Having nuclear weapons, possessing nuclear weapons, developing nuclear weapons, is illegal, and they need to stop.
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It owned and operated all U.S. nuclear weapons, it established all nuclear weapons requirements, it conducted nuclear weapons tests, it advanced the science of nuclear weapons effects, it developed all our nuclear weapons strategy and tactics, etc.
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"Iran has never sought nuclear weapons, will never seek nuclear weapons, is now not seeking nuclear weapons," Rouhani said.
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Are we talking tactical nuclear weapons or strategic nuclear weapons?
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It requires nuclear-weapons states not to transfer, assist, encourage or induce any non-nuclear-weapons state to manufacture or acquire explosive devices, while requiring that non-nuclear-weapons states do not receive or manufacture nuclear weapons.
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Nuclear weapons President Trump's critics have voiced few objections to Russia's nuclear weapons modernization.
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I think nuclear weapons are nuclear weapons and we need to draw the line there.
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I think nuclear weapons are nuclear weapons, and we need to draw the line there.
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The Manhattan Project created nuclear weapons and won WWII by excelling in two broad types of science — nuclear weapons design by civilian scientists, and nuclear weapons effects by military officers.
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"We will not make nuclear weapons and we will not proliferate nuclear weapons," Mr. Kim said.
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Erdogan even has threatened to develop nuclear weapons, which justifies withdrawing U.S. tactical nuclear weapons from Turkey.
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The problem with video games and nuclear weapons doesn't have anything to do with nuclear weapons themselves.
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The biggest risk for this world and this country is nuclear weapons, the power of nuclear weapons.
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The Saudis have said they would consider making nuclear weapons if Iran restarts its nuclear weapons program.
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Moscow's statements and deployments show us that nuclear weapons are indeed useful far beyond threatening other nuclear weapons.
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Nuclear weapons save lives Since 1945, nuclear weapons have eliminated great power wars, saving the lives of untold millions.
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It is the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, not the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons.
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Some favor the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which bans all nuclear weapons and related activities.
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Now, wouldn't you rather in a certain sense have Japan have nuclear weapons when North Korea has nuclear weapons?
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Sandia is a part of the larger Kirtland Nuclear Weapons Complex, which includes the Air Force's Nuclear Weapons Center and what is believed to be one of the largest nuclear weapons repositories in the United States.
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The point of having it is to reduce the risk that anybody uses nuclear weapons, uses nuclear weapons against us.
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But most countries still don't have nuclear weapons — and no individuals do — because of how nuclear weapons must be developed.
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It isn't even about nuclear weapons in South Korea -- the US hasn't stationed nuclear weapons in the country since 1992.
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The "crown jewels" of our nuclear weapons complex (scientists and engineers with extensive experience in testing nuclear weapons) are gone.
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Turkey is a member of NATO, and is a custodian of nuclear weapons for the United States hosts nuclear weapons there.
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The United States and Russia have approximately 7,000 nuclear weapons a piece, 85033 percent of the nuclear weapons in the world.
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As countries relied upon nuclear weapons test explosions to prove their new designs, a competitive frenzy of nuclear weapons development flourished.
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" He continued: "Now, wouldn't you rather, in a certain sense, have Japan have nuclear weapons when North Korea has nuclear weapons?
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And far from giving Iran a green light to build nuclear weapons, the agreement permanently bars Iran from building nuclear weapons.
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Nuclear weapons systems are particularly problematic since the possession of nuclear weapons carries an implicit threat of use under certain circumstances.
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He warned of the risk of Pyongyang selling nuclear weapons technology to Islamic State, al Qaeda, or any aspiring nuclear-weapons state.
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We subsequently saw the devastation caused by nuclear weapons, and learned we must try to refrain from ever using nuclear weapons again.
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We live in a nuclear age, in which scary people have nuclear weapons and the only defense against them is nuclear weapons.
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How can possessors of nuclear weapons assure that their nuclear weapons are effective in providing a deterrent to another nuclear-armed country?
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In 2010, he said the United States would not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against any non-nuclear weapons country.
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But this does not stop North Korea from conducting missile and nuclear weapons tests to develop their ICBM and nuclear weapons capability.
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"We will not make nuclear weapons and we will not proliferate nuclear weapons," Mr. Kim said during a New Year's Day address.
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After all, what good is a treaty banning nuclear weapons if it hasn't actually been able to, you know, ban nuclear weapons?
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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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Furthermore, nuclear-weapons states, including the U.S. and China, would commit not to use nuclear weapons in a first strike against either Korea.
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He has served as an advisor to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the global civil society campaign to ban nuclear weapons.
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Francis denounced nuclear weapons, repeating his position that the mere possession of nuclear weapons is immoral, and Guterres praised the pope's disarmament efforts.
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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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The 2010 review also placed limits on when the US would be willing to use nuclear weapons, saying, "The United States will not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapons states that are party to the (Non-Proliferation Treaty)," while also suggesting the US would not retaliate against a chemical or biological weapons attack with nuclear weapons.
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In a world where Pakistan has nuclear weapons... where North Korea has nuclear weapons...and where IRAN--the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism--is close to having nuclear weapons...this, a catastrophic attack on innocent Americans, is a very real threat.
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"Wouldn't you rather in a certain sense have Japan have nuclear weapons when North Korea has nuclear weapons?" he said to CNN in March.
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And, bottom line, a regionally aggressive Iran without nuclear weapons was a much better outcome than a regionally aggressive Iran armed with nuclear weapons.
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"It expands the scenarios under which the United States might use nuclear weapons and therefore increases the risk of nuclear weapons use," Rief said.
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The US is believed to store some 180 nuclear weapons in other countries, the Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor (NWBM) said in its 2018 report.
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They were told that normal relations with the United States would require complete, verifiable, irreversible dismantlement of their nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons facilities.
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To the Editor: Thank you, Carol Giacomo, for your support for female experts on nuclear weapons ("The Nuclear Weapons Sisterhood," Editorial Observer, May 19).
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New nuclear weapons The Trump administration wants to build two new types of nuclear weapons that it suggests are more likely to be used.
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These include an increase in the number of countries possessing nuclear weapons and a greater number of nuclear weapons in each country's nuclear arsenal.
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By the late 1970s, the number of nations possessing nuclear weapons had grown to at least six, possessing nearly 50,000 nuclear weapons among them.
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Nuclear weapons based on fission typically have a yield of around 10 kilotons, while nuclear weapons employing fusion can have a yield measured in megatons.
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" Then, a moment later, he went on: "Wouldn't you rather in a certain sense have Japan have nuclear weapons when North Korea has nuclear weapons?
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It did not cover tactical nuclear weapons either and perhaps there was a case to include non-nuclear weapons in any new update, said Huntsman.
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In accord with nuclear deterrence theory, a country threatens to use nuclear weapons, believing that it will prevent the use of nuclear weapons against it.
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The president has basically unconstrained authority to use nuclear weapons, a seemingly insane system that flows pretty logically from America's strategic doctrine on nuclear weapons.
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After all, the US didn't use nuclear weapons against Iraq in the 211 Gulf War, even though Iraq didn't have any nuclear weapons to retaliate with.
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The two Koreas first forswore nuclear weapons in a solemn agreement in 1992, shortly after America removed tactical nuclear weapons from its bases in South Korea.
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North Korea, Kim announced, would never use nuclear weapons or transfer nuclear weapons or nuclear technology "unless there are nuclear threats and nuclear provocations" against it.
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In May last year, it said it had the ability to miniaturize nuclear weapons, a development that would allow it to deploy nuclear weapons on missiles.
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"Our stuff was all about nuclear weapons, the need for disarmament, the need for the US to participate in the new UN treaty" on nuclear weapons.
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Although Israel has not acknowledged its nuclear weapons program, experts from The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists assess that the country possesses about 80 nuclear weapons.
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Additionally, China's nuclear weapons are not operationally deployed, meaning its warheads are stored separately from its missiles — unlike the nuclear weapons of the U.S. and Russia.
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"The draft language is strong and categorically prohibits nuclear weapons," Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, said in a statement.
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He further advocated boosting confidence measures and faster nuclear weapons reductions by the P5, which would encourage other countries not to pursue nuclear weapons, he said.
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"The Trump administration's call for new nuclear weapons is a major shift in US policy," Mount said when asked the proposal for low-yield nuclear weapons.
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DNA housed the national laboratory for nuclear weapons effects, and conducted the underground nuclear tests that are the life blood of the nuclear weapons effects science.
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"Unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity," the bulletin said.
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Would Kim agree to the total opening of his country to hundreds of nuclear weapons inspectors who would document, quantify, and then dismantle his nuclear weapons program?
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The United States has used nuclear weapons twice and has threatened to use them again on multiple occasions, even against countries that do not possess nuclear weapons.
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In the second presidential debate, Clinton briefly mentioned nuclear weapons when elaborating on her successes, such as negotiating treaties to reduce nuclear weapons and Iran's nuclear program.
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"There is no sane strategic use of nuclear weapons, and we need to reduce our nuclear arsenal, not create a new generation of nuclear weapons," he said.
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Iran denies seeking nuclear weapons and refers to a religious decree issued in the early 2000s by Khamenei that bans the development or use of nuclear weapons.
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"Short of giving them South Korea and a pile of money and eliminating our nuclear weapons," he says, "I can't see them giving up" their nuclear weapons.
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" Asked about the presence of nuclear weapons on the peninsula, a US defense official said "we do not discuss the location of nuclear weapons; however, in the early '90s, President George H. W. Bush announced the withdrawal of all naval and land-based tactical nuclear weapons deployed abroad.
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It had already declared itself "a responsible nuclear weapons state" and disavowed the use of nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is first infringed by others with nuclear arms.
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In fact, nuclear weapons scientists believe they have a better understanding and confidence in the reliability of U.S. nuclear weapons than when they were conducting nuclear test explosions.
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The country is "unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities because its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival," he continued.
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The country is "unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities because its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival," he continued.
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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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North Korea is widely believed to have a small number of nuclear weapons, and it claims to have the ability to strike the United States with nuclear weapons.
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The Nuclear Posture Review will, among other issues, assess how many nuclear weapons are necessary to deter nuclear attack and whether new types of nuclear weapons are necessary.
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The alternative course – of preventing Iran from producing nuclear weapons – leads to the caging of the nuclear genie and the world's long-term peaceful coexistence with nuclear weapons.
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Last year's winner was the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which successfully pushed the United Nations to pass the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
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Our leaders — following the mistaken idea that nuclear weapons are evil — wished to deny their progress; thus their top-priority goal has been to prevent nuclear weapons testing.
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North Korea has cheated on every agreement it ever made regarding nuclear weapons and changed its constitution in 2012 to establish itself as a permanent nuclear weapons state.
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North Korea is the only country to test nuclear weapons this century, and Kim has emphasized that nuclear weapons are a fundamental part of his regime's national security.
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The policy means exactly what it sounds like -- in the event of a war, the country won't use nuclear weapons unless they're attacked by an enemy using nuclear weapons.
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Trump: Never called for more countries to have nuclear weapons REALITY CHECK: False Trump said last spring that other countries, particularly Japan, should be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons.
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Outside of NATO, Israel has its own nuclear weapons program, although details are sparse about whether the Israeli version, the F-35I, will be able to use nuclear weapons.
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And while Trump says he would be the last to use nuclear weapons, he has repeatedly not ruled out using nuclear weapons against the Islamic State or in Europe.
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You strongly support America's NATO alliances, oppose Russian aggression, back the treaty that keeps Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and oppose the proliferation of nuclear weapons to other nations.
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Most importantly, it calls on the United States to pursue negotiations among all nine nuclear weapons states for a verifiable, enforceable, time-bound agreement to eliminate their nuclear weapons.
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All group members have signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, either as nuclear weapons states (the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China) or as non-nuclear weapons states (everybody else).
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However, it reserves the right to use nuclear weapons first to respond to a non-nuclear attack by countries that have nuclear weapons, namely Russia, China and North Korea.
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Alex Wellerstein, an historian of physics and nuclear weapons at the Stevens Institute of Technology, created the original Nukemap as an educational tool to build awareness about nuclear weapons.
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Despite the caveats, a verifiable dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear weapons complex and stockpile would remove the threshold breaking the small state nuclear weapons threat to the U.S. homeland.
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Nuclear weapons have been its pursuit since Kim Jong Un's grandfather, Kim Il Sung, first approached China and then the Soviet Union for assistance with a nuclear weapons program.
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The deal was, from the standpoint of nuclear weapons experts, a really great deal that did a really good job of addressing the potential of Iranian nuclear weapons capability.
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This could lead to loose nuclear weapons in North Korea unaccounted for, and could also put thousands of scientists and engineers who can build nuclear weapons out of work.
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This tension is captured in the Trump administration&aposs updated nuclear policy, which points to Russian reliance on nuclear weapons as justification for deploying new types of U.S. nuclear weapons.
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India has refused, which means it has not accepted legally binding commitments to pursue disarmament negotiations, halt the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons and not test nuclear weapons.
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As Eric Schlosser, author of "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety," says: The problem with nuclear weapons is that human beings control them.
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According to Iran's captured and exposed "atomic archive," the facility was once a key fixture of Tehran's past nuclear weapons efforts aimed at producing 1-2 nuclear weapons per year.
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"The entire premise of American foreign policy as it relates to nuclear weapons for the last 70 years has been focused on preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons," he continued.
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The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons was instrumental in pushing for a United Nations resolution adopted earlier this year that called for the eventual elimination of all nuclear weapons.
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An Iran armed with nuclear weapons is clearly not preferable to an Iran without nuclear weapons, the latter of which we've seen since 2015 when the nuclear agreement was signed.
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It had argued that nuclear powers were failing to adhere to the 1970 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, notably by developing a new generation of "tactical" nuclear weapons.
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I had no idea that President Obama is considering making a pledge that the United States will only use nuclear weapons against another country that has already used nuclear weapons first.
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Of the nine nuclear weapons nations, the US, USSR (whose weapons are now exclusively owned by Russia), UK, France, China, and likely Israel had nuclear weapons before the treaty was enforced.
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Additionally, the assurances that nuclear weapons states make to allies would likely lose their reliability if an adversary could successfully hack into the nuclear weapons systems on which several countries rely.
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The Department of Energy's nuclear weapons labs excelled in the former, and DOD's "national laboratory for nuclear weapons effects" — the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA) and its predecessors — excelled in the latter.
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While Congress has committed to spending $2628 trillion on nuclear weapons over the next 28503 years, it has severely neglected the OST and its critical role in the nuclear weapons enterprise.
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"The entire premise of American foreign policy as it relates to nuclear weapons for the last 70 years has been focused on preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons," Mr. Rhodes said.
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The winner, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), promoted talks at the United Nations that resulted in a treaty banning the development, ownership or use of all nuclear weapons.
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"The idea that anyone can contemplate using nuclear weapons at any stage against anybody is unthinkable," Mr. Corbyn, who has advocated that Britain give up its nuclear weapons, told Sky News.
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The NPT rests in a delicate balance on three pillars: non-acquisition by non-nuclear weapons states, access to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, and gradual disarmament by nuclear weapons states.
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" STEPHANOPOULOS: "Do you think he's still building nuclear weapons?
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U.S. nuclear weapons are old -- decades old, in fact.
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"What really kept us awake at night when we conducted a nuclear posture review was not these few new novel systems but was their huge inventory of non-strategic nuclear weapons, these are tactical nuclear weapons sometimes referred to as theater nuclear weapons," the official said, adding that the new nuclear weapons such as the much touted nuclear torpedo did not provide Moscow with a capability that it did not already have with its already existing arsenal.
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Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un trading threats with words like "fire and fury"; Pakistan deploying tactical nuclear weapons to counter Indian conventional threats; Russia enunciating an Orwellian doctrine of "escalate-to-de-escalate" that calls for early use of battlefield nuclear weapons; and major nuclear-weapons states modernizing their arsenals — nukes are back.
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"We will never use nuclear weapons unless there is nuclear threat or nuclear provocation to our country, and in any case we will not transfer nuclear weapons and nuclear technology," Kim said.
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"The question I always pose to people is which would you rather have: state-sponsored terrorism with a nuclear weapons capability or state-sponsored terrorism without a nuclear weapons capability," he added.
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"If we're going to respond with nuclear weapons every time the North Koreans say something outrageous, there are going to be a lot of nuclear weapons flying through the air," he says.
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There are, of course, major differences between Iran and North Korea, not least of which is that Iran had only a potential nuclear weapons program, and had not yet developed nuclear weapons.
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The nine nuclear countries, which include the U.S., Russia, U.K., France, China, India, Pakistan and Israel, possess more than 15,000 nuclear weapons altogether, according to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
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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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And Mr. Putin, who has domestic problems and has discussed using nuclear weapons in a conflict with NATO, may decide to announce the deployment of nuclear weapons in Kaliningrad, or even Crimea.
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Goldwater talked loosely about nuclear weapons, saying things like "let's lob one into the men's room at the Kremlin," and suggesting that nuclear weapons could be used to defoliate jungles in Vietnam.
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North Korea threatened Monday to use nuclear weapons against the U.S. if it is provoked militarily, adding that its nuclear weapons program is not up for negotiation, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Defense officials say Russia's arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons is much more concerning than the slew of recently announced new Russian nuclear weapons including a nuclear torpedo and nuclear powered cruise missile.
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Iran says it has enriched uranium for civilian purposes and has never sought nuclear weapons, but the United States and IAEA believe it once had a nuclear weapons program that it ended.
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But arms control advocates have expressed alarm at the plan, saying low-yield nuclear weapons are still nuclear weapons and that having them could make the U.S. more willing to use them.
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The Trump administration's 2017 Nuclear Posture Review would fund two new tactical nuclear weapons, which groups such as the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists say could lower the threshold for using nuclear weapons.
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In 85033 President Obama outlined his vision of a world without nuclear weapons, and the centerpiece of this anti-nuclear weapon agenda was to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons state.
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Consequently, Pyongyang sees no guarantees for its survival other than nuclear weapons and while it proclaims it will negotiate about other issues, it will not negotiate away its rights to nuclear weapons.
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It created two tiers of states: the five approved nuclear weapons states (permanent members of the UN Security Council); and the other states (currently 85033) who signed as non-nuclear-weapons states.
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Under the NPT, countries that don't currently possess nuclear weapons are prevented from developing or spreading nuclear weapons technologies, but they can pursue nuclear activities for peaceful purposes like research or energy.
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He said that North Korea "has accelerated its provocative pursuit of nuclear weapons and missile capabilities" and represented a threat to the U.S. "North Korea has accelerated its provocative pursuit of nuclear weapons and missile capabilities, and expressed explicit threats to use nuclear weapons against the United States and its allies in the region," he said.
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The nuclear archives carried out of Iran by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency in late January demonstrated the ease with which a nuclear weapons threshold state can hide elements of its nuclear weapons program.
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"The entire premise of American foreign policy as it relates to nuclear weapons for the last 70 years has been focused on preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons to additional states," Rhodes said.
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Oil prices rallied after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran had lied about not pursuing nuclear weapons and had expanded its nuclear weapons knowledge after signing a 2015 deal with global powers.
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"If South Korea arms itself with nuclear weapons, North Korea will regard the South Korean nuclear weapons, not the distant American nukes, as the most direct threat to its security," Mr. Cheong said.
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However, while the number of nuclear weapons has come way down, civilization and possibly the human species could be wipred out by only a tiny percentage of the nuclear weapons that still exist.
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History shows that we can, if we must, tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea — the same way we tolerated the far greater threat of thousands of Soviet nuclear weapons during the Cold War.
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Low yield nuclear weapons The review calls for more focus on US "low yield" nuclear weapons to try to convince Russia that the US has a credible deterrent against the potential Russian threat.
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By mid-century the world's count of nuclear weapons states will be about forty, as the most-advanced third-world states will have parlayed the reactor technology they're building today into nuclear weapons.
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This level of ignorance about the literal facts of nuclear weapons, together with his generally uneducated approach to policy, means it's very likely he also doesn't understand the strategic role of nuclear weapons.
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Both countries have ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
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A surviving Tsar Bomba casing at Sarov's nuclear weapons museum.
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Soviet nuclear weapons had even been removed from Eastern Europe.
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In 2001, the last nuclear weapons were withdrawn from Greece.
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Their -- their existence depends, Blake, on keeping some nuclear weapons.
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Kephart's experiment used beryllium left over from nuclear weapons research.
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Is this really a safe place to store nuclear weapons?
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It is less repressive and does not have nuclear weapons.
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Dialogue will avert war and discourage proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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Humanity must fight for the abolition of all nuclear weapons.
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Nuclear weapons should under no circumstances be used against humans.
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But, like Libya, it had not yet built nuclear weapons.
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" By contrast, said Mr. Einhorn, "North Korea has nuclear weapons.
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North Korea thinks that nuclear weapons make it more secure.
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Update complete: U.S. nuclear weapons no longer need floppy disks.
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An unpredictable leader with nuclear weapons is making Germans nervous.
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We had the problem of that with-- with nuclear weapons.
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America's nuclear weapons and military strength are deterrents, he said.
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And even more states are threatening to develop nuclear weapons.
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His aides quietly briefed that this would include nuclear weapons.
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But since they both have nuclear weapons, it is not.
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America might have to deploy tactical nuclear weapons once more.
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The true scale of nuclear weapons is really something, man.
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Japanese cruise missiles and nuclear weapons are some way off.
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So, figuring out how they plan to use nuclear weapons.
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Pyongyang says it has the right to develop nuclear weapons.
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In 1992, they jointly vowed not to seek nuclear weapons.
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It refuses to confirm or deny it has nuclear weapons.
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One is nuclear weapons and the other is climate change.
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Shultz: Well, we're not paying attention to nuclear weapons anymore.
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In some respects, we were remarkably fortunate with nuclear weapons.
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Nuclear weapons are not the solution to its domestic woes.
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America must never allow these lunatics to develop nuclear weapons.
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Many other countries are also increasing their nuclear weapons arsenal.
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A world without nuclear weapons is an absolutely terrible idea.
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But Kim won't give up his nuclear weapons, they said.
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North Korea's perceived need for nuclear weapons will never change.
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China reiterated its opposition on North Korea developing nuclear weapons.
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We cannot afford an erratic finger on our nuclear weapons.
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How worried should we be about North Korea's nuclear weapons?
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He advised South Korea and Japan to get nuclear weapons.
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The crew was unaware they had nuclear weapons on board.
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Americans hate nuclear weapons, and those who think about them.
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O.K., so what about the deterrent effect of nuclear weapons?
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Nuclear weapons are an insurance policy, essentially underwritten in blood.
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Cooper: You would be fine with them having nuclear weapons?
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Nuclear weapons are central to his regime's identity and survival.
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We'll ignore nuclear weapons for now and keep things conventional.
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There is no planned expansion of nuclear weapons, NBC reported.
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Trump has established himself as a proponent of nuclear weapons.
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Today, nuclear weapons are having a renaissance, again confronting news
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COOPER: You would be fine with them having nuclear weapons?
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Unlike in the 19th century, some nations have nuclear weapons.
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WHERE have Christians stood in the debate about nuclear weapons?
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This communicated more than Mr. Obama's concerns about nuclear weapons.
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Agreements have set limits on countries' uses of nuclear weapons.
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Nuclear weapons provide the ultimate insurance policy for his regime.
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Iran has repeatedly denied any intent to develop nuclear weapons.
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Unsurpassed nuclear weapons strength – not weakness – must be our goal.
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Israel has never publicly admitted to possession of nuclear weapons.
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Trump's statements about nuclear weapons are in the Goldwater category.
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KAINE: Stopping a nuclear weapons program without firing a shot?
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Iran sought to develop nuclear weapons and missile delivery systems.
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Clearly, Moscow sees nuclear weapons as usable instruments of war.
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US nuclear weapons were even withdrawn from Britain in 2008.
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Even if the theocracy has yet to acquire nuclear weapons.
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In response, Iran could restart its suspected nuclear weapons program.
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Rick Perry, has demonstrated no meaningful knowledge of nuclear weapons.
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It responded India's provocative strategy by introducing tactical nuclear weapons.
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In this thought experiment, Kim doesn't actually need nuclear weapons.
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Iran has repeatedly denied that it will seek nuclear weapons.
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Will Mr. Kim ever give up North Korea's nuclear weapons?
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Newspaper articles detailed the killing effects of Soviet nuclear weapons.
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Can you really just move 50 or more nuclear weapons?
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In other words, what happens when AI meets nuclear weapons?
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Unlike actual nuclear weapons, this nuclear option can be undone.
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In fact, many developed countries do not have nuclear weapons.
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Yet the analogy to nuclear weapons is again a mischaracterization.
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Troubling comments from a top American official about nuclear weapons.
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Experts believe Kim thinks nuclear weapons keep his regime safe.
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This treaty creates a norm that nuclear weapons are bad.
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Elizabeth Warren's comments on nuclear weapons during Tuesday's presidential debate.
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"We do not have tactical nuclear weapons," Mr. Abbasi said.
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After that, the United States stopped denigrating China's nuclear weapons.
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He said he was proud of the North's nuclear weapons.
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After that, other agreements limit nuclear weapons development in Iran.
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It is guaranteed to produce global proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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But the North continued its efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
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It does not prevent Iran from developing deliverable nuclear weapons.
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But one with nuclear weapons — for real — at his disposal.
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The North Korean nuclear weapons program has changed all that.
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They don't need nuclear weapons right next to their country.
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But I don't think nuclear weapons will ever go away.
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The threat from Kim Jong Un's nuclear weapons is existential.
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For many years, Trump has expressed curiosity about nuclear weapons.
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In January, the country conducted its fourth nuclear weapons test.
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Iran has denied that it wants to acquire nuclear weapons.
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Additionally, some hypersonic weapons can be outfitted with nuclear weapons.
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North Korea must renounce nuclear weapons before we will negotiate.
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North Korea also reportedly tested two nuclear weapons last year.
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The overall U.S. nuclear weapons capability has deteriorated beyond comprehension.
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It may have far more nuclear weapons than we estimate.
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Kim has aggressively pursued nuclear weapons and ballistic missile technology.
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Washington wants North Korea to end its nuclear weapons program.
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Clinton: I find it ironic that he's raising nuclear weapons.
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Kim has nuclear weapons, so you don't want to miss!
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COOPER: You would be fine with them having nuclear weapons?
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We want to be sure they don't get nuclear weapons.
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And negotiated a treaty with Russia to lower nuclear weapons.
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Iran denies seeking nuclear weapons and refers to a fatwa or religious decree issued in the early 2000s by Iran's top authority Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that bans the development or use of nuclear weapons.
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Efforts to make the world safer have also been complicated by North Korea's nuclear weapons advance and Pakistan's move toward smaller, tactical nuclear weapons, which Washington fears may further destabilize an already volatile region.
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Obama's lack of experience apparently led him to perceive nuclear weapons simplistically as an evil to be eliminated, and he established his vision of "a world without nuclear weapons" as America's No. 85033 goal.
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Washington has demanded that Pyongyang give up its nuclear weapons unilaterally, and U.S. officials have said U.S. policy continues to be to maintain sanctions on North Korea until it gives up its nuclear weapons.
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Lastly, Iran always (if implausibly) denied that it was seeking the capability to make nuclear weapons—the supreme leader Ali Khamenei even issued a fatwa that described possessing nuclear weapons as a "grave sin".
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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, once ratified by 50 nation states, will ban nuclear weapons, just as every other weapon of mass destruction including chemical and biological weapons have been banned.
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While closing Yongbyon would slow North Korea's ability to produce nuclear weapons, it would not eliminate and it would not address the nuclear weapons Kim already has -- a fact also alluded to by Trump.
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SANGER: President Obama, as you know, has talked about reducing the number of nuclear weapons in the American arsenal and hopefully getting to the point, maybe not in our lifetimes, of no nuclear weapons.
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The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) was awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize by a Nobel committee that cited the spread of nuclear weapons and the growing risk of an atomic war.
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The treaty prohibits signatories from development, deployment, and stockpiling of nuclear weapons, or if the country is already in possession of nuclear weapons, commits that country to the total elimination of their nuclear program.
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The thousands of DOD nuclear weapons specialists and sub-specialists, through which DNA managed DOD's nuclear weapons capabilities worldwide During the Cold War are now gone, and their meagre replacements don't know their business.
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The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), an international advocacy group that helped bring about the landmark 2017 United Nations nuclear weapons ban treaty.
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There have been at least six episodes during the nuclear weapons era when either Moscow or Washington began the process of launching its nuclear weapons in the mistaken belief that it was already under attack.
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Many in South Korea have called for development of home-grown nuclear weapons or the return of U.S. nuclear weapons to deter North Korea, although South Korea says it has no plans to reintroduce them.
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After years of threatening to kill millions of Americans with nuclear weapons, North Korea now says it wants to chat with US leaders as way to lower tensions due to its improving nuclear weapons program.
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And Barack Obama created a whole new nuclear weapons arms race by investing a trillion dollars over the next couple of decades in a whole new generation of nuclear weapons and their modes of delivery.
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RELATED: Kim Jong Un: We'll only use nuclear weapons if sovereignty threatened As a result, the regime has the ability to hold the US and allies "at risk" with nuclear weapons, the US official said.
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Another option is akin to Israel's 1981 stealth attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor, the linchpin of Saddam Hussein's nuclear-weapons development, which set back Iraq's pursuit of nuclear weapons by at least a decade.
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No North Korean denuclearization on the horizon: The country is "unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities because its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival," he continued.
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But his push to modernize the American nuclear weapons stockpile could cause a new arms race, and nuclear weapons programs in North Korea and Pakistan have arguably made the world less safe during his tenure.
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At the same time that these reductions in arsenals have taken place, nuclear weapons have proliferated to three new countries (India, Pakistan and North Korea), in addition to the six initial nuclear weapons states (U.
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"North Korea has accelerated its provocative pursuit of nuclear weapons and missile capabilities, and expressed explicit threats to use nuclear weapons against the United States and its allies in the region," Wood told the forum.
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There are even interrelationships between AI [artificial intelligence], cybertechnology, and nuclear weapons—and when you increase international tensions and countries possess nuclear weapons, you obviously, at some level, increase the likelihood of war as well.
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The U.K. is viewed as adept at building a nuclear weapons state while using a minimal deterrent — although it does not rule out using nuclear weapons in a first strike, per the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
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" (Dead wrong, of course.) He asserted that the United States must destroy the Saddam regime because, "make no mistake about it, if and once Saddam has nuclear weapons, the terror network will have nuclear weapons.
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Mr. Kim showed the world that it is possible to leave the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, develop nuclear weapons and win a summit meeting with the president of the United States.
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" He underlined that NATO's deterrent also included nuclear weapons, saying "no one should think that nuclear weapons can be used as part of a conventional conflict — it would change the nature of any conflict fundamentally.
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Several prominent nuclear weapons experts have urged Mr. Trump to send an envoy, arguing that President Barack Obama's refusal to engage with the North allowed it to make significant advances in its nuclear weapons program.
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More important, North Korea has moved in fits and starts to build a nuclear weapons capability that may be as large as 60 nuclear weapons, including a small number that can strike the United States.
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A Trump administration Nuclear Posture Review released Friday shows a greater willingness to use nuclear weapons first and calls for development of new nuclear weapons and capabilities to counter rivals such as Russia and China.
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Finally, for the past eight years our President Obama has made "a world with nuclear weapons" America's paramount national objective, backing it up with deep cutbacks of all types in the U.S. nuclear weapons capability.
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"It is conceivable that North Korea's nuclear weapons programme has already considerably advanced and it is possible that North Korea has already achieved the miniaturisation of nuclear weapons and has acquired nuclear warheads," it said.
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Acton said it's understandable there's uneasiness from South Koreans watching their neighbor to the north develop nuclear weapons, but added that there's still not been a serious debate about the costs of acquiring nuclear weapons.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he discussed North Korea's nuclear weapons program with Russian President Vladimir Putin in their meeting on Monday, and that the two leaders also discussed reducing nuclear weapons worldwide.
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It is also deep enough to avoid damage from nuclear weapons.
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It has the second largest number of nuclear weapons after Russia.
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Sandia National Laboratories is tasked, in part, with studying nuclear weapons.
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Imagine nuclear weapons smack in the middle of the Middle East.
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And this is especially true when nuclear weapons are in play.
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Nuclear weapons had also been coming up earlier in the debate.
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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump seems of two minds on nuclear weapons.
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It is more a bargaining tactic than a nuclear weapons option.
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Oh, and as an aside: low-yield nuclear weapons are bullshit.
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First, America now wants to develop more low-yield nuclear weapons.
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"It's clear we're not moving away from nuclear weapons," Martin said.
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Traditional nuclear weapons use plutonium (or uranium) as their main fuel.
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Oh – and it didn't stop North Korea from getting nuclear weapons.
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Taking the ratio, you find that you need 600,24,21015,21018,22,2000 nuclear weapons.
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Being a nuclear-weapons power is a priority for the North.
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He called Russia's nuclear weapons guardian angels that protected Orthodox Civilization.
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Obama also focused on pushing for a world without nuclear weapons.
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A volatile and belligerent dictator with nuclear weapons in North Korea.
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The momentum toward a world free of nuclear weapons has withered.
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Iran says its missiles are not designed to carry nuclear weapons.
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Its clear priority is halting the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
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Around the world, nuclear weapons reached, and then decimated their targets.
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The U.S. remains the only country to have used nuclear weapons.
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Iran denies supporting terrorism or having sought to develop nuclear weapons.
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But the horror of nuclear weapons ultimately helped keep the peace.
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Iran says it has never pursued the development of nuclear weapons.
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The deal was designed to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
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They don't believe he can stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
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Iran says it has never pursued the development of nuclear weapons.
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But once nuclear weapons are made, the Vienna agency bows out.
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"Israel will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons," Netanyahu said.
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Will you expend your talents in the service of nuclear weapons?
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In particular, the ad highlights Clinton's efforts to reduce nuclear weapons.
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North Korea has spent decades trying to develop operational nuclear weapons.
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Oh and by the way, the threat of using nuclear weapons.
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Fortunately, Iran is not about to become a nuclear-weapons power.
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In terms of the greatest equalizer, nuclear weapons, well, it's bad.
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He used the visit to discuss the threat of nuclear weapons.
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Nuclear weapons remain one of the biggest threats to human life.
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Nuclear weapons have nearly been deployed by mistake, more than once.
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And preferably one with nuclear weapons he'll brandish but never use.
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There's more funding for nuclear weapons and precision weapons, for example.
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It refuses to confirm or deny that it has nuclear weapons.
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He could have obliterated the planet by mistake with nuclear weapons.
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Has Bernie suggested arming Japan and South Korea with nuclear weapons?
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They've been used to produce plutonium, a fuel for nuclear weapons.
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What could be learned from recurrent crises involving nuclear weapons states?
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There are two primary ways modern militaries deliver strategic nuclear weapons.
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There is certainly no role for nuclear weapons in this crisis.
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Its officials have openly raised the possible use of nuclear weapons.
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Trump had said he and Putin discussed reducing nuclear weapons worldwide.
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And the profits could go to an illegal nuclear weapons program.
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Nuclear weapons went forgotten after the end of the Cold War.
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Until we eliminate nuclear weapons, we are living on borrowed time.
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Trump has previously said North Korea will not obtain nuclear weapons.
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Tensions with North Korea remain high over its nuclear weapons program.
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Helping to negotiate and implement a treaty to reduce nuclear weapons.
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"I see cyberweapons as very similar to nuclear weapons," he said.
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We should play the same leadership role with nuclear weapons today.
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China carried out its first nuclear weapons test only in 1964.
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"Iran lied about never having a nuclear weapons program," Netanyahu said.
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What it's like to live in any world with nuclear weapons.
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The first use of nuclear weapons is a political non-starter.
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Soaring words alone will not rid the world of nuclear weapons.
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They must also take responsibility for controlling North Korean nuclear weapons.
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It oversees the nation's nuclear weapons, energy production and waste disposal.
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Rather than blocking Iran's path to nuclear weapons, it paved it.
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The American government's renewed focus on nuclear weapons raises, again, the
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Republican neocons that Saddam Hussein possessed nuclear weapons and that the
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North Korea first got nuclear weapons back in the early 1990s.
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Hydrogen bombs are vastly more devastating that more traditional nuclear weapons.
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Is it ideal to accept that North Korea possesses nuclear weapons?
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Certainly, the United States does not need so many nuclear weapons.
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Last year's winner was the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
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She hasn't encouraged other nations to get their own nuclear weapons.
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The threat from nuclear weapons has scarcely ever been as great.
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During his remarks, he called for a world without nuclear weapons.
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Fordow was at the heart of Tehran's illicit nuclear weapons enterprise.
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This was a crucial step in the development of nuclear weapons.
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Should the U.S. declare it will never use nuclear weapons first?
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The elimination of smaller, tactical nuclear weapons would save billions more.
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The activity follows a stalemate in negotiations over its nuclear weapons.
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However, the approach failed to halt North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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Obama's NPR reduced – ill-advisedly – the role of U.S. nuclear weapons.
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Read the second part of a special report on nuclear weapons.
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"The commitments not to develop nuclear weapons are forever," she said.
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Covenants will not save Israel from Iranian progress on nuclear weapons.
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I was an activist in the 1980s Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign.
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Most ominously, Iran is accelerating its advance toward nuclear-weapons capability.
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North Korea's nuclear weapons program is growing at an alarming rate.
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CLINTON: I — I find it ironic that he's raising nuclear weapons.
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U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons were removed from South Korea in 1991.
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Trump has repeatedly stirred alarm with his comments on nuclear weapons.
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For half a century, we lived with 22019,000 Soviet nuclear weapons.
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Washington has demanded that Pyongyang give up its nuclear weapons unilaterally.
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Songun also served to justify the state's pursuit of nuclear weapons.
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How the world's inventory of nuclear weapons grew — then shrunk again.
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For the U.S., the term means North Korea relinquishing nuclear weapons.
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Doesn't it help the U.S. to have nuclear weapons in Turkey?
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"Nuclear weapons do not bring stability and security" she told reporters.
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Iran has always asserted that it does not seek nuclear weapons.
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It's just a personality disorder with command authority over nuclear weapons.
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"The JCPOA has delayed Iran's development of nuclear weapons," Dunford writes.
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Atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons can lead to multiple dangerous scenarios.
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The North Korean leader believes nuclear weapons keep his regime safe.
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The vast Mayak facility once produced plutonium for Soviet nuclear weapons.
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Iran has repeatedly asserted that it will never develop nuclear weapons.
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At one time hundreds of American nuclear weapons were based there.
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"Because he has nuclear weapons," said Housang Tale, an Iranian nationalist.
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First, North Korea and Iran pose serious nuclear weapons proliferation challenges.
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The US remains the only country to have used nuclear weapons.
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Unlike North Korea, Libya was not actually a nuclear weapons state.
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Iran has repeatedly said that it will never acquire nuclear weapons.
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Iran has no nuclear weapons and has significantly curbed its program.
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Just that he's the only one who controls our nuclear weapons.
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Mainly, the threat of nuclear weapons and climate change, Bronson said.
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Even with nuclear weapons effectively off the table, deterrence is essential.
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There are still more than 15,000 nuclear weapons in the world.
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"We're not within striking range of their nuclear weapons," he said.
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"The [plan] has delayed Iran's development of nuclear weapons," he wrote.
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"They're not going to be doing nuclear weapons," Mr. Trump said.
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The big question is whether he will relinquish his nuclear weapons.
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Nuclear-weapons research was usually classified; other environmental research was not.
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Iranian withdrawal led to the country restarting its nuclear weapons program.
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Opinion: What should Kim trust more: his nuclear weapons or Trump?
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Fighting for the reduction of tens of thousands of nuclear weapons?
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Again, we're much more focused on Iran not having nuclear weapons.
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The other concerned North Korean nuclear weapons programs, according to officials.
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It means the return of American nuclear weapons to South Korea.
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Every person has to open theirs to pay for nuclear weapons.
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"Chemical weapons and nuclear weapons are totally different," Mr. Shen said.
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U.S. nuclear weapons policy must evolve as the nuclear threat evolves.
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Here is the path the world's nuclear weapons are on today.
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Pyongyang declined, however, to give up its nuclear weapons program entirely.
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Experts say that North Korea has fewer than 219 nuclear weapons.
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When it comes to nuclear weapons, newer doesn't necessarily mean better.
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This authority applies even to the first use of nuclear weapons.
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Yes, nuclear weapons are an abominable thing, but war is hell.
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Could we take out North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile capability?
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From Kim's perspective, achieving full nuclear weapons capability solves many problems.
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People don't have to look at nuclear weapons that way forever.
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America's nuclear weapons are quite accurate and always ready for action.
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"Iran can never have nuclear weapons," Mr. Bolton said on Sunday.
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" But, he notes, "that would mean attacking a nuclear weapons power.
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A deal that is going to give Iran absolutely nuclear weapons.
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What comes next is very confusing: COOPER: Saudi Arabia, nuclear weapons?
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"The chance is not zero because nuclear weapons exist," she says.
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The US deployed nuclear weapons to South Korea in the 1950s.
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Sanctions and isolation haven't worked; it [reputedly has] nuclear weapons anyway.
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The talks will center on the Hermit Kingdom's nuclear weapons program.
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And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons.
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Iran says the missiles are not designed to carry nuclear weapons.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department accused Russia on Thursday of developing destabilizing nuclear weapons in violation of its treaty obligations after Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a speech unveiling a new array of nuclear weapons.
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The Obama administration's budget is projecting a trillion dollars' worth of maintenance and upgrades to all three nuclear weapons delivery systems, land and submarine based ballistic missiles and bombers as well as the associated nuclear weapons.
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Experts have been trying to solve the problem of nuclear weapons proliferation since the United States dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 (the only use of nuclear weapons in combat to date).
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This is, in part, a reaction to the administration's expansion of the planned uses of nuclear weapons to include a broad range of non-nuclear contingencies, including using nuclear weapons in response to a cyber attack.
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And, as a step prior to this, or simultaneously, to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which includes prohibitions on the development, deployment, use and threat of use of nuclear weapons.
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"Pyongyang has repeatedly stated that it does not intend to negotiate its nuclear weapons and missiles away because the regime views nuclear weapons are critical to its security," the national intelligence chief said during the hearing.
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Fifth, since there is clear evidence of Russian investment in new non-strategic nuclear weapons, as well as no doubt about Russian declaratory policy on nuclear weapons, we can either ignore such developments or counter them.
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In February, three Stanford University researchers released a report stating that North Korea "continued to operate and, in some cases, expand the nuclear weapons complex infrastructure" in order to produce more raw materials for nuclear weapons.
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Celebrating a group for its efforts to ban nuclear weapons at a time when the threat from nuclear weapons feels higher than it has since the end of the Cold War may seem like a farce.
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While we publicly debated the Iran deal, few pointed to the hypocrisy of the only country in the world to have ever used nuclear weapons against civilian targets lecturing the world about the dangers of nuclear weapons.
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Ballistic missile launches by North Korea violate U.N. security council resolutions aimed at pressing the country to abandon its nuclear weapons program and Pyongyang is subject to extensive international sanctions over its missile and nuclear weapons programs.
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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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Although it reaffirmed an Obama-era pledge not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapons states if they joined and adhered to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the draft introduced a caveat.
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Others don't see the North's leader giving up nuclear weapons anytime soon, since the regime is well aware of what happened with Libya's Moammar Gaddafi when he gave up his nuclear weapons programs after facing Western pressure.
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That accord, which caps the number of strategic deployable nuclear weapons that the U.S. and Russia can field, was a small step towards decreasing the importance of nuclear weapons in the national security strategies of both nations.
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Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, attended the conference and told Reuters that she asked the Pope to lead Catholics in a global prayer to end nuclear weapons on Dec. 10.
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Rather than devoting hundreds of billions of dollars to a dangerous and unnecessary nuclear weapons buildup, we should adopt the approach devised by the organization Global Zero, which is committed to reducing and eventually eliminating nuclear weapons.
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But the idea that nuclear weapons have no appreciable strategic role in modern warfare other than to threaten other nuclear weapons appears to have been invalidated by both North Korea and Russia, if not China and Iran.
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North Korea is thought to have dozens of nuclear weapons, some capable of hitting the continental U.S. and in June, U.S. intelligence officials said the regime could produce between five and eight new nuclear weapons in 2018.
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North Korea is widely believed to have at least several nuclear weapons.
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The North has enough fissile material for up to 20 nuclear weapons.
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But they have, you know, a couple of dozen nuclear weapons, maybe.
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Nuclear weapons are a distant third place in that range of apprehensions.
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Something like this could be important for things like nuclear weapons inspections.
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They also share concern about North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile programmes.
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B-2 and B-52 bombers are capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
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In return, North Korea has detonated nuclear weapons and launched ballistic missiles.
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His work has focused on nuclear weapons, the Middle East, and Asia.
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So I think he is ready to wholly give up nuclear weapons.
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He should focus on three areas: election interference, nuclear weapons and terrorism.
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This has implications on fronts ranging from trade to nuclear weapons policy.
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North Korea is on pace to have 50 nuclear weapons by 2020.
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In the worst case scenario this could escalate to involve nuclear weapons.
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When we think of arms races, most people think of nuclear weapons.
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The kind of uranium Coster-Mullen owns isn't used in nuclear weapons.
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Survivability cannot be had by having nuclear weapons that can hit America.
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For the North Koreans it means that all nuclear weapons are gone.
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The two countries are 90 percent of the world&aposs nuclear weapons.
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It has nuclear weapons, but ultimately these are of little practical value.
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Officially, China wants the Korean peninsula to be free of nuclear weapons.
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Clinton supports talks with Russia to reduce the number of nuclear weapons.
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"For us to obtain nuclear weapons is completely inconceivable," Kishida said Monday.
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In their declaration, that came above the commitment to abandon nuclear weapons.
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Many observers believe, credibly, that slave labor bankrolls the nuclear weapons program.
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In fact, the department is primarily concerned with maintaining US nuclear weapons.
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Iran has consistently denied its missiles are designed to carry nuclear weapons.
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North Korea has carried out multiple nuclear weapons tests over recent years.
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Trump stressed that North Korea would have to abandon its nuclear weapons.
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Where NATO has been surrounding Russia with missiles, nuclear weapons, and troops.
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NUCLEAR WEAPONS U.S. presidential elections are always closely watched by the world.
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They all agree that the North should give up its nuclear weapons.
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Soon afterwards both Koreas agreed to keep nuclear weapons off the peninsula.
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Another option is for South Korea to acquire its own nuclear weapons.
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The Cold War-era nuclear weapons are part of NATO's deterrence strategy.
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The stick, back then, was to upgrade the middle-range nuclear weapons.
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By 2005, North Korea confirmed that it had its own nuclear weapons.
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Kim Jong Un is credited with accelerating North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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This pact is the first international agreement to prohibit nuclear weapons comprehensively.
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The Neána were concerned that so many nuclear weapons were being used.
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Washington has argued that Pyongyang must give up its nuclear weapons first.
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Now, by the way, that&aposs the foundational material for nuclear weapons.
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Mattis also says the process for launching nuclear weapons is very rigorous.
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But, Mattis said, the process for launching nuclear weapons is very rigorous.
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"His cavalier attitude about nuclear weapons is so deeply troubling," Clinton said.
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And what are they going to do with their existing nuclear weapons?
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They have a record of promising to give up their nuclear weapons.
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For the first time an entire class of nuclear weapons was eliminated.
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" Iran, he baritones, "has not relinquished its ambition to obtain nuclear weapons.
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That increases the odds of more nuclear weapons entering the global theater.
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Pentagon officials say China is arming its air force with nuclear weapons.
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NUCLEAR WEAPONS, LIKE the poor, seem likely always to be with us.
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North Korea is the only nation to test nuclear weapons this century.
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In 2005, the North Koreans said they would abandon all nuclear weapons.
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Do you believe that Kim will ever give up his nuclear weapons?
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It's the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons on civilians.
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Economic sanctions were used against Iran to halt its nuclear weapons program.
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So let&aposs deal with the first threat, which is nuclear weapons.
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To prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons epitomizes prudence in the Nuclear Age.
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Japan and South Korea might want to acquire their own nuclear weapons.
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It's not exactly clear, for instance, where Trump stands on nuclear weapons.
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The crucial replacement of our aging nuclear weapons delivery systems was denied.
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They might be a peacemaker in Ukraine, in Syria, in nuclear weapons.
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Washington insists sanctions remain until the North gives up its nuclear weapons.
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There are few cases in which states gave up their nuclear weapons.
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They almost surely already have enough material to make several nuclear weapons.
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North Korea suggested on Monday it will continue its nuclear weapons tests.
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So I think we see clearly evidence that nuclear weapons fuel crisis.
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But they don't have any economic future if they have nuclear weapons.
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Their nuclear weapons have value only if they do not use them.
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Joel: Yes, we drew a fairly crude line: Hollywood or nuclear weapons!
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Development of low-yield nuclear weapons is another pillar of the NPR.
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The 2009 Zapad exercises included rehearsing the use of tactical nuclear weapons.
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Initially, government physicists focused on harnessing fusion energy to make nuclear weapons.
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The administration looked to nuclear weapons as a way reduce military expenditures.
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He took issue with the U.S. bolstering and modernizing its nuclear weapons.
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Nuclear weapons are central to, and the foundation of, our national security.
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At its height, the Soviet Union had fifty-five thousand nuclear weapons.
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If nuclear weapons were used, the outcome would be even more catastrophic.
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Nuclear weapons, even at a cost of crippling sanctions, provide that security.
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He is a long-standing opponent of both NATO and nuclear weapons.
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Mohsen Fakhrizadeh: The leader of Iran's nuclear weapons program, then and now.
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SPND: The organization that continues to carry out Iran's nuclear weapons research.
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The two leaders are slated to discuss North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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Pyongyang's withdrawal in 2202 broke its commitment not to acquire nuclear weapons.
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In his speech, he boasted of developing nuclear weapons and missile technology.
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The North Koreans have been demanding recognition as a nuclear weapons state.
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Today, Russia is believed to have the most nuclear weapons, with 303,230.
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Of the world's approximately 15,000 nuclear weapons, 9,400 are in military arsenals.
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In the late 1980s, the Soviet Union held about 40,000 nuclear weapons.
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U.S. nuclear weapons were cut by two-thirds after the Cold War.
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Both of these tests would be of conventional weapons, not nuclear weapons.
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Nuclear weapons take less than a millionth of a second to detonate.
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Nuclear weapons today involve fusing two atoms together in an uncontrolled explosion.
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First, consider what happens if a president decides to use nuclear weapons.
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If North Korea uses its nuclear weapons, it faces retaliation in kind.
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Lately, Russia has talked openly about the utility of tactical nuclear weapons.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, China helped develop Pakistan's nuclear weapons program.
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Just one thing: an effort to develop wholly new U.S. nuclear weapons.
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What might North Korea want in order to stop developing nuclear weapons?
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Our nuclear weapons are long past the end of their design life.
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It must establish – clearly and concisely – U.S. national policy for nuclear weapons.
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The number of nuclear weapons states must never exceed the current eight.
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China does not currently deploy any of its nuclear weapons on aircraft.
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The North did not invite international nuclear weapons inspectors to the ceremony.
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Abandoning a nuclear weapons control agreement with Iran, which European signatories favored.
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No longer a nuclear weapons factory, nuclear reactor stacks were knocked down...
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First, an absolute hard cap on further developing nuclear weapons and missiles.
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We cannot continue to afford — she took that as saying nuclear weapons.
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He is the author of Zero: The Case for Nuclear Weapons Abolition.
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The threat of nuclear weapons is not involved, which changes the stakes.
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However, the approach ultimately failed to halt North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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You indeed do have a lunatic in North Korea with nuclear weapons.
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How did the Hermit Kingdom get so good at nuclear weapons tests?
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Last week Russia announced new nuclear weapons Putin says can't be intercepted.
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Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, and Taiwan all also abandoned nuclear weapons programs.
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The nuclear weapons will reach U.S. targets in 30 minutes or less.
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CLINTON: ... of what we heard Donald say has been about nuclear weapons.
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First, a treaty-based prohibition against nuclear weapons is a practical impossibility.
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Like nuclear weapons, nuclear energy also poses enduring threats to human health.
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We are fighting a 2016 insurgency with nuclear weapons from the 1980s.
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But he made no promises to relinquish his nuclear weapons or missiles.
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Now is not the time to build larger arsenals of nuclear weapons.
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For the White House, it means Kim giving up his nuclear weapons.
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"So I get a new nuclear weapons program to study," Lewis said.
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Point 4 is important: pledging not to transfer nuclear weapons or technology.
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The big deal is we have to get rid of nuclear weapons.
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In that scenario, some ships will carry nuclear weapons and some won't.
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The single greatest problem the world has is nuclear armament, nuclear weapons.
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Back then, as now, the North's nuclear weapons program was a focus.
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What else explains Mr. Trump's talk about North Korea and nuclear weapons?
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All units involved in nuclear weapons operations are also taking specific precautions.
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Dwan said the world should not ignore the danger of nuclear weapons.
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The Donald's comments about nuclear weapons are sure to haunt the proceedings.
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A military attack would not have ended North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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Read about last year's winner, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
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Instead of blocking Iran's path to nuclear weapons, the agreement paves it.
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China has been an established nuclear weapons state since the early 1960s.
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The rebuilding proposal includes the nation's nuclear weapons, bombers, missiles and submarines.
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As such, they are in charge of the country's nuclear weapons development.
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The Trump administration recently boycotted United Nations talks to abolish nuclear weapons.
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Pakistan provided the regime with know-how on the nuclear weapons side.
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NFU-sceptics also point to the increasing potency of non-nuclear weapons.
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In the meantime, the North raced ahead with its nuclear weapons program.
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Has she apologized for putting Iran on the path to nuclear weapons?
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The four-engine jets can be armed with conventional or nuclear weapons.
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But conservatives argue that it helped finance the North's nuclear weapons program.
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In South Korea, the push to develop nuclear weapons also gathered steam.
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They have to be willing to talk about banning their nuclear weapons.
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This is where its nuclear weapons program fits into North Korea's designs.
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But Pompeo on Tuesday still downplayed Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons.
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But Reykjavik laid the groundwork for future deals to reduce nuclear weapons.
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Do you think we should be spending more money on nuclear weapons?
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Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran are changing the nuclear weapons world.
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Gaddafi's a dead man now because he gave up his nuclear weapons.
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Is there anyone who thinks that North Korea would ban nuclear weapons?
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The U.S. intelligence community believes North Korea may have 28503 nuclear weapons.
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Nearly 15,000 nuclear weapons are currently under the control of nine countries.
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In effect, the Iranians declared their intention to restart nuclear weapons work.
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However, analysts say Pyongyang still considers nuclear weapons key to its survival.
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Sowing uncertainty on the potential employment of nuclear weapons is extremely dangerous.
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FDR created the Manhattan Project, which, in six years, created nuclear weapons.
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Kim already possesses nuclear weapons, and he may never give them up.
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Soviet helicopters began ferrying nuclear weapons from storage sites to launching pads.
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It must be made non-applicable to the five nuclear weapons states.
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But the Russians don't need nuclear weapons in order to attack us.
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My assignment was preventing rogue states and terrorists from getting nuclear weapons.
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Will there be a dangerous new era of unchecked nuclear weapons development?
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The use of nuclear weapons was a thing of history and Hollywood.
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Nuclear weapons do not need to be precise — conventional warheads, however, do.
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Pakistan and India have kept their nuclear weapons and acted quite responsibly.
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There is also a revived belief that nuclear weapons could be used.
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The United States wants North Korea to dismantle its nuclear weapons program.
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The requirements are intended to prevent another country from gaining nuclear weapons.
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But we do let people know that we actually have nuclear weapons.
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Those that have nuclear weapons, many have argued, will never use them.
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North Korea wants an international drawdown of nuclear weapons, including US capability.
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Coats said North Korea is unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons.
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Trump is to push North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.
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We cannot know that he takes nuclear weapons as seriously he should.
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Oil prices rallied after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Iran had lied about not pursuing nuclear weapons and had continued to preserve and expand its nuclear weapons knowledge after signing a 223 deal with global powers.
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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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"It is stunning that this crisis is between two nuclear weapons states and we can't forget the escalation could go to that level," said Ambassador Robert Gallucci, U.S. chief negotiator for 1994 nuclear weapons talks with North Korea.
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Either policy makers implicitly allow the Asian country to continue developing nuclear weapons, and pin hopes on a program of deterrence, or they pursue the "near impossible task" of neutralizing North Korea's nuclear weapons program, Mr. Rothman writes.
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" "We currently assess that North Korea will seek to retain its WMD capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capability because its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival.
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Most of the department's annual $30 billion budget goes to maintaining, refurbishing and keeping safe the nation's nuclear weapons; curbing the spread of nuclear weapons; rebuilding nuclear production facilities; and overseeing a network of highly regarded national laboratories.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of the Nobel Peace Prize winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons said on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un should know that nuclear weapons are illegal.
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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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China, North Korea's main ally, has backed sanctions against Pyongyang and on Saturday in response to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, said it backed a worldwide ban on nuclear weapons.
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"A country determined to pursue enrichment for nuclear weapons — or at least the option to acquire nuclear weapons — may well claim that, for energy security and independence, it must have to own capability, even if not economical," Einhorn said.
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Trump is embracing a literal arms race with an unnamed adversary (presumably China or Russia) that would increase nuclear weapons at a time when America's most dangerous adversaries are non-state actors who can't be fought with nuclear weapons.
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" Trump said nuclear weapons are the biggest threat the U.S. faces: "Not global warming" Later in the debate, Trump said nuclear weapons are the biggest threat the U.S. faces: "Not global warming, like you think and your president thinks.
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Capping off what has been an exceptional week and a half of crazy shit, Joe Scarborough said that, earlier in the campaign, Trump repeatedly asked a nuclear weapons expert why, if we have nuclear weapons, we don't use one.
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If North Korea continues its aggressive pursuit of nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them, other nations like Japan, South Korea and even Vietnam could pursue nuclear weapons or increase regional demand for anti-ballistic missile defense systems.
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The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) was awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize by a Nobel committee that cited the spread of nuclear weapons by countries like North Korea and the growing risk of an atomic war.
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If it wants recognition as a nuclear weapons state, it should be required to meet the nuclear group's standards, including opening negotiations with Pakistan and China on curbing nuclear weapons and halting the production of nuclear fuel for bombs.
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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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In 2005, it committed, with the Bush administration, to "abandoning all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs and returning at an early date to the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons" and to International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards.
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Mr. Moon's office said his government remained opposed to the reintroduction of American tactical nuclear weapons to South Korea, saying that doing so would make it more difficult to persuade North Korea to give up its own nuclear weapons.
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Yongbyon is the only publicly known complex where North Korea produces fissile material for nuclear weapons, but experts have long believed North Korea operates a series of covert sites that contribute to its ballistic missile and nuclear weapons program.
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"The context of an attack that does not involve nuclear weapons initially would be very important to take into account," when considering whether or not to retaliate with nuclear weapons, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy John Rood said.
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The combination of North Korea's growing nuclear threat toward the United States and Trump's "America first" rhetoric has South Koreans talking about the return of tactical nuclear weapons to South Korea or even acquisition of their own nuclear weapons.
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If North Korea gets to keep its nuclear weapons program in any way under a negotiated solution — even under international supervision — Japan and South Korea would, reasonably, feel threatened and several nations would want their nuclear weapons as well.
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Five of the states that currently have nuclear weapons – the USA, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and China – have already committed to this objective through their accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons of 1970.
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It suggests that he doesn't know the basic way nuclear weapons are supposed to work — deterring attacks on the United States — and that he might be the first president since Harry Truman to order the use of nuclear weapons.
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"That's the real issue about confidence in no-nuclear weapons program," he added.
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Trump suggested they could be eased in return for a nuclear weapons deal.
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Sure, the nuclear deal itself has a lot to do with nuclear weapons.
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The Clintons giving nuclear weapons to North Korea is the harbinger of war.
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All the aspects of the North's nuclear weapons program, in this Reuters graphic.
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North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile programs are much more advanced than Iran's.
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All the while, Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and missile capabilities continue to be perfected.
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Basically, having nuclear weapons would make Iran stronger, as it would any country.
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Public pressure led to nuclear weapons being withdrawn from a half-dozen countries.
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The deal does make it extremely difficult for Iran to develop nuclear weapons.
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" The @nytimes states today that DJT believes "more countries should acquire nuclear weapons.
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But North Korea believes that nuclear weapons are vital to its regime's survival.
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But the US government does have a plan to launch its nuclear weapons.
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Seventy-two years later, the specter of nuclear weapons still threatens our planet.
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Nuclear weapons remain the No. 1 risk to world security by all measures.
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You can never say anything is more important than dealing with nuclear weapons.
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"There is a distinct increase in the role of nuclear weapons," Acton said.
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Lesson Plan | Atomic Dilemma: Debating How to Prevent Iran From Developing Nuclear Weapons
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What do you guys wish that people knew about our nuclear weapons program?
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The pact was designed to deny Tehran the ability to build nuclear weapons.
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North Korea has nuclear weapons, and conducted another nuclear test just last month.
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Japan and South Korea may be tempted to arm themselves with nuclear weapons.
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What about letting South Korea and Japan pursue their own nuclear weapons capabilities?
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Only the five authorised nuclear states can help dismantle and remove nuclear weapons.
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That means that taking nuclear weapons seriously in a blockbuster game is impossible.
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Meanwhile, North Korea appears to again be building its nascent nuclear weapons program.
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Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, nuclear weapons have proliferated.
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Increased global tension has highlighted another of Mr Lehrer's favourite themes: nuclear weapons.
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Keep on living there because you don't squat next to any nuclear weapons.
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Historically, we've also planned to use nuclear weapons in response to biological weapons.
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I teach a class on the making of nuclear weapons from 1945 on.
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One is what I think the North Koreans believe nuclear weapons are for.
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He is a young person to be leading a country with nuclear weapons.
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She supports negotiating with Russia to reduce nuclear weapons; no Republican candidate does.
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India and Pakistan have nuclear weapons, but none are believed to be thermonuclear.
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The rogue state remains the only country to test nuclear weapons this century.
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Of course, he got a deal that stopped Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
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We had an arms race where we built more and more nuclear weapons.
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As a senator, Lugar sought to curb the spread of nuclear weapons globally.
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How will he ensure that nuclear weapons do not get into terrorists hands?
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IN ITS quest for nuclear weapons, North Korea is a master of braggadocio.
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The second is that Trump was reportedly briefed on nuclear weapons on Wednesday.
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Pompeo said Kim is "committed" to giving up his country's nuclear weapons program.
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"I could think of more urgent issues, like the nuclear weapons," Cornyn said.
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Pakistan also has tactical nuclear weapons with a range of about 50 miles.
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"In a perfect world, Rachel, we wouldn't have any nuclear weapons," she said.
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Yet Obama's agreement allows them to become an active producer of nuclear weapons!
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We can't let a madman with nuclear weapons on the loose like that.
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After all, nuclear weapons are the only existential threat to the United States.
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South Korea has raised the possibility of reintroducing nuclear weapons to the peninsula.
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Campaigners against the testing of nuclear weapons also slammed the North Korean announcement.
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The reclusive state has also conducted two nuclear weapons tests since January 2016.
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India, of course, would retaliate by launching its own 100-plus nuclear weapons.
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He has essentially unconstrained authority to use nuclear weapons however he sees fit.
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Corbyn, who has opposed nuclear weapons for his entire life, gets into power.
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The nuclear weapons research program he was discussing ended about 15 years ago.
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Also, the ensuing Arms Race made acquisition of nuclear weapons that more important.
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Now the North Korean threat is related to nuclear weapons combined with missiles.
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Mr Corbyn is a life-long critic of both NATO and nuclear weapons.
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The stakes of diplomacy with rogue nations pursuing nuclear weapons are incredibly high.
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Seoul says Kim has expressed genuine interest in dealing away his nuclear weapons.
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It also focuses more attention on the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons programs.
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The new constitution continued to describe North Korea as a nuclear weapons state.
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"We know they have nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them," Gen.
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But again, making it very clear, we did a deal on nuclear weapons.
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He acknowledged, however, that Pyongyang has not committed to abandoning its nuclear weapons.
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Still, nations like the United States continue to possess thousands of nuclear weapons.
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Twenty-six percent say they don't trust either candidate to handle nuclear weapons.
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Russia is working on 22 different short, intermediate, and long-range nuclear weapons.
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They pledged to try to remove all nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula.
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Third, how would such a feat, ending Kim's nuclear weapons program, be accomplished?
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We need to be withdrawing money from banks that support nuclear weapons producers.
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The lightweight metal is used in a number of industries, including nuclear weapons.
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Earlier this month North Korea conducted its sixth and largest nuclear weapons test.
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"His views on nuclear weapons, I think, are pretty well known," Mattis said.
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Illicit nuclear weapons, terrorism and proliferation are all symptoms of a larger disease.
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Pyongyang's ability to strike its adversaries with nuclear weapons remains shrouded in mystery.
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The United States, too, has escalated its actions and rhetoric regarding nuclear weapons.
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Beijing would certainly prefer that Kim Jong-un give up his nuclear weapons.
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"The only reasoning for it is blind opposition to nuclear weapons," he wrote.
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He did not, however, say that Iran currently has a nuclear weapons program.
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Other scheduled meetings will address reducing threats of nuclear weapons and disease prevention.
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Bob Corker, held a hearing Tuesday on the authority to use nuclear weapons.
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A growing number of Americans are concerned about the risks of nuclear weapons.
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It legitimizes, in their view, their dictatorship and legitimizes their nuclear weapons program.
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This is a reduction of more than 55,000 nuclear weapons in the world.
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We declared a nuclear freeze and ceased all work on new nuclear weapons.
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We also know China conducted a limited number of explosive nuclear weapons tests.
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How is he going to keep the North Koreans from getting nuclear weapons?
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North Korea may not become a fully-capable nuclear weapons state for years.
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The NATO state can only deliver its nuclear weapons via aircraft and submarines.
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Lugar was keenly aware of the dangers our world faces from nuclear weapons.
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In one clip, Trump suggested that he might use nuclear weapons in Europe.
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He doesn't want to acknowledge that we stopped the Iranian nuclear weapons program.
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Humanity faces two dire and simultaneous existential threats: nuclear weapons and climate change.
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But officials said terrorists could have turned it into least 130 nuclear weapons.
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And Iran regards Israel, which possesses nuclear weapons, as its most intractable enemy.
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There have been no new nuclear weapons tests or provocative ballistic missile launches.
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Nuclear weapons One of Smith's longtime concerns has been the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
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Editorial Donald Trump might use nuclear weapons to go after Islamic State terrorists.
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Everyone would want their nuclear weapons ready by the time Iran had theirs.
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The new constitution continued to describe North Korea as a nuclear weapons state.
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The US only banned nuclear weapons testing in 1992—decades after negotiations began.
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" Trump noted he doesn't want to use nuclear weapons, calling them "a horror.
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She studied at Oxford and MIT, concentrating in Chinese studies and nuclear weapons.
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Nuclear weapons do not have the same place as missiles in Iranian thinking.
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Nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles are important, but borders are just as important.
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But Japan has periodically considered developing nuclear weapons every decade since the 1960s.
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Nuclear weapons, in other words, would be the ultimate deterrent against regime change.
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Europe's big freeze, new Russian nuclear weapons and a guide to cooking rice.
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It's not about nuclear weapons, leverage with President Trump or the trade war.
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President Trump says he wants to make sure Iran never acquires nuclear weapons.
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In short, nuclear weapons would profoundly alter Iran's strategic situation for the better.
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The Atomic Age might have passed, but threat of nuclear weapons has not.
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Imagine full Japanese and German rearmament, alongside rapid-fire proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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Trump wants to have more nuclear weapons and has threatened to use them.
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Virtually any first use of nuclear weapons would constitute an act of war.
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The big deal is we have to get rid of the nuclear weapons.
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That menace doesn't end until Kim no longer has nuclear weapons to launch.
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Mr. Trump wanted the quick rollback of the North's entire nuclear weapons program.
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Zia ul-Haq as the general developed the country's clandestine nuclear weapons program.
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Bloomberg is the candidate in the game with the equivalent of nuclear weapons.
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Pakistani military and political leaders threatened to use nuclear weapons if India attacked.
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On the other hand, Elon Musk does not have access to nuclear weapons.
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Meanwhile, North Korea, a dystopian Leninist monarchy with nuclear weapons, terrifies the world.
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We're talking about the authority to unleash thousands of nuclear weapons within minutes.
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North Korea has said that its nuclear weapons are not for bargaining away.
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North Korea has said that its nuclear weapons will not be bargained away.
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Between them, the U.S. and Russia possess 90% of the world's nuclear weapons.
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But in reality, it controls U.S. satellites that guide airstrikes and nuclear weapons.
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In exchange, North Korea agreed to freeze and dismantle its nuclear weapons program.
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Both countries have already been working on building more modern nuclear weapons systems.
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"The administration's nuclear weapons spending plans are unnecessary and unsustainable," he told me.
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Instead, weapon designers and war planners have introduced ever more "usable" nuclear weapons.
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Spending a trillion dollars on new nuclear weapons will only buy global insecurity.
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Netanyahu has long accused Iran of seeking nuclear weapons, an allegation it denies.
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They have multi-year appropriations for things like fighter jets or nuclear weapons.
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This creates "weapons grade" uranium used to make reactor fuel and nuclear weapons.
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In this era, I argue that nuclear weapons are irrelevant as a deterrence.
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" They cited "the likelihood that Iran will resume its quest for nuclear weapons.
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The North Koreans have said they need nuclear weapons to deter American aggression.
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Nuclear weapons are almost useless for coercion, but they are great for deterrence.
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It was able to develop nuclear weapons far more quickly than North Korea.
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It also called on Congress to approve the new low-yield nuclear weapons.
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When he dreamed of abolishing nuclear weapons, he deserved consideration for Mount Rushmore.
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Since then, Pyongyang has carried out a total of six nuclear weapons tests.
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North Korea remains the only nation to have tested nuclear weapons this century.
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STEIN: But, you know, at that time it was more about nuclear weapons.
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Together, they began the Plowshares Movement, an anti-nuclear weapons campaign in 1980.
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Tehran has rejected Western assertions that it has sought to develop nuclear weapons.
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President Obama promised that on his watch Iran would not get nuclear weapons.
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As a result we have lost most of our essential nuclear weapons capabilities.
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America's nuclear weapons capability is divided between the Departments of Energy and Defense.
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The essential military science of nuclear weapons effects is virtually unknown throughout DOD.
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They ordered an alert of Soviet nuclear weapons to preempt a U.S. attack.
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Madmen in North Korea and Iran seek nuclear weapons to threaten the world.
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It called for — and delivered — disproportionate reductions to the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal.
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It is keeping Iran well away from the ability to produce nuclear weapons.
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President Barack Obama entered office concerned about the dangers posed by nuclear weapons.
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It has a simple aim to eliminate nuclear weapons by making them illegal.
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This treaty banning nuclear weapons was opened for signatures on September 20, 2017.
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It has helped states articulate the dreadful humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons use.
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During the half-century of Cold War we tested nuclear weapons as needed.
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He is worried about the dangers of nuclear weapons in an uncertain world.
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The big deal is, you have to get rid of the nuclear weapons.
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There is no evidence that North Korea has ceased its nuclear-weapons program.
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Putin also said that, if attacked, Russia was ready to use nuclear weapons.
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"Under current circumstances, he will never give up nuclear weapons voluntarily," Bolton said.
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Nuclear weapons budgets were slashed, and we entered into an unannounced nuclear freeze.
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Donald Trump likes to brag about the superior size of his nuclear weapons.
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Nuclear weapons are the only way to keep the balance with South Korea.
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So he needs nuclear weapons to justify all of North Korea's current problems.
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So I suspect Kim has zero plans to give up his nuclear weapons.
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China is currently creating new tactical nuclear weapons meant for close-range battles.
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The detonation of a few nuclear weapons could destroy most life on earth.
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The isolated North made major strides in 2017 in its nuclear weapons program.
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North Korea already has nuclear weapons, giving it leverage Iran can only imagine.
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Iran has consistently denied that its missiles are designed to carry nuclear weapons.
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" But of course, he noted, "that would mean attacking a nuclear weapons power.
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Would we attack every military base and city with nuclear weapons in response?
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I can't imagine China is happy with somebody having nuclear weapons so close.
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North Korea is already banned by the U.N. from testing any nuclear weapons.
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Getting North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons is a tough challenge.
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The first is the most obvious: Moscow just has so many nuclear weapons.
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India, Israel, and Pakistan also have nuclear weapons but haven't signed the NPT.
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Nuclear weapons pose a constant threat to humanity and all life on earth.
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In the 1980s, the DPRK would turn its gaze to actual nuclear weapons.
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If the United States attacks North Korea, it will respond with nuclear weapons.
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I spend a lot of my time at Vox thinking about nuclear weapons.
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This is because past US presidents have appreciated the seriousness of nuclear weapons.
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North Korea demanded Washington lift the U.S.-led sanctions against it in return for a partial dismantling of its nuclear weapons program, while the United States wanted the quick rollback of the North's entire nuclear weapons program before removing economic sanctions.
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"North Korea has accelerated its provocative pursuit of nuclear weapons and missile capabilities, and expressed explicit threats to use nuclear weapons against the United States and its allies in the region," U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood told the Geneva forum.
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"They like their nuclear weapons very much and don't like it when we try to ban them," she said, accusing the three of wrongly opposing ICAN's work "when North Korea and the United States are exchanging threats to use nuclear weapons".
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"As much as we have wanted over the past 25 to 30 years to focus our negotiations on getting them to give up their nuclear weapons, I don't think they're going to give up their nuclear weapons anymore," Cha said.
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But if I look at the track record, we've done a reasonably good job of convincing our friends not to develop nuclear weapons—but we've done a sort of lousy job of convincing our potential adversaries not to have nuclear weapons.
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His initial diatribes that the Iran deal was a failure because it covered only nuclear weapons, not other activities like ballistic missile development, have now shifted to his saying that he wants to talk with Iran just about nuclear weapons.
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Such behavior would constitute an act of sanity for humanity and its future given the extreme dangers of nuclear weapons, the periodic crises that erupt among nuclear-armed countries, and the growing odds of nuclear weapons being used at some point.
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Russian military doctrine explicitly states that Russia would consider using nuclear weapons in response to "conventional aggression" if it endangers the existence of the state, and recent Russian exercises demonstrate Russia's intent to use nuclear weapons first in a conventional conflict.
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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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There are more than 2628,28503 nuclear warheads and 22019 percent of the global nuclear weapons stocks belong to Russia and the U.S. According to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), U.S.' 6,800 warheads is second to Russia's 7,000.
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A Washington Post fact-check on Clinton's claim that Trump said "more countries should have nuclear weapons, including Saudi Arabia," referred to an exchange with Anderson Cooper on CNN that went in part like this: Cooper: Saudi Arabia, nuclear weapons?
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"Pyongyang's enshrinement of the possession of nuclear weapons in its constitution, while repeatedly stating that nuclear weapons are the basis for its survival, suggests that Kim does not intend to negotiate them away at any price," he said in the statement.
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The treaty permits both countries to have no more than 800 deployed and non-deployed land-based intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missile launchers and heavy bombers equipped to carry nuclear weapons, and contains equal limits on other nuclear weapons.
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Even more important, Russia has a virtual monopoly in tactical nuclear weapons, having at least 1,000 to 2,85033 nuclear warheads for battlefield and theater use, whereas U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in NATO have declined to 100 to 180 obsolete gravity bombs.
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"Trump has rejected a detailed pact that kept Iran out of the nuclear weapons business for a decade, while embracing a vague communiqué that allows North Korea to keep its nuclear weapons for years, and possibly forever," Mr. Haass added.
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Today, with the possibility of an exchange of nuclear weapons, the toll could be far greater: One recent study suggested that if North Korea detonated nuclear weapons over Tokyo and Seoul, deaths in those two cities alone could exceed two million.
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If you read the coverage questioning whether Mr. Trump would upend the United States' approach to nuclear weapons, his suggestions last week that he might reverse decades of United States nuclear weapons policy did not come out of left field.
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A serious negotiation with North Korea would include Mr. Trump pressing Mr. Kim to freeze nuclear and missile testing, halt the production of nuclear weapons fuel and the deployment of nuclear weapons and put an Iran-like verification system in place.
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"This treaty is a strong categorical prohibition of nuclear weapons and is really rooted in humanitarian law," said Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a Geneva-based coalition of groups that advocated the treaty.
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At issue is the U.S. proposal to develop a new mix of nuclear weapons — perfectly consistent with both existing law and U.S. treaty obligations — that better deter the Russians who are developing an entire array of such theater nuclear weapons.
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Its creators had the wisdom to base the entire treaty on a two-tier structure of nations: five approved nuclear weapons states (permanent members of the United Nations Security Council), with the remainder (currently 185) signing as non-nuclear weapons states.
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The NPT gave this forceful answer a strong start by creating two tiers of states: the five approved nuclear weapons states (permanent members of the United Nations Security Council), and establishing all others (currently 185) as non-nuclear weapons states.
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Instead, North Korea has resisted US requests for a list declaring the extent of its nuclear weapons facilities and weapons and is continuing to enrich nuclear material and build nuclear weapons -- it now simply does so quietly, with little public fanfare.
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Smith's vision: John Hopkins, former chief of the Los Alamos nuclear weapons program, and co-author David Sharp, who was chief scientist of the Science, Technology and Engineering Directorate of Los Alamos, in "The Scientific Foundation for Assessing the Nuclear Performance of Weapons in the Stockpile" (Perspectives, Winter 2019), join many nuclear weapons scientists who doubt that U.S. nuclear weapons, now decades old and untested, are still safe, reliable and effective.
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" Castro points to the ongoing discussion with North Korea's Kim Jung Un about nuclear weapons: "Why in the world would you believe anything that this president says to contain your nuclear weapons program when he tore up an Iran nuclear agreement that we just signed 4 years ago, which was the strongest agreement to contain Iran's nuclear weapons program, and now he's abandoned the very people we gave our word to?
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His statements about nuclear weapons and nuclear proliferation have often been confusing, even contradictory.
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And that&aposs 240 percent of American uranium, the foundational material for nuclear weapons.
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The Russians are probably moving nuclear weapons into Kaliningrad which violate the INF treaty.
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Warmbier's sentencing comes as North Korea is increasingly isolated over its nuclear weapons program.
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The United States removed its tactical nuclear weapons from South Korea in the 1990s.
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Iran can never have nuclear weapons, not against the USA, not against the world.
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"Note the description of nuclear weapons as the only firm security assurance," Pollack said.
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When it came to Iran and nuclear weapons, Obama had two pretty clear stances.
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The entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons.
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"I think China really would like to see no nuclear weapons," Trump told Baier.
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China and India both pledged to not use nuclear weapons in a first strike.
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Meanwhile North Korea has been deploying nuclear weapons that can strike anywhere in Japan.
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China has long called for the Korean peninsula to be free of nuclear weapons.
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It's a reminder that having countries with nuclear weapons is a frighteningly unstable situation.
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"One has to worry about the way Russians think about nuclear weapons," Miller said.
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We must assert, with far more urgency, that nuclear weapons cannot coexist with mankind.
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Maybe, just maybe, he could actually think about the use of tactical nuclear weapons.
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He also suggested that Japan and South Korea could develop their own nuclear weapons.
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He sees the plan as an attempt to justify more use of nuclear weapons.
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But there was no indication that the two sides discussed Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.
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She told DCist in 2005 that she was protesting nuclear weapons and political corruption.
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If you&aposre dealing with nuclear weapons, of course, disaster is on the table.
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The problem in the relationship between video games and nuclear weapons is video games.
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The US is building new nuclear weapons that are 'more likely to be used'.
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That forecast came true only with the invention of nuclear weapons a decade later.
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Nuclear weapons, largely a source of stability since 1945, may add to the danger.
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"Donald Trump is very cavalier about how he talks about nuclear weapons," said Cirincione.
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To the fore was stopping North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile program, he said.
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Known as the "Gold Standard," the safeguards are designed to prevent nuclear weapons development.
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That's led to major suspicions that Riyadh wants a pathway to building nuclear weapons.
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