Sentences with phrase «with nuclear weapons»

M: Suppose a city destroyed by an impact was in a country armed with nuclear weapons, and they thought they were under attack.

The current solution limits both the power of states with nuclear weapons and the chances of nuclear war.

Obviously another is avoiding blowing up substantial chunks of our society and others with nuclear weapons....

The real problem in an Ice Age would come from the competition for resources that are suddenly more scarce combined with nuclear weapon technology.

Maybe you have a different definition of «friend» than I do, but mine does include a general interest in my friends not being struck with nuclear weapons.

These events remain the only cases, so far, of human beings attacking other human beings with nuclear weapons.

I grew up in a nation whose Christian leaders were and are willing to destroy the planet with nuclear weapons and who seemingly go to war at the drop of a hat.

Let us start with nuclear weapons: Why would a country pursue them?

The future is sufficiently uncertain, in short, to justify sticking with a nuclear weapon.

As has been learned from experience with nuclear weapons, proliferation concerns can not be addressed permanently through regulation and existing international humanitarian law.

«When you get 20 or 30 states with nuclear weapons, somebody's going to get mad eventually,» he says.

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.

«You (implying the West) didn't listen to us before, but you will listen now,» she said, adding that Russia has threatened the US with nuclear weapons before.

As with nuclear weapons in the cold war, these companies» massive patent portfolios serve no useful purpose other than to serve as a deterrent: if you sue me with your patents, I'll sue you with mine.

Several cabinet ministers, including Kenney, feel China «is a godless totalitarian country with nuclear weapons aimed at us,» Evans said.

especially in a world with nuclear weapons and religious politicians!!

To oversimplify a bit, you consent to not building nuclear weapons, and you get peaceful nuclear power, and a promise by the nuclear powers not to be threatened with their nuclear weapons.

«I think the environmental movement made the mistake of lumping nuclear energy in with nuclear weapons,» Moore says.

Quote: «the reason why we need to make sure that strategy goes forward for the future is because if Iran shows up with a nuclear weapon at some point in time, the world is going to say, what happened to them in 2007?

«I think the greatest threat to the world and to our two countries, and to all countries, is the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons, and specifically the attempt of Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.

«This is the only country that has ever been bombed with nuclear weapons.

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

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.

Trump on Tuesday hosted a discussion on options to respond to any North Korean aggression or if necessary to prevent Pyongyang from threatening the United States and its allies with nuclear weapons, the White House said in a statement.

The risk of an inadvertent nuclear war is rising because of the entanglement of non-nuclear weapons with nuclear weapons and their command - and - control capabilities.

Eighteen top German physicists, including four Nobel prize winners, stated in 1957 that they would not work on projects having any connection with nuclear weapons.

«Ethics discussions are an important part of professional military development and it is especially important for our airmen who are training to work with nuclear weapons because they have to make hard decisions,» Smith said.

We look like a big dumb bully with nuclear weapons and we shove our views down other countries throats.

But when world leaders with nuclear weapons, as an extreme example, make serious global decisions because they believe their mythology to be history and their intuition to be the voice of the invisible man in the sky directing their actions — that makes me terrified!

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.

All three of the main political parties are stuck in a dangerous Cold War time warp, unable to see that the world has changed and that modern security threats such as climate change and fundamentalism can't be tackled with nuclear weapons.

Tuesday's moves will be seen by many as a Conservative project to remove Britain from the council chambers and common agreements of postwar Europe and to redefine the UK as a deregulatory isolationist offshore financial centre — Singapore with nuclear weapons — within the next three years.

In the same call according to a transcript obtained first by the Washington Post, Trump also called the leader of North Korea «a madman with nuclear weapons.»

Given MAD, the only country that would purposefully strike first with a nuclear weapon against another nuclear nation would have to have a suicidal leader at the helm.

Signatories with nuclear weapons are explicitly prohibited from transferring any nuclear - weapons - related technology to any other state, «directly or indirectly».

Obama provided a taste of that on Wednesday in Racine, Wis., when he chastised House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R - Ohio) for saying that the financial regulatory reform bill was like «killing an ant with a nuclear weapon.»

Presently summarised as social democracy with nuclear weapons, but with proven flexibility to adapt, once in power, to nuclear weapons without social democracy.

In addition, anyone with nuclear weapons duties, in any branch of service, must routinely pass a Pentagon - mandated evaluation called the Personnel Reliability Program — a battery of tests that assess several areas, including mental fitness, financial history, and physical and emotional well - being.

The Bulletin's members at Thursday's press conference noted that leaders of nations equipped with nuclear weapons have expressed the desire to cooperate in reducing their arsenals and securing nuclear bomb - making material.

It's fading now, this knowledge of what Einstein bequeathed us, and in a few more generations I suppose all that will survive will be a vague awareness that he did something with nuclear weapons.

Its bulk would either send a small asteroid on a different trajectory, or in the case of a bigger one, it would be fitted with a nuclear weapon that would do its job (hopefully, for everyone alive at the time) with a bang.

From Astro - Zombies director Ted V. Mikels comes this adrenalized tale of a high - kicking CIA agent, vengeful Las Vegas gangsters, unhinged arms dealers, and terrorists with nuclear weapons.

Humanity fought back with nuclear weapons, and won, but at the cost of the planet, which is now an uninhabited ruin, with the survivors mostly aboard a huge space station called the Tet, awaiting relocation to Titan, one of Saturn's moons.

Collaborating for the second time with screenwriter Alex Garland, Sunshine posits a scenario disturbingly reminiscent of Armageddon — a motley crew of astronauts set out in a last ditch effort to save Earth with nuclear weapons.

The stage is already set as we find out from a torn newspaper clipping that the world has been hit with nuclear weapons and it is the «End of Mankind» as the headline reads.