That makes India and Pakistan's increasing arsenals nerve-wracking, and it makes the far larger arsenals maintained by the United States and Russia an ongoing cause for concern.
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Completely autonomous weapons are beginning to appear in military arsenals.
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They have killed scores of soldiers and stolen their arsenals.
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We gave up all our arsenals a few years ago.
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Below, the products we're adding to our summer style arsenals.
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Already, Hezbollah has up to 150,000 rockets in its arsenals.
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We have nuclear arsenals which are in very terrible shape.
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Major nuclear powers are now investing heavily in their arsenals.
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Larger arsenals have been dismantled elsewhere, but in kinder political climates.
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Britain and France are the only EU countries with nuclear arsenals.
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And both sides maintain potent nuclear arsenals aimed at one another.
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The changing nature of both countries' nuclear arsenals raises new dangers.
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The arsenals in question took bacteria billions of years to develop.
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How do you persuade today's spies to part with their arsenals?
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All gave up nuclear arsenals or the equipment to build one.
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War involving today's nuclear arsenals would be a disaster beyond our imagining.
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The agreement introduced major reductions in US and Soviet strategic nuclear arsenals.
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Of the world's approximately 15,000 nuclear weapons, 9,400 are in military arsenals.
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The DPRK is determined to continue developing its nuclear and missile arsenals.
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New START reduced both countries' strategic nuclear arsenals while advancing robust inspections.
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Now is not the time to build larger arsenals of nuclear weapons.
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India and Pakistan have taken different paths to develop their nuclear arsenals.
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"We have nuclear arsenals which are in very terrible shape," he said.
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And Pakistan and India continue to update and expand their nuclear arsenals.
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Iran says it needs them to defend against neighbors with superior arsenals.
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India and Pakistan are improving their nuclear arsenals, while threatening each other.
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Washington and Moscow would grow their arsenals of ground-launched cruise missiles.
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As western nations steadily shrunk their arsenals after the signing of the Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1968, Pakistan and India engaged in a nuclear arms race, adding over a hundred warheads to their respective arsenals over 20 years.
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In recent decades the Cold War adversaries have rolled back their nuclear arsenals.
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Countries update their nuclear arsenals, but they usually do so in careful ways.
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The American-trained Palestinian security forces keep tight control of their own arsenals.
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Finally, South Africa, Libya, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Belarus have dismantled their nuclear arsenals.
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The ban is designed to degrade the reliability of existing nuclear warhead arsenals.
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Japan and South Korea would feel compelled to build their own nuclear arsenals
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Events, he insisted, were pushing both nations toward their own nuclear arsenals anyway.
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Nuclear arsenals involve complex systems in which the risk of accidents is high.
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That pact was the first time the superpowers agreed to reduce their arsenals.
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The next-largest arsenals are France's, at 300 warheads, and China's, at 260.
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The trade war between America and China rumbled on, deploying arsenals of tariffs.
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Russia and China are too committed to seeking preeminence for their own arsenals.
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The U.S. and Russia are, by treaty, reducing their vast arsenals of ICBMs.
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Both nations field nuclear arsenals, and regional dynamics are especially sensitive right now.
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That's why we're challenging ourselves to bring some seasonal ROYGBIV to our own arsenals.
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Though their defence spending is growing, there are still large gaps in their arsenals.
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That excludes everything in today's arsenals, or for that matter on today's drawing boards.
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He has suggested that South Korea and Japan should consider developing their own arsenals.
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Without a treaty limiting U.S. and Russian nuclear forces, China could overestimate their arsenals.
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"Now is not the time to build larger arsenals of nuclear weapons," he said.
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"The US and Russia hold over 90% of the world's nuclear arsenals," Burt said.
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We don't want to tempt South Korea or Japan to develop indigenous nuclear arsenals.
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Both India and Pakistan field nuclear arsenals and thousands of troops on the border.
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They're coming with everything they've got: high-caliber weapons, full arsenals, vehicle-mounted artillery.
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The United States needs to accept that these arsenals are simply too dangerous to exist.
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Amid heightening tensions between North Korea and the West, Francis expressed concern about nuclear arsenals.
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Now, the new rifle is finally available in both scout snipers and recon Marine arsenals.
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See the chart below for a visualization of how nuclear arsenals have changed over time.
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And then both China and North Korea might feel compelled to increase their nuclear arsenals.
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In fact, some brands have had versions of the product in their arsenals for years.
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Their strong cash arsenals range from $224 million for Sanders to Buttigieg with $250 million.
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Russia and China are improving and expanding their nuclear arsenals and becoming much more aggressive.
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Its march toward fearsome nuclear and missile arsenals, capable of massive destruction, is predetermined now.
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The U.S. and Russia agreed in a treaty to reduce their vast arsenals of ICBMs.
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The US and USSR will agree on the first-ever reduction of their nuclear arsenals.
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He also rejected Trump's campaign suggestion that South Korea and Japan should consider developing nuclear arsenals.
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The investigation into the attack uncovered more doomsday preparations, weapons arsenals and multiple killings by Aum.
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He also said arsenals in China and Russia were expanding, drawing rebukes from their respective delegations.
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There may be a road to new negotiations to limit the nuclear arsenals of both sides.
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Some of these guns leak into local bazaars, or are seized when militias capture government arsenals.
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Our adversaries, China, Russia, and others are also introducing AI systems into their arsenals as well.
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During the Cold War era, the US and Russia built up their arsenals of nuclear warheads.
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Raids on the regime's arsenals during the revolution ended up giving tribes enormous amounts of weaponry.
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These are some of the movies and novels that have shaped the discussion of A.I. arsenals.
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India and China have already declared NFU, or something close, despite having smaller, more vulnerable arsenals.
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But our differences remain deeply felt, and the grave risks posed by our nuclear arsenals persist.
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Other examples include several treaties that committed America and Russia to reduce their nuclear arsenals significantly.
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First, both countries' nuclear arsenals are mixes of old and new bombers, missiles, warheads and submarines.
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He raised concerns about the slowing effort to denuclearize, saying existing nuclear states are modernizing their arsenals.
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And we have Rubio saying it's time to man up and add guns to our family arsenals.
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Could the United States, through its actions in North Korea, set a precedent for hacking nuclear arsenals?
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North Korea has nukes, America and Russia are reducing the number of warheads but modernizing their arsenals.
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Never before have two leaders in command of nuclear arsenals more closely evoked a professional wrestling match.
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All the while, they are allocating big budgets for their nuclear arsenals to protect vital national interests.
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Russia and China have vastly modernized and increased their nuclear arsenals, making scientific breakthroughs in several areas.
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And here are some of the movies and novels that have shaped the discussion of A.I. arsenals.
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But Pakistan still deployed ballistic missiles, and today possesses one of the world's fastest-growing nuclear arsenals.
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The Dayton peace agreement, which ended the Bosnian war, required paramilitaries to disarm and decommission their arsenals.
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Remember: Economists have been warning that central banks will have depleted arsenals heading into the next downturn.
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"We may act out by making snide comments to others with our arsenals of arrows," Stardust says.
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On that occasion, a deal to eradicate the US and Soviet nuclear arsenals was on the table.
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Pay attention to obsessions with firearms Many shooters in mass school shootings are obsessed with firearm arsenals.
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He also noted that North Korea has one of the largest chemical and biological arsenals in the world.
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Tillerson also pushed back against Trump's campaign suggestion that South Korea and Japan should consider developing nuclear arsenals.
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Others say it is an unnecessary expense at a time of shrinking budgets and smaller deployed nuclear arsenals.
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Firefall powers the world's nuclear arsenals, and he is concerned because the US now has control of it.
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In a sense, not much is different with today's far more sophisticated arsenals; development and testing remain essential.
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The nuclear arsenals of the United States, Russia, United Kingdom, France and China include these types of weapons.
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Other nuclear weapons states – India, Pakistan, and Israel – have been advancing their arsenals apace during this quarter-century.
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And with each now commanding substantial nuclear arsenals, their rivalry is a critical element in Asia's strategic equation.
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It could combine effectiveness with a blessed lack of side effects to become another tool in oncologists' arsenals.
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Trump noted that maintaining nuclear arsenals is "also very expensive," but said that was the "least important" issue.
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Read more: With this new missile, China could join the ranks of the world's most dangerous nuclear arsenals
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There are federal programs which provide state and local law enforcement agencies with military arsenals at steep discounts.
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Netflix, Amazon and Apple, the new media companies, didn't make major deals, but continued to amass content arsenals.
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That pact limits the number of long-range missiles, bombers and warheads in the American and Russian arsenals.
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The weapons it introduced -- submarines, machine guns, poison gas, grenades, tanks -- are all still part of our arsenals.
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For decades, the chemical was part of the arsenals of many militaries, but most stockpiles have been destroyed.
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Today, the United States and Russia each deploy massive strategic nuclear arsenals, approximately 1,550 bombs on each side.
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Advanced drones could patrol North Korean airspace to destroy Pyongyang's nuclear weapons arsenals, research facilities, and missile sites.
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Trump and Putin are both very insecure about the size of their nuclear arsenals Trump and Putin are both very insecure about the size of their nuclear arsenals Donald Trump says the United States has fallen behind and must return to the "top of the pack" in nuclear weapons capability.
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America's European and Asian allies should spend both more, and more wisely, on their arsenals and training their troops.
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That's because right now the US and Russia are increasing their nuclear arsenals, making this a particularly tense time.
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When rival nations have large nuclear arsenals, mistakes or unintended escalations or stupid decisions by leaders can be catastrophic.
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Except for North Korea, the other nuclear nations have each kept their arsenals at roughly 100 to 300 weapons.
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Floating arsenals deliver weapons to ships by speedboat in international waters, to get around gun controls on the land.
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"Now is not the time to build larger arsenals of nuclear weapons," Shultz, 97, wrote in his op-ed.
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The latest improvements, they say, make the U.S. and Russian arsenals both more destructive and more tempting to deploy.
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The discovery of the arsenals comes in the midst of a heated debate over public safety policy in Brazil.
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Despite an 80 percent reduction since the Cold War, American and Russian nuclear arsenals still number in the thousands.
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Still others are said to have vowed to unleash small arsenals against victims based on their race or religion.
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The latest scientific studies demonstrate an ever-increasing risk as the populations and arsenals of these two countries grow.
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Although we no longer need such testing, other countries could use it to create more sophisticated and deadly arsenals.
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From the Mediterranean to the Gulf, countries are fragile, regardless of the size of their security forces and arsenals.
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Los Angeles-based Luxury Presence raised $5.4 million to help it help agents round out their digital marketing arsenals.
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It was 1989, and the Pentagon was still keeping arsenals filled for a potential war against the Soviet Union.
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Since World War II, the United States has sought to prevent nuclear war and the expansion of nuclear arsenals.
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The United States and Russia are modernizing their respective nuclear arsenals and introducing new and potentially destabilizing weapon systems.
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It's no wonder why Russia, China and the United States all want them as part of their military arsenals.
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The briefcase, known in the White House as "the football," contains menus of foreign targets: cities, arsenals, critical infrastructure.
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The Pentagon's second hypersonic contract comes as Russia and China sprint to add these emerging weapons to their arsenals.
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We now know that it has been sheer luck that we have not destroyed the planet with our arsenals.
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His warehouse contains stockpiles of old guns looted from Gaddafi's arsenals and now stored for use as spare parts.
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They have also been found in arsenals linked to the La Familia cartel in the western state of Michoacán.
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The two leading nuclear powers were confronted with existential challenges as their respective nuclear arsenals were ballooning out of control.
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For customers, that means that for the foreseeable future they can keep both American and Russian weapons in their arsenals.
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As technology improves, it is helping retool developing nations' arsenals with modern gadgets, such as GPS guidance and automated systems.
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WASHINGTON — Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan on Wednesday downplayed concerns about Russian and Chinese efforts to develop hypersonic arsenals.
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But most experts dismiss the claim that this was a hydrogen bomb of the sort found in advanced nuclear arsenals.
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Worse, they could try to use the same weapons to disable the nuclear arsenals of the U.S. and its allies.
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As a leading nation, it is our job to take the initiative to reduce and ultimately eliminate our nuclear arsenals.
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President George H.W. Bush continued the dismantlement of obsolete cold war arsenals by withdrawing all nuclear weapons from Navy ships.
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We must get back on track to reducing the world's nuclear arsenals and "drain the swamp" for aspiring nuclear terrorists.
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Russia and China are accused of modernizing their nuclear arsenals, making it necessary for the U.S. to do the same.
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In response, NATO would launch submarine- and US-based strategic nuclear weapons toward Russia's nuclear arsenals — 600 warheads in total.
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Nuclear treaties The Trump administration is reportedly considering withdrawing from the New START agreement limiting U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals.
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"It's the largest arsenal — larger than the combined military and police arsenals of every country on the planet," he said.
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But he made sure to spare no words about the rising tensions between Washington and Moscow over their missile arsenals.
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But the U.S. and Russia have shrunk their respective arsenals by a combined 55,000 nuclear warheads since the late 1980s.
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The original five nuclear weapons powers — the United States, Russia, Chian, Britain and France - would also phase out their arsenals.
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That same goes for Iran, India, Saudi Arabia, North Korea and the other six countries with fast-growing missile arsenals.
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The treaty, which expires in 2021, sent American and Russian nuclear arsenals to their lowest levels in nearly 60 years.
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Meanwhile, as you read this, all of the nuclear-armed states are marching to upgrade, expand or operationalize their arsenals.
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Of course, algorithm-driven mass manipulation is only one weapon in propagandists' arsenals, alongside television and ideologically slanted talk radio.
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The United States and its only nuclear rival have been reducing their arsenals since the end of the Cold War.
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At the end of the process, workers packed completed bomblets into dispensers — essentially larger bomb cases — for delivery to arsenals.
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With interest rates at historic lows, concerns are mounting about how much ammunition central banks have left in their arsenals.
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But a succession of less dramatic treaties between the two super-powers has indeed slowed the multiplication of nuclear arsenals.
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Moscow has scoffed at US claims that its missile shield isn&apost intended to counter Russia&aposs massive missile arsenals.
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At the same time, Pakistan, India and North Korea are expanding their arsenals as the international consensus for nonproliferation erodes.
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But petrodollars, vast arsenals and Mr Trump's blessing risk turning their descendants into vainglorious autocrats with talents for inflaming, not compromising.
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Policy was driven by perceptions of overwhelming conventional military threat and the doctrines of deterrence, with arsenals growing ever more capable.
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The agreement forced each country to dismantle more than 2,500 missiles with ranges of 310 to 3,420 miles from their arsenals.
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Nine countries have nuclear arsenals, with an estimated total of 22009,695 weapons, according to the Ploughshares Fund, a global securities group.
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There's no doubt that words matter in political campaigns, and the fact that male candidates get more words in their arsenals?
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That includes targeting assistance, arms sales and the provision of spare parts and maintenance for the existing Saudi and UAE arsenals.
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"But this would be more credible if the government were also pursuing reductions in nuclear arsenals and other peace building initiatives."
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The report examined firms involved in producing key components for the nuclear arsenals of France, India, Britain and the United States.
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Speaking to reporters before the meetings, Mr. Trump cited the reduction of nuclear arsenals as a major item on his agenda.
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They killed at least 10 people and staged violent robberies of banks and police arsenals and three jailbreaks, the FBI says.
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And between massive nuclear arsenals and synthetic biology, humans have never had more power to destroy themselves than we do now.
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Tensions have cooled between India and Pakistan after a terrorist attack, but their nuclear arsenals mean unthinkable consequences are always possible.
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Our nuclear arsenals and security commitments make it an area of existential danger where ignorance and rashness need to be restrained.
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As the W.N.B.A. playoffs start on Wednesday, the 3-point shot has become a more important part of the teams' arsenals.
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Currently, the United States has 2628 interceptors in our arsenals based in Fort Greely, Alaska, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
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So far, no one is talking about dissolving NATO; Europe still depends for its security on America's nuclear and conventional arsenals.
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While much of our attention has focused on Iran and North Korea, Russia and China are both modernizing their nuclear arsenals.
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" Chinese and North Korea's growing arsenals Pentagon officials have also expressed concerns about the growing arsenals of China and North Korea, with the senior Defense Department official saying Friday that "China is already in the process of of expanding the size of its arsenal, they are going to double their nuclear stockpile by the end of this decade.
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One nation, the Soviet Union, has conducted the greatest military buildup in the history of man, building arsenals of awesome offensive weapons.
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If all the above was successful, the Trump administration would need to move toward the dismantling of Kim's atomic and missile arsenals.
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The agreement forced each country to dismantle more than 2,500 missiles with ranges of 310 miles to 3,420 miles from their arsenals.
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Complete with its own catchy, Bond-ish codename, "Firefall", the program allows its user to take control of the world's nuclear arsenals.
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Clashes are deadlier, too, thanks to guns looted from the arsenals of Libya's former dictator, Muammar Qaddafi, and smuggled around the region.
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Such fears were stoked earlier this year when Trump floated the idea of allies such as Japan developing their own nuclear arsenals.
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The two countries with the largest arsenals signaled to the world that the time had come to downsize and decommission these weapons.
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Both men haven't been shy about their love for nuclear weaponry or the fact that they control the world's two biggest arsenals.
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In the battle royale for mobile phone dominance, there are a few candidates with larger arsenals than the rest of the competition.
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This is all happening as Iran's allied militia, Hezbollah, is building up its weapons arsenals in Lebanon, just next door to Syria.
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According to the White House statement, Trump raised the growing threat of North Korea's nuclear and ballistic arsenals with the Chinese president.
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It reads in part: As rogue state missile arsenals develop, space will play a particularly important role in support of missile defense.
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The targets were shelters, hideouts and arsenals used by the militants, the military said, adding that artillery fire continued from the ground.
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After a series of arms-reduction treaties, New Start, which went into effect in 2011, limited the strategic arsenals to 1,33 each.
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Kim understands there is a new, no-nonsense global sheriff on duty who has zero tolerance for little tyrants with big arsenals.
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There is no benefit to America in a world where individual nations develop their own security arrangements, including, quite probably, nuclear arsenals.
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This dual promise was tied closely to a second leg that nuclear weapons states would move to dramatic reductions in their arsenals.
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The treaty really does limit each country's nuclear arsenals — which is why Trump's new secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, is a fan.
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With nuclear subs and bombers on constant worldwide patrol, unprecedented arsenals of war left plenty of room for human—and mechanical—error.
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Doing so would be in direct violation of the treaty, which calls on all nuclear-weapons states to reduce their nuclear arsenals.
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New START is leading to significant reductions in the two rival arsenals, a process that began with the disintegration of the USSR.
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The treaty's goal, essentially, is to limit the size of the American and Russian nuclear arsenals, the two largest in the world.
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The treaty succeeded in verifiably reducing the two countries' arsenals; both sides announced they had met the reduction requirements in February 2018.
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Schools and local authorities need guidance to better flag situations where both the obsession with arsenals and expressed desire to harm occur.
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We need laws, procedures and policies that specifically allow authorities to act when threats are coupled with ownership of firearm arsenals. 3.
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Then there are legitimate reasons to be concerned about rogue nations that are hell bent on acquiring nuclear arsenals of their own.
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Still, the resulting progress in reducing those nuclear arsenals brought only a temporary lull in the relentless growth of the Pentagon budget.
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Across the globe, nuclear weapons are poised to become more rather than less usable because of nations' investments in their nuclear arsenals.
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Well, not only are these holy-grail buys the workhorses of our beauty arsenals, but they also calm and soothe us before bed.
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Instead, she hoped that the treaty would begin to put pressure on those countries, including the United States, to disband their nuclear arsenals.
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But it was also a way for the Grasshopper to turn its tremendous mass into a weapon deadlier than most mechs' entire arsenals.
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The details: New START caps the countries' strategic nuclear arsenals at 1,550 deployed warheads and 700 bombers and missiles equipped to carry them.
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Russia and China now fear that technological advances could allow America to threaten their nuclear arsenals without resorting to a nuclear first strike.
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He declined to say exactly what he would propose be done about arsenals with enough power to destroy the world several times over.
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The gang killed at least 10 people and staged violent robberies of banks and police arsenals and three jailbreaks, according to the FBI.
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The latest revelations from India, however, come as the United States, China and Russia sprint to equip their arsenals with anti-satellite missiles.
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Those concerned about stopping further nuclear proliferation argue that the superpowers must reduce their nuclear arsenals to set an example for everyone else.
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In the Cold War, the U.S. and Russia deterred any major attack by the other with existentially dangerous arsenals of nuclear-tipped missiles.
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The United States and South Korea are among the 192 nations party to the agreement, and they agreed to destroy their chemical arsenals.
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Its growing nuclear and missile arsenals vexed the Democrat's administration, and they were only likely to improve while the Republican was in office.
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In short, he wants to be treated like Pakistan, or India, which have made clear they will never trade away their nuclear arsenals.
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The substance, listed as a chemical weapon, was kept for decades in the arsenals of many militaries, including that of the United States.
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Some of these countries have nuclear arsenals that may be at risk, or their governments may become more inclined to consider using them.
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They approximated India and Pakistan's arsenals at the time and imagined a war involving 23 Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs—15 kilotons—over cities.
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What's more, while Russia and the US have reduced their arsenals significantly over the years, neither side has seriously pushed for complete disarmament.
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Can Trump really make an ally of Putin over killing off of ISIS, and simultaneously reduce Russia's strategic weapons arsenals, as has been suggested?
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And he needs to listen also to the scientific and medical communities, who are raising the alarm about what modern nuclear arsenals will do.
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How else are we going to kick every other country's ass at science fairs, and develop impressive nuclear arsenals for our new Supreme Leader?
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Russia, China and America are committed to modernising their nuclear arsenals, which means they will exist until at least the end of this century.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - During previous rounds of Palestinian violence, Israeli raids on the occupied West Bank would turn up small arsenals of military assault rifles.
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Diplomats should assemble regularly in Washington, Moscow, Beijing, Pyongyang, Paris, London, New Delhi, Karachi and Jerusalem to develop plans to draw down nuclear arsenals.
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Official Israeli sources have also confirmed that flights from Iran are carrying weapons and fighters to Syria's fields of battle and supplying Hezbollah's arsenals.
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To Perry, who served as Defense secretary from 85033 to 1997, the modernization of nuclear arsenals increases the risk for an accidental nuclear war.
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Four countries — North Korea, Pakistan, India and Israel — have developed nuclear arsenals and refuse to sign the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
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If New START is killed, it would be the first time there have been no speed limits on U.S.-Russian nuclear arsenals since 1972.
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We keep adding devices that pipe music directly into our ears into our technological arsenals, but they don't seem to increase hearing loss rates.
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To verify compliance, the United States and Russia will exchange data on their nuclear arsenals "within the next month," Nauert said in her statement.
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Here's what you need to know: • The nuclear threat from North Korea is spurring Japan and South Korea to consider their own nuclear arsenals.
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But those were not meant to counter Russia's huge arsenals, but rather the launching of a few missiles by a state like North Korea.
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Below is a look at their nuclear capabilities: India has much stronger conventional armed forces than Pakistan, but both countries have comparable nuclear arsenals.
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It will also always be humanoid—unlike Armored Core's quadrupedal, reverse-jointed, and tank-tread based mechs, arsenals are always bipedal and human-shaped.
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That promise was not fulfilled, and since then, India and Pakistan have fought two border wars over the region and have assembled nuclear arsenals.
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You have to believe that the Indian and Pakistani arsenals are that big and that powerful, for one thing, and that they'd use them.
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Trump, who wants to increase "arsenals of virtually every weapon," asked for $21500 billion, one of the largest military spending requests in US history.
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Which makes the current strategic situation in the region especially fraught, because both nations are believed to be bulking up their arsenals still further.
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The Dillinger gang killed at least 10 people and staged violent robberies of banks and police arsenals and three jailbreaks, according to the FBI.
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Jerusalem has never formally confirmed that it has nuclear weapons, but it is widely believed to have one of the biggest arsenals in the world.
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Screenshot: TwitterOn the left, you can read a variety of alarming, unhinged statements from the man who commands one of the world's largest nuclear arsenals.
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The treaty offers both the U.S. and Russia a valuable insight into one another's nuclear arsenals as well as intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
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"At a time when North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile arsenals are rapidly expanding, the abrogation of GSOMIA directly harms U.S. national security," he said.
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The world's other nuclear powers — Britain, China, France, Israel, India, and Pakistan — are believed to maintain much smaller arsenals, probably 103 to 300 warheads each.
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The British are "hazarding" the view that Washington should not be looking for trouble with adversaries running huge nuclear arsenals – a "novel" geostrategic thinking indeed.
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Experiments at the two sites are used by both nations to help ensure their nuclear arsenals remain viable but conducted under a blanket of secrecy.
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President-elect Donald Trump once again decided to upend decades of foreign policy by declaring the United States' nuclear arsenals should get bigger, not smaller.
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Nuclear facilities such as Hanford are a legacy of the headlong rush to build enormous nuclear weapons arsenals at the height of the Cold War.
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While Mr. Trump can build missiles to match the Chinese or Russian arsenals, there is no simple way to match Russian or Chinese influence operations.
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In that role, he helped pull the United States out of the Antiballistic Missile treaty but negotiated a separate treaty with Russia paring nuclear arsenals.
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" To illustrate the problem posed by nuclear arsenals that many embraced as the best way to prevent war and aggression, Kahn imagined a "doomsday machine.
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China and the others have resisted being drawn into such a process, at least until the United States and Russia shrink their arsenals even more.
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This government-owned and -operated network of depots, shipyards and arsenals sustains some 440,000 vehicles, 780 strategic missiles, 278 combat ships and almost 14,000 aircraft.
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Concerns are also growing about a potential nuclear arms race, as both world powers have now abandoned nonproliferation treaties that kept their arsenals in check.
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It wasn't until an 18-year-old student accidentally blew off his hand that the authorities realized science laboratories were being turned into makeshift arsenals.
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The weapons it introduced -- submarines, machine guns, poison gas, grenades, tanks, and more -- have become part of our arsenals, as did airpower and strategic bombing.
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Naysayers make the case that the conventional arsenals of both nations are more than adequate to attack complex targets with a reasonable surety of destruction.
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But it's unlikely that the Founders' intention was to let troubled American citizens acquire arsenals to kill as many as their fellow citizens as possible.
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Laws permitting civilians to carry assault weapons or stash away arsenals, for example, are at one extreme, an unacceptably black end of a grey spectrum.
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That is much tougher than negotiating a bilateral treaty between Russia and the United States, which still possess, by far, the world's largest nuclear arsenals.
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Between the lines: The study's focus on training and R&D programs in addition to drone arsenals reveals some militaries' deeper preparations for drone warfare.
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With the INF Treaty, the US and USSR "for the first time ... agreed on reducing the number of nuclear weapons in their arsenals," writes Herring.
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You might think that pitchers whose arsenals require them to place more pressure on the seams of the ball are more likely to get blisters.
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In 1991, as the US and USSR were making deep cuts to its nuclear arsenals, the scientists set the clock at 17 minutes to midnight.
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And scientists, their current analytic arsenals amplified through ever more powerful computers and machine-learning algorithms, will finally possess enough genetic data to fuel ambitious research.
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He wouldn't say whether the Kremlin favors extending the pact that limited Russian and U.S. nuclear arsenals to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads each.
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Ashley's claim comes as longstanding arms control agreements between US and Russia are under strain or unraveling and both sides are focused on modernizing their arsenals.
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Unrestricted, governments will continue building their cyber arsenals and increasing the severity of their attacks — igniting a cyber-arms race akin to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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What's next: The New START Treaty, a 2011 U.S.–Russia agreement to reduce the number of warheads in their arsenals, is set to expire in 2021.
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The countries have nuclear arsenals and militaries that dwarf any in the accord and staying in it allows both to gain critical information on each other.
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The Southern ladies of the fictional small town collect nuggets of (mis)information like arsenals, keeping them locked and loaded to use at a moment's notice.
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For much of the past seven years, Israel has carried out periodic attacks on convoys and depots of Iranian weapons destined for Hizbullah's arsenals in Lebanon.
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The feds say they're shining more light on the dark Web to kill secret sites that terrorists or other criminals could use to build weapon arsenals.
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So in a show of restraint, we're challenging ourselves to find items from the depths of our arsenals that we can reimagine for the season ahead.
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He also suggested that he would support Japan and South Korea developing their own nuclear arsenals, in an interview with the New York Times in March.
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It is remarkable to reflect that mere months ago, Trump and Kim were trading personal insults and boasting about the size of their respective nuclear arsenals.
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He has not gotten China, India and Pakistan into talks aimed at halting the growth of their nuclear arsenals, or taken American nuclear weapons off alert.
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The Council has threatened to impose an arms embargo, but has deferred taking action while the warring parties, particularly the government, have steadily expanded their arsenals.
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Each side had (and continues to have) large nuclear arsenals, but neither side would willingly risk a first use, for fear of inevitable and devastating retaliation.
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Just days before his inauguration, Trump said in an interview that he hoped to work with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin to reduce both countries' nuclear arsenals.
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The arms treaty reduced Cold War nuclear arsenals, capped the total of weapons that could be deployed, and allowed for 18 on-site inspections per year.
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Could you ever sincerely agree to eliminate your nuclear arsenal in exchange for promises from the other major nuclear powers that they will eliminate their arsenals?
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The head of the Missile Defense Agency says it is only a matter of time before hypersonic weapons are added to the arsenals of America's adversaries.
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Similar in many respects to the American Predator, the missile-armed CH-4 has shown up in the arsenals of Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia.
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Eventually the fever broke, partly because of the Soviet Union's dissolution, and the two nations reduced their arsenals through negotiations to about 6,500 nuclear warheads apiece.
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With the reunification of Germany, he helped redraw the map of Europe, and he set in motion a drastic reduction in the world's largest nuclear arsenals.
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The deluge turns on stress hormones and genetic switches that open plant arsenals and prepare the plant to ward off attackers — with no thought or movement.
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Though modest, the treaty reduced deployed nuclear arsenals to 1,550 weapons on each side, down from tens of thousands at the height of the Cold War.
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The promise of the early 1990s, which began with the United States and Russia agreeing to major reductions in their nuclear arsenals, appears to be over.
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These arsenals are far in excess of what it would take to decimate the other and far more that is required to deter a nuclear attack.
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Does this refer to being at a level with the nuclear forces of Russia and the United States, whose arsenals number in the thousands of warheads?
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"Unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity," the bulletin said.
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The two big superpowers would hardly scrap their nuclear arsenals without the Chinese, Indians, Israelis and others doing the same—and how would that be verified?
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The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the last major treaty constraining the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, is set to expire in early 2021.
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The 1987 treaty eliminated the medium-range missile arsenals of the world's two biggest nuclear powers, but leaves other countries free to produce and deploy them.
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"Dorsey may be referring to the time Obama told CBS News there are "no easy solutions" adding that "We could, obviously, destroy North Korea with our arsenals.
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China knows that Korean nukes are a threat to its own security, destabilising the region and giving America good cause to maintain armies and arsenals in Asia.
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The arms race between America and the Soviet Union escalated during the cold war and today rogue states like North Korea threaten peace with their nuclear arsenals.
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And while editors don't display their go-to blemish-clearing formulas front-and-center (that's reserved for Tom Ford perfumes), don't be mistaken: They have entire arsenals.
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The former prediction proved correct: the next year, the two countries signed a new arms agreement that, for the first time, saw each country's nuclear arsenals shrink.
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For much of the past seven years, Israel has carried out periodic, pinpoint attacks on convoys and depots of Iranian weapons destined for Hizbullah's arsenals in Lebanon.
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In 2010 both countries signed the New START Treaty – a bilateral agreement to reduce the size of their nuclear arsenals and limit the number of deployed weapons.
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Another consequence of this deteriorating commitment to arms control is that Washington and Moscow now have a harder time cajoling other countries into limiting their nuclear arsenals.
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With hundreds of thousands of troops and huge arsenals arrayed on both sides of a tense demilitarized zone, the Korean peninsula has long been a tinder box.
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Risks to global growth have increased since November and world leaders have little left in their fiscal and monetary arsenals to mitigate the threat, Moody's has warned.
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Though it's hard to blame local authorities for using every tool in their limited arsenals, the traditional economic development model has drawn widespread criticism in recent years.
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To make matters worse, both the U.S. and Russia are modernizing their already formidable nuclear arsenals, making them even more deadly; these plans extend over several decades.
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At the time Reagan's SDI was first proposed, there were only two major nuclear arsenals in the world -- those of the United States and the Soviet Union.
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That said, the specter of nuclear winter helped spur major reductions in the superpowers' nuclear arsenals, by making the utter folly of nuclear warfare plainer than ever.
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ARSENALS PILLAGED When, in the spring of 2014, the armed rebellion started in Ukraine's Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, police and soldiers abandoned their bases.
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In the mass shootings that have garnered the most attention — including San Bernardino, Sandy Hook, and Aurora — military-style assault weapons were part of the shooters' arsenals.
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Postol said he's especially worried about South Korea, where US and South Korean troops count on Patriots to defend against North Korea's huge arsenals of ballistic missiles.
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The nuclear threat from North Korea, which will be a dominant issue on the trip, is spurring Japan and South Korea to consider their own nuclear arsenals.
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Since that time, nonsignatories to the pact, mainly countries in Asia and the Middle East, have amassed large arsenals of such missiles and developed many distinct models.
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Expanding the instances when America might use nuclear weapons could also make it easier for other nuclear-armed countries to justify using their own arsenals against adversaries.
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Iranian forces oversaw the training of fighting forces and the build-up of arsenals of rockets and munitions among the network of proxy shi'a militias in Syria.
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Detroit, Japan and Germany are loading their arsenals up and, by the end of the decade, the EV landscape will look very different than it does today.
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But just as the Carter marriage was becoming a particularly effective tool in both members' musical arsenals, the story of their marriage spiraled out of their control.
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Some states are modernizing their nuclear arsenals, and there is a real danger that more countries will try to procure nuclear weapons, as exemplified by North Korea.
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Japan plans to buy two Aegis Ashore batteries to be deployed in 2023 in an upgrade of its missile defenses against the arsenals of North Korea and China.
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"The most sensitive parameter in these calculations is the size of the bombs, which range from ~25 kt to 5,000 kt based on today's arsenals," Liska told Gizmodo.
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The latest development means the U.S. will have to make up even more ground as Russia and China bolster their arsenals with hypersonic weapons at a breakneck pace.
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According to the White House statement, Trump raised the growing threat of North Korea's nuclear and ballistic arsenals with the Chinese president in their phone call on Sunday.
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With both fighter using their entire arsenals including spinning, flying and even cartwheel strikes, the two both landed massive shots and managed to stay standing throughout the fight.
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If there is an intriguing subplot to the success of Gray and Anderson that goes beyond "good pitching is good pitching," it has to revolve around their arsenals.
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Several Republicans have also stated reservations about massive nuclear spending, expressing support for reductions in global arsenals and the "Reagan-esque" goal of a world without nuclear weapons.
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Thanks to advances in technology, however, these once-dated products are reclaiming the spotlight and can be found in the arsenals in some of the industry's top pros.
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That is unlikely, although as a candidate Trump criticized the current international nuclear status quo that prevented allies like Japan from developing nuclear arsenals for their own protection.
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Talking about his sons—who like to hunt exotic game in Africa, not deer in Appalachia—he even said he was "concerned" by the size of their arsenals.
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But as with other global initiatives that have helped to control nuclear arsenals, contain global pandemics and safeguard our skies, coordination and cooperation are critical, and can grow.
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Feeling abandoned by the United States, and vulnerable to an emboldened and increasingly assertive China, Japan and South Korea could both decide to develop their own nuclear arsenals.
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There are still too many nuclear weapons in the world, but the American and Russian arsenals are now a fraction of what they were during the Cold War.
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From expanded background checks to assault weapons bans, proposals put forward by gun-safety proponents, unlike continually increasing private American arsenals, would do something to thwart mass shootings.
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As North Korea races to build a weapon that for the first time could threaten American cities, its neighbors are debating whether they need their own nuclear arsenals.
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If New START isn't renewed or extended by 2021, the world's two largest nuclear powers would have no limits on their arsenals for the first time in decades.
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In its action phase, you accept a mission and launch into battle with your giant robot to fight drones, tanks, and other mechs (called "arsenals" in this setting).
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Yes, that means it comes up short in other parts of the mech fantasy: It isn't as fun to build arsenals as it is to design BattleTech's mechs.
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Beijing is highly unlikely to engage in any such talks until the United States and Russia further cut their far larger arsenals, estimated at over 6,000 warheads each.
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Under such an arrangement, analysts said, North Korea would be treated like the Soviet Union and later Russia, which were asked to limit, rather than eliminate, their arsenals.
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Besides the United States and Russia, which are believed to have the largest nuclear arsenals, Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea all have nuclear bombs.
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The BAS folks were confident that finally nuclear arsenals would be abolished and the "oversized military establishment" of the great powers, including the United States, would be downsized.
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The new bomblets began entering Air Force arsenals in 1986 with features that made them anti-personnel, anti-armor and incendiary — Aerojet's universal solution for most any target.
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By most accounts, the Chinese arsenal is about 300 weapons that would be covered by the treaty, one-fifth the size of the deployed American and Russian arsenals.
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A 2008 study found that, although India and Pakistan have relatively small arsenals, a full nuclear exchange would push a layer of hot, black smoke into the atmosphere.
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Persuading the world's militaries and intelligence agencies to stop building ever more powerful cyber arsenals appears as impossible as convincing them to renounce the use of attack aircraft.
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The reason for all of this is straightforward: During the Cold War, Washington and Moscow had relatively little information about what the other was doing with their nuclear arsenals.
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"With no regional arms control instruments in place, states in Asia continue to expand their arsenals", said Siemon Wezeman, senior researcher with the institute's arms and military expenditure programme.
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But the possibility that China could be using regulations to interfere with US companies is a reminder that tariffs aren't the only weapons other countries have in their arsenals.
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Chinese aid to Pakistan in the nuclear weapons field, as well as the expansion of India and Pakistan's nuclear arsenals, were also worrisome, the bulletin said in a statement.
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Founded in 1949 to deter the Soviet threat, NATO is based on deep cooperation with the United States, which provides for Europe's security with its nuclear and conventional arsenals.
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Yet there has been little evidence to suggest that it is following through when it comes to the types of drones that have increasingly appeared in other states' arsenals.
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Many people had set up makeshift barricades outside their neighborhoods to keep out potential troublemakers, and had armed themselves with sticks, shotguns and automatic rifles looted from government arsenals.
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SINCE 1972, when the first Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) agreement was signed, there have always been negotiated constraints on the nuclear arsenals controlled from Washington and Moscow.
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The United States, Russia, France, the United Kingdom and China have all tested thermonuclear weapons, and H-bombs now make up the majority of the weapons in their arsenals.
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Founded to deter the Soviet threat in 1949, NATO is based on deep cooperation with the United States, which provides for Europe's security with its nuclear and conventional arsenals.
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Meanwhile, it is estimated that North Korea has 1,000 ballistic missiles, between 10 and 16 nuclear weapons, and one of the largest arsenals of chemical weapons in the world.
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"Some states are modernizing their nuclear arsenals, and there is a real danger that more countries will try to procure nuclear weapons, as exemplified by North Korea," Andersen said.
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Our defense policies treat them like ordinary weapons, and we seek the security of bigger arsenals to ensure our enemies' fear of the nuclear unknown is greater than ours.
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LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said he wants arsenals of nuclear weapons reduced very substantially as part of any nuclear deal with Russia, The Times newspaper reported.
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MUMBAI, India — India and Pakistan, longtime enemies with nuclear arsenals, have battled over borders, killed each other's soldiers and fought three wars since the countries' creation seven decades ago.
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He said that while the United States "could destroy North Korea with our arsenals," there would not only be humanitarian costs, but also a potential impact on South Korea.
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U.S. officials negotiating North Korea's denuclearization are no longer demanding a full accounting of the nation's nuclear and ballistic missile arsenals, according to an exclusive report from NBC News.
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Furthermore, some speculate for the North Korean leadership, the fates of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi are sufficient reasons for them to refuse to give up their nuclear arsenals.
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Titled "Harpoon" after the codename of the Mossad finance-tracking unit Darshan-Leitner worked with, the book lays out how Israel targets foes' bank accounts as well as arsenals.
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By blunder or miscalculation, nuclear powers now risk the unthinkable by violating or walking away from existing nuclear agreements, while at the same time expanding their already bloated arsenals.
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North Korea's repeated nuclear and missile tests have raised the stakes considerably in North Asia, stoking talk of U.S. allies Japan and South Korea acquiring their own nuclear arsenals.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Turkish military struck eight targets in northern Iraq, destroying shelters, hideouts and arsenals that belonged to militants, the state-run Anadolu agency said on late Monday.
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During World War II, Detroit provided — funded the arsenals of democracy to help us win World War II. In — in the 2100s, Detroit was the Silicon Valley of America.
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INTERNATIONAL An article on Sunday about Japan and South Korea reconsidering establishing their own nuclear arsenals referred incorrectly to Charles D. Ferguson's role with the Federation of American Scientists.
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Below are the issues likely to figure: Both Trump and Putin have been using bellicose rhetoric about their nuclear arsenals, drawing their countries closer to a new arms race.
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The two biggest nuclear powers signed a series of arms control pacts designed to reduce and limit their nuclear arsenals, and thus the risk they pose to humanity's survival.
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The report, authored by Dan Gettinger, counts that, across the country, at least 347 local law enforcement, fire and emergency responder agencies have added flying robots to their arsenals.
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In a joint op-ed published by The Washington Post, they noted that various arms pacts had achieved the goal of greatly reducing the nuclear arsenals on both sides.
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But 11 years later, the BAS ignored the signing of the Moscow Treaty which would successfully reduce the Russian and American strategic nuclear arsenals from even START 1 levels.
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By doing so, we have demolished a critical underpinning of nuclear deterrence policy: the requirement that the arsenals of the nuclear-armed states would be controlled by responsible leaders.
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That treaty was signed and observed by 191 nations, yet not by five key countries -- India, Pakistan, Israel, South Sudan and North Korea, four of whom have nuclear arsenals.
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That agreement came into effect on February 5, 2011, with the goal of limiting the size of the American and Russian nuclear arsenals, the two largest in the world.
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Two of their fights — the 1999 Kargil War and the 2001-'02 Twin Peaks Crisis — happened with fully functioning nuclear arsenals, but ultimately, neither country chose to use them.
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Obviously we had to try it for ourselves, so we grabbed our favorite styles and took to fashioning three foolproof looks denim devotees will need in their arsenals come spring.
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Bell and other arms control experts worry that before too long, the world's two largest nuclear powers might shed limits on their nuclear arsenals for the first time in decades.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Syria declared on Wednesday that it had no chemical weapons arsenals and said that "terrorist groups" in the country including al-Nusra and Daesh had obtained some stocks.
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Monitoring and containing Kim's nuclear arsenal is essential if we are to restrain a proliferation of nuclear arsenals across the Pacific Rim that will truly rock the foundations of MAD.
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Add to that nuclear arsenals and Pakistan's ties to Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group the US holds responsible for the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and it only gets messier.
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"The prospects of North Korea dismantling its nuclear and ballistic missile arsenals remain as dim as ever," said Miha Hribernik, a senior Asia analyst at global risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft.
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Given that the controllers of the world's two main nuclear arsenals both claim to be champions of the Christian cause, the question is topical, not just an academic brain-teaser.
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"I ask myself," he said, "Is it licit to maintain nuclear arsenals as they are or today, in order to save creation and humanity is it necessary to go back?"
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Read more: About 14,525 nuclear weapons exist today in the arsenals of these 9 nationsThat childhood in what he called a "nuclear town" guided his future relationship with atomic weapons.
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Yet the pledges included no timeline for the North's denuclearization, no process for verifying steps toward it nor a plan for how Kim would detail his nuclear and missile arsenals.
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Over the past few years, we've seen the inclusion of spectacular striking techniques into a lot MMA fighters' arsenals, which predominantly originate from the once highly criticized traditional martial arts.
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"If that agreement is allowed to expire in 2021… there would be no verifiable limit on the world's two largest nuclear arsenals for the first time in decades," he said.
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He went to Moscow in July 1991 and signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which slashed the American and Soviet long-range nuclear arsenals by 25 percent to 35 percent.
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It's the part of the job people want to hear about — they want to know what it was like to descend into the Vietcong's subterranean pathways, storehouses, arsenals and barracks.
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This would not only eliminate remaining constraints on deployed nuclear arsenals, but also remove the monitoring and inspection capabilities which have provided both sides with increased transparency regarding nuclear capability.
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He illustrates with examples of communities where media-fueled public engagement led to regulation of Stingray cellphone intercepts, body cavity searches, the militarization of police arsenals, and stop and frisk.
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O'Brien spoke as the US and Russia hit the one-year deadline to extend the New START Treaty, the last legally binding agreement limiting their nuclear arsenals -- the world's largest.
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The last point here is most notable, particularly for the United Kingdom and France, which are democracies with limited conventional forces and nuclear arsenals kept at a "strict sufficiency" level.
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And that summit was simply designed to consider an arms control treaty, not the complete dismantling of both sides' nuclear arsenals -- a proposal made by Gorbachev and promptly rejected Reagan.
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Putin, in televised comments, said Moscow would develop midrange nuclear missiles, a weapon that is currently banned from U.S. and Russian arsenals under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, or INF, treaty.
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The bulletin cited nuclear volatility, especially as the United States and Russia seek to modernize their atomic arsenals and remain at odds in war-torn countries such as Syria and Ukraine.
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While intelligence agencies and the military surely have more powerful surveillance equipment in their arsenals, some of this technology is readily available for civilians or foreign agents to purchase and use.
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Nations like the US and Russia don't need to test out new designs; they built their arsenals decades ago by collectively exploding over 423,700 nukes, according to the Arms Control Association.
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"Certain countries are blatantly proclaiming self-centered nationalism and modernizing their nuclear arsenals, rekindling tensions that had eased with the end of the Cold War," Matsui said, without identifying the countries.
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The fact that it's still a style found in the arsenals of the world's best players is a good sign of just how well this fast and furious deck can perform.
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In response to North Korean provocations, Japan and South Korea are having "a daily argument" about "the nuclear option" — acquiring their own arsenals, the N.Y. Times reports in its lead story.
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The United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia and China -- the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, all of which have nuclear arsenals -- did not participate in the treaty negotiations.
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Investigators do not know what became of most of them, but a disparate collection of groups, including criminal networks and rural Jordanian tribes, use the arms bazaars to build their arsenals.
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Unwilling to remain forever hostage to the arsenals of the nuclear armed states, these nations, with the strong support of civil society, called for the complete elimination of all nuclear weapons.
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Op-Ed Contributor In recent years, Russia and the United States have started rebuilding their Cold War nuclear arsenals, putting the world on the threshold of a dangerous new arms race.
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Where companies amassed arsenals of weapons for goons to use against their own employees and recruited the police and National Guardsmen to help them if these private corporate armies proved insufficient.
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The lesson of Conficker is that crippling attacks on industry and even nation states no longer require a powerful military-industrial complex and expensive arsenals of planes, ships, bombs and missiles.
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During the Cold War, the dynamic that drove the US-Soviet arms race was MAD — mutually assured destruction — which saw both sides accumulate vast arsenals with tens of thousands of warheads.
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The Israel army said Gazans had launched 600 projectiles in two days, with the territory's secretive armed factions letting loose hundreds of rockets that had long been hidden away in arsenals.
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Flattening the curve, on the other hand, buys time for US healthcare providers to obtain more tests, beds, and ventilators; bolster their arsenals of supplies; and research potential treatments and vaccines.
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If, when the tide of a conventional war turns, Russia or China fears that America may unexpectedly use nukes, they will put their own arsenals on high alert, to preserve them.
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A similarly unambiguous existential risk — in the presence of overwhelming asymmetry between the United States and North Korean nuclear arsenals, and despite an unpredictable regime — may give North Korea equal pause.
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By 20213, the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States was already a superheated competition in which both nations sought to create larger arsenals of powerful nuclear weapons.
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And that means strong, verifiable agreements among nations to reduce the size of arsenals and impose every viable idea to ensure that nuclear weapons will never be deployed on planet Earth.
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Still, despite the false start in Reykjavik, the negotiations continued, with the elimination of intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe and deep, verified cuts in the strategic arsenals on both sides.
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But at a 1986 summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, Mr. Reagan proposed to the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, the radical idea that both countries should abolish their nuclear arsenals.
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The idea of pivoting the relationship toward arms control also seems paradoxical given the Trump administration's moves to dismantle the Russian-American security architecture that has limited nuclear arsenals for years.
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The plant is being built to comply with an agreement with Russia in 2000, when both countries said they would eliminate 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium from their nuclear arsenals.
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In an interview with The Times of London, Trump said he wanted nuclear weapons arsenals of the world's two biggest nuclear powers — the United States and Russia — to be "reduced very substantially".
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In October, Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, or INF, Treaty, an agreement that eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons from U.S. and Russian arsenals.
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Last month, Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, or INF, Treaty, an agreement that eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons from U.S. and Russian arsenals.
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In an interview with The Times of London, Trump said he wanted nuclear weapons arsenals of the world's two biggest nuclear powers -- the United States and Russia -- to be "reduced very substantially".
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THAAD can soften the effect of a missile salvo, but it's not a silver bullet for either North Korean or Chinese ballistic missile arsenals that are both growing in size and sophistication.
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There are currently some slight differences between the two nuclear arsenals, but both are working to come into full compliance with the treaty's limits by the due date of February next year.
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During this Cold War push for better ways to watch other nations building their nuclear arsenals, scientists invented new and improved seismic sensors and installed arrays of these devices around the world.
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The Russian leader had turned down every proposition from President Barack Obama on possible new cuts of nuclear arsenals, expecting it to be a more favorable topic for conversation with his successor.
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It is a path toward an unchecked arms race that is likely to suggest to any number of other nuclear aspirants that they need to field deterrent nuclear arsenals of their own.
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For decades the United States and other nuclear powers have argued that deterrence, the possession of large nuclear arsenals, is the best way to guarantee that these weapons will never be used.
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They have signaled their intention to maintain these arsenals with plans to spend trillions of dollars -- $1.2 trillion and counting, in the case of the United States alone -- enhancing their nuclear weapons.
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The nuclear arsenals on both sides shrank by more than 80 percent, to 1,550 deployed warheads on each side under New START, which Mr. Obama negotiated in his first year in office.
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The President argued that the air attacks on Syrian targets were justified to reinforce the principle that some weapons are so heinous, they have no place in the arsenals of civilized nations.
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The hubbub over Trump's attack on Europe obscured one of the stranger comments in the interview — that he hoped to work with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin to reduce both countries' nuclear arsenals.
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Trump said Japan and South Korea could better protect themselves with their own nuclear weapons than relying on the U.S. "We have nuclear arsenals which are in very terrible shape," he said.
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O'Brien gave that speech as the US and Russia hit the one-year deadline to extend the New START Treaty, the last legally binding agreement limiting their nuclear arsenals -- the world's largest.
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Russia said last year that it had completed that process; the United States is one of a handful of countries that acknowledge that they have not yet destroyed their entire chemical arsenals.
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Over the past few months, most talk of restraint has been cast to the wind as Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump take steps to rebuild their arsenals, according to arms control advocates.
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WASHINGTON — A treaty committing the United States and Russia to keep their long-range nuclear arsenals at the lowest levels since early in the Cold War goes into full effect on Monday.
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They want to maintain the strategic balance between their two countries' nuclear arsenals, and they also know that if they disarm unilaterally, they'll lose leverage to get the other side to disarm.
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But it made tangible the growing fears that after decades of leaders trying to more safely control the world's nuclear arsenals, President Trump has increased the possibility of those weapons being used.
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Likewise, consider Vladimir V. Putin's offer to President Bill Clinton to reduce our arsenals to 1,500 or 1,000 each and call on the other nuclear-weapon states to negotiate for their abolition.
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While doing so, nations would be well served to adopt and declare policies of no first use and no launch-on-warning, and to eliminate vulnerable land-based missiles from their arsenals.
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Accepting a nuclear North Korea could set off an arms race in the region, with Japan and South Korea possibly someday opting for their own nuclear weapons arsenals and increased missile defenses platforms.
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At one stage, he even appeared to be suggesting that Japan and South Korea should be left to acquire their own nuclear arsenals for self-defense, a suggestion he later pulled back from.
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Each year, over $1 billion of these grants are funneled to municipalities across the country, bypassing local budget processes and leaving community members in the dark about the acquisition of advanced surveillance arsenals.
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A nuclear war between any two countries using 2000 Hiroshima-size atom bombs, less than half of the combined arsenals of India and Pakistan, could produce climate change unseen in recorded human history.
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Cerrone started in the WEC with a low kick and not much else, but through his years in MMA he has rounded out one of the most versatile striking arsenals you will see.
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Worse, within three years current agreed limits on the nuclear arsenals of Russia and America are set to lapse, leaving them unconstrained for the first time in almost half a century (see Briefing).
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The Second Amendment allows the bearing of arms, but it is astonishing to the non-American world that this is interpreted as a right to build private arsenals of military-style killing machines.
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At the same time, drive-by shootings—and other tactics that allow attackers to carry heavy arsenals without detection and unload on a target from cover—became more common despite their miserable accuracy.
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After all, both America and Russia will be building up their arsenals, and if they go back to viewing each other with distrust, then nuclear weapons would be a logical terrain for competition.
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This led to the suggestion that Korea and Japan should develop their own nuclear arsenals — obviously a big change from current American foreign policy, which tries to discourage the spread of nuclear weapons.
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Critics have said this change could drive countries with smaller defense budgets to look to other arms suppliers, including China or Russia, potentially reducing US influence, arms sales and awareness of other arsenals.
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The deal, which expires in 2021, can be extended by mutual agreement for another five years, but absent an extension or a new agreement, both countries will be free to expand their arsenals.
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Right now, as you read this, two sad, stupidly powerful men feint and jab at one another, flaunting nuclear arsenals like toys and holding the fate of the planet in their vulgar fingers.
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By 2025, India and Pakistan could have expanded their arsenals to 250 warheads each, according to a new paper that predicts what might happen if the two nations entered into a nuclear war.
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Since the end of the Cold War, the United States and Russia have sharply reduced their nuclear arsenals, but Moscow has rejected further negotiations and both countries are pursuing costly new modernization programs.
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I spoke to Schradie about the implications of all this and why she thinks the internet has become just another political weapon in the arsenals of the most powerful forces in our societies.
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At the Nuclear Nonproliferation Review Conference in 2015, Russia and the United States reported to the international community that 85 percent of those arsenals had been decommissioned and, for the most part, destroyed.
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"Something is woefully wrong when elected officials wring their hands and suggest we can only stay safe by bringing arsenals to church," Manny Garcia, the party's deputy executive director, said in a statement.
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Today, China relies on similar missiles for 95 percent of its ground-based fleet, and Iran, India, Saudi Arabia, North Korea and Taiwan are among the 10 states with similar, fast-growing arsenals.
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Every American president from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama has successfully negotiated an agreement with the Soviet Union, or the Russian federation, to reduce the threat from both countries' vast nuclear arsenals.
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The nuclear weapons arsenals that China, India, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States maintain have always loomed large, whether one country gave up one type of delivery system or not.
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Their effectiveness, as proved by the precedent of World War I, has given them a permanent place in many state arsenals, despite the paper trail of international agreements meant to ban their use.
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Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition have killed thousands of civilians, despite Britain and America providing precision munitions from their own arsenals and targeting assistance in a bid to reduce "collateral damage".
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Unless the New Start Treaty is renewed for five years, any limits on the American and Russian arsenals will expire in February 2021, just days after Mr. Trump would enter his second term.
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Sanctions have proved powerless to push Turkey out of Cyprus; to move Colombia, Venezuela or Nigeria to comply with Washington's war on drugs; to persuade India or Pakistan to abandon their nuclear arsenals.
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In fact, for the next quarter century, the United States and Soviet Union would build their arsenals of strategic nuclear weapons from the low thousands to upwards of 10,000-13,000 in the field.
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It's a one-shot-at-a-time manually primed dart blaster targeted at enthusiasts who love gathering with friends and their toy arsenals and spending an afternoon bombarding each other with foam ammunition.
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In order to follow a more peaceful path away from deadly arsenals and potential nuclear conflict, the example of Kazakhstan's non-proliferation policy should inform decision-makers on both sides of the Atlantic.
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If Mr. Trump is foolish enough to leave the treaty, the United States and Russia will be free to build up arsenals that have declined by thousands of weapons since the late 1960s.
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Mr. Trump could more usefully deploy his energies engaging with Russia to further reduce both countries' nuclear arsenals, maintaining the Iran nuclear deal and finding new ways to curb North Korea's nuclear program.
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At the same time American policymakers insisted it was acceptable, even beneficial, for the current nuclear powers to maintain their nuclear arsenals, because their leaders were wise and responsible enough to manage these weapons.
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One perspective is that armies of lawful democratic nations whose arsenals are set up for defensive purposes and protecting human rights and who are held accountable can promote peace and stability in the world.
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Trump, as commander of one of the world's biggest nuclear arsenals, could destroy the world overnight or -- by refusing to recognize the reality of climate change -- he could do it at a slower pace.
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Trump threatens to make South Korea pay for missile defense and seems to invite Seoul and Tokyo to build their own nuclear arsenals; Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis jumps in to say never mind.
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While the report, released Friday, was written prior to Pyongyang's recent nuclear test and satellite launch, it underscores the regime's devotion of large amounts of funding to modernizing its military forces and weapons arsenals.
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There have been several instances during the Cold War when either Washington or Moscow began the process of launching their nuclear arsenals in the mistaken belief they were under attack by the other side.
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In 2009, he pledged to seek "a world without nuclear weapons," and in 2010 he negotiated an arms treaty with Russia that required both countries to reduce significantly the size of their nuclear arsenals.
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If we conduct an explosive nuclear test, other countries will surely follow suit, using their tests to rapidly develop new nuclear capabilities for their arsenals, and thereby exposing the United States to new threats.
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That could kick-start a new arms race between the two countries, where each side would try to one-up the other with better weaponry and grow their arsenals of ground-launched cruise missiles.
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No one knows for sure what will happen once the United States, Russia and China — or nations entangled in a regional rivalry, like India — equip themselves with sizable destructive arsenals of fast-flying missiles.
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It's no surprise that an eclectic and diverse bunch of fashion week attendees were quick to adopt the nostalgic piece, integrating the lady bag into their wardrobe arsenals with all kinds of contemporary twists.
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Fixed CCTV cameras dot the urban landscape—more than one for every 14 people in London, by one industry estimate—and police are swiftly increasing their surveillance arsenals with drones and body-worn cameras.
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The United States has not conducted a nuclear test since 20053, and some weapons experts believe that it has lost ground to Russia and China as they ambitiously improve their arsenals and delivery systems.
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He told the New York Times in an interview in March he could withdraw U.S. troops from bases in Japan, and raised the idea of letting Japan and South Korea develop their own nuclear arsenals.
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Obama sternly dismissed as proof of foreign-policy ignorance Trump's recent suggestion that Japan and South Korea should be allowed to build their own nuclear arsenals, putting him at odds with decades of U.S. policy.
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We had seen quivers of yoga mats, pro-wrestling action figures, vast Nerf arsenals, and copper-plated pans that Anderson fondly recalled he'd once bought so many of that Kohl's banned him from its website.
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"Many of my memories are linked to him," said Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, with whom Bush signed a strategic arms reduction treaty that scaled back the two countries' nuclear arsenals.
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While he referred briefly to North Korean and Pakistani arsenals, he said nothing about a danger that is a cause of great consternation among global leaders: small nuclear weapons that could be fashioned by terrorists.
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American officials largely blame the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, saying his intransigence has stymied efforts to build on a 2010 arms control treaty and further shrink the arsenals of the two largest nuclear powers.
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The astonishing boom in the gun market since the turn of the century didn't result from expanding the rolls of gun owners, but rather by convincing people who already owned guns to deepen their arsenals.
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Moscow says it is fully compliant with the treaty, negotiated by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, which eliminated the medium-range missile arsenals of the world's two biggest nuclear powers.
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It is also in their interest to accelerate the timeline in achieving this goal before the U.S. invests heavily in advancing anti-ballistic missile technologies that could also be used to defeat their own arsenals.
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Many Arabs still denounce him as a "criminal" for his early support of settlement-building, and as a warmonger because of his role in building Israel's weapons arsenals and campaigns that led to civilian deaths.
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A World Without New START Is More Dangerous: Failing to extend New START would mean that for the first time since 1972, there would be no restrictions on the world's two largest nuclear weapons arsenals.
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At the same time that these reductions in arsenals have taken place, nuclear weapons have proliferated to three new countries (India, Pakistan and North Korea), in addition to the six initial nuclear weapons states (U.
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While he referred briefly to North Korean and Pakistani arsenals, he said nothing about a danger that is a cause of great consternation among global leaders: small nuclear weapons that could be fashioned by terrorists.
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Among other things, Mr. Trump said that he would be open to allowing Japan and South Korea to build their own nuclear arsenals and that he might cut off purchases of oil from Saudi Arabia.
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With nuclear weapons of its own, the South would gain leverage and could force North Korea back to the bargaining table, where the two sides could whittle down their arsenals through negotiations, some hawks argue.
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Enlarging the United States arsenal will certainly lead other countries to seek equivalent arsenals of their own, while also raising the odds that weapons fall into terrorists' hands and heightening the risk of accidental war.
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Each new attack on Israeli communities forces Israel to adopt more restrictive measures on imports to Gaza to prevent the illicit transfer of goods that could be used to build and expand the militants' arsenals.
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Mr. Trump threatens to make South Korea pay for missile defense and seems to invite Seoul and Tokyo to build their own nuclear arsenals; Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis jumps in to say never mind.
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I was promised the right to a well-regulated militia, and instead I see a nation that falls victim, week after week, body after body, to a series of unstable people with elaborately hoarded arsenals.
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HIROSHIMA, Japan — Pope Francis traveled to Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Sunday to demand that world powers renounce their nuclear arsenals, declaring the use and possession of atomic bombs an "immoral" crime and a dangerous waste.
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The then-USSR leader had an extraordinary and unanticipated proposal: Both the US and Russia should move toward reducing their nuclear arsenals to zero, he said, ultimately paving the way toward a world without nukes.
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It is unclear whether President Trump plans to replace the I.N.F. or to renew another major treaty, called New Start, which drove American and Russian nuclear arsenals to their lowest levels in nearly 60 years.
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Trump and Putin, who control the world's two biggest nuclear arsenals, are due to meet in the Finnish capital, a venue that evokes memories of Cold War showdowns between the Soviet Union and the United States.
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The President-elect's Russian gambit seems like a solid foreign policy goal, given that the estrangement between the rivals -- owners of the world's biggest nuclear arsenals -- is deeper than at any time since the Cold War.
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For one thing, it will offer the U.S. and Russia a sense of stability to know that treaty will stay in force, and allow them to better plan for future talks and adjustments to their arsenals.
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Mr Trump has already torn up a nuclear deal with Iran and denounced the New START treaty, a pact that caps the nuclear arsenals of America and Russia, which is up for renewal in two years.
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This time, Trump had attracted controversy by suggesting earlier in the week that it may be time for Japan and South Korea to develop their own nuclear arsenals so the U.S. can pull back from Asia.
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Writing in The Washington Post, Singaporean diplomat Bilahari Kausikan argued that, since the U.S. won't be willing to sacrifice its own cities to protect South Korea, South Korea and Japan should acquire their own nuclear arsenals.
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The United States and Russia have significantly reduced their nuclear arsenals, and the threat that either would ever use the weapons has greatly receded, in part because advanced conventional weapons can destroy almost any military target.
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With the entry into force of New START Treaty limits on nuclear arsenals set to begin in February of next year, it would be unwise to invite Russia to increase its arsenal and violate another treaty.
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There is very little public support for nuclear arms in Japan, the only nation ever to suffer a nuclear attack, but many experts believe that could reverse quickly if North and South Korea both had arsenals.
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Virginia's governor, Terry McAuliffe, cited a police estimate that 80 percent of the protesters and counterprotesters were armed, and that the militias, who described themselves as neutral peacekeepers, had arsenals superior to that of the police.
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"Even though their nuclear arsenals are much smaller than the US and Russia&aposs, there have still been models indicating that it could create a 10% or 20% reduction in the global food supply," he said.
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New START not only led to steep reductions of nuclear arsenals on both sides but it strengthened confidence and trust between our countries and our militaries by providing for inspections and data exchanges that verify compliance.
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Some experts fear that if the United States began testing again, it would risk a new arms race by opening the door to testing for many other countries that want to improve or develop nuclear arsenals.
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While both countries have long possessed substantial nuclear arsenals, Pakistan has embarked on a program to add nuclear-tipped cruise missiles to its naval forces in apparent retaliation against India's deployment of its first nuclear submarine.
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There is much more that matters: footwork, spins, speed across the ice, interpretive ability, moxie under pressure and the still-daunting triple axel, which — unlike the other jumps in skaters' arsenals — demands a forward-facing takeoff.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden called President Donald Trump's war of words with North Korea "not presidential" on Wednesday, cautioning him against engaging the U.S. in a competition over the size of the countries' nuclear arsenals.
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U.S. President Donald Trump repeated U.S. allegations that Russia had violated the INF treaty, which limited only U.S. and Russian arsenals, and he held out the prospect of negotiating a wider agreement, possibly including other nations.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Global economic growth is slowing, according to the International Monetary Fund, policymakers and hundreds of economists polled by Reuters - but that downturn is coming at a time when central banks' arsenals are running on empty.
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The new strategic arms limitation treaty, known as New START, between the U.S. and Russia requires that by February 5, 2018, both countries must limit their arsenals of strategic nuclear weapons to equal levels for 10 years.
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Trump and Putin, who control the world's two biggest nuclear arsenals, are due to meet on Monday in Helsinki, a venue which evokes memories of Cold War show-downs between the Soviet Union and the United States.
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Photo: APThe U.S. military's stockpile of nuclear weapons is one of the most existentially terrifying arsenals ever assembled, and a conflict involving the detonation of even small percentage of those weapons could potentially destabilize the entire world.
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When Trump and Putin meet in Paris this November, they could take advantage of a vital opportunity for nuclear-arms restraint by extending New START and renewing talks on further verifiable reductions in their deadly nuclear arsenals.
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Take Mali, where in 2012 Tuareg separatists and jihadists allied to al-Qaeda swept out of the desert and conquered the north of the country using weapons looted from the arsenals of Libya's dead dictator, Muammar Qaddafi.
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Chrissy Teigen's recently released second cookbook, Cravings: Hungry For More, is full of practical and delicious recipes and time-saving tips, but according to her, it's not the only cookbook home cooks should have in their arsenals.
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Even at the height of the cold war in 1972, when America and Russia faced each other with nuclear arsenals that dwarf today's arms control-limited nuclear forces, the clock was only at 12 minutes to midnight.
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Here's why: Predictability and Stability: New START requires that both the United States and Russia reduce their arsenals to 1,550 deployed strategic warheads and limit deployed missiles and nuclear-capable bombers to no more than 700 each.
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"During the historic meeting between President Trump and President Putin, the two leaders discussed a range of subjects, including our nuclear arsenals, which when combined account for roughly 90 percent of all nuclear weapons," Marquis told Politico.
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The U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and the plans announced by both Russia and the United States to spend billions of dollars to upgrade their respective nuclear arsenals in the coming years add to this.
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If the failure to achieve an American Dream or the desperate, dirty attempt to ascend to it is what shapes these four characters' experiences and verbal arsenals, aren't whiteness and racial and economic sameness part of that?
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Much of that traffic was in the Middle East, where wars are raging in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen, and where Persian Gulf states like Saudi Arabia have beefed up their arsenals because of worries about Iran.
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Rather than asking only whether other countries' nuclear arsenals pose a national security threat or whether missile defense systems work, the ban treaty focuses our attention on the humanitarian, human rights, and environmental dimensions of nuclear weapons.
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He said that the modernization of Russia's arsenals will continue at the same rapid pace next year, with 22 intercontinental ballistic missiles, 106 new aircraft, 565 armored vehicles, three submarines and 14 surface ships to enter duty.
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One of the great ironies of the Cold War is that the acceptance of mutual vulnerability backstopped three decades of nuclear arms control and, eventually, deep cuts in the nuclear arsenals of Russia and the United States.
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It specifically urges the US to enter now into negotiations with the other nuclear-armed states for a verifiable, enforceable, timebound plan to eliminate their nuclear arsenals as the only way to guarantee that they are never used.
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The vacuum created by Gaddafi's downfall led to a flood of weapons from state arsenals into the hands of Islamist groups who then pushed south into Africa's Sahel nations where they launch attacks on military and civilian targets.
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Even with the reduced nuclear arsenals that the United States and Russia agreed to in 21, we have the ability not only to set off instantaneous destruction, but also to push global temperatures below freezing, even in summer.
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With over 100183,000 nuclear weapons in arsenals around the world, each with various, often questionable levels of security, it's not too hard to imagine a device getting into the wrong hands and altering the course of history forever.
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Put it in perspective: If, indeed Trump wanted to increase the nuclear stockpile, which stands at about 4,000 nuclear warheads right now, that would make the U.S. nuclear muscle greater than all other countries' known nuclear arsenals combined.
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In a March interview with The New York Times he suggested that Japan and South Korea should have their own nuclear arsenals so that they would be less reliant on protection from the United States in the region.
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The collapse of the INF means there is just a single formal restraint left on the arsenals of the U.S. and Russia, which between them possess more than 220% of the world's nuclear weapons — more than 228,22019 warheads.
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The new strategic arms limitation treaty, known as New START, between the United States and Russia requires that by February 5, 2018, both countries must limit their arsenals of strategic nuclear weapons to equal levels for 10 years.
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The tiny republic of the Marshall Islands, which has a population of less than 70,000 people, says that the world's nine nuclear weapons states have violated various obligation to negotiate in good faith to dismantle their nuclear arsenals.
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The large reduction in nuclear arsenals that has taken place in recent decades is not sufficient to assure human survival, and we should not be celebrating our success until the world is out of danger of nuclear holocaust.
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I know from personal experience how hard it was to dismantle legacy Cold War nuclear arsenals, and this case will present unique new challenges, but the place to begin is by changing the context of the overall relationship.
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Ubiquitous analogies of Sparta (an established power) and Athens (a rapidly developing strategic competitor), and their ensuing Peloponnesian War, are worthless in the case of countries with huge nuclear arsenals and ground, sea, air and airspace delivery vehicles.
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The latest move also suggests that the administration may be open to reneging on other nuclear arms control agreements, including the 2011 New START treaty, which verifiably limits the nuclear arsenals of both the United States and Russia.
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But the Kremlin is not the only hostile government mucking around in America's cyberspace — China and North Korea are two others honing their cyber-arsenals, and they, too, could be tempted to manipulate partisan strife for their ends.
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He advocated a more sophisticated mix of military pressures and diplomatic overtures, hoping to induce agreements from the Soviet Union that would stabilize a divided Europe, limit the growth of nuclear arsenals and manage rivalries in other regions.
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Here's what you need to know: • An Obama-era treaty that commits the U.S. and Russia to keeping their long-range nuclear arsenals at the lowest levels since early in the Cold War goes into full effect today.
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The Chinese, while promising some tougher sanctions against the North, hope to freeze the North Korean nuclear and missile arsenals where they are and channel Mr. Trump into a new set of negotiations that would probably take years.
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It is past time to return to Reagan's original vision of "strategic defense," so that the United States can have adequate defenses against Russia's large, newly upgraded and modernized missile arsenals, and also against China's rapidly increasing capabilities.
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An American retreat from Northeast Asia might eventually induce South Korea and Japan to acquire nuclear arsenals, but even then both countries would be likelier to mollify you with bribes than risk war over this or that crisis.
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On the show, Earth and Mars have both acquired vast arsenals and armies ready to move at a moment's notice, running with the idea that just having these forces ready to go will be an effective deterrent against action.
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Obama described the U.S. nuclear umbrella for Japan and South Korea, in place of their own arsenals, as "one of the cornerstones of our presence in the Asia Pacific," which has provided the U.S. peace, prosperity and flowing commerce.
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Regardless, no one should confuse current nuclear tensions with those of the high Cold War, when the nation and the Soviet Union had roughly equivalent nuclear arsenals; diametrically opposed political ideologies; and (in different ways) dreams of world domination.
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During a recent event, Lieutenant General Robert Ashley, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said the Russians and the Chinese are both moving down a dangerous path that places great importance and investments in their nuclear arsenals and strategies.
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At last week's Peterson Institute for International Economic conference, it was reported that former policy officials were pessimistic that governments had either the fiscal or the monetary tools in their arsenals to deal with a new economic slowdown. Why?
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There are 85% fewer nuclear warheads in the world today than there were during the peak of the Cold War, but proliferation continues to be a threat with newer, younger powers like North Korea adding weapons to their arsenals.
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From iconic brands like Lancome, to big box retailers like Sephora, traditional cosmetic companies are failing to contend with the deluge of buzzy direct-to-consumer brands like Glossier with their large social media followings and arsenals of influencers.
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What's the legal status of the Trump administration's intention, telegraphed in the newly leaked Nuclear Posture Review, to expand U.S. nuclear capabilities and arsenals when the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty supposedly commits us to cutting and eventually eliminating them?
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Moscow's many complaints stem from a deeper concern with the treaty's feasibility, since Russia has a host of countries near its borders with nascent or well-developed intermediate-range missile arsenals, including China, India Iran, North Korea and Pakistan.
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It cited the risks from North Korea's nuclear program; discord between Russia and the United States; tensions in the South China Sea; the buildup of the nuclear arsenals of Pakistan and India; and uncertainty over the Iran nuclear deal.
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A lack of transparency and accountability for civilian deaths helps enemies spin false narratives, makes it harder for allies to defend American actions and sets a bad example for other countries that are rapidly adding drones to their arsenals.
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While CBS and Paramount possess a vast library of movies and TV shows, they'll be seeking to exploit them at a time when deep-pocketed tech companies and the few existing Hollywood giants have more formidable arsenals and resources.
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In response to the chatter of Trump deserving an award, ICAN Executive Director Beatrice Fihn tweeted that she'd "put in a good word" for Trump if he works with Russian President Vladimir Putin to reduce both countries' nuclear arsenals.
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That bargain is eroding, however, as established nuclear powers modernize their arsenals, newer nuclear powers expand their own, non-nuclear nations reconsider whether to acquire them, and technological advances in cyberspace and outer space undermine the calculus of deterrence.
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In his book, Guillaume Serina tells the tantalising story of the Reykjavik summit between the Soviet and American leaders, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan, who came within a whisker of a ten-year deal to eliminate both countries' arsenals.
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One thing that separates Apex from competing battle royale games is that your enemies could have wildly different arsenals, abilities, and mobility options that make it possible to upend a familiar situation by injecting a new variable into the mix.
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The modern-day nuclear scenario that Robock, Toon and others have studied closely involves an exchange of nuclear weapons between India and Pakistan, with about 50 bombs of 15 kilotons each, which is less than half of those nations' nuclear arsenals.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Central banks may be about to face one of their biggest challenges yet: Global economic growth is slowing, but they have struggled to build up their policy arsenals since the last crisis to effectively deal with another one.
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Now, U.S Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is again taking the lead to inspire, nurture and locate innovation to defeat a different threat – potential war with countries who have been quietly, but aggressively, building their own arsenals – not against groups like ISIS.
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Banning, down-ranking, flagging, keeping track of, or removing content from search results are all tools in these companies' arsenals to make sure the information reaching their customers is accurate and transparent — and each tech company has its own approach.
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Official reports detail the North's nuclear, biological and chemical arsenals, and artillery pieces in hardened bunkers just north of the demilitarised zone (DMZ) that divides the two Koreas, which some analysts estimate can fire 10,20103 rounds a minute at Seoul.
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Nuclear deterrence and nuclear umbrellas are "inherently unstable and extremely dangerous" approaches that seek to maintain international order by only generating fear in rival countries, he said, urging world leaders to negotiate in good faith to eliminate nuclear arsenals instead.
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This "unprecedented" move by the United States, combined with continuous quality improvements of nuclear arsenals in both the U.S. and Russia, means that both countries place greater importance on deterrence and real combat usability, the commentary in the PLA Daily said.
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The race to succeed Paul Ryan as the leader of the House Republican conference is on, and the two most likely candidates are already loading up their campaign finance arsenals for what could turn into a slugfest for the job.
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But his suggestion, later reversed in part, that Japan and South Korea should be able to develop their own nuclear arsenals alarmed Beijing, especially the notion that Japan, the occupier of China in World War II, would become a nuclear power.
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The United States and the other nuclear weapons states should embrace this treaty and begin to negotiate the detailed timeline, and verification and enforcement measures for the elimination of their nuclear arsenals so they can come into compliance with it.
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It also had another consequence that is less visible but could in time prove equally dangerous: the conflict took huge amounts of arms out of government arsenals and put them in the hands of irregular units unable to properly control them.
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The sharp increase in Houthi military power and ambition was the result of not only their capture of Yemeni state arsenals after the Arab Spring protests in 2011, but was also an increase in Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah military assistance.
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Trump said in an interview with The New York Times last month that he would consider allowing Japan and South Korea to build their own nuclear arsenals instead of depending on the U.S. for protection against North Korea and China.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The demise of the only U.S.-Russia arms control pact limiting deployed nuclear weapons would make it harder for each to gauge the other's intentions, giving both incentives to expand their arsenals, according to a study released on Monday.
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While Kim still has nuclear bombs and missiles, and has surely added to both arsenals since Trump took over, it's much less likely now that he would use them against the United States or its Asian allies, some experts say.
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Drafts of a new missile defense strategy, which may be published later this month, include suggestions that the program may now turn to developing missile defenses against Russia and China, not just countering states like North Korea with smaller arsenals.
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With the United States, Russia and China pouring billions of dollars into modernizing their military arsenals, the risk of a new arms race grows while the arms control system that has held off the threat of nuclear annihilation grows weaker.
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A canceled meeting in New York last week between Mr. Pompeo and North Korea's leading nuclear weapons negotiator was the latest sign that the talks are at an impasse, even as Pyongyang adds to its nuclear and ballistic missile arsenals.
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HONG KONG — President Trump's tweet Tuesday taunting the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un over the relative strength of the two nations' nuclear arsenals set off a torrent of concern on Twitter — and a few jokes about masculine preoccupation with size.
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The United States has the most sophisticated conventional and nuclear arsenals in the world, with capabilities to respond to any limited use of nuclear weapons in multiple ways, including a thousand existing low-yield options that can be delivered by air.
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Over the years, American presidents have worked with their Russian counterparts to reduce their nuclear arsenals from a high of 13,000 American warheads in the mid-1960s and 40,000 Russian warheads in the mid-1980s to roughly 7,000 each today.
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The administration has not explained whether it envisioned allowing China to significantly expand its arsenal to match the Russian and American levels, which seems unlikely, or to diminish the arsenals of the two largest superpowers, which is also hard to imagine.
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Iran commands one of the region's largest arsenals of ballistic and cruise missiles, a network of allied militant groups around the region with as many as 250,000 fighters, and teams of computer hackers that American officials rank among the most dangerous.
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Obama's commitment to the long-term vision of a nuclear-free world is well known, but few recall that President Ronald Reagan went even further by pursuing talks with the Soviet Union on the abolition of all of their nuclear arsenals.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — For years, allies of the United States across the Middle East have sounded the alarm about Iran's progress in strengthening their enemies, building up arsenals and sponsoring militant groups near or inside their borders to advance Tehran's interests.
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These intrusions, current and former administration officials agree, will embolden other American adversaries, which have been given a vivid demonstration that, when used with some subtlety, their growing digital arsenals can be particularly damaging in the frenzy of a democratic election.
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In the campaign, he spoke casually about possibly retaliating against the Islamic State with a nuclear weapon and about Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia possibly developing their own nuclear arsenals instead of relying on defense alliances with the United States.
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But those who openly express obsessions with arsenals of firearms and profess the desire to kill others should be seen by law enforcement and school professionals not as citizens expressing a constitutional right, but citizens who are dangerous to others.
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As Tom Collina of the Ploughshares Fund has written, that helped scuttle the prospects for the kind of US-Russian rapprochement that could have delivered a true "peace dividend" (the phrase of that moment) and accelerated reductions in global nuclear arsenals.
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The looting of Colonel Qaddafi's vast weapons arsenals during the intervention has fed the Syrian civil war, empowered terrorist and criminal groups from Nigeria to Sinai, and destabilized Mali, where Islamist militants stormed a Radisson hotel in November and killed 20 people.
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Guillaume Serina's "An Impossible Dream" – a book that I've just translated from the French and will be published next spring with a preface by Gorbachev – describes how the Soviet leader stunned Reagan with a proposal that both sides destroy their entire nuclear arsenals.
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"Given the huge gap between the nuclear arsenals of China and that of the U.S. and the Russian Federation, I don't think it is reasonable or even fair to expect China to participate in an arms reduction negotiation at this stage," Fu said.
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"The treaty's agreed limits on nuclear arsenals are too important to be put at risk in a game of nuclear chicken," former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Russian foreign minister Igor Ivanov wrote in a Monday op-ed urging extension.
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In that time you have seen chairman Kim increase the number of missiles he's produced and continue to produce more nuclear material, and that's been a pressure point on you because he's showing the arsenals getting larger while this is going on.
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Starting in the last years of the Cold War, Russia and the United States signed a series of accords to reduce the size of their nuclear arsenals, agreements that have so far survived intact despite a souring of U.S.-Russian relations under Putin.
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Read: Trump and Putin are both very insecure about the size of their nuclear arsenals Trump framed his exit from the deal as an effort of deterrence, but he also boasted about America's nuclear arsenal, and vowed to build it up again.
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Ensuring that the international test ban treaty goes into force wouldn't change how the US maintains its nuclear arsenal, and it could keep countries with less advanced arsenals from developing them further, according to a policy analysis from the Brookings Institute think tank.
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"Once again America has leveled groundless accusations against Iran ... which we strongly reject," Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi was quoted as saying by Iranian TV. Washington's aim, Qasemi said, was to divert international attention from its continued support for Israeli chemical arsenals.
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Neither of the North Korean articles this week mentioned Mr. Trump's suggestion in the March interview with The Times that Japan and South Korea should have their own nuclear arsenals so they would be less dependent on the United States for protection.
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Mr. Trump talked explicitly in interviews about withdrawing military forces from Asia unless Tokyo and Seoul paid more for their presence, and said in March that he was willing to see them build their own nuclear arsenals rather than depend on Washington.
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In an interview with Reuters, Trump said the United States had fallen behind in its nuclear weapons capacity, a situation he said he would reverse, and he said a treaty limiting Russian and U.S. nuclear arsenals was a bad deal for Washington.
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This is the explicit admission in the review of what critics of missile defense, including Russia and China, have asserted for 20 years: that the U.S. missile defense system ultimately is aimed at defending against the arsenals of other nuclear-armed major powers.
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Language is a weapon in the arsenals of power and resistance alike, and if you listen closely to the motley idioms and accents that fill the soundtrack (punctuated and underlined by Gary Yershon's musical score), you can hear the currents of history moving.
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We need a multilateral agreement to limit hypersonic arsenals and their use, but unfortunately, the United States, which would have to take the lead in orchestrating the negotiation of such an agreement, is uninterested in any deals that might tie its hands.
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In a war, nuclear powers with small arsenals, like North Korea, would feel strong pressure to fire quickly before their weapons are destroyed, even if they believe they will lose, according to research by Caitlin Talmadge, a professor at George Washington University.
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By continuing to suggest that nuclear weapons are integral to their security — despite the terrifying history of close calls and accidents — the U.S. and other nuclear-armed states engage in double-talk to explain why other governments shouldn't develop their own arsenals.
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Then, after years of global protests and skyrocketing budgets, American and Soviet leaders stepped back from the brink and began a process of arms control diplomacy, accelerated by the fall of the Soviet Union, that shrank those arsenals by nearly 90 percent.
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"Although the tension between nuclear states has diminished since the end of the Cold War and disarmament efforts have reduced arsenals, the prospect of a nuclear war remains present and might be closer today that it was a decade ago," it said.
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U.S. military officials have long stressed that America's missile defenses are primarily designed to counter attacks from countries with more limited arsenals, like North Korea, which U.S. intelligence officials believe is still advancing its nuclear program despite a halt to missile launches last year.
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Trump said that nuclear proliferation is the world's biggest challenge, but also suggested at a CNN town hall on Tuesday that it may be time for Japan and South Korea to develop their own nuclear arsenals so the U.S. can pull back from Asia.
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Read: Trump and Putin are both very insecure about the size of their nuclear arsenals Putin unveiled the newfangled cruise missile as one of several new "invincible" nuclear weapons while standing in front of an animated video showing nuclear warheads raining down on Florida.
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Countries seeking armed drones capable of remotely striking targets on the ground are instead turning to China, whose Caihong family of unmanned aircraft — specifically, the Caihong-23 and Caihong-2500, or CH-2770 and CH-24 — are turning up in arsenals across the globe.
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And it's as good a time as any to remember that as long as the US and Russia retain massive nuclear arsenals, these kinds of close calls will remain possible — and in the future, a false alarm could result in an accidental first strike.
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But Reagan and Gorbachev found they enjoyed each other's company, and their meeting in Geneva set the stage for a remarkable summit the next year, in Reykjavik, where they nearly agreed to a comprehensive arms-control agreement that would have virtually eliminated their nuclear arsenals.
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Instead of delivering the weapons to the American-backed rebels, the Jordanian officers involved in the recent swindle sold Kalashnikov rifles, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades to several large arms bazaars that have long stocked the arsenals of criminal gangs, tribes and other groups.
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Japan plans to buy two Aegis Ashore batteries that it wants to deploy in 2023 in an upgrade of its missile defense system that could help ease trade friction with Washington and provide cutting-edge protection against the arsenals of North Korea and China.
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The treaty, negotiated by then-President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and ratified by the U.S. Senate, eliminated the medium-range missile arsenals of the world's two biggest nuclear powers and reduced their ability to launch a nuclear strike at short notice.
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The subject has become one of the hottest areas of research and training in the United States these days as increasingly sophisticated hackers threaten not only personal computer security but also the operation of everything from banking systems to water purification plants to nuclear arsenals.
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It might even spur the disarmament agenda back into motion, since the relatively small arsenals of a China, India, Pakistan or even France and the United Kingdom couldn't be sure to overwhelm the inevitable rise of SDI-equivalents in any country that can afford them.
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The INF treaty, negotiated by then-President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and ratified by the U.S. Senate, eliminated the medium-range missile arsenals of the world's two biggest nuclear powers and reduced their ability to launch a nuclear strike at short notice.
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But the Aegis system, which is in the arsenals of the US, Japan and South Korea, enables early detection of missile threats and provides the ability to track those missiles for interception later in their flights, according to Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor behind the system.
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But the spying drama also poses much deeper questions about Moscow's stance towards the next president -- whoever it is -- and the escalating East-West confrontation between major powers whose leaders are more estranged than at any point since the Cold War and still maintain competing nuclear arsenals.
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And a whole host of challenges that require coordinated, collective responses — epidemics that defy frontiers, hackers who breach firewalls, terrorists who form global networks, aggressors who ignore borders, rogue actors who amass intercontinental arsenals, and an ocean that rises and a planet that warms — will go unmet.
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But he also risks becoming the president on whose watch North Korea demonstrated an ability both to hit the United States with a missile and to detonate a hydrogen bomb — and who then gave it such a good deal that others decided to build nuclear arsenals, too.
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The INF treaty, negotiated by then-President Ronald Reagan and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and ratified by the U.S. Senate, eliminated the medium-range missile arsenals of the world's two biggest nuclear powers and reduced their ability to launch a nuclear strike at short notice.
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The demise of the INF Treaty left New START as the lone treaty limiting U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons, and Trump letting New START expire would mean the world's two largest nuclear powers have no legal constraints on their arsenals for the first time in five decades, advocates warn.
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Recognizing the utter failure of the nuclear weapons states to heed Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by working to eliminate their nuclear arsenals, nonnuclear countries have come together in a series of conferences to examine what the Red Cross calls the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons.
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Set against a Purge Night in Los Angeles, it pits a diverse group of unfortunates against roving street gangs, gun-toting lunatics, hardened right-wing extremists with military-grade arsenals, and millionaires who pay handsomely for the right to murder their victims within the safety of controlled environments.
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Read more: Trump and Putin are both very insecure about the size of their nuclear arsenals But when both men meet in Helsinki, they'll likely have to discuss what to do with 2011's New Start Treaty — an arms control pact between both countries, which Trump has frequently derided.
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Later, in the Geneva Gas Protocol of 1925, the world tried to address its WMD problem through a collective promise of "no first chemical or bacteriological use," backed by uncontrolled arsenals, which it was hoped would deter treaty breach by the hideously plausible and familiar threat of retaliation.
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We now know that even a limited nuclear war between these two nations using less than half of 2202 percent of the global nuclear arsenals would result in catastrophic global climate disruption and international crop loss putting more than 2628 billion people at risk of starvation, a nuclear famine.
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If this landmark INF Treaty is allowed to collapse, the only other restraint on Trump's and Putin's nuclear ambitions will be New START, a 2010 agreement that further limits Russian and American nuclear arsenals equally and puts inspectors on the ground in both countries to verify these limits.
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U.S. President Barack Obama said in an interview aired on Tuesday that there "was no easy solution" to the North Korean threat and while the United States "could destroy North Korea with our arsenals", there would not only be humanitarian costs but also potential impact on South Korea.
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The Palestinian militants, who accuse Israel of violating the terms of the 2014 cease-fire by targeting their military observation posts, believe they sent a powerful reminder that they still possess arsenals capable of disrupting the lives of hundreds of thousands of Israelis on the other side of the border.
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Diagnoses of US weakness often factor into developments that the United States cannot unilaterally control — whether the growing economic weight of non-Western countries, the decision of countries such as North Korea to expand their nuclear arsenals, or the rise of hackers who can penetrate government organizations and multinational corporations.
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So, what, exactly, happens for an emerging name, whether it's been around for a couple years in relative obscurity (or in the well-dressed arsenals of a select crowd of cool girls) or just launched, when it starts to get attention from (and make sales to) an international client base?
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New data suggest that a war involving just 373 nuclear weapons, or less than 1% of the world's arsenals — say, for example, a regional war between India and Pakistan — would cause abrupt severe climate disruption, worldwide food shortages, hundreds of millions of starvation deaths, and probably a total collapse of civilization.
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During the original Cold War, Moscow and Washington recognized that their ideological hostility and nuclear arsenals needed to be contained, so they talked through back channels and across a "hotline" to prevent unexpected crises from triggering confrontations, worked on disarmament and held regular meetings at all levels, up to the top.
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Despite the over-all decrease in Russia and the U.S.'s nuclear arsenals, the two countries still have the capability to produce a nuclear winter: a nuclear war that used less than one per cent of the current global arsenal would cause a climate change unprecedented in recorded human history.
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" Sanders was vague as well, telling reporters during Wednesday's press briefing that Trump and Putin discussed "Syrian humanitarian aid, Iran's nuclear ambition, Israeli security, North Korean denuclearization, Ukraine and the occupation of Crimea, reducing Russian and U.S. nuclear arsenals, and of course your favorite topic, Russia's interference in our elections.
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They ranged from ending the apartheid regime in South Africa in 1994 and halting US military support for the murderous regimes, death squads, and outlaws who ruled Central America in the 1970s and 1980s to sharp reductions in the US and Russian nuclear arsenals as the Cold War wound down.
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"If they don&apost extend New Start, there is a worrisome possibility that by 2021 there will be no legally binding limits on the world&aposs two largest arsenals, and as a result, all of the difficult security challenges we have with the Russians will become even more difficult to manage," Kimball said.
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Plus, bringing China into the fold would be a herculean task, even if Trump had a more positive track record negotiating with Xi. China has already said it won't negotiate with countries that have much larger arsenals, and it possesses less than one-tenth the nuclear weapons that Russia and the US have.
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As a result, and coupled with the thousands of deliverable nuclear weapons held by both the Russian Federation and United States, it is clear we live in an increasingly dangerous world in which geostrategic tension and disagreement is high, both nations are significantly modernizing nuclear capabilities and discussion of reducing arsenals is muted.
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The desire on the part of many US citizens to exercise their right to maintain arsenals and bear arms is a notable feature of our society, and it's difficult to say whether the work presented in America's Well-Armed Militias could change the heart or mind of a fervent Second Amendment stan.
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Within the next decade, these new weapons could undertake a task long imagined for nuclear arms: a first strike against another nation's government or arsenals, interrupting key chains of communication and disabling some of its retaliatory forces, all without the radioactive fallout and special condemnation that might accompany the detonation of nuclear warheads.
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Even though North Korea is extremely unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons, they have a strong interest in enhancing the prestige of their leader as an equal to the American president, positioning themselves as nuclear-armed peacemakers and buying time to allow them to improve their nuclear weapon and missile arsenals.
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Not only does President Trump seem to have a somewhat cavalier attitude toward the deployment of nuclear weapons and their wider accessibility, and not only are nuclear treaties crumbling around the world, but those two adjacent South Asian countries I mentioned have nuclear arsenals, and they've gone to war with each other before.
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Even so, some administration officials and members of Congress are pushing wasteful and dangerous plans to expand the numbers and capabilities of those weapons, threatening a web of arms control agreements that have ensured the stability of Russian and American arsenals that contain fully 230 percent of the world's 21998,000 nuclear weapons.
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It listed several grim developments: North Korea had made rapid progress in developing a thermonuclear weapon capable of reaching the United States; relations between the United States and Russia had deteriorated, with no high-level arms-control negotiations; and nations around the world were moving to modernize and enhance their nuclear arsenals.
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China possess an order of magnitude fewer nuclear weapons than either the United States or Russia; compare inventories of roughly 300 warheads in China to arsenals of 6,000-plus in Russia and the U.S. How China manages its nuclear weapons in peacetime also doesn't lend itself to an arrangement like New START.
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Our health care system needs reform; our infrastructure is out of date; we are underemployed and undereducated for the new jobs of today and tomorrow; economic growth is weak; debt is skyrocketing; murder rates in cities are rising; and the world is in turmoil with rogue states such as North Korea growing their arsenals.
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The two were the leading sponsors of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (CTR) — now referred to as the Nunn-Lugar Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991 — in the Senate, which helped dismantle and consolidate the large nuclear arsenals inherited by former Soviet states Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan after the Soviet Union's collapse.
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Prodded by the Trump administration's plans, Mr. Maas has already declared that Germany will urge NATO to force Russian compliance with the I.N.F. At the same time, the United States should release as much evidence as it can of Russian deployments and meet the Russian challenge by redeploying treaty-compliant land, sea and air arsenals.
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Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un trading threats with words like "fire and fury"; Pakistan deploying tactical nuclear weapons to counter Indian conventional threats; Russia enunciating an Orwellian doctrine of "escalate-to-de-escalate" that calls for early use of battlefield nuclear weapons; and major nuclear-weapons states modernizing their arsenals — nukes are back.
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Failing to recognize these threats and continuing in our trance-like state of rebuilding our arsenals, threatening to use nuclear weapons while building more "usable" smaller nuclear weapons — coupled with new technological threats from hypersonic delivery systems to space forces to cyber terrorism — only increases the likelihood of use either by accident, miscalculation or intent.
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Pyongyang, indeed, considering the fact that Kim is building his nuclear and missile arsenals on a shoestring budget — his economy is one-third the size of Ethiopia — is likely to face a much tougher road to gain the capabilities he is looking for, like hitting all of the U.S. homeland with a nuclear weapon.
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In the paper, "Rapidly expanding nuclear arsenals in Pakistan and India portend regional and global catastrophe," published last week in Science Advances, Owen Toon of the University of Colorado and co-authors analyze the effects of a nuclear war between India and Pakistan in 2025, if both countries continue to expand their nuclear capabilities as they reportedly currently are.
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Before the war began in 2011, Syria had research and production facilities near Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Latakia and Hama that turned out hundreds of tons of chemical agents a year, according to the US-based James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Nuclear Threat Initiative, which catalogs the world's arsenals of weapons of mass destruction.
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A Russian arms control official said for the first time on Friday that there was not enough time to replace the last and most important nuclear arms-limitation treaty with the United States before it expires early in 2021, raising the possibility that Washington and Moscow would then be free to expand their arsenals without limits.
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Defense Secretary James MattisJames Norman MattisOnly Donald Trump has a policy for Afghanistan New Pentagon report blames Trump troop withdrawal for ISIS surge in Iraq and Syria Mattis returns to board of General Dynamics MORE will pay a visit to one of the United States' strongest nuclear arsenals on Wednesday as North Korea flaunts its own nuclear weapons program.
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At a time when tensions between the United States and Russia are running high, both countries racing to rebuild and their existing Cold War-era nuclear arsenals and build new nuclear capabilities, and when the risk of a war over North Korea's nuclear pursuits is real and growing, successful implementation of New START is welcome news.
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"The good news is — and I admit it's not all that great of news — listening to Trump and Putin talk about their nuclear arsenals is less ideological rivalry from the Cold War and more like two guys at a Camaro meetup," Jeffrey Lewis, an adjunct professor at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, told The Atlantic.
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The Mk13 Mod 7 sniper rifle that the Marine Corps selected as a much-needed and long-overdue replacement for the M40 sniper system that Marines have wielded since the Vietnam War finally hit full operational capacity earlier this year after extensive testing, and the new system is now available in both scout snipers and recon Marine arsenals.
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He openly questioned why these weapons should not be used, called for a "massive expansion" of the nuclear arsenal, pressed the Pentagon on a tenfold increase in warheads, rejected a golden opportunity to maintain limits and inspections of US-Russian strategic arsenals, and developed an extreme plan that calls for building new, more "usable" nuclear weapons.
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At least publicly, though, Chinese officials have indicated they have no interest, and that in any case the United States and Russia would either have to slash their arsenals to Chinese levels — not remotely likely — or let China build up to Russian and American levels, which does not seem to be what Mr. Trump has in mind.
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Mr Trump has suggested that he might trade away sanctions on Russia, imposed in 2014 in response to the invasion of Ukraine and toughened as recently as December 2016, if "good deals" can be done with President Vladimir Putin—whether those involve agreeing to shrink nuclear arsenals, or encouraging Russia's unsqueamish armed forces to smite the Islamic State (IS) terror network.
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Mutually assured destruction is a concept that helped keep nuclear war at bay throughout the Cold War, when the United States and the Soviet Union -- each with by far the largest and most easily deployed nuclear arsenals -- recognized that the launch of nuclear weapons by one against the other would lead to certain destruction of its own nation and people.
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"Mexico has reiterated the need to implement a new approach to reduce the access to weapons and the financing capabilities of criminal organizations that operate in our country as a result of the exorbitant profits resulting from drug trafficking into a restricted market, and with very large arsenals that are mostly, around 70% trafficked from the U.S.," Mexico's foreign ministry told Reuters.
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Robock and his colleagues are starting a $3 million effort to fully model the atmospheric effects of a nuclear war between North Korea and the US. In Robock's scenario, China or Russia could mistake US missiles headed for North Korea as an attack on their nuclear arsenals, he added, triggering full-scale use of thousands of very powerful hydrogen bombs and wiping out humanity.
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On top of that, however, there is a rising volume of people forced out from their homes, particularly in the Middle East and in Africa, by the dozens of civil wars, ethnic and religious conflicts and sheer banditry in the territories the colonizers left behind in nominally sovereign, artificially concocted "states" with little prospects of stability, but enormous arsenals of weaponry supplied by their former colonial masters.
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Related: North Korea to US: Stop Your South Korean War Games and We'll Stop Threatening Nuclear War US President Barack Obama said in an interview aired on Tuesday that there "was no easy solution" to the North Korean threat and while the United States "could destroy North Korea with our arsenals," there would not only be humanitarian costs but also potential impact on South Korea.
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Jason Healey, a senior research scholar at Columbia University who was director for cyber infrastructure protection during the George W. Bush administration, said during the same call that he's in favor of a more-aggressive strategy, with the caveat that it could result in other countries building up their own cyber arsenals to keep pace with the U.S. "We are all standing knee-deep in tinder and gasoline with the vulnerabilities in cyberspace," Healey said.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE would consider allowing Japan and South Korea to build their own nuclear arsenals instead of depending on the U.S. for their protection against North Korea and China, he said in an interview with The New York Times published Saturday.
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"Every major space-faring nation that can track a satellite and launch into outer space has the means to mess up a satellite," said Michael Krepon, a space security expert and co-founder of the Stimson Center think tank in Washington, D.C. A space arms race of sorts is underway with weapons under development or in the arsenals of China, Russia and the U.S. Space weapons include satellite jammers, lasers and high-power microwave gun systems.
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"I did not see the proposal to disarm combined with the sanctions, but if we speak about nuclear weapons and strategic stability and strategic parity -- this is exclusive between Russia and the United States and we understand that the elected president, the president of Russia, referred to the nuclear arsenals, I am convinced that for both us, one of the priorities and tasks would be to renew dialogue on strategic stability, which like everything else, was destroyed by the Obama administration," Lavrov said.
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