First use is generally a default policy, if a country does not specifically pledge a policy of no first use, as have China and India.
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Current United States nuclear weapon policy is already ade facto No-First-Use policy, so leaving First-Use on the table creates less safety, not more.
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But his administration ended up deciding against no first use.
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To get there, programming tools should first use our language.
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On first use, the Rift felt sturdy and well made.
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Five years later, India declared its "no first use" doctrine.
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His recklessness also highlights the danger of nuclear first use.
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"No First Use" is almost impossible to verify in peacetime.
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Earlier advocacy of no first use was not against a rogue nuclear state like North Korea, so it is legitimate to ask whether no first use might undermine the deterrent capability of the United States.
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Worryingly, Pakistan also rejects the nuclear doctrine of no first use.
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I burned my hand and melted it w/ the first use!
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Nearly one in four people abandon apps after the first use.
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The first use of nuclear weapons is a political non-starter.
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Its first use after a terrorist attack was in Paris, France.
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It employed the first use of glass block in the city.
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This authority applies even to the first use of nuclear weapons.
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For both countries, "No First Use" is neither practical nor credible.
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It will be Trump's first use of Mar-a-Lago for diplomacy.
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A world with a First-Use policy is a world without security.
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If you'd like, you can wash the sheets before your first use.
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On nuclear war, President Obama considered changing the policy on first use.
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The service said this will be its first use in classical music.
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You'll want to follow a few guidelines: First, use high-quality rice.
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Design-bid-build is policy dogma — a century after its first use.
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There are other ways for a first-use policy to be safer.
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Far from limiting nuclear dangers, "No First Use" could actually spur proliferation.
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No first use has a few major advantages as a national security stance.
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The United States declaring a No-First-Use will create a safer world.
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Russia doesn't have a "no first use" policy — it dropped it in 1993.
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Since its first use in 1734, New Hampshire has executed only 24 people.
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Virtually any first use of nuclear weapons would constitute an act of war.
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It is the first use of technology in the game on this scale.
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But there have been occasional calls to change that "no first use" policy.
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President Obama has an opportunity to further delegitimize nuclear weapons by adopting no-first-use as a core principle of United States security policy on the grounds that first-use is unnecessary and a threat to national survival and humanity itself.
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But Parrikar isn't the only one in India questioning the "no first use" doctrine.
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All three of the lips in my Trio are falling apart after first use.
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The first use case the company identified was around getting maintenance issues fixed faster.
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This is not the first use of mobile games to crowdsource data for scientists.
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One of first use cases where they are seeing traction in is customer support.
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But ignorance of something like the nuclear no-first-use pledge is eminently forgivable.
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An important first use of robots in a lethal way by police was established.
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First, use a portion of the dollars in the budget for the Obamacare subsidies.
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But a no-first-use policy would have been hard for either to undo.
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But beyond reducing those dangers, ruling out first use would also bring myriad benefits.
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A blanket no-first-use policy would put a further check on future presidents.
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"The first use case of AI was in campaign management and optimization," says Smith.
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Health care workers write their names on their masks before they first use them.
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Also: 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the first use of the word "robot."
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"No First Use" was also briefly adopted by the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
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The QX50 will be the industry's first use of a variable compression ratio system.
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"This will be seen by China as evidence of U.S. contemplating first use of nuclear weapons in a future crisis and will encourage China to consider pursuing similar capabilities that may undermine the no-first-use policy," he said in an email.
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The problem with ecstasy is that the experiment can become dramatic from the first use.
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Among older teens who use social media, the median age of first use is 14.
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If the U.S. takes the first step to ratchet back First-Use, others will follow.
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Behind the scenes, Mr. Carter argued that a ban on first use would be unwise.
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Nuclear Pundits in New Delhi accused and singled-out Pakistan for its First-Use pledge.
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On nuclear weapons, President Obama reportedly considered changing the nation's longstanding policy on first use.
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India has a "no first use" policy, meaning it has pledged to not strike first.
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Two in three adults who first use opioids when they were younger than age 25.
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The first use is uncontroversial, but public health experts have criticized the latter two uses.
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What looks like the first use of the hashtag simply linked back to the Infowars story.
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"Yes," he tweeted, this is the first use of a robot in this way in policing.
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Land Rover says this is also its first use of "nautical veneer," so there's that, too.
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"People have advocated since the 1960s that people adopt a no first use policy," Wellerstein said.
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The first: Use IG Metall's team of lawyers to compel an examination of YouTube's legal situation.
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Japan worries it could be the target of any first use of nuclear weapons by Pyongyang.
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When the camera was first in a phone I'm sure the first use case wasn't selfies.
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Canon's control scheme is as fiddly and unintuitive on first use as any other camera manufacturer's.
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Finally, no-first-use would help ensure that democratically elected officials maintained control over nuclear weapons.
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The strikes marked the first use of the F-22 in Afghanistan, according to US officials.
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By restricting the first use of nuclear weapons, this legislation enshrines that simple principle into law.
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A shift towards "first use" of nuclear weapon posture will have ripple effect in South Asia.
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You can buy PhotoPass+ in advance, you just need to activate it on your first use.
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Munchkin recommends against microwaving, boiling, or steaming them to sterilize — just simply wash before first use.
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And "Code of a Killer" recounts the first use of DNA fingerprinting to solve a murder.
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But to purchase Monero, you may have to first use Bitcoin, leaving a clear digital trail.
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Scientists first use lasers to set up an atom-trapping field, shaped like a row of cups.
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It could do all that, but in this very first use of the technology, it does not.
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" He responded to a question from Holt about "first use" with a statement about a "first strike.
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This is the first use of a robotic system by the police in a deliberately lethal manner.
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To proponents of no first use, all of that means it's finally time to make it happen.
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First, use trade agreements to continue creating export opportunities for US service industries, including travel and tourism.
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But unlike other countries, the U.S. has always kept the option of first-use on the table.
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She said it would be better to first use existing law enforcement agencies to tackle the problem.
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Another currently in the works would make "no first use" the official policy of the United States.
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It was the first use of ranked balloting in a congressional election, according to The Associated Press.
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The spokesperson also noted that automating the smart home was a "logical first use case" for Routines.
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If your cast iron cookware doesn't come preseasoned, you'll need to season it before its first use.
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The bailout was the first use of a stricter European Union regime to deal with failing banks.
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A three-person consensus rule for the first use of nuclear weapons worked on the B-59.
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The first use of orchestras in Nazi concentration camps was in the summer of 1942, Brauer wrote.
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The Mar-a-Lago visit will be Trump's first use of his Florida getaway for diplomatic purposes.
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Finally, how could a "No First Use" policy deter the use of other weapons of mass destruction?
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" Indeed, the first use of amateur in the English language occurred in 220 in European Magazine: "Dr.
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The first use case was in mining and aggregates where we have acquired over 100 customers last year.
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The weekend also saw the first use of a targeted killing by Israeli authorities in Gaza in years.
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Trump's first use for the bully pulpit could well be to exhort people to stay at Trump hotels.
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As he said, the Oxford English Dictionary's first use of a sex-neutral, indefinite "they" was about 1375.
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This mission marked the first use of new adapters to connect the Crew Dragon with the space station.
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At first, use light touches (feel free to take out a feather or another tickler if you want).
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Nuclear war between the two is unlikely -- both maintain nuclear doctrines that mandate "No First Use" -- says Shukla.
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The weekend excursion is Trump's first use of his Mar-a-Lago resort to entertain an international leader.
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They have expressed restraint through a national no-first-use policy and by keeping their nuclear arsenal small.
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Had Mr. Obama issued the no-first-use declaration, officials conceded, the next president could have rejected it.
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In late January, Smith also re-introduced his "No First Use Act" — with backing from presidential candidate Sen.
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A no-first-use policy would also reduce the risks of accidental or unauthorized use of nuclear weapons.
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Whether we need to hold on to the right of first use is an argument for another day.
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Its first use case involves customer service, but it has a broader ambition to work across the enterprise.
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Its first use was in converting AC to DC, but diodes are the basis of many useful circuits.
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Pakistan has not stated a "no first use" policy and there is little known about its nuclear doctrine.
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In the absence of verifiable evidence of first use by another party, no first strike could be ordered.
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Because of the United States' strong second-strike capability, no first use will remain effective against major powers.
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Interestingly, the Turkish men with blue vision took the highest dose, 100 milligrams, on their very first use.
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Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) reintroduced their "Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017" earlier this year.
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This new deterrent capability would significantly raise, not lower, the threshold to Russian first use of nuclear weapons.
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In a crisis situation, few would trust any adversarial nuclear powers to keep their "No First Use" pledge.
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The Israeli Army responded with around 350 airstrikes, including its first use of targeted killing in Gaza in years.
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When you first use WhatsApp, you're encouraged (but not required) to sync your phone's contact list with the app.
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First, use the drill bit to hollow out an inch-deep hole in the base of your candle sticks.
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Like the smell of a curling iron before the first use, or a pan pre-heated on the stovetop.
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Current Position: It's unclear where Trump stands on "first use," or if he'd be willing to strike first. 1.
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As you face each turn, try to first use the cards that will be least flexible in future situations.
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If shareholders reject the plan, it would be the first use of the Swiss veto at a leading company.
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India believes SSBNs are a vital part of its nuclear strategy, which forswears the first use of nuclear weapons.
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Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer seems to contain the first use of leak as an act of urination, i.e.
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First, use the bully pulpit to name and shame companies that threaten to move jobs out of the country.
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Our first use of cash is invested organically, secondly returning values our shareholders — roughly 100 percent free cash flow.
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A policy of No-First-Use will defuse nuclear tensions, deter proliferation, and lead to a more peaceful world.
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As a matter of policy, it refuses to rule out a first use of these weapons in future conflicts.
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However, it is legally dubious and ends the de facto arrangement among nuclear powers that first use is unacceptable.
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It includes vintage-inspired styles like cat-eye frames that feature the company's first use of floral filigree ($145).
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As a result, there have been recent signals that India is rethinking or reinterpreting its no-first-use doctrine.
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He says he cannot reject first use of nuclear weapons, because you've got to keep it on the table.
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The tapping controls feel a bit convoluted on first use, but you'll get the hang of it fairly quickly.
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Were America to rule out first use, some of its Asian allies might pursue nuclear weapons of their own.
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It would have been the first use of Germany's foreign investment law to veto a mergers and acquisitions transaction.
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Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) have introduced legislation to prevent the first use of nuclear weapons unless authorized by Congress.
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They've been talked about for years, but this is the first use of one in a mass market consumer device.
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Russia has dropped its long-term policy of "No First Use" of nuclear weapons and is rebuilding its nuclear arsenal.
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"Remind—didn't we, not the WH, first use the [term] 'pivot'?" she asked Sullivan in a May 14, 2012 email.
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Our first use of these screens will be to do all the things we struggle to do on our smartphones.
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Nintendo's first use of the save state concept was in its miniaturized "Classic Edition" consoles, starting with NES Classic Edition.
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The poisoning marked the first use of a chemical agent on European soil since — not before — the Second World War.
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And, after a few minor tweaks during first use, I no longer have to think about adjusting the thermostat anymore.
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The president alone is the decider when it comes to first use, but the decision maker can have faulty judgment.
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The action against Mr. Sharrouf represents the first use of the powers in that measure, the Australian Citizenship Amendment Bill.
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The resulting glow was so good after just the first use, I was inspired to leave the house without any highlighter.
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Upon first use, I shook a little out from the plastic bottle and awkwardly sprinkled it directly onto my unwashed roots.
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It was the first use of tear gas in about 10 days amid protests that have persisted for nearly three months.
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Professor Ghigi cites the February 1933 edition of Votre Beauté magazine as the first use of "cellulite" in a mainstream publication.
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If Skylon does eventually fly, its first use is likely to be as an unmanned space plane carrying objects into orbit.
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"First use" is an un-official U.S. prohibition on the use of nuclear weapons against enemies who don't have nuclear capability.
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Lowe's will first use HoloLens in a few pilot stores in the Seattle area, where it will focus on kitchen remodels.
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The raid marks the first use of air-power between the two countries since their last full-out war, in 1971.
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Ultimately, it wants to find lots of uses for these blimps, but the first use case it's marketing is broadband internet.
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The first use of the IBox track was in 2011 on the Texas Giant at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington.
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First, use his considerable fundraising mechanism to fund and support initiatives and down-ballot candidates who pledge support for his agenda.
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Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) have proposed a bill preventing any first use of U.S. nuclear weapons without the permission of Congress.
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"Since its first use 30 years ago, we have improved our technology significantly," Joshua Park, CEO of Chemical Engineering Partners, said.
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In January Ms Warren introduced a Senate bill that would mandate a policy of what wonks call No First Use (NFU).
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The suggestion marks a dramatic expansion of what the U.S. believes warrants a first use of nuclear weapons, the Times noted.
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"The first use of that weapon is to make sure that nobody uses that kind of weapon against us," Hyten said.
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Legislation outlawing the first use of nuclear weapons and funding for programs that violate existing treaties should be debated and passed.
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By comparison, the chemical weapons attack last week was the first use of banned nerve agents by the Syrian government since 2013.
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But India's hawkish defense minister, Manohar Parrikar, publicly mused in November whether India should be bound by the "no first use" policy.
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This appears to be the first use of the power since GDPR came into force across the bloc in May last year.
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Stronger-than-expected private consumption as well as Japan's first use of United Nations' System of National Accounts boosted the GDP calculation.
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There's a significant association between first use of a menthol or mint flavored cigarette and continued cigarette use across all age groups.
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Watch the video above for a quick tutorial in unicorn-ification: First, use a luminous foundation to give yourself that otherworldly glow.
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Some will first use the technology to provide super-fast "fixed" wireless links between stationary antennae, which is less tricky to do.
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At first use, the viewer is momentarily fascinated by the virtual experience, but the content struggles to ignite and elicit lasting emotion.
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Adopting a No-First-Use policy would show non-nuclear states that we are not a nuclear threat to them, curbing proliferation.
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Though the first use of fully automated tailoring will be for mass production, he foresees the technology becoming more specialised quite quickly.
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Op-Ed Contributors Throughout the nuclear age, presidents have allowed their senior commanders to plan for the first use of nuclear weapons.
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Markey is sponsoring legislation that would require a congressional declaration of war before a president could authorize a first-use nuclear strike.
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However, some of these supposed precautions, for instance the doctrine of "No First Use," could actually make the world even less secure.
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"No First Use" is a public commitment to never to use nuclear weapons, except in response to their use by another power.
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"No First Use" could even offer a new route toward a world without nuclear weapons, to which all nuclear powers are committed.
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In the near term, Target was set to first use the platform itself for a fashion site that had a social media feel.
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So Dr. Zhang proposed that doctors could first use CT scans to detect pneumonia and quickly isolate and treat patients who have it.
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That could mean that, on first use, Surface Duo users will have to log in with both a Google and a Microsoft account.
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It was the first use of tear gas in 10 days after a series of mostly peaceful demonstrations in the former British colony.
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Some will first use the technology to provide superfast "fixed" wireless links (ie, between two stationary antennae), which is less tricky to do.
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"There were efforts in the '80s, the '90s, the Obama administration to push the US toward a no first use policy," Wellerstein said.
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First off, you don't even have to charge them up before your first use; they're ready to go right out of the package.
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According to Emojipedia, Twitter's Twemoji 2.3 marks the first use of Emoji 5.0 since they were officially approved by Unicode this past March.
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If you think of the iPhone launching in 2007 and Uber launching in 2009, that wasn't the first use case folks thought about.
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Russia's recent muscle-flexing along its borders with the Baltic States perhaps presents the most compelling argument against a no first use policy.
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Trump's pardon of Arpaio was his first use of presidential clemency powers, which are sweeping and don't require consultation among other administration agencies.
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The Way Forward First, use of unpredictability, or a "madman approach" is inherently risky, particularly when dealing with rogue regimes like North Korea.
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In late January, Smith also reintroduced his No First Use Act that would make it U.S. policy not to use nuclear weapons first.
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The first use of the term "Island of California" was around 1510, in a popular Spanish romance novel by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo.
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Trump's first use of his veto power was against a congressional resolution to block his February emergency declaration at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Those missiles are mainly for first-use; they are a risky option for second-use because they are highly vulnerable to enemy attack.
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The implication is that, however much he blusters, the supreme leader has no intention whatsoever of making first use of any nuclear weapons.
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And it would require a study of what it would mean for the United States to adopt a "no first use" nuclear policy.
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The commander in chief can also order the first use of nuclear weapons even if the United States is not under nuclear attack.
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But when it came to Holt's actual question, about his views on no first use as a policy, Trump had no real answer.
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It also identifies the weaponry used in some of the attacks as Iranian-made, which would be the first use of such technology.
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Eventually 5G will pave the way for connecting whole new types of devices, but the first use will be for faster internet service.
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He reiterated Pakistan's long-held position that while its nuclear weapons were for deterrence, it did not have a "no first use" policy.
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It appears to be the first use of a controversial Israeli law against calling for boycotts of Israel or the territory it controls.
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"If there had to be a first use between India and Pakistan it would seem that it would be by Pakistan," she said.
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It was the first use of a 1999 law that allows the government to exclude people for national security or public policy reasons.
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Although the company offers on-site testing at its locations, it strongly encourages customers to first use a free, virtual Coronavirus Assessment Tool.
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Moreover, any scenario for the first use of nuclear weapons implies great urgency because, over time, America's conventional military advantages would presumably suffice.
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The world would be far safer by negotiating an end to policies of nuclear first-use, hair-trigger alert and launch-on-warning.
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Whereas Ms Warren's proposal would outlaw first use under any circumstances, others merely wish to place checks on this untrammelled presidential launch authority.
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Congress should pass the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act, barring the president from using nuclear weapons first without specific congressional authorization.
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In its first use, total number of donors—which included a staggering number of first time local election donors—greatly exceeded previous elections.
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Because of these real dangers, when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization considered "No First Use" in 1999, it had rejected the policy decisively.
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The facility on Lackland Air Force Base housed up to 1,200 children at a time, a sharp increase from its first use in 2012.
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It's obvious that your brain must first use its eyes to see that object and its context before it can create meaning about it.
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First use of flavored e-cigarettes, cigars, hookah and smokeless tobacco products can place young adults and adults at risk of regular tobacco use.
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Attempts to steal signs probably date back to the first use of hand signals, and the history of technology-aided spying came shortly thereafter.
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First, use on of the two holes in the container's lid to measure out how much pasta you need for one serving or two.
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The controversial gene-editing tool CRISPR may soon be used to create custom blood cells that hunt cancer — its first use to treat humans.
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" The bill, titled the No First Use Act, simply says, "It is the policy of the United States to not use nuclear weapons first.
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It was not the first time Mr. Trump has been asked about nuclear first-use, or the first time he offered an obfuscated answer.
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When you first use it, you can add as much pressure as you want, you know, anywhere on your face or, like, all throughout.
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Although I believe Kim does not intend to make a first use of nuclear weapons, prudence compels us to protect against any such possibility.
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The plan seemed both simple and ambitious at first: use a different vocalist for each song to mirror the diversity of their musical tastes.
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What's more, bacteriophages absolutely can be used to kill infections—in fact, the first use of phage therapy to cure infections actually predates penicillin.
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THERE IS a push in America to subscribe to a "no first use" policy on nukes, in a bid to reduce risks and anxiety.
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This was not the first use of the treatment, which adds gene therapy to a technique developed to grow skin grafts for burn victims.
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Further, for the United States to adopt a "No First Use" stance would call into question their extended deterrence guarantees and other security commitments.
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Rajapaksa told the Chinese diplomat that the government should first use the 4,800 acres available for investment near the port, before looking for land elsewhere.
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PLAY IT AGAIN Following the first use of goal-line technology at a World Cup in 2014, FIFA has expanded off-the-field decision-making.
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Larger bottles are also much easier for cleaners to refill than smaller ones, which are more likely to be thrown away after their first use.
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Players first use a switch to select indoor or outdoor play, which compensates for all the extra infrared light when you're out in the sun.
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This special episode takes us back to that day in October of 2007 to the first use of the hashtag in a breaking news event.
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It was the first use of tear gas in more than a week after a series of mostly peaceful demonstrations in the former British colony.
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Elizabeth Warren and House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith, was the No First Use Act, and it aims to transform US nuclear weapons policy.
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Of course, if our real goal is reining in our own leadership, there might be even better ways to get there than no first use.
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The first use is episodic, happening only when a disease is diagnosed, but the other two are routine, occurring on most days of livestock's lives.
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The bill would, among other things, ban default login credentials and require that devices urge customers to change their username and password upon first use.
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France were awarded a penalty in their World Cup match against Australia on June 16, marking the first use of VAR in the competition's history.
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Chefman recommends that you put a quart of water in each crock and run them on high for half an hour before the first use.
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SANGER: President Obama, as you probably know, as you probably read, is considering a no-first-use pledge before he leaves office for nuclear weapons.
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Specifically, if President Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan is familiar to you, perhaps that's because its first use was by Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign.
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What was new was the indiscriminate state violence, escalating in plain sight: the first artillery attack, the first airstrike, the first use of chemical weapons.
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A congressional debate authorizing first use would have to be very hurried, and this process could speed up hostile actions rather than slow them down.
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NATO has said it stands by the U.K. after what was the first use of a nerve agent on NATO territory since the alliance's founding.
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So I decided to not only reduce my trash production, but also to dramatically reduce my first use of even things that can be recycled.
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As with Amazon Go convenience stores, shoppers first use the Amazon Go app to scan in as they enter the store, then shop as usual.
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Apple says that LEA is the first use of the low-energy standard to stream high-quality music and voice while preserving LE's battery-extending properties.
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For example, bank swallows first use their nest site to recognize where their chicks are (and they will feed non-kin chicks placed in their nests).
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The Fast Lanes – the first use of biometrics by a major car rental firm – will be rolled out across more than 40 U.S. locations in 2019.
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The first use case for the index (which is for internal use only) will be determining which news organizations should be placed in the news archive.
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Paying what's owedThe first use for money from a candidate who has just quit the campaign is generally to pay the cost of winding things up.
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Pakistan refuses to adopt a no first-use policy, which means it could hypothetically respond to India's use of conventional military force with a nuclear strike.
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Its first use was for tracking the first genuine crypto-currency, Bitcoin, but it could be could be adapted to track anything, including, for instance, electrons.
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According to BuzzFeed , history's first use of lip paint can be traced back to around 5000 BCE in the modern-day Iraq and Kuwait region. 2.
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The Tab S3 will have speakers by Harman-owned AKG, Samsung's first use of the brand since agreeing to buy Harman for $8 billion last year.
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It would also give Russia a pass on its own threats of first use, instead of making it increasingly a pariah for its strategy of escalation.
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The legislation, called the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2019, will be introduced by Lieu in the House and Markey in the Senate.
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Critiques say No-First-Use would undermine the U.S. nuclear umbrella, pushing our allies to develop nuclear weapons and triggering a new round of nuclear proliferation.
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The House version of the annual defense policy would require an independent study on the United States adopting a "no first use" policy on nuclear weapons.
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The crew of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay was among the few to witness the first use of the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945.
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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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However, China has long maintained a "no first use" policy, which means it would only use nuclear forces in response to a nuclear strike against it.
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One way to check the president's launch authority would be to allow first use, but only with collective agreement, from congressional leaders, say, or the cabinet.
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" Moreover, Biden said that, "it's hard to envision a plausible scenario in which the first use of nuclear weapons by the United States would be necessary.
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Policies of first use of nuclear weapons may make an opponent more likely to initiate a first strike and thus make a nuclear war more likely.
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Russia is modernizing its triad legs; abandoned its "no first use" policy; and adopted a military strategy of preemptive, early use of nukes in all conflicts.
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He said that "isn't exactly the first use case that the team had in mind," but the ability to move household items would be a valuable skill.
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A submarine off the coast of North Korea launches ballistic missiles at the tiny, reclusive country, marking the first use of nuclear weapons in battle since 1945.
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The first use of proceeds has been the acquisition of the European company Custodix, to integrate their candidate-matching toolkits for research in the U.S. and Europe.
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These efforts explicitly take historic nuclear arms talks as a model, reviving such half-forgotten cold-war phrases as "confidence-building measures" and "no first use" pledges.
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On first use, you'll have to tap that red "Live" camera button to login to your Facebook account, and then enable permissions for posting to your account.
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Mr. Kerlikowske said that an American customs facility in Mexico would be his agency's first use of that new arrangement, which is aimed at speeding up trade.
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The taboo against nuclear weapons rests on three pillars: policies to prevent proliferation, norms against the first use of nukes (especially against non-nuclear powers) and deterrence.
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Mr. Trump touched on most of those — except the uncle — on Monday night, but seemed to come down on both sides of the nuclear-first-use debate.
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Last week the police shot an 18-year-old in the chest in their first use of live ammunition since June, and demonstrators threw acid at officers.
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Soon afterwards, we developed the first use-case for my company's NLP platform called Regendus, to demonstrate its regulatory data automation and analysis capabilities to the FCC.
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"The American administration seems to be taking a very relaxed position as to the conditions of the use and the first use of nuclear weapons," said Kislyak.
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That means Trump literally had never heard of the no-first-use debate, or had never thought about it enough to have an actual opinion on it.
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And a 153 Science paper demonstrated the first use of CRISPR, a precise editing technique widely considered a game-changer for the field, to engineer human cells.
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Interestingly, unlike India, China has a consistent history of publicizing its unconditional policy of "No First Use" of nuclear weapons, yet Indian experts are reluctant to accept.
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Shovels and water pumps evoke the trenches, and gas masks recall that earlier battles around Ypres, in 1915, saw the first use of chemical weapons in warfare.
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And while Modi himself says he remains committed to no first use, his previous defense minister, Manohar Parrikar, argued that India needed a less restrictive nuclear doctrine.
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The ban would be the first use of the public-security ordinance against a political party since the 1997 handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China.
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If you don't have a consistent income coming in right now, "you should first use this check to cover essential bills and any debt obligations," says Westlin.
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In November 1969, he pushed the Senate to ratify America's commitment to the protocol, and he renounced first use of lethal chemicals (except napalm on military targets).
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Last November, Manohar Parrikar, then the defense minister, said India's prohibition against nuclear first use was too restrictive, though he added that this was only his opinion.
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The first use of the term was came around 2010, but when it started getting traction with the election of Trump, it made the jump to Australia.
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One of the first use cases was how do you move value around the planet in the same way we can move other things around the planet?
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To create it, first use the darker end of the double-sided pencil to line along each upper lashline — as if you were crafting an extended cat-eye.
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You first use an oil-based cleanser (I use the Cremorlab Cleansing Gel Oil) to remove your SPF, makeup and oil because oil and oil mix together well.
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China's "no-first-use policy" means Beijing only demands the capability to ensure the launch of a nuclear missile, after being hit first by an enemy nuclear strike.
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I didn't condition my hair after the first use (something I don't normally need to do) and I had to contend with a knotted, straw mess of hair.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - AstraZeneca's immunotherapy drug durvalumab, the British drugmaker's most important pipeline medicine, has been accepted for review by U.S. regulators against bladder cancer, potentially its first use.
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The company's first use of its technology is going toward the treatment of dry eye syndrome, which the founders say affects more than 20 million people in America.
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Bezos also shared a video on Twitter of the company's new landing pad robot, which of course it's calling Blue2D2: First use of our landing pad bot #Blue2D2.
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But if those are unachievable — and they certainly look it — then we might realistically need to answer the question of whether no first use is better than nothing.
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After first use, 95 percent of plastic packaging loses its material value, resulting in an annual economic loss of $80 billion to $120 billion, according to the report.
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While "first use" of nuclear weapons has long been a part of U.S. deterrence policy, no president has ever threatened to annihilate another nation over its nuclear program.
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Any first use against lesser threats, such as countries or terrorist groups with chemical and biological weapons, would be gratuitous; there are alternative means of countering those threats.
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Recent Russian statements on this evolving nuclear weapons doctrine appear to lower the threshold for Moscow's first-use of nuclear weapons -- - This article originally appeared on Warrior Maven .
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The protests reached a new level of violence after police shot one protester in the chest in early October, the first use of live rounds during the conflict.
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Following the cyber breadcrumbs, Feinberg, founding member of GIPEC, a New York-based cyber intelligence company, traced the first use of #ResistanceRecess to a woman who, on Jan.
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The British authorities say they were exposed to the nerve agent Novichok, representing the first use of a chemical agent on European soil since the Second World War.
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Nagy said rate cuts in Hungary could be back on the table this year, but the bank would first use more unconventional tools to loosen monetary conditions further.
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These steps might not be easy to take, but they would increase stability, while "No First Use" could undermine the function of nuclear weapons as means of deterrence.
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You'll now get prompted to set up custom swipe actions when you first use them, and there's a new favorite folder feature to improve managing and filing of emails.
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While it was not the first time police had fired live shots during 13 weeks of unrest, it marked the first use of lethal force since the protests began.
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Touted as the world's first use of AR in ramp handling, the technology comes in the form of a pair of smart glasses, which will provide instructions to staff.
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According to reports, Obama is in favor of ruling out any first use of nuclear arms, much to the horror of security analysts and many of America's closest allies.
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EDT, wrapping up a four-month mission that included the first use of a DNA sequencer in space and installation of a parking spot for upcoming commercial space taxis.
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Clinton used her two minutes to assure U.S. allies that she would honor mutual defense treaties and said nothing concerning first use, non-proliferation, or the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
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During the first general election debate, in September 2016, moderator Lester Holt asked a more specific version of Matthews's question — what Trump thought about a "no first use" policy.
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But it's the deeper composition of "You" that points to where Radiohead would go, since it's here they would first use the tricks they'd make their own going forward.
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He also never renounced the first use of nuclear weapons, laying the groundwork for Trump's Pentagon to contemplate a nuclear strike in response just to another country's serious cyberattack.
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China could also decide to abandon its policy against the first use of nuclear weapons in any conflict "because they could not afford to go second," Mr. Narang said.
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On a construction site, for example, you'd have to first use a controller to maneuver Spot around the work site so it can build a map of the space.
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Two fully-electric buses have been introduced to the streets of Glasgow, Scotland, representing the city's first use of such transport on a commercial route in almost 53 years.
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They do require a bit of setup when you first use them but once this finishes, you simply slide them into each wrap before putting on the boxing gloves.
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Ford's first use of OTAs comes about two months after it said it would hire 400 engineers to work on connectivity, mostly from Blackberry Ltd's shuttered phone handset business.
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Screenshot: Merriam-WebsterYours truly was born in 1977, which apparently saw the first use of many phrases common in tech today including 'optical disk,' 'Moore's Law,' 'karaoke,' and 'text message.
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This is the first use of a robot in this capacity by Roscosmos, and Skybot will remain at the ISS for around two weeks before it heads back to Earth.
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Not so much now that I've broken all three wax canisters—some after the first use—and cracked an e-liquid tank after dropping it 225 inches onto the carpet.
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Not only is the Obama administration sending shivers down the backs of NATO allies by contemplating the no first use policy, it is also failing to address Russia's new threats.
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Chevron held off on a dividend raise for the fourth quarter due to market uncertainty, but in July it said such a move would be its first use of cash.
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Vipin Narang, a nuclear affairs expert at MIT in the United States, said that Singh's comments were a sign the policy on 'no first use' could change in the future.
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Now, studies show that the vast majority of adolescents' first use of a vaping product is candy or fruit flavored — they mistakenly believe they are only inhaling flavored water vapor.
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Beyond those benefits, we believe a no-first-use policy could catalyze multilateral negotiations to reduce nuclear arms, discourage nonnuclear states from developing them and reinforce the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
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Welcome to the SEC, where even the most meticulously planned change to help get calls right carries with it tinges of uncertainty and suspicion, even months before its first use.
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About 90 percent of adult smokers first use cigarettes before turning 19, and almost all smokers start before age 26, according to an Institute of Medicine study published last year.
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On my first use, firing up the Sensoria iPhone app and connecting it to the socks/anklets via Bluetooth was quite simple—even for someone who's never used techwear before.
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While speaking at a conference organized by Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis, the then Indian premier Manmohan Sing proposed a global convention on "no first use" of nuclear weapons.
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In a half-step toward enfranchising the freed people, the 14th Amendment penalizes states that withhold the vote from "male" citizens — the first use of that adjective in the Constitution.
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"That makes things a little bit easier to use if you're India, but it also makes Pakistan worry more about India potentially breaking its 'no first use' pledge," said Panda.
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They think uncertainty about America's first use helps deter conventional attacks that might threaten their very existence, such as a Russian assault on Estonia or a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
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Its forces regularly exercise the first-use of these weapons, including the employment of a few low-yield warheads to compel Western conciliation and win a conventional conflict with NATO.
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After it was passed in 2015 its first use was to block the Dutch government from ratifying an economic treaty it and other European Union countries had negotiated with Ukraine.
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Perhaps even more controversial — both among some Americans and some in the region — is the president's visit to Hiroshima, the site of the first use of nuclear weapons in history.
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Photo: Getty / Justin Sullivan Google has been fined $56.8 million by privacy regulators in France, marking the country's first use of the tough new privacy rules enacted in Europe last year.
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Manufactured by the Douglas Aircraft Company, the X-3 was made to investigate the design features suited to sustained supersonic speeds, including the first use of titanium in major airframe components.
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Additionally, it would mark the first use of the company's refurbished launch pad on the Cape Canaveral site after last year, when a Falcon 9 exploded, payload and all, reports Wired.
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The content creator will first use Clipisode to record their video, and receive the link to share the video across social media, the web, or privately through email, text messaging, etc.
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However, despite his claim that this was his first use of the procedure, Heimlich has previously spoken to the media about utilizing the Heimlich Maneuver to save a live choking victim.
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In November of 2013, when the then-Majority Leader Harry Reid led the Democrats to the first use of the nuclear option, he pushed the Senate out onto a slippery slope.
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That would be the first use of rolling blackouts in Japan to deal with power shortages since March 2011, when a magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
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In their first debate, Trump and Clinton were asked whether they supported Obama's consideration of ending the U.S.'s long-standing policy on first use, and neither gave a comprehensive answer.
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As commander in chief, he can adopt no-first-use overnight and lead the way in establishing it as a global norm among all of the nine countries with nuclear weapons.
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The Fed's reference to the economy as "solid" was the first use of that word to describe growth since January 2015, which was the last time growth was above 3 percent.
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It would mark the first use of those weapons by Islamic State fighters there for several years, and comes as the Lebanese army prepares for an expected assault on their enclave.
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TUESDAY PUZZLE — Today we got a puzzle by a new constructor, full of first-use answers, with a theme as old as mud, or dirt, or frozen tundra dirt, I suppose.
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The adoption of no first use might well induce other nuclear states to choose it, which could lead to a new equilibrium: an effective ban on the use of nuclear weapons.
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In the first use of the IEEPA, during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979, President Jimmy Carter imposed trade sanctions against Iran, freezing Iranian assets in the US, according to CRS.
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Last month, Jeannette Catsoulis's review of this John Cameron Mitchell comedy contained what was probably the first use of the phrase "sexually adventurous alien tourists" in the history of The Times.
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Concerns about the absence of checks and balances on the first use of nuclear weapons have spiked because of Donald J. Trump's bellicose temperament and shallow understanding of nuclear flash points.
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Obama, for example, explored the idea of declaring a no-first-use policy — that is, pledging that the United States would use nuclear weapons only in retaliation to a nuclear attack.
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The report examined quoted insurance premiums, as well as average claims paid by insurers — the first use of payout data to examine racial disparities in car insurance premiums, the researchers said.
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The piece, titled "America Must Be Ready To Nuke First," argues that America must be first-use to stave off Russian aggression: While the Obama administration contemplates a no-first-use policy, the Russians threaten the opposite: first, to intimidate and coerce U.S. allies and partners; and second, as part of a strategy of escalation, to de-escalate (that is, less apt to provoke a nuclear response and more conducive to war termination than second use).
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ProAi, ZF's product, is the first use of Drive PX 2 in a production system, and uses Nvidia's AutoCruise configuration of the platform, which uses just one Parker system-on-a-chip.
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The International Nickel Study Group (INSG) estimates that global first-use nickel usage jumped by 7.8 percent last year and by another 9.7 percent in the first five months of this year.
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It's also a new record best for SpaceX, in a year of firsts including the first re-use of a refurbished booster and the first use of a refurbished Dragon cargo capsule.
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It marks the first use of the pad that sent humans to the Moon since the Space Shuttle era, and the first rockets to fly from Kennedy, period, in over five years.
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AstraZeneca rose nearly 4 percent after its immunotherapy drug durvalumab, the British drugmaker's most important pipeline medicine, was accepted for review by U.S. regulators to treat bladder cancer, potentially its first use.
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Whether this was Heimlich's first use of the maneuver or not, there's no denying that it has saved countless lives since he first introduced it in an Emergency Medicine article in 1974.
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In a sweeping speech just weeks ago she urged cuts to "our bloated defense budget," a "no first use" nuclear weapons policy and an end to the 22019-year war in Afghanistan.
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She has called for no new nuclear weapons and supports a no-first-use policy, in addition to continued support for arms treaties designed to put limitations on a country's nuclear arsenal.
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This nuclear expansion has allowed China to shift from its minimal-deterrent retaliatory posture toward a first-use capability, which likely entails threatening limited nuclear options in a conflict with its enemies.
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It needs to be replaced by a No-First-Use policy; that the United States will not to be the first to use nuclear weapons at any time or under any circumstances.
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Another argument against No-First-Use is it would make the world safe for large-scale conventional warfare, because there would be no risk of a nuclear response from the United States.
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The petition backs the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act, which would deny Trump the authority to launch a first strike with nuclear weapons without a declaration of war from Congress.
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President Trump has unleashed U.S. air power since coming into office, something that was brought into sharp focus this week by the first use of the "mother of all bombs" in Afghanistan.
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For the best end result, follow a two-step process: First, use that chicken to make a plain but perfect broth; then, bring the add-ons that turn that broth into soup.
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And although the first use of "Mx." as an honorific for people wishing not to be identified by gender dates to 1977, Merriam-Webster added it to its lexicon only last September.
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Their nascent nuclear capability is enough to deter opponents and allow them to launch second strikes, but any first use against the U.S. or our allies would result in their immediate destruction.
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Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic contender for the presidency, is one of many who want to remedy this by committing America, by law, to a policy of No First Use (NFU) (see article).
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One is the nature of the provocation, which, as the European Union pointed out in its statement, represents the first use of chemical weapons on European soil since the Second World War.
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When Holt asked Trump about his views on a no-first-use policy, Trump said Russia had been expanding its nuclear forces with "a much newer capability" than the United States has.
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In a sweeping speech just weeks ago she urged cuts to "our bloated defense budget," a "no first use" nuclear weapons policy and an end to the 17-year war in Afghanistan.
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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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But for the United States to conclude that it should adopt a "No First Use" policy would be a strategic mistake, and would invite greater nuclear dangers on itself and its allies.
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Ed Markey of Massachusetts has already introduced legislation that would explicitly ban the first use of nuclear weapons without a declaration of war from Congress, and after Trump's U.N. speech, Republican Sen.
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" It could be all smoke and mirrors -- what better way to publicly sow doubt about your intentions than to publicly muse about changing them, but in private, stay committed to "no first use.
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One Touch is generally used to speed up checkout on web and mobile by skipping the PayPal login screen after the first use, as long as you're in the same device or browser.
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China has less than one-tenth the nuclear weapons that Russia and the US have, it has a no first use policy and is believed to store its warheads apart from its missiles.
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MORE has reignited the debate over whether or not the U.S. should adopt a no first use policy – a pledge not to fire nuclear weapons unless first attacked by an adversary using them.
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It talks about China "expanding its already considerable forces," but fails to mention that China has a policy of minimum deterrence and has made a pledge of No First Use of nuclear weapons.
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The first use of "Tornado Alley" can be traced back to 1952, as the title of a research project carried out by two meteorologists, Major Ernest J. Fawbush and Captain Robert C. Miller.
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Sherman is also the talent behind the MoMA PS1 Salad Garden, the first use of the museum's rooftop as a public space where the visitors, artists, and performers interact in a working garden.
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The poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter was the first use of a chemical agent on European soil since the Second World War, not since before the Second World War.
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The country has always promised it would make no first use of nuclear weapons — a limitation that means it might lose one or more major cities in a nuclear exchange before striking back.
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The Iraqi military operation would be the first use of military force by the government in Baghdad in response to an independence vote last month by the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq.
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China also says it has a policy of No First Use, meaning that it would launch nuclear weapons only in retaliation for a nuclear strike from another country (although American officials are sceptical).
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Singapore former opposition politician Brad Bowyer on Monday corrected a Facebook post questioning the independence of state investment funds following a government request, in the first use of a new "fake news" law.
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"Presidents from both parties, including the Obama administration, have rejected a no-first-use policy because it erodes deterrence, undermines allied confidence in US security guarantees and risks emboldening potential adversaries," Fisher said.
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Its main 2019 innovation was the first use of a sweary noun: I Used to Be a Miserable F*ck, by a blogger and life coach who dubs himself The Angry Therapist. Grrr!
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India will roll out 5G "in step" with other parts of the world, he said, with first use cases likely to be industry applications, and in fixed-line and machine-to-machine communication.
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It's called budget reconciliation, and since its first use in 1980 it's been deployed to pass everything from the Bush tax cuts to COBRA health insurance protections to Bill Clinton's balanced budget deal.
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Damage to the main spillway triggered a series of problems culminating with the first use of the emergency spillway, which quickly began eroding and threatened to unleash a torrent of water on cities downstream.
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"The argument cannot be settled in practice because rasgulla's first use was probably never recorded textually," Krishnendu Ray, the chair of the Nutrition and Food Studies Department at New York University, explains to me.
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New Zealand did, however, summon the Russian ambassador in Wellington to "reiterate our serious concern" over what has been called the first use of a nerve agent in Europe since the Second World War.
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Since the internet is a very dark place, it should surprise no one that this meme's first use was the equivalent of "Bush did 9/11," coincidentally a common comment on VICE's Facebook posts.
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Air Force and Navy helicopters began flying rescue missions in Texas on Monday night, according to a US defense official, marking the first use of active duty military assets in the hurricane rescue efforts.
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"Make no mistake: this is by far the highest official statement—from the Raksha Mantri's (Defence Minister) mouth directly—that India may not be forever bound by No First Use," Narang said on Twitter.
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Trump stated that the U.S. was "not keeping up with other countries" and would "certainly not do for a strike," but would not "take anything off the table" when it comes to first use.
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So far, however, the hearings have done little to clarify the problem of nuclear first use and may even be adding to the confusion among Americans about the command and control of nuclear weapons.
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Norton also notes that the OED incorrectly listed the first use of "lesbian" as appearing in 1870, even though it was used to mean same-sex female relations in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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UAVs have been used in the past for surveillance and assessments of disasters, but this is believed to be the first use of the technology on the continent for the improvement of HIV services.
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A bill in the House, with support in the Senate, called the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017, explicitly prevents any president from initiating a nuclear first strike without Congressional approval.
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And in the case of Russia, they have a modernized triad which they can use as part of their "first use" policy, which allows for a first strike as part of Russian nuclear doctrine.
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Developed in 22015 as a joint project between Special Operations Command and Systima Technologies, its first use in combat was in November 258, according to Lt. Phillip Chitty, a spokesman for Special Operations Command.
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The first use of "pink slime" is widely credited to Gerald Zirnstein, a former Agriculture Department scientist, who used it in a 2002 email to colleagues in which he expressed concerns about the product.
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It's impossible to say the first time "buff" was used in this modern context, but its first use was meant to describe a way to make something shine, to stand out and be pretty.
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Unbeknownst to most Americans, the Finnmark region of Norway and adjacent Russian territory have become one of the most likely battlegrounds for the first use of nuclear weapons in any future NATO-Russian conflict.
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For decades, American presidents have threatened "first use" of nuclear weapons against enemies in only very narrow and limited circumstances, such as in response to the use of biological weapons against the United States.
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Even if the Obama administration's strategists thought that no first use was the way to go, nuclear policy is so fraught that it's important to have world leaders on board, and that takes some time.
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"Chris Stringer, a paleoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London—also not involved in the new study—described this "first use" of ancient protein analysis to identify the Denisovan fossil as a "notable landmark.
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But in the end, Mr. Obama seems to have sided with his current advisers, who warned in meetings culminating this summer that a no-first-use declaration would rattle allies like Japan and South Korea.
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Cheney, who is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, tweeted at Sanders' fellow presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren, who endorsed adopting a policy against nuclear first use during her Tuesday night debate appearance.
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As explained in the privacy section of the LinkNYC website, when you first use one of the kiosks, you need to supply an email address to be informed of updates or changes to the service.
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Incorporation of commercial state-of-the-art machine learning technology is a major milestone in the military use of AI, on a par with the first use of heat-seeking missiles nearly 60 years ago.
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And then on top of that there's a whole body of science fiction, like the first movies, the first use of the word robot was about a play were robot workers overcame their human masters.
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She called for an end to the war in Afghanistan, a rethinking of U.S. troop deployment abroad, and a commitment to a new nuclear posture including increased arms control and a no-first-use policy.
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While the health benefits of cannabidiol remain uncertain, the United States Food and Drug Administration last year approved the first use of it as a drug to treat two rare and severe forms of epilepsy.
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While this was Trump's first use of the phrase "lynching," he previously retweeted a statement in September 2015 that referred to his treatment from journalists as a "disgusting lynching" during the 2016 election, CNN reported.
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Last week, the Global Times, a stridently nationalist Chinese newspaper, warned in an editorial that China could consider abandoning its "no first use" policy if Thaad leads to other antimissile systems deemed threatening to China.
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One major milestone to watch for next will be the first use of small quantum computers to simulate the quantum physics of chemicals and materials in a way that's actually useful to chemists and materials scientists.
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This was the first use of genetically modified phages for treatment, and the first time phages have been used against an infection of the genus Mycobacterium, which includes tuberculosis, one of the deadliest maladies on earth.
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Next, as a prank, Sanger asks Trump about something genuinely obscure: SANGER: President Obama, as you probably know, as you probably read, is considering a no-first-use pledge before he leaves office for nuclear weapons.
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The odds of a catastrophic accident or uncontrolled nuclear escalation would be greatly reduced if the United States built its nuclear strategy more heavily on retaliation instead of prompt launch and the option for first use.
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I'll do it once after the first use and use the pad again the next night, but then I throw it in the laundry and reach for a fresh one, since three come in a pack.
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Trump made waves with his first use of the constitutional pardon power to deactivate former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's conviction for violating a federal court order stopping his office from detaining immigrants not suspected of crimes.
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A Bank of America Merrill Lynch corporate risk management survey over the summer found that 65 percent of companies would first use their savings to pay down the $6 trillion corporate debt tab for U.S. companies.
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In that poll, two-thirds say the United States should use nuclear weapons only in response to a nuclear attack or not at all, while just 18 percent think that first-use may be justified sometimes.
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The decision to build up our low-yield nuclear capabilities is actually a response to reports that Russia has a strategy for limited first use of low-yield nuclear weapons and has already deployed such weapons.
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Backers of a no first use policy argue it would improve U.S. national security by reducing the risk of miscalculation while still allowing the United States to launch a nuclear strike in response to an attack.
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That means Trump literally had never heard of the no-first-use debate, had never thought about it enough to have an actual opinion, or for some reason didn't want to say that that opinion was.
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That means Trump literally had never heard of the no-first-use debate, had never thought about it enough to have an actual opinion, or didn't for some reason want to say that that opinion was.
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Gringos typically forget a very important step: classic mate gourds made out of pumpkins or wood—typically the most affordable option found at fairs like the San Telmo—have to be cured before their first use.
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To the Editor: There is a clean solution to prevent a trigger-happy president from launching a nuclear attack: a declaration by the United States of no first use of nuclear weapons, backed by federal law.
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Carbon Health is offering on-site testing at its nine Bay Area clinics, though it advises patients to first use an online screening tool to determine if they qualify to come in for COVID-19 testing.
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Just last month, the Islamic State used drones to attack Russian air bases in Syria, a tactic the group has refined from its first use more than a year ago against Iraqi forces advancing on Mosul.
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Even if there were to be a conventional military conflict with Russia or North Korea, the first use of nuclear weapons would be counterproductive because it would likely trigger an uncontrollable and potentially suicidal nuclear exchange.
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So the first use for this blood test will probably be to screen people for clinical trials of drugs to prevent Alzheimer's disease, said Dr. Michael Weiner, a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco.
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So the first use for this blood test will probably be to screen people for clinical trials of drugs to prevent Alzheimer's disease, said Dr. Michael Weiner, a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco.
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President Obama, who had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, offered a credible path toward a world free from nuclear weapons, declaring his firm conclusion that "No First Use" was not the way to go.
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On the risk posed by nuclear weapons, the Global Catastrophic Risks report said since their first use against Japan in 1945 the world "has lived in the shadow of a war unlike any other in history".
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Had shareholders rejected the plan when asked to vote on it on April 28, it would have been the first use of the Swiss veto at a leading company and a major set-back for Credit Suisse.
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But the policy with the best odds of getting traction probably isn't the same as the ideal policy, and there are probably policies that address what Wellerstein calls the "bad president problem" better than no first use.
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Headlines and accolades aside, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention the fact that Tableau's learning curve is quite steep; if you're not a data science specialist, it can seem overly complicated and intimidating upon first use.
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The strategic partnership will focus on developing technologies for driver assistance systems, automated driving on highways and automated parking, BMW said in a statement, adding that it planned to first use this technology in vehicles in 2024.
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The first use of the English term Czechia comes from 1841, in an encyclopedia written by two English churchmen who used Czech sources, continuing the already long-established tradition of the use of that word in Latin.
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"Reducing the role of nuclear weapons in national security doctrines and abandoning the nuclear deterrent policy based on the first use of nuclear weapons constitutes the most practical and feasible nuclear disarmament measure at present," Fu said.
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Lithium-ion batteries are not the same as what you use to power your television remote, and fully charging them on first use only to let them drain all the way isn't required to maintain battery life.
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Since Wilson's research is the first use of a time-lapse camera to study human decomposition, this is also the first evidence that assumptions about a body's position at the time of death may not be true.
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SINGAPORE, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Singapore former opposition politician Brad Bowyer on Monday corrected a Facebook post questioning the independence of state investment funds following a government request, in the first use of a new "fake news" law.
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China, which has sought to make its 1964 commitment to nuclear "no first-use" credible in peacetime, keeps its warheads and missiles miles apart in peacetime, meaning its deployed warheads number zero, or pretty close to it.
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The term refers to the hue of smoked fish, and its first use was once ascribed to fugitives, running through the woods, who would supposedly toss stinking, smoked fish in all directions to throw bloodhounds off course.
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The match also brought about the first use in France of video replays to help the referee, with the technology being used to confirm Deulofeu's goal and to disallow one by France's Antoine Griezmann just after halftime.
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To cover them, we first use a coral cream from a Skin Illustrator palette to cancel out the darkness in the black ink, then we go in with another palette that's thick, dries really fast, and doesn't smudge.
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The No First Use Act won't do much by itself, but if it's a sign we're ready to have a real conversation about how US policy can reduce the risk of a nuclear war, it's a welcome one.
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Negative interest rates may be gaining popularity in central bank circles, but one of the countries to first use the unconventional policy is at risk of an unsustainable asset bubble as a result, Moody's Investors Service has warned.
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The United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan at the end of World War II in 1945 — the only example in history of a first use, or any use, of nuclear weapons in warfare.
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In fact, they couldn't even conceive of two women having sex at all without a "phallic" component, hence the first use of "tribade" (in the late first century) referred to a woman who penetrated other women (and men!
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On April 85033, the President Obama in his concluding remarks at Nuclear Security Summit in Washington when asked India to reduce its nuclear weapons, India refuted by saying that it follows no-first use of nuclear weapons policy.
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The automaker said that beginning with the 2020 model year, its hybrid battery warranty will be increased from eight years or 100,000 miles to 10 years from original date of first use, or 150,000 miles, whichever comes first.
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However, in order to take effect, governors must first use their emergency powers to allow those doctors permission to practice in their states, said Krista Drobac, executive director of the Alliance for Connected Care, a telehealth industry group.
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It was under Myron Schaeffer—a musicologist with a familiarity of tape recording, and another so-called "tinkerer"—UTEMS' first director, that the small group of students to first use the studio in 1959 would receive their tutelage.
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And the timeframe is surprisingly short—just 6.5 years from the first use of the architecture, the machine will stop auto-updating, despite the fact an equivalent Windows machine will still be usable for years after that point.
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Ms. Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, called for an end to the war in Afghanistan, a rethinking of American troop deployment abroad, a commitment to a new nuclear posture including increased arms control and a no-first-use policy.
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Chemicals were everywhere, and their proliferation in the American war effort raised concerns that the United States was crossing a line in Vietnam, violating the 53 Geneva Protocol's prohibition against the first use of chemical weapons in war.
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By mandating consultation and approval of both secretaries for the first use of nuclear weapons, Congress could increase the odds that well-reasoned judgment would forestall the rashest action that could ever be taken by an American president.
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The air missions, which took place for about a week near the strategically important town of Al Bab, represent the Kremlin's first use of its military might to help the Turks in their fight against the militant group.
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Ted Lieu, D-California, have introduced the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act, which would prohibit the President of the United States from using nuclear weapons without congressional authorization except when the United States is under nuclear attack.
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Radek Sikorski fears that Russia's missiles will leave Europe "defenceless" if it lacks a proportionate response to a first use of nuclear weapons by Russia, giving the Russians time to get where they want to by using conventional forces.
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Senator Ed Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, in January introduced legislation that would prohibit the president from conducting a "first-use nuclear strike," or a nuclear strike without provocation from another foreign power, without a congressional declaration of war.
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Mr. Carter argued that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, could interpret a promise of no first use as a sign of American weakness, even though that was not the intent.
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One senator, Democrat Ed Markey of Massachusetts, said Trump's rhetoric "borders on presidential malpractice," and he's calling attention to legislation he drafted that would require congressional approval before any President could sign off on a first-use nuclear strike.
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The United States doesn't have a "no first use" policy when it comes to nuclear weapons and—according to the "Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations"—the US is prepared to use nukes in ways typically reserved for conventional munitions.
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To try to get at this issue, moderator Lester Holt asked Trump about "no first use": the idea that the US should swear off launching a nuclear strike against an enemy unless it has been attacked with nukes first.
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The Hill's Ellen Mitchell has the story: The petition backs the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act, which would deny Trump the authority to launch a first strike with nuclear weapons without a declaration of war from Congress.
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On Saturday, the British leader described the airstrikes in Syria as "right and legal," drawing an explicit distinction between those and the poisoning of the Skripals — the first use of chemical weapons in Europe since World War II. Mrs.
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The tunnel complex in the Tangi Assadkhel area of Achin prevented military operations from eliminating the group entirely, American military officials have said in justifying the first use of the bomb, the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast.
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Santander's takeover of the bank, which has been weighed down by risky property loans, for a nominal one euro marks the first use of a stricter European Union regime to deal with failing banks adopted after the financial crisis.
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Congo, a vast, forested country, has become a staging ground for new treatments, including the first use of vaccines that helped contain an outbreak that was declared over in July, just days before the latest flare-up was discovered.
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The first use of executive privilege, although it did not carry that name at the time, may have been President Thomas Jefferson's refusal in 1807 to provide evidence in a treason prosecution against his former vice president, Aaron Burr.
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After that encouraging first use, many hoped the drug could finally fill the void of available treatment options for the deadly hemorrhagic fever, but the latest findings show it might not be effective enough to fight Ebola after all.
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So the black dot used in the Bakhshali text isn't the first use of zero as a way to build larger numbers, but it is the seed from which the concept of zero emerged in its own right, says du Sautoy.
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Kerry, E.U. Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini and other foreign ministers from the Group of Seven, who are in Japan for two days of talks, visited the site of the world's first use of an atomic weapon in warfare earlier Monday.
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First, use less energy to produce the cars, then build cars with better, more efficient fuel economies, then drastically reduce what comes out the back of a car once on the road — ideally through more hybrid and all-electric vehicles.
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India does espouse a no-first-use nuclear doctrine, but its military planning is said to include a scenario of a massive conventional blitzkrieg aimed at seizing chunks of enemy territory and crushing Pakistan's offensive capacity before it can respond.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The wife of an unidentified banker lost an appeal against a British High Court ruling attempting to seize properties worth about 22 million pounds ($28.5 million) allegedly illegally acquired, in the first use of new powers to combat corruption.
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Giving company leaders the ability to play with the platform during the festival allowed them to see how engaging Snapchat can be, even though it also brought up the difficult learning curve when you first use the platform, said Rickel.
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A change was necessary despite China having developed nuclear weapons to avoid bullying from nuclear powers, the paper said, adding that China would always stick to the principle of "no first use" and a final goal of eliminating nuclear weapons.
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If you hear it, it might not even be worth fixing in the first place: it may just happen on your first use as the iPhone 7 restores, or it could come back the next time you're pegging the processor.
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In August, I returned to Hiroshima the "Obama buzz" was still in the air as the president mulled a no-first-use policy for the U.S. But when that idea faded away, so did attention to the dangers of nuclear weapons.
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Seeing as Pyongyang has declared itself a responsible nuclear state, emphasizing its pledges of no-first-use and non-proliferation, "a commitment to nuclear safety would go a long way towards publicly demonstrating its adherence to these principles," 38North said.
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"Against this kind of 'opponent', the United States must adopt two methods - first, use the opponent to encourage itself and exhort mass political support for 'making America great again', and second, curb the opponent's supremacy at every level," it said.
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Chlorine's first use as a weapon dates to World War I. Mr. al-Assad's government signed the treaty in 2013 and agreed to eliminate the chemical arms stockpiles it had declared, under the supervision of the organization and the United Nations.
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While the review opens the door to the US using nuclear weapons in response to a major non-nuclear attack, the administration's policy is consistent with the views of past administrations that opted not to embrace a "no first use" policy.
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Alongside that, China has a nuclear "no first use" policy: that it will not be the first to launch nuclear weapons against another nuclear foe, and that it will not use its nuclear weapons against a country without nuclear weapons.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has hired two hangmen as it prepares for executions of four prisoners convicted of drug offences in what would be the country's first use of the death penalty for over 40 years, prison authorities said on Friday.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Korean Air Lines Co Ltd said on Wednesday it will add 30 Boeing Co Dreamliner passenger jets to its fleet, including what it said would be the country's first use of the largest Dreamliner model, the 7773-10.
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The first use of the term "GND" in the US may trace to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who called for one in a 2007 column (and in his book Hot, Flat, and Crowded) as a kind of green globalism.
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The 31-year-old Welshman, reveling in weather conditions more akin to a rainy day back home, claimed his first ever Tour de France stage win by five seconds from Swiss rider Stefan Kueng to have first use of the yellow jersey.
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Here's a pre-cursor to that approach from Chrono Trigger, kindly filling in your default name, with the cursor ready to overwrite left-to-right if you want to choose another name: This reduces friction at the most vital moment — first use.
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North Korea got a minute at most, and discussion of war and peace was limited to a few comments on withdrawing from Afghanistan and adopting a policy against nuclear first use (the latter debate was, bizarrely, limited to Elizabeth Warren and Steve Bullock).
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The system they're building is sound — as described in a new Medium post, it will first use Yaman Yasmine's current simple crowdsourced drone repair platform, SAA, to create a drone organization that taps into a mix of overseas networks and domestic industry.
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A first use policy might not be much good in the fight against Daesh or lone wolf jihadists, but could not be more vital to global security at a time when conventional U.S. military power is spread so thinly around the world.
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Chinese scientists have accomplished many firsts in the genome world, including the first CRISPR-edited monkeys, the first use of the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 in humans, and the first reported use of gene editing technology to modify nonviable human embryos.
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The absorption of Popular by Spain's biggest bank Santander for a nominal one euro was the first use of a regime to deal with failing banks adopted after the 2008 financial crisis and made barely a ripple in Europe's stock and debt markets.
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According to one senior administration official, Mr. Kerry told Mr. Obama that a no-first-use pledge would also weaken the nuclear deterrent while Russia is running practice bombing runs over Europe and China is expanding its reach in the South China Sea.
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Asif Ghafoor said that Pakistan does not adhere to a "no first-use" policy, causing an uproar on the subcontinent at a time when hostilities are incredibly high over India's bloody crackdown in Kashmir, a consistent source of tension between the two countries.
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Although a no-first-use policy would limit the president's discretion by imposing procedural and physical constraints on his or her ability to initiate the use of nuclear weapons, we believe such checks on the commander in chief would serve the national interest.
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Gibson is, in fact, credited with the first use of the word "cyberspace" in literature, helping to create the conception of the internet that we have today, a "consensual hallucination" that doesn't physically exist except in 0s, 1s, and fiber optic cables.
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On Tuesday, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Peter Gaynor, announced that his agency would make its first use of the Defense Production Act to speed procurement of test kits, protective masks and other equipment needed to fight the virus.
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The idea was not to actually attack anybody, but to convince Russia that Nixon was unstable enough that he would risk a "first use" of nuclear weapons to finally decide the conflict, potentially plunging the world into nuclear war in the process.
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The central government has bankrolled research into a number of world "firsts," including the first use of the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 in humans in 2016 and the first reported use of gene editing technology to modify nonviable human embryos in 2015.
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I was also happy to be the explicator on record for the first use of the term DUMPSTER FIRE in this honorable pantheon, this being the American Dialect Society's word of the year for 2016, joining an (honestly, not ironically) impressive lineup.
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But the United States has consistently refused to adopt a "no first-use policy" — a policy not to be the first one in a conflict to use a nuclear weapon, and to only use them if the other side uses them first.
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But the United States has consistently refused to adopt a "no first use" policy — a policy not to be the first one in a conflict to use a nuclear weapon, and to use them only if the other side uses them first.
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The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than 12 barrel bombs hit the province of Daraa, in the first use of the rudimentary and non-discriminatory weapons there in over a year when a truce went into effect in the area.
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As silly as the idea of using the S-Pen as a remote control might appear at first glance, however, it's clear to me that this is the first use of the built-in accessory I could honestly see using on a daily basis.
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Not only was Garson's work the first use of the Moog on any record coming out of the West Coast, his use of electronic sounds to capture esoteric ideas and moods was unprecedented, foreshadowing an entire generation of ambient musicians and composers for film.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has stuck to its commitment of 'no first use' of nuclear weapons but future policy will depend on the situation, the defense minister said on Friday, which analysts said introduced a level of ambiguity in a core national security doctrine.
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Moscow was also accused in March of using a military-grade nerve agent to carry out an attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in England — the first use of a nerve agent on NATO territory since the alliance's founding.
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President Obama, who has weighed ruling out a first use of a nuclear weapon in a conflict, appears likely to abandon the proposal after top national security advisers argued that it could undermine allies and embolden Russia and China, according to several senior administration officials.
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"The first use of the technology will be to repair brain injuries as a result of stroke or cutting out a cancer lesion, where somebody's fundamentally lost a certain cognitive element," Musk told Tim Urban for an expansive article on the site Wait Buy Why.
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Republican appropriators in Congress told the White House last week that agencies like the CDC should first use leftover funds from the nation's Ebola response before requesting additional funding, though the White House has argued those funds are already planned for other public health purposes.
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Students using either option could first use this Venn diagram to plan their essay and then, if individual computers are available, could use this ReadWriteThink interactive to plan it further (they should put a check mark next to "Similarities-to-Differences" at the ReadWriteThink site).
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Teams and venues first use it to create tickets to games and events — and then distribute them for sale, whether through the team or venue's own online properties or through potential integrations with other sites like StubHub, Ticketmaster or, maybe someday, Amazon, Hubbard says.
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Depending on how much money was left in the account, the family could first use $10,000 to repay a child's loans and another $10,000 for a sibling's loans, before making the beneficiary change and taking a distribution to repay the parent loan, he said.
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PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - The U.N. envoy for Libya hopes another attempt to hold an election will take place by June after he scrapped a December plan, but said Libyans should first use a national conference in early 2019 to decide on the poll's format.
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After the end of the Cold War, which coincided with revolutionary advances in our nonnuclear military capacities, the range of these missions steadily narrowed to the point where nuclear weapons today no longer serve any purpose beyond deterring the first use of such weapons by our adversaries.
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The company also reversed a former policy that required employees to first use up remaining paid time off and vacation days first in the case of illness or quarantine, but still only gives employees 75% of their rate of pay based on an average of recent shifts.
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As long as Syrian forces do not use chemical weapons again, American officials have signaled that Mr. Trump's first use of force against Mr. Assad's military is likely to have been a shot heard around the world — but also a riposte that will not be repeated.
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The draft Nuclear Posture Review should be scrapped and replaced with the commitment to take nuclear weapons off high alert status; to implement pledges of No First Use; and to commit to negotiate to achieve the only number that makes sense in a nuclear context: Zero.
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"I don't see 'no first use' going soon — at least most responsible officers and officials stick to the policy, despite ongoing debate behind the scenes," said Douglas H. Paal, a China expert who worked on the National Security Council under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush.
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In Spain, the absorption of Popular by the country's biggest bank Santander for a nominal 26 euro was the first use of a regime to deal with failing banks adopted after the 2296.17 financial crisis, and made barely a ripple in Europe's stock and debt markets.
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In an hour-long speech that mostly touched on problems of everyday life for Corsicans - including high real estate prices and security - Macron said the island's regional leaders should not focus too much on institutional matters and should first use the powers they already have to fix problems.
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Its milestones include the X-1 (first aircraft to break the sound barrier), the X-5 (first plane with variable sweep wings), the X-13 (first use of jet power for vertical takeoffs and landings), the X-31A (could turn 180 degrees in the air), and many more.
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The issue occasions, as far as I can tell, the first use of the phrase "white supremacy" in a Marvel comic, but it also establishes a central template for T'Challa's character: the tension between his duties as a head of state and his responsibilities to the heroic community.
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The Propulsid settlements gave the defendant, Johnson & Johnson, a right to bail on the deal unless a high percentage of plaintiffs agreed to participate in the settlement program – apparently the first use of the now-common walkaway provision – and offered incentives to encourage plaintiffs (and their lawyers) to participate.
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A far more realistic check on the first use of nuclear weapons by the United States can be found, oddly enough, in the case of a Soviet diesel submarine that was depth-charged to the surface during the most harrowing days of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.
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The race-based IAT works by asking you to first use two buttons ("E" or "I") on your keyboard to identify a series of faces that flash on your screen as black or white and a series of words that flash on your screen as good or bad.
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It significantly dialed down the redness and inflammation of my sensitive, hormonal acne-prone, currently blemish-ridden skin after the first use; a few more, and I can see little bumps clearing up, blackheads disappearing, and an angry cyst on my upper cheek slowly retreating back to wherever it came from.
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Make sure to talk about your value "I tell my clients to first use a notepad or a Google doc and just start with a few minutes of free writing," Brynn says, adding that it's best to write casually and in the way that you would talk in a regular conversation.
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"The prime minister noted that the use of a nerve agent against Yulia and Sergei Skripal in Salisbury was a grave attack on the sovereign territory of the UK, and the first use of nerve agents on European soil since the Second World War," a spokeswoman said in a statement.
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He specifically mentions real-time meetings in real spaces — "this gives the capability for both of us to be very present and be talking to each other, and have other things — visually — for both of us to see," said Cook — acknowledging the all-too-obvious first use of a digital you.
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"Back from the Brink: A Call to Prevent Nuclear War" also calls on the United States to adopt a policy of no first use of nuclear weapons, to take its nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert, and to stop the $1.7-trillion plan to enhance every aspect of its nuclear forces.
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China a leading player China has invested heavily in gene-editing technology, bankrolling research into a number of world "firsts," including the first use of the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 in humans in 2016 and the first reported use of gene-editing technology to modify nonviable human embryos in 2015.
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Administration officials confirmed that the question of changing the policy on first use had come up repeatedly this summer as a way for Mr. Obama to show that his commitment to reducing the role of nuclear weapons in American strategy — and thus the risk of nuclear exchanges — was more than rhetorical.
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As if on cue to remind anyone who might have forgotten just what is at stake — and just hours before the U.N. Security Council meeting — Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh raised the specter of nuclear war and triumphantly proclaimed that India might now abandon its "No First Use" nuclear doctrine.
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Instead of being relegated to a few minutes at the end of the debate, discussions of nuclear first use and withdrawing from Afghanistan could have gotten a solid half hour or more, along with fuller discussion of returning to the Iran deal and the next stage of negotiations with North Korea.
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Current U.S. policy allows the first use of nuclear weapons under certain dire circumstances; President Obama has reportedly considered the possibility of adopting a policy under which Washington would pledge never to use nuclear weapons first (although recent reports suggest he is not leaning toward making such a policy change).
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When compared with those who used a non-flavored product at first, first use of a flavored cigarette, e-cigarette, cigar products, hookah and smokeless tobacco in the first phase studied was associated with current regular use of those products among young adults and adults age 25 and older in the second phase.
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Similarly, when the Army showcased its first use of the "mother of all bombs" in Afghanistan, it appeared not to consider what the act as well as the deliberate publicity surrounding it might signal to dictators like Syria's Bashar al-Assad in terms of US readiness to escalate its use of force.
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Let's think back to all the moments of dragon ownage or battles from previous seasons: Dany's first use of 'dracarys' that allowed her to stride off with an entire Unsullied army, the absolute shock of the Hardhome battle, the Battle of the Bastards, Dany's annihilation of her enemies at Slaver's Bay last season.
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Shekhar Gupta, a political commentator and defense expert, said the government appeared to have an open mind on the issue of 'no first use' of nuclear arms and the comments could be aimed at Pakistan, which has said previously it needed to develop small nuclear weapons to deter a sudden attack by India.
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The nuclear issue arose when the moderator, Lester Holt, noted that President Obama "reportedly considered changing the nation's longstanding policy on first use," which has left open the option that the United States would be the first to detonate a nuclear weapon in a conflict, as it did at Hiroshima 71 years ago.
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The original 1932 composition of "American Painting" incorporates both Davis's first use of an extended written text — the phrase "it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing," from a Duke Ellington hit of the day — and an image of four small male figures posed together as if for a photograph.
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We can buy ourselves some breathing room with any number of emergency measures currently circulating in Congress, like the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act; by starving Trump's nuclear ambitions of the eye-popping funds they require; and by demanding diplomatic engagement with nuclear-armed adversaries, first and foremost the North Koreans.
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The Dictionary of American Slang attributes its first use to 1939, and legend has it that British soldiers used it as a rallying cry during World War II. Whatever it means, nothing is going to stop me from screaming "Nolite te bastardes carborundorum, bitches!!!" whenever a man takes up too much room on the subway.
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Covering nearly four decades, the exhibition Vera Molnar: Drawings 1949-19513 at Senior & Shopmaker offered a fruitful glimpse into the trajectory of Molnar's career, from post-Constructivist abstraction to algorithmic drawings to — in 1968 — her first use of a computer as a drawing tool, which she has continued to do for nearly 50 years.
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Now, we can't be held responsible if you erase a message you later realize you actually needed to hang on to, so proceed at your own risk—if you want to make a backup of your emails first, use Google's comprehensive export tool to get your emails out—though that's really just delaying the inevitable and necessary purge.
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Noting the differences between tech and health care, Thompson said the company isn't looking to expand its services too quickly, only starting its first use outside of a clinical setting this January with hundreds of patients and their doctors at South Lake Tahoe, California–based health system Barton Health, before looking into licensing the technology to big pharma companies.
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The money would be put toward researching vaccines and developing better diagnostics to identify the relatively unknown virus, which has been found in Latin America and the U.S. But House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) shot down the administration's request on Thursday, saying health officials should first use Ebola money before seeking new funding for Zika.
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Steve BullockSteve BullockHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Sunday shows - Recession fears dominate Bullock: Putting Cuccinelli in charge of immigration 'like putting Putin in charge of election security' MORE (D) sparred Tuesday night over her proposed "no first use" policy on nuclear weapons during the Democratic debate.
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We couldn't pin down a first use (the word doesn't appear to show up in print much if at all before the turn of the century), but by the late 2000s it was richly debated in online forums, as flame warriors shot back and forth over which types of gun accessories were tactical, and which were simply tacticool.
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