You know, the stuff they use to make atomic weapons.
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It cannot rejoin until all its atomic weapons have been dismantled.
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"We don't go out hunting squirrels with atomic weapons," Conlon said.
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Do weaker, more precise atomic weapons lower the threshold for nuclear warfare?
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Planning to send the atomic weapons to South Korea began in 23.
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Atomwaffen is German for "atomic weapons," a particular interest of its founder.
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Matsui urged leaders to steadily work toward achieving a world without atomic weapons.
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The allies believed Vemork's heavy water was crucial to Germany's development of atomic weapons.
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The bulletin was founded by scientists who helped develop the United States' first atomic weapons.
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India possesses atomic weapons and has kept itself outside the international legal framework against proliferation.
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Pyongyang announced its withdrawal in 2003 from the landmark pact prohibiting the spread of atomic weapons.
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The Cold War belonged to the whole world, not just the superpowers armed with atomic weapons.
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The German atomic-weapons programme, it turned out, was not as advanced as the allies feared.
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"I didn't expect it to be gung-ho atomic weapons," he said in a telephone interview.
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There have been other moments when presidents had to consider, or bluff about, using atomic weapons.
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Atomic weapons and major wars, presidents resigning, and all kinds of things... massive inflation at certain times.
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The following year, Pyongyang withdrew from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and began pursuing atomic weapons in earnest.
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The Obama administration promoted the deal as a way to suspend Tehran's suspected drive to develop atomic weapons.
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At worst, events in North Korea might persuade Tokyo or Seoul to pursue their own atomic weapons programs.
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This figure didn't include older atomic weapons the Pentagon and Department of Energy were scrapping at the time.
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Iran denies it has tried to build atomic weapons and says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
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Then President Ronald Reagan said the film "greatly depressed" him and helped to shift his views on atomic weapons.
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If true, it would indicate significant progress in the country's nuclear program, which previously tested less powerful atomic weapons.
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The Trump administration's recently-released Nuclear Posture Review, which details major atomic-weapons developments, makes no mention of it.
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His visit was the first day of his three-day Japanese campaign for a global ban on atomic weapons.
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In the history of nuclear diplomacy, no nation-state has ever given up atomic weapons in response to shrill threats.
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In Asia, the war was won at sea, though surrender was purchased with atomic weapons, delivered by long-range bombers.
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It has put Japan under its nuclear umbrella, meaning it could respond to any attack on Japan with atomic weapons.
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The Arihant's inaugural voyage was a triumphal step forward in India's long, often tortuous quest to deploy atomic weapons at sea.
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"There's no reason for them, they serve no purpose for that country," Kelly said of atomic weapons in the rogue nation.
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Beijing says it wants a "minimum credible nuclear deterrent" but won't be the first to use atomic weapons in a conflict.
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He was spared combat by President Harry Truman's decision to drop atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, provoking the Japanese surrender.
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Pompeo has vowed that sanctions would remain until Pyongyang follows through on Kim&aposs pledge to get rid of his atomic weapons.
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Atomic weapons experts cast doubt on the isolated nation's ability to make such an advance, but the test rang international alarm bells.
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 by University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons.
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Abundant computing power has even slowed nuclear tests, because atomic weapons are more easily tested using simulated explosions rather than real ones.
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The San Francisco Naval Shipyard was once home to a nuclear testing site where scientists ran tests on ships exposed to atomic weapons.
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That treaty forbids any non-nuclear-weapon states that are signatories from building atomic weapons, and requires them to allow in international inspectors.
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Congress also appropriated almost $20153 billion to clean up sites contaminated during the Manhattan Project and Cold War atomic weapons research and manufacturing programs.
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The Bulletin is a periodical founded in 1945 by University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project.
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China has been a driving force behind the Six-Party Talks and says it "resolutely" opposes the Kim regime's attempts to build atomic weapons.
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Congress also appropriated almost $20153 billion to clean up sites contaminated during the Manhattan Project and Cold War atomic weapons research and manufacturing programmes.
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In fact, he says he is insisting on "complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization," presumably meaning eliminating all of North Korea's atomic weapons and production facilities.
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Clinton's support for the nuclear deal with Iran, which was intended to keep that country from developing atomic weapons, disqualified her in his view.
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Israel is widely believed to be the only nuclear-armed state in the Middle East, although it neither confirms nor denies possessing atomic weapons.
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Obama on Thursday pointed to the risks from North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, saying the isolated state was "hell bent" on getting atomic weapons.
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Outgoing President Barack Obama's administration touted the deal, a legacy foreign policy achievement, as a way to suspend Tehran's suspected drive to develop atomic weapons.
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North Korea has conducted five nuclear tests in defiance of U.N. and U.S. sanctions and is also developing long-range missiles to deliver atomic weapons.
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Spent nuclear fuel, most of it from manufacturing atomic weapons, is piling up at reactors across the United States and in other countries, like Canada.
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The U.S. called for North Korea's atomic weapons to be a point of the talks, but the regime of Kim Jong Un rejected that provision.
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Atomic weapons, radar, guided missiles, the mass production of penicillin, and more all materialized under Bush's leadership and were all essential to the wartime effort.
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He cited President Ronald Reagan's warning against allowing a "fool or maniac" to wield atomic weapons, and he described Mr. Trump as such a man.
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Iran denies long-held Western suspicions that it tried in the past to develop atomic weapons and says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
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Russia, he said, had built new nuclear weapons systems, raising questions as to whether its leaders were cautious enough when it came to atomic weapons.
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The update is part of a broader overhaul of the U.S.'s atomic weapons that began under President Barack Obama and has continued under President Trump.
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Kim, having watched the demise of other dictators who gave away their nuclear programs, believes that his atomic weapons are the only guarantor of his survival.
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Washington (CNN)Saudi Arabia's foreign minister told CNN on Wednesday that his country stands ready to build nuclear weapons if Iran restarts its atomic weapons program.
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The deal eased sanctions on Iran in exchange for greater restrictions on its nuclear energy capabilities in an attempt to prevent Tehran from gaining atomic weapons.
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Later that spring, the symbol appeared on buttons and signs in an antinuclear march to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, a warhead factory in Aldermaston, England.
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Talks must be about easing tensions — not a propaganda win for a regime that starves its own people to make atomic weapons that can kill millions.
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What it does have is a history of government testing of atomic weapons, both in the air and underground, for four decades until the early 1990s.
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The deployment of atomic weapons was an international no-no, the General said, though that wasn't really an issue, as we'd be bombing our own country.
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Japan is also the only nation without atomic weapons with significant amounts of plutonium, which has led to constant criticism from neighboring countries, scientists and others.
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Both those missiles will carry only conventional warheads, Washington says, but potential enemies are likely to be concerned that they could be adapted to carry atomic weapons.
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But as a recently released 1954 memo drafted for PR purposes wants you to know, there's more to Los Alamos than its top secret atomic weapons program.
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These agreements lay out nine criteria meant to ensure nuclear energy technology is used responsibly and that transfers do not pave the way to atomic weapons programs.
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Given that George R.R. Martin has compared the fire-spewing dragons in his stories to our world's atomic weapons, that makes Watchmen an even more apt comparison.
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Supercomputers are used by governments and research institutions around the world to solve some of science's most complex problems, such as hurricane forecasting and modeling atomic weapons.
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Iran denies long-standing Western suspicions that it tried in the past to develop atomic weapons and says its nuclear energy program has been for peaceful purposes.
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Magic was apparently banned in the 1800s, and it shoehorns in things like the Stone Henge to the Taj Mahal, to the first atomic weapons in 1945.
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His remarks came on the day that the group which won this year's Nobel Peace Prize urged nuclear nations to adopt a U.N. treaty banning atomic weapons.
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While that fulfills the president's commitment to rely less on atomic weapons, it may prompt adversaries who cannot match the technology to depend more on nuclear arms.
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Japan is also the only nation without atomic weapons to have significant amounts of plutonium, which has led to constant criticism from neighboring countries, scientists and others.
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In 1943, a team of Norwegian resistance fighters skied over moonlit snow toward a hydropower plant that was a crucial part of Nazi Germany's atomic weapons program.
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Nuclear experts said Prince Mohammed should have been disqualified from receiving nuclear help as soon as he raised the prospect of acquiring atomic weapons to counter Iran.
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The North has claimed that last week's detonation, in an underground site, had proven it could build a hydrogen bomb, far more powerful than ordinary atomic weapons.
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Via state nuclear agency CEA, it is also linked to France's atomic weapons program and nuclear submarine fleet, whose propulsion systems are made by an Areva unit.
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The Orion laser facility, established in 2013 at the Atomic Weapons Establishment in the town of Aldermaston, United Kingdom, has become a leading purveyor of these supernovas-in-miniature.
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The submarines are widely believed to be capable of carrying missiles with nuclear warheads and serve as a second-strike deterrent against Iran, should it ever build atomic weapons.
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They suggested that Mr. Obama defend the decision to use atomic weapons to hasten an end to the war and, ultimately, save lives by avoiding an invasion of Japan.
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The next year, while warning that Washington would retain the ability to retaliate against a nuclear strike, he promised that America would develop no new types of atomic weapons.
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Antineutrinos are devilishly difficult to detect, but this quality is precisely what makes them potentially ideal for monitoring international nonproliferation agreements aimed at preventing the spread of atomic weapons.
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It didn't take long, as the shock sunk in of the Communists' military successes, for some American officials to urge the use of atomic weapons in the escalating conflict.
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Iran accused the United States on Sunday of threatening Russia with new atomic weapons after Washington published a document outlining plans to expand its nuclear capabilities to deter others.
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After all, while those concessions from North Korea are welcome, it's obvious that the fundamentals of the threat -- Pyongyang's arsenal of atomic weapons and missiles -- have not fundamentally changed.
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Francis visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the first full day of a three-day trip to Japan aimed at emphasizing his call for a global ban on atomic weapons.
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Ironically, the North Korean crisis reminds us that the most dangerous technologies smay well remain those invented more than 70 years ago – atomic weapons and the missiles that carry them.
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"We won't let Washington dictate us with whom we can do business and we therefore stick to the Vienna Nuclear Agreement so that Iran cannot build atomic weapons," Altmaier said.
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For instance, the Department of Energy would typically show incoming officials how to "manage the nuclear arsenal," so they can "test atomic weapons without actually blowing one up," Lewis explained.
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The nuclear spending boost is an ironic turn for a president who made reducing U.S. dependence on atomic weapons a centerpiece of his agenda during his first years in office.
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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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The remaining parties to the nuclear deal have warned the United States that its decision to withdraw from the pact jeopardizes efforts to limit Iran's ability to develop atomic weapons.
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He railed against the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement from its inception under President Barack Obama, contending it would allow Tehran to threaten Israel with atomic weapons within a decade's time.
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Bear in mind that a single modern warhead has more destructive force than all of the bombs detonated in World War II combined, including the atomic weapons dropped on Japan.
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The German-supplied submarines are widely believed to be capable of carrying missiles with nuclear warheads and serve as a second-strike deterrent against Iran, should it ever build atomic weapons.
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During Trump's presidency, Kim has overseen a series of weapons tests to showcase his military's progress on medium- and long-range missiles and atomic weapons that put the world on edge.
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B-52 bombers loaded with atomic weapons took off from bases in California and Washington State and headed toward the Soviet Union, then flew in loops above the polar ice cap.
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Even with decades of perspective and more historical knowledge about what was happening at that time in the war, the debate over the use of atomic weapons has yielded little consensus.
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Maas said he told U.S. officials that Europe remained "very, very united" in supporting a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran because it feared a proliferation of atomic weapons on its doorstep.
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North Korea's tests of atomic weapons, and repeated incursions by Chinese vessels into disputed waters surrounding a group of Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea, have unnerved the Japanese.
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The documents confirm what inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency long suspected: that the program Iran claimed was for peaceful purposes had also systematically assembled the requirements for atomic weapons.
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They told him that while the United States was then the sole nation with the resources to develop the bomb, the Soviet Union could possibly possess atomic weapons within four years.
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The Korean War came dangerously close to sparking a nuclear confrontation, with the White House preventing U.S. commander Douglas MacArthur from using atomic weapons to stop the Chinese and North Korean armies.
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The years following his death saw the presidency of Harry Truman, the use of atomic weapons in Japan and the rise of the Cold War and anti-Communism in the United States.
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The U.S. Air Force has called for proposals to replace its aging nuclear missiles and intercontinental ballistic missile system as the military moves ahead with a costly modernization of its atomic weapons.
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Trump on Friday sowed more doubt about his position on nuclear proliferation, reportedly welcoming an arms race even as his spokesman insisted an atomic weapons build-up was not likely to happen.
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Increasingly, military experts talk of an arms race between major nations on artificial intelligence that could be as crucial to this century as the race for atomic weapons during World War Two.
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An Iranian official threatened last week to pull out of the U.N. Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which has sought to prevent the spread of atomic weapons since 1968.
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But those skeptics should remember that it was the United States, in 1958, that broke the 2000 Korean Armistice Agreement, when the Eisenhower administration sent the first atomic weapons into South Korea.
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Pyongyang also said it was willing to permanently close the Yongbyon nuclear site — where the country produced plutonium used in its first atomic weapons test — if the United States took reciprocal action.
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President Donald Trump said on Thursday he wants to ensure the U.S. nuclear arsenal is at the "top of the pack," saying the United States has fallen behind in its atomic weapons capacity.
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David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector, told CNN last year that Pyongyang could already have 10 to 15 atomic weapons, and that it could grow that amount by several weapons per year.
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When the United States was testing atomic weapons at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific beginning in 1946, he predicted correctly that the shock waves from explosions would dissipate without causing far-flung tsunamis.
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Mayor Kazumi Matsui raised concerns in his peace address Tuesday about the rise of self-centered politics in the world and urged leaders to steadily work toward achieving a world without atomic weapons.
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And it regularly rehearses the procedures for requesting that its nuclear-armed members roll out atomic weapons if a crisis erupts; those weapons are stored near NATO headquarters in Belgium, among other places.
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Once the Iranian custodians arrived, it would be instantly clear that someone had stolen much of the country's clandestine nuclear archive, documenting years of work on atomic weapons, warhead designs and production plans.
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The $200 million Summit and similar machines also simulate the birth of the universe, explosions from atomic weapons and a host of events too complicated — or too violent — to recreate in a lab.
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Like all other work in the field of atomic weapons, it is being and will be carried forward on a basis consistent with the overall objectives of our program for peace and security.
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While that is occurring, the president reviews options from the nuclear triad -- submarine launched missiles, aircraft with atomic weapons, or land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMS) -- and then decides on a course of action.
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Netanyahu and Putin spoke by phone on Monday after the Israeli prime minister presented what he said were Iran's secret nuclear files which document it having worked toward developing atomic weapons in the past.
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And German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas told Trump's national security adviser John Bolton that Europe remained "very, very united" in supporting the deal because it feared a proliferation of atomic weapons on its doorstep.
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I had lots of thoughts the way you do when you're young, but one of them was that atomic weapons aren't something that are proof of man's technology but will lead to man's extinction.
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But the Iranian regime has now said it will abandon the nuclear deal limits set in the 2015 agreement Trump walked out on and resume moving as quickly as possible to develop atomic weapons.
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Perhaps, Mr. Just said, the United States might have "won" by waging total war against North Vietnam, using atomic weapons or carpet bombing until the North's cities were destroyed and the countryside left barren.
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VIENNA — The U.N. nuclear agency certified Saturday that Iran has met all of its commitments under last summer's landmark nuclear deal, crowning years of U.S.-led efforts to crimp Iran's ability to make atomic weapons.
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He said the Americans had been pushing for tough new measures that went beyond targeting North Korea's atomic weapons and missile programs, while China wanted any future steps to focus on the question of nonproliferation.
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In Asia, U.S. efforts to stop North Korea's atomic weapons development rest partly on Moscow's willingness to countenance a U.S. and European call for an oil embargo on Pyongyang, which it has so far rejected.
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And he is moving ever closer to developing a nuclear weapon," Bush said the next month, warning that Saddam would "threaten America and the world with horrible poisons, and diseases, and gases, and atomic weapons.
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Even before it occurred, however, the visit stirred debate, with critics accusing both sides of having selective memories, and pointing to paradoxes in policies relying on nuclear deterrence while calling for an end to atomic weapons.
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He said the Americans had been pushing for tough new measures that went beyond targeting North Korea's atomic weapons and missile programs, while China wanted any future steps to focus on the question of non-proliferation.
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Clearing the map of barbarians is a rite of passage for a nascent civilization, but my game of Civ VI kept popping them back into existence, long after my opponents and I had developed atomic weapons.
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North Korea on Friday ruled out negotiations with Washington as long as joint U.S-South Korea military exercises continue, and said that Pyongyang's atomic weapons program would remain as a deterrent against a U.S. nuclear threat.
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Nuclear-armed nations, including the United States and Russia, back the U.N.'s 1968 nuclear non-proliferation treaty which sets limits on the spread of atomic weapons and has a long-term goal of nuclear disarmament.
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President Donald Trump said on Thursday he wants to build up the U.S. nuclear arsenal to ensure it is at the "top of the pack," saying the United States has fallen behind in its atomic weapons capacity.
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The plutonium-based atomic weapons it tested up until this point were powerful enough -- the United States dropped such weapons on Japan to end World War II -- but a hydrogen bomb ups the ante many times over.
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For decades, the Kim dynasty has concentrated on amassing longer-range ballistic missiles and atomic weapons to strike fear into the hearts of South Koreans, as well as those in broader East Asia and the United States.
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While the North Korea and Iran nuclear programs are quite different — the North has a small arsenal of atomic weapons, and Iran does not — the decisions about how to handle them are closely related, many experts argue.
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Despite his recent outreach to the South, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in his New Year's Day address that he has a "nuclear button" on his desk to fire atomic weapons at the United States.
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Pope FrancisPope FrancisPope appeals to world leaders to renounce nuclear weapons During visit to Nagasaki, Pope Francis denounces use of atomic weapons Pope: 'Greed of a few' adds to poverty of others MORE called on world leaders to renounce atomic weapons during a visit to Nagasaki, the site where an a weapon of mass destruction exploded after the U.S. dropped it on Japan during World War II. The Pope said in a Sunday speech that the stockpiling of nuclear weapons decreases global security, waste's a country's resources and threatens humans everywhere.
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New Delhi has also applied to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), a 48-nation club that governs trade in commercial nuclear technology and was originally set up in response to India's first atomic weapons test in 1974.
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A report by the U.N. nuclear agency has found that Iran has kept to the nuclear deal it agreed with six world powers last year limiting its stockpile of substances that could be used to make atomic weapons.
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The Air Force had asked the defense industry last summer for proposals to replace the aging ICBM system and its nuclear cruise missiles as the military moved ahead with a costly modernization of its aging atomic weapons systems.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea on Friday ruled out negotiations with Washington as long as joint U.S-South Korea military exercises continue, and said that Pyongyang's atomic weapons program would remain as a deterrent against a U.S. nuclear threat.
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Russian president Vladimir Putin stood before the country's federal assembly on Thursday to introduce an animation depicting a host of supposedly new atomic weapons that the Russian military is developing in order to boost the country's nuclear deterrence.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has kept to a nuclear deal it agreed with six world powers last year limiting its stockpiles of substances that could be used to make atomic weapons, a report by the U.N. nuclear agency found.
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A hydrogen bomb is much more powerful than the simpler types of atomic weapons tested by North Korea five times previously, or the bombs dropped on Japan during World War II. H-bombs are also harder to develop.
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He described it as a warehouse only three miles from the one that Israeli agents broke into last January, making off with 50,000 pages of documents and computer discs full of atomic weapons, warhead designs and production plans.
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Mr. Bolton said last week that North Korea had not taken steps necessary for denuclearization, a process that American officials have said should include turning over a list of Pyongyang's atomic weapons stockpiles, nuclear production facilities and missiles.
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After nearly two months of bilateral negotiations that at one point involved U.S. President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, China agreed to support the unusually tough measures intended to persuade North Korea to abandon its atomic weapons program.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - North Korea appears to have reopened a plant to produce plutonium from spent fuel of a reactor central to its atomic weapons drive, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Monday, suggesting the country's arms effort is widening.
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The doubts about the ICBM force are circulating as the world faces its most serious nuclear standoff in years: the heated war of words over Pyongyang's growing atomic weapons program between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.
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The Air Force had asked the defense industry last summer for proposals to replace the aging nuclear cruise missiles and intercontinental ballistic missile system as the military moved ahead with a costly modernization of its aging atomic weapons systems.
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WEST PALM BEACH (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump sowed more doubt about his position on nuclear proliferation on Friday, reportedly welcoming an arms race even as his spokesman insisted that an atomic weapons build-up was not likely to happen.
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It said certain documents appeared to demonstrate that Iran had worked to "systematically assemble everything it needed to produce atomic weapons," but noted that exculpatory information could have been left out of the hand-picked documents shown to its reporter.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force asked industry on Friday for proposals to replace the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile and the nuclear cruise missile as the military moves ahead with a costly modernization of its aging atomic weapons systems.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. senators from both parties on Tuesday asked Energy Secretary Rick Perry for details about recent approvals for companies to share nuclear energy information with Saudi Arabia, with the lawmakers expressing concern about possible development of atomic weapons.
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PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The remaining parties to the Iran nuclear deal have warned the United States that its decision to withdraw from the pact jeopardizes Russian and Chinese efforts to limit Iran's ability to develop atomic weapons, Western diplomats told Reuters.
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Tsukishita wants Obama, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in part for his push for nuclear disarmament, to use his influence to persuade leaders of other nuclear-armed countries to visit Hiroshima too, so they understand the inhumanity of atomic weapons.
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They knew further that the Norsk Hydro plant in Norway, which had been extracting heavy water since 1934 for making fertilizer, had been taken over by Nazi invaders as the world's best source of the isotope for Berlin's atomic weapons program.
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His constructions often juxtaposed photographs of military sites, monuments, Native Americans, Japanese tourists and self-images to suggest the contradictions of nuclear energy, the development of atomic weapons in the New Mexico desert and the environmental consequences of those weapons.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson specifically urged Iran to "withdraw all measures" not in line with the 2015 agreement that was intended to stop Tehran from pursuing its atomic weapons program.
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Negotiations were conducted by people who would stand to gain millions, in apparent disregard of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, which sets out explicit procedures and criteria for nuclear cooperation agreements and is intended to thwart proliferation of atomic weapons.
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Sensors in South Korea, China, and the US indicated, though, that whatever the Hermit Kingdom exploded underground on Sunday was more powerful than the atomic weapons the US used during World War II—a benchmark North Korea had not definitively topped before.
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WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - U.S. senators from both parties on Tuesday asked Energy Secretary Rick Perry for details about recent approvals for companies to share nuclear energy information with Saudi Arabia, with the lawmakers expressing concern about possible development of atomic weapons.
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BURT SHACHTER Pompton Plains, N.J. To the Editor: Amid all of our nuclear posturing over the last half-century we seem to have forgotten that the United States is the only country to have ever actually used atomic weapons against other human beings.
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Many confirmed what inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, in report after report, had suspected: Despite Iranian insistence that its program was for peaceful purposes, the country had worked in the past to systematically assemble everything it needed to produce atomic weapons.
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WASHINGTON — North Korea is insisting that the United States declare that the Korean War is over before providing a detailed, written disclosure of all its atomic weapons stockpiles, its nuclear production facilities and its missiles as a first major step toward denuclearization.
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NEW YORK, Sept 18 (Reuters) - France on Monday gave a staunch defense of the Iran nuclear deal, saying there could be talks to strengthen the agreement from 2025 but that allowing it to collapse could lead Iran's neighbors to seek atomic weapons.
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WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama's term ended in January, he left a momentous decision to the Trump administration: whether to continue a 30-year, $20213 trillion program to remake America's atomic weapons, as well as its bombers, submarines and land-based missiles.
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The Wall Street Journal reports that that the U.S. is making the purchase of 32 tons of heavy water, which could be used in a reactor to produce material for atomic weapons, to safeguard its agreement reached last year regarding Iran's nuclear program.
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The general who oversees the United States' atomic weapons arsenal has expressed concern over what he described as "much more aggressive" behavior by Russia in recent years, saying it justifies the need for a strengthened and modernized nuclear deterrent force in this country.
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In an emailed statement on Wednesday, the National Nuclear Security Administration, which runs the country's atomic weapons complex, said it was "on track" to complete the initial order and deliver the new warheads to the Navy by the end of this fiscal year.
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US and South Korean military also claim to have evidence that North Korea's army was blocking roads in Kilju, North Hamgyong Province, UPI reports, where a number of military facilities are believed to be located, including the Hwadae-ri atomic weapons training facility.
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The world's top oil exporter has previously said it wants nuclear technology only for peaceful uses but has left unclear whether it also wants to enrich uranium to produce nuclear fuel, a process which can also be used in the production of atomic weapons.
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Iran began developing its cyber capabilities in earnest following its own experience with the Stuxnet virus in 2010 – a sophisticated and precisely targeted cyber operation reportedly orchestrated by the United States and Israel to destroy centrifuges that could be used to develop Iranian atomic weapons.
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The billionaire shared he first started buying stocks in 1942 as an 11-year-old during a troubled point for the U.S. in World War II. He cited scary developments over the decades from major wars, atomic weapons, massive inflation and periods of political turmoil.
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"I don't remember any discussion of atomic weapons on the ground at Khe Sanh," Lewis M. Simons, then an Associated Press reporter on the ground with the troops, and later a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who worked at The Washington Post and Knight Ridder newspapers.
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In denouncing any use of atomic weapons as "a crime not only against the dignity of human beings but against any possible future for our common home," he appeared to go further than his predecessors, who called for an end to stockpiling nuclear arms.
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The United States used the nearly two months of bilateral negotiations that at one point involved President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, diplomats said, to win China's support for unusually tough measures intended to persuade North Korea to abandon its atomic weapons program.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany wants to preserve a nuclear deal with Iran because U.S. President Donald Trump did not offer an alternative to halt the Islamic Republic from making atomic weapons after he pulled out of the agreement, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Wednesday.
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The president did not apologize for the U.S.'s decision to use atomic weapons to end World War II. Instead he told an audience, which included survivors of the attack, that the horror of nuclear warfare should spark nations to reconsider their use of the weapons.
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The U.S. exit from the Iran nuclear deal creates the risk that Iran will drop out of a separate 50-year-old United Nations treaty meant to stop the spread of atomic weapons, according to Helima Croft, global head of commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets.
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India already enjoys most of the benefits of membership under a 2008 exemption to NSG rules granted to support its nuclear cooperation deal with Washington, even though India has developed atomic weapons and never signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the main global arms control pact.
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Instead, he is betting everything on the "terrific relationship" and "very special bond" that he said he developed with the 34-year-old dictator, and Mr. Trump's seeming certainty that they now view the future elimination of North Korea's arsenal of atomic weapons the same way.
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The United States used the nearly two months of bilateral negotiations that at one point involved President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, diplomats said, to win China's support for unusually tough measures intended to persuade its ally North Korea to abandon its atomic weapons program.
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Peter Hoeg, a Danish author who is still best known for his 1992 bestseller, "Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow", takes a circuitous route towards a Hollywood-style showdown in which social breakdown, environmental disaster and atomic weapons in rogue hands mean that "the scenarios of apocalypse are unfolding now".
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The first atomic weapons, like those dropped by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II, did that with fission: splitting unstable uranium or plutonium atoms so that their subatomic neutrons fly free, smash up more atoms and create a devastating blast.
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Facing a growing threat from North Korea abetted by communist China and the Soviet Union, the United States in 1956 in order to counter the superiority in conventional forces unilaterally abrogated the agreement and introduced atomic weapons into Korea as a principle element of the South Korean defense.
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Though North Korea is past the point of no return for having nuclear weapons, he said, the U.S. could prevent "next generation" capabilities, such as a three-stage rocket that could strike any North American target or a hydrogen bomb that is much more powerful than the atomic weapons Pyongyang possesses.
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Iran has always contended that it has no interest in building atomic weapons, though documents that have emerged from the country — including a huge archive of documents spirited out of Iran in a raid by Israel last year — suggest that before 2003, Iran had an advanced program developing weapons designs.
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Although the award for the new Long Range Standoff weapon (LRSO) comes amid rising tensions with North Korea, the Air Force had asked the defense industry last summer for proposals to replace the aging nuclear cruise missiles and intercontinental ballistic missile system as the military moved ahead with a costly modernization of its aging atomic weapons systems.
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Though the award for the new Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) comes amid rising tensions with North Korea, the Air Force had asked the defense industry last summer for proposals to replace the aging ICBM system and its nuclear cruise missiles as the military moved ahead with a costly modernization of its aging atomic weapons systems.
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For an American leader who came of age in the early 1960s, when the United States and the Soviet Union stepped to the brink of nuclear annihilation, the meeting with Kim Jong-un strikes a personal chord, offering Mr. Trump a historic chance to rid the world, and his own presidency, of the greatest threat from atomic weapons.
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The Holocaust was not the reason the US entered World War II, but the incontrovertibly noble mission of saving European Jews allowed the public to avoid too much contemplation of complicating events like the US failure to offer refuge to those fleeing Hitler, the Allied firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo, and later, the use of atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The first "Godzilla" - his name a combination of "gorilla" and the Japanese word for whale - crashed ashore as a symbol of atomic weapons less than a decade after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, as well as of frustrations with the United States, which had just held a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini atoll that irradiated a boat full of Japanese fishermen.
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Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE warned that President Trump's decision to disavow the Iran nuclear deal will "open the door" to the country's pursuit of atomic weapons.
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During the Second World War, he consulted on the development of radar and the Manhattan Project, though afterward he spoke out publicly against the creation of the hydrogen bomb, and the McCarthyist attacks on Robert Oppenheimer, who as the chief scientist on the project did more than any other individual to ensure that the U.S. had atomic weapons ahead of the fascist powers.
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President Trump withdrew last year from the 2015 nuclear accord that world powers struck with Iran and then reimposed broad sanctions, but in his comments to journalists during a visit to the emirates, reported by Reuters and The Associated Press, Mr. Bolton said there was "no reason" for Iran to breach the nuclear deal unless it were actually seeking atomic weapons.
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"It is not clear North Korea has that capability yet," said Siegfried S. Hecker, the former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and the nuclear weapons expert the North Koreans let in to see their uranium enrichment plants years ago, when they wanted to make clear to the Obama administration that their atomic weapons program was moving ahead, unimpeded by sanctions.
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Pope FrancisPope FrancisPope appeals to world leaders to renounce nuclear weapons During visit to Nagasaki, Pope Francis denounces use of atomic weapons Pope: 'Greed of a few' adds to poverty of others MORE on Monday reportedly urged world leaders to renounce nuclear weapons during his trip to Japan, where he visited the only two cities to experience atomic bomb attacks.
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POPE-JAPAN/HIDDEN CHRISTIANS (PIX) (TV) WIDER IMAGE - Japan's "Hidden Christians" struggle to keep traditions alive When Pope Francis travels to Japan in November – only the second pontiff to make such a trip – Nagasaki authorities are hoping he will visit their city, not only to send a message of the horrors of atomic weapons, but to honour the sacrifices of the country's "Hidden Christians", who preserved their religion in secret despite torture and suppression from the 17th to the 19th century.
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Not forgotten by Palestinians and others in the region is the role that he played arming the Israeli forces that expelled some 750,000 Palestinians during the establishment of Israel in 1948; the regional nuclear arms race he incited by initiating Israel's secret atomic weapons program in the 1950s and '60s; his responsibility for establishing some of the first Jewish settlements on occupied Palestinian land in the '70s; his public discourse as a minister in Likud-led coalitions, justifying Israeli violations of Palestinian rights and extremist ideology; and his final role in Israeli politics as president, serving as a fig leaf for the radically pro-settler government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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