacement of zero - emissions nuclear plants with natural gas in Ohio, California and New York.

Who cares about 8 % unemployment, the flatlined economy, abandoning Americans to die in Bengahzi, Joe Biden's buffonery, fast & furious, national debt, USA credit downgrade, trillion dollar annual budget deficits, deliberate sabotage of the coal industry, ACORN, failed foreign policy (Iran with nuclear weapons, bowing to China, stiffing U.K and Israel, etc) abysmal people judgement (Biden again, plus H. Clinton, T, Geithner; K. Sebelius; E. Holder, etc), stopping the pipeline for Canadian oil, blocking drilling in US land, secret «kill lists», ObamaCare, attacking religious liberty, you didn't build that, unseemly chest - pounding over bin Laden (GM is dying but bin Laden is coming back to life), 20 years of Jeremiah Wright, failure of crony capitalism deals with Solyndra - NextEra — Ener1 — Solar Trust etc., over 100 rounds of golf in 1st 3 yrs, choom, the Chevy Volt, insisting the Ft Hood massacre was «workplace violence», secret college transcripts, «clearly the Boston police acted stupidly», disregard of the Simpson - Bowles budget recommendations (after commissioning their work), and lots more irrelevant stuff.

Mr. Sullivan's letter to Secretary Johnson describes how the new anchorages could provide targets for terror attacks — two are located within three miles of the Indian Point nuclear plant — and that increased traffic of barges filled with crude oil and other hazardous materials raises the potential for collisions and spills, «which in the tidal Hudson would be difficult, if not impossible, to clean up without incurring immediate and long - term damage to drinking water resources and prime wildlife habitat.»

ELPC's founder - president, Howard Learner, joined forces with the coal industry coalition, the «BEST Coalition» — a front group for NRG, a big coal generator — to attack the legislation as a «bail - out» for nuclear, something much of the Illinois media dutifully repeated.

Even with a decade or more of updating homeland protection measures (started under Clinton), while I'm not going to go so far as to say that most cities in the USA are still better prepared against a Soviet - era invasion and nuclear attack than commonplace weather emergencies... but I wouldn't be exaggerating by much to say so.

This matters because the climate change debate has been hi - jacked, emissions made worse by the net effects of renewables for a fast lobbyist buck in fact, driven by ignorance and misleading attacks that lump clean low carbon gas with dirty high carbon coal, and old school anti-nuclear activists who oppose nuclear generation on factualy spurious grounds, while it is in physics and engineering fact by far the best solution on any measure, through promoting irrational fear unsupported in any area of the facts and proven physics they deceive the unknowing about with simply false or msleading «sience».

Dr. Lovelock, honored in 1997 with the Blue Planet Prize, which is widely considered the environmental equivalent of a Nobel award, has now come under attack from some environmentalists for his support of nuclear power as a way to avoid runaway «global heating» — his preferred alternative to «global warming.»

After all, consider the heat that Mitt Romney has generated from his Republican opponent Rudy Giuliani after Romney suggested during the Republican debates that he'd sit down with his attorneys» to discuss whether congressional approval was required before using military force to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.

Our attorneys have also been involved with some of the highest - profile mass torts and crises of recent time, including the Fukushima nuclear accident, the BP oil spill, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center.

Considering that, the people who wish us ill are highly unlikely to get their hands on enough — or any — actually dangerous nuclear material with which to stage an attack.

According to another interpretation of proportionality, supported by Judge Higgins in her Dissenting Opinion to the Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion (para 5), which adopts a «means - end proportionality» approach with the focus on restoring state's defensive capacity, it is possible for a nuclear strike to be lawful, even if not commensurate to anticipated Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion (para 5), which adopts a «means - end proportionality» approach with the focus on restoring state's defensive capacity, it is possible for a nuclear strike to be lawful, even if not commensurate to anticipated nuclear strike to be lawful, even if not commensurate to anticipated attack.

Thus, the NPR implicitly confirms the US's longstanding «unwilling or unable» doctrine, allowing to respond with the nuclear strike against a terrorist attack even where there is no «host state» involvement.