• It is believed that Israel had possessed an operational nuclear weapons capability by 1967, with the mass production of nuclear warheads occurring immediately after the Six-Day War. (wikipedia.org)
  • The sizes of their respective nuclear arsenals (i.e. useable warheads) seem to have remained relatively stable in 2022, although transparency regarding nuclear forces declined in both countries in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. (indepthnews.net)
  • In addition to their useable nuclear weapons, Russia and the US each hold more than 1,000 warheads previously retired from military service, which they are gradually dismantling. (indepthnews.net)
  • We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. (blogspot.com)
  • Quite apart from Israel's nuclear arsenal of some 200 warheads, some of them deliverable by its Dolphin class submarines, the American-supplied Israeli Air Force is by far the most powerful in the region, able to attack targets up to 1,500 miles away with air-to-ground missiles and "bunker-buster" GBU-28 bombs. (joshualandis.com)
  • As Abe noted yesterday , the latest International Atomic Energy Agency report unveiled evidence that Iran has been working on technology to arm its missiles with nuclear warheads. (blogspot.com)
  • American nuclear weapons of all types - bombs, warheads, shells, and others - are numbered in the same sequence starting with the Mark 1 and (as of March 2006 [update] ) ending with the W91 (which was canceled prior to introduction into service). (findatwiki.com)
  • It is unknown if Israel's reported thermonuclear weapons are in the megaton range. (wikipedia.org)
  • Israel's nuclear-capable ballistic missiles are believed to be buried so far underground that they would survive a nuclear attack. (wikipedia.org)
  • Much of what is known about Israel's nuclear program comes from revelations in 1986 by Mordechai Vanunu, a technician at the Negev Nuclear Research Center who served an 18-year prison sentence as a result. (wikipedia.org)
  • Israel's nuclear weapons are best ignored? (indepthnews.net)
  • But like most US politicians and presidents, including former US President Barack Obama, Biden too believes that Israel's nuclear weapons are best ignored-and never challenged in public. (indepthnews.net)
  • Israel's ongoing bombing of Gaza, and the call to drop a nuclear weapon there, albeit by a junior minister who has since been fired, only provides more reason to push for eliminating the most destructive weapons known to humankind from Israel's arsenal. (indepthnews.net)
  • As is well-known, the United States has pledged to maintain Israel's "qualitative military edge" over any combination of Arab states, and never to acknowledge Israel's nuclear military capability in any public statement. (joshualandis.com)
  • Put basically, while the United States' government voted in favor of the 1947 United Nations partition of Palestine that mandated the creation of two separate states - one Jewish and one Palestinian- every administration since has paid mere lip service to this guiding principle, and after 1967, while financing Israel's military and its illegal occupation and settlement of land that is supposed to be the Palestinian state. (counterpunch.org)
  • The U.S. Space Command intends to militarily control space despite prohibitions by the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. (brianwillson.com)
  • Israel is believed to possess weapons of mass destruction, and to be one of four nuclear-armed countries not recognized as a Nuclear Weapons State by the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). (wikipedia.org)
  • Israel has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but supports establishment of a Middle East Zone free of weapons of mass destruction. (wikipedia.org)
  • The closest agreement we have that goes some way toward achieving that goal is the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons ( TPNW ) from 2017-seventy-one years after the first resolution. (indepthnews.net)
  • Simultaneously, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) emerges in 1968 as a vital instrument to curb the proliferation of nuclear weapons. (issarice.com)
  • This era also sees pivotal negotiations aimed at reducing nuclear armaments, exemplified by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. (issarice.com)
  • The treaty does not prohibit the placement of conventional weapons and kinetic bombardment is allowed. (chanakyaiasacademy.com)
  • India signed the treaty in 1967 and ratified it in 1982. (chanakyaiasacademy.com)
  • Also, with this test India may have pre-empted possible treaty on space weaponisation, much like the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT), which would have stopped India from demonstrating its ASAT ability in the future and giving the United States, China, and Russia sole ASAT-weapons-state status. (chanakyaiasacademy.com)
  • Abolition 2000: Founded in 1995 during the NPT Review and Extension Conference, Abolition 2000 is an international non-governmental global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons within a time-bound framework. (nti.org)
  • The Treaty on the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone, also known as the Treaty of Pelindaba , was opened for signature in Cairo in April 1996. (nti.org)
  • In addition, the treaty requires parties to apply International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards to all their peaceful nuclear activities. (nti.org)
  • The treaty also provides for the establishment of the African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE), which supervises treaty implementation and ensures compliance with its provisions. (nti.org)
  • For additional information, see the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone Treaty . (nti.org)
  • Dr M.V. Ramana, Professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, told IDN the idea of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons was first adopted at the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference . (indepthnews.net)
  • The Israeli Disarmament Movement together with the Chemical Weapons Convention Coalition (CWCC) and Green Cross convened two days of roundtable discussions on Chemical Weapons, Israel and the Middle East in Tel Aviv. (the-trench.org)
  • Because of its importance, I decided to publish in this blog a subject quite different from the usual: an official side of the search for nuclear disarmament. (unicamp.br)
  • Legitimate indeed are the international community's expectations that those States which possess nuclear weapons do live up to their commitments on nuclear disarmament, an objective they have agreed to pursue either on the basis of the NPT[3] or by means of political declarations and UN Resolutions, the most important of which is the final document of the First Special Session on Disarmament (SSOD-I)[4]. (unicamp.br)
  • In addition, the International Court of Justice has made abundantly clear there exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects[5]. (unicamp.br)
  • Para 1.14: UNSCR 1887 (S/RES/1887 (2009) of 24 September 2009, the product of the unprecedented summit-level meeting of the Council chaired by the U.S. President to consider nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, demonstrated support at the highest political level for progress on a wide range of current global nuclear issues. (icnnd.org)
  • All three NPT pillars - nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and peaceful uses - are addressed but the resolution's provisions on nuclear non-proliferation and security are more detailed, numerous and substantive than those on nuclear disarmament. (icnnd.org)
  • In the 2000s, concerted endeavors persist to curtail nuclear proliferation, encompassing disarmament agreements and initiatives aimed at preventing the unauthorized acquisition of nuclear materials by terrorists. (issarice.com)
  • This era is marked by ongoing tensions among nuclear-armed nations, with a strong international focus on averting potential nuclear conflicts and promoting disarmament. (issarice.com)
  • Additionally, Israel is believed to have an offshore nuclear second-strike capability, using submarine-launched nuclear-capable cruise missiles, which can be launched from the Israeli Navy's Dolphin-class submarines. (wikipedia.org)
  • But as US President Joe Biden once remarked: "…and the last goddamn thing we need in that part of the world is a build-up of nuclear capability. (indepthnews.net)
  • Contrastingly, other nations possess neither the will nor the capability of setting up similar patrols of the earth's surface. (mltoday.com)
  • While Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu played out their farce in Washington - Obama grovelling as usual - the Arabs got on with the serious business of changing their world, demonstrating and fighting and dying for freedoms they have never possessed. (blogspot.com)
  • With these rather minimalist goals, the navy possessed until the early 1970s a small number of platforms, mostly destroyers. (blogspot.com)
  • During the 1960s and 1970s, the world confronts heightened tensions among nuclear-armed nations, spurring extensive global endeavors to mitigate the risk of nuclear warfare. (issarice.com)
  • Throughout the 1970s, pivotal negotiations between the superpowers result in significant nuclear arms control agreements. (issarice.com)
  • In fact, every time Russia prepares its nuclear forces for launch, or sends its ballistic missile submarines to sea, America's reaction is studied by Russian specialists. (wnd.com)
  • Ballistic missiles, long- range aircraft, and weapons of mass destruction have made the security offered by national boundaries even more illusory. (gdrc.org)
  • Subsequently, the 1990s witnesses a transformative event-the conclusion of the Cold War-which prompts substantial reductions in nuclear arsenals. (issarice.com)
  • Meanwhile, there is widespread speculation that if Iran goes nuclear, as threatened by the Iranians off and on, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt might follow suit. (indepthnews.net)
  • T hroughout the world there is great relief and optimism about the nuclear deal reached in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 nations, the five veto-holding members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany. (mondediplo.com)
  • Most of the world apparently shares the assessment of the U.S. Arms Control Association that "the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action establishes a strong and effective formula for blocking all of the pathways by which Iran could acquire material for nuclear weapons for more than a generation and a verification system to promptly detect and deter possible efforts by Iran to covertly pursue nuclear weapons that will last indefinitely. (mondediplo.com)
  • Senator Ted Cruz, considered one of the intellectuals among the crowded field of presidential candidates, warns that Iran may still be able to produce nuclear weapons and could someday use one to set off an Electro Magnetic Pulse that "would take down the electrical grid of the entire eastern seaboard" of the United States, killing "tens of millions of Americans. (mondediplo.com)
  • Former Clinton and Obama Middle East negotiator Dennis Ross typically recommends that "Iran must have no doubts that if we see it moving towards a weapon, that would trigger the use of force" even after the termination of the deal, when Iran is theoretically free to do what it wants. (mondediplo.com)
  • As for Iran, it faces a constant - and publicly stated - threat of attack on its nuclear sites. (joshualandis.com)
  • As the timeline progresses into the 2010s and beyond, mounting apprehensions emerge regarding the nuclear capabilities of North Korea and Iran . (issarice.com)
  • After producing his comic diagram during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly last September, drawing a red line in order to stop Iran's alleged imminent nuclear bomb, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for immediate action against Iran before it was too late. (transnational.org)
  • However, on the eve of the meeting between Iran and the P5+1 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and the forthcoming visit of President Obama to Israel, Netanyahu has once again started to press the panic button about Iran's nuclear intentions. (transnational.org)
  • As Jacques E. C. Hymans points out in his recent article in Foreign Affairs , Israeli intelligence officials have now downgraded their assessment of Iran's ability to build a nuclear bomb.2) Now, they say: "Iran won't be able to build a nuclear weapon before 2015 or 2016, pushing back by several years previous assessments of Iran's nuclear ambitions. (transnational.org)
  • An Israeli intelligence officer pointed out that he could not attribute the delay in Iran's nuclear program to accidents and sabotage alone, but to the fact that there had been no indication that Iran had been rushing to manufacture a nuclear bomb. (transnational.org)
  • As early as 1992, the then Israeli prime minister and now Israeli president, Shimon Perez, had predicted that Iran would be producing nuclear weapons by 1999.6) In 1996, he went further, declaring that Iran was even more dangerous than Nazism. (transnational.org)
  • He said: "Iran is the center of terrorism, fundamentalism and subversion and is in my view more dangerous than Nazism, because Hitler did not possess a nuclear bomb, whereas the Iranians are trying to perfect a nuclear option. (transnational.org)
  • In January 1992, Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset "Within three to five years, we can assume that Iran will become autonomous in its ability to develop and produce a nuclear bomb. (transnational.org)
  • 8) The present Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in 1996 that Iran would be producing nuclear weapons by 2004.9) For over two decades, with monotonous regularity, Netanyahu and other leading Israeli officials have claimed that Iran would have a nuclear weapon within a few years. (transnational.org)
  • In fact, far from intensifying its efforts to manufacture nuclear weapons, Iran has moved towards the opposite direction. (transnational.org)
  • But he added that Syria's "continuing support for terrorist organizations and pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and missile programs, continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy and economy of the United States. (joshualandis.com)
  • Para 1.4: While the 1962 Cuban missile crisis was perhaps the best known nuclear near-miss, there were others, including the Berlin crisis of 1961 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973. (icnnd.org)
  • The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, a seminal episode between the United States and the Soviet Union, brings the globe to the brink of nuclear conflict, illustrating the perils of the arms race and potential devastation. (issarice.com)
  • This period exemplifies a delicate equilibrium among nuclear-armed states, accompanied by concentrated diplomatic endeavors to stave off nuclear conflict, notably underscored by the Cuban Missile Crisis. (issarice.com)
  • Part Three is a. summary overview of current Soviet strategic objectives, as perceived by Team "B". An Annex traces the NIE treatments between 1962 and 1975 of Soviet strategic nuclear forces. (cia.gov)
  • The Israeli Air Force has F-15I and F-16I Sufa fighter aircraft which are capable of delivering tactical and strategic nuclear weapons at long distances using conformal fuel tanks and supported by their aerial refueling fleet of modified Boeing 707s. (wikipedia.org)
  • The same applies to the figure given for Russian non-strategic weapons. (icnnd.org)
  • The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) encompasses SALT I (1972) and the unratified SALT II, which aims to restrict strategic nuclear weapons development. (issarice.com)
  • Of the world's nine nuclear powers, Israel is the only country in the Middle East that has gone nuclear-while the other eight nuclear countries worldwide are the US, UK, France, China, Russia, India, Pakistan and North Korea. (indepthnews.net)
  • Further illustrating this asymmetric power in the globe are the 800 foreign military bases possessed by the U.S. compared to a combined 70 possessed by the rest of the world's nations. (mltoday.com)
  • Writing in Yediot Ahronot, a military correspondent Alex Fishman pointed out: "Officials responsible for assessing the state of the Iranian nuclear program, both in the West and in the International Atomic Energy Agency, believe that while the Iranians have continued to pursue their nuclear program, they have been doing so cautiously and slowly, making sure not to cross the point of no return. (transnational.org)
  • bombs were given the prefix "B", while the same warhead used in other roles, like missiles, would normally be prefixed "W". For instance, the W-53 warhead was also used as the basis for the B53 nuclear bomb . (findatwiki.com)
  • An example is the B61 nuclear bomb , which was the parent design for the W80 , W81 , and W84 . (findatwiki.com)
  • Bomb designed with weapon characteristics as the foremost criteria. (findatwiki.com)
  • Mark 5 - Significantly smaller high efficiency nuclear bomb. (findatwiki.com)
  • He added: "There has not been the run towards a nuclear bomb that some people feared. (transnational.org)
  • President Truman had likened the Trinity bomb to the wrath of the God of the Old Testament, comparing it to "the fire destruction prophesied in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark. (filfre.net)
  • That we got there so quickly was almost entirely down to the drive of one man who was there at the meeting that would lead to the Manhattan Project and the first atomic bomb and who would continue to be a major voice in both American politics and American weapons development through the entirety of the Cold War. (filfre.net)
  • 12 November 2023 (IDN) - A longstanding proposal for a nuclear-weapons-free zone (NWFZs) in the politically and militarily volatile Middle East has been kicked around the corridors and committee rooms of the United Nations since 1995. (indepthnews.net)
  • The greatest danger facing America is a possible nuclear attack from Russia. (wnd.com)
  • Russian nuclear missiles can reach America in about 30 minutes, reducing America's cities to rubble. (wnd.com)
  • Furthermore, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) or other States Parties may offer various types of assistance after an accidental release of a toxic chemical. (the-trench.org)
  • According to the 2023 Yearbook of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Russia and the US together possess almost 90 per cent of all nuclear weapons. (indepthnews.net)
  • Furthermore, political changes in Russia have not reduced the danger of nuclear war. (wnd.com)
  • International security must rest on a commitment to joint survival rather than on a threat of mutual destruction. (gdrc.org)
  • It removes the threat posed by a particular weapon class by ordering destruction of all existing stockpiles and prohibiting the maintenance of current or acquisition of future proscribed weapons. (the-trench.org)
  • On the threat of cyber terrorism in a nuclear context see Jason Fritz, "Hacking Nuclear Command and Control", ICNND Research Paper, May 2009. (icnnd.org)
  • On the same day Dutch politician, Geert Wilders, delivered a speech in Tel Aviv where he declared that Jordan is indeed the state of the Palestinians, the Argentinean government also made a declaration , it said it recognized a Palestinian state in pre-1967 borders of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. (tundratabloids.com)
  • More generally, he argued, the highly charged security environment in the region is also a reason to prevent other countries from not just acquiring such weapons, but even the means to make the fissile materials needed for nuclear weapons. (indepthnews.net)
  • A U.S. initiative to outlaw nuclear weapons and to internationalize global stocks of fissile material for use in peaceful nuclear programs which became know as the Baruch Plan. (nti.org)
  • I clearly remember, from when I was a kid, the slogans "Hiroshima never more" and "Nuclear power? (unicamp.br)
  • The 1940s witnesses the unprecedented development of nuclear weapons during World War II, a culmination that underscores their destructive potential through the devastating bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (issarice.com)
  • Mark 1 - " Little Boy " gun-type uranium weapon (used against Hiroshima). (findatwiki.com)
  • Israel has signed but not ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). (wikipedia.org)
  • The meeting goals were twofold: promote ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) by Israel and to have Israel take a more positive stance in the diplomatic engagements to establish a zone free of non-conventional weaponry in the Middle East. (the-trench.org)
  • and in Bruce G. Blair, "The Logic of Accidental Nuclear War", Bulletin of Science Technology Society, Brookings Institution, 1996:16. (icnnd.org)
  • Israel is also reported to possess a wide range of different systems, including neutron bombs, tactical nuclear weapons, and suitcase nukes. (wikipedia.org)
  • At that point in time, only one country[1] possessed atomic bombs. (unicamp.br)
  • Early weapons were very large and could only be used as free fall bombs. (findatwiki.com)
  • On 26 September 1983 - three weeks after the Soviets shot down a Korean passenger jet - a Russian computer malfunction caused it to appear as though the U.S. had launched a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. (icnnd.org)
  • Nuclear risk encompasses a range of threats, including the accidental or unauthorized detonation of nuclear weapons, the proliferation of nuclear weapons to non-nuclear states or non-state actors, the possibility of intentional nuclear attacks during conflicts, and the risks posed by nuclear accidents or disasters at nuclear power plants or other nuclear facilities. (issarice.com)
  • Para 2.4: The references to 'nuclear winter' are drawn from a commissioned research paper by Steven Starr, "Catastrophic Climatic Consequences of Nuclear Conflict", August 2009. (icnnd.org)
  • Driven by scientific genius, patriotism, paranoia, and a titanic ego, he became the nation's longest-serving Cold Warrior, perhaps the ultimate exemplar of the mentality that spawned and fueled that shadowy conflict and the lurking specter of nuclear apocalypse that accompanied it. (filfre.net)
  • This destructive process began when humans learned to control fire , accelerated when behaviorally modern humans left Africa long ago , and has reached the level where humans are causing what may become the greatest mass extinction in the history of Earth . (ahealedplanet.net)
  • Consequently, attention shifts towards the emergence of "rogue states" and non-state actors as potential nuclear threats, necessitating a recalibration of international efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation. (issarice.com)
  • In addition to what is happening in the Middle East, the other war that has receded slightly from the headlines these days-in Ukraine-should remind us of how these reactors can become targets in future wars, and produce fears of widespread and long-lived radioactive contamination, as has been the case with the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine, since February 2022 and its occupation by Russian forces," Dr Ramana declared. (indepthnews.net)
  • 4 Rough approximation due to lack of transparency on this category of weapon. (icnnd.org)
  • India has successfully tested an anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) along with second equipment- the Air Defence Tactical Control Radar (ADTCR) which has suddenly drawn the spotlight on space warfare. (chanakyaiasacademy.com)
  • Experts estimated the stockpile of Israeli nuclear weapons range from 60 to as many as 400. (wikipedia.org)
  • This admission was in contrast to the long-running Israeli government policy of deliberate ambiguity on whether it has nuclear weapons. (wikipedia.org)
  • Other CW agent production is believed to exist within a well-developed Israeli chemical industry. (wikipedia.org)
  • I also don't believe that the Israeli government is so enamored of Bashar al-Assad. (blogspot.com)
  • The fact of the matter is that Israeli politicians have regularly falsified Iran's intentions behind her nuclear program. (transnational.org)
  • Mansour Ayyad Al-Otaibi, Permanent Representative of the State of Kuwait to the United Nations, and incoming President of the Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction, addresses the Conference (29 November-3 December 2021). (indepthnews.net)
  • But there will be one more try-at least for minimal progress-when the fourth annual session of the "Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction " takes place between 13 and 17 November at the UN headquarters in New York. (indepthnews.net)
  • That said, this is an important time to be holding a conference on the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons," he said. (indepthnews.net)
  • VEREX: Created in September 1991 during the Third Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), VEREX was tasked with identifying measures that could be used to determine whether a state party to the BTWC is 'developing, producing, stockpiling, acquiring, or retaining' biological weapons (BW). (nti.org)
  • In the first postwar decades, American energies were absorbed in coping with a cycle of recurrent crises, whose fundamental origins lay in the destruction of World War II and the tensions attending the emergence of scores of new nations. (ucsb.edu)
  • Diplomatic channels and negotiations play a pivotal role in addressing these contemporary challenges, underscoring the imperative of collective efforts to navigate the complex landscape of nuclear risk in an ever-evolving global context. (issarice.com)
  • It is anyway meaningful that the existence of "problems" and the need for "elimination" of atomic weapons was acknowledged from the beginning of the United Nations. (unicamp.br)
  • Had these short-statured people living in ancient cultures 8,000 miles from our homes possessing virtually no military technology ever really threatened us? (brianwillson.com)
  • This list includes weapons which were developed to the point of being assigned a model number (and in many cases, prototypes were test fired), but which were then canceled prior to introduction into military service. (findatwiki.com)
  • Officially, Israel neither confirms nor denies possessing nuclear weapons. (wikipedia.org)
  • The policy held that Israel would "not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons in the Middle East. (wikipedia.org)
  • Former International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei regarded Israel as a state possessing nuclear weapons. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are also speculations that a chemical weapons program might be located at the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) in Ness Ziona. (wikipedia.org)
  • Israel said the material was non-toxic and was to have been used to test filters that protect against chemical weapons. (wikipedia.org)
  • The ritual incantations-that Israel is "the only democracy in the Middle East," that it possesses "the most moral army in the world," etc.-become more ludicrous with each atrocity. (bolshevik.org)
  • In short, the US is asking that Syria cede to Israel the Golan Heights, which it occupied in 1967. (joshualandis.com)
  • I don't believe that Obama's policies are being driven by support for Israel. (blogspot.com)
  • In that wonderful democracy called Saudi Arabia, the US is now pushing ahead with a £40 billion arms deal and helping the Saudis to develop a new "elite" force to protect the kingdom's oil and future nuclear sites. (blogspot.com)
  • There are no simple answers to these questions, but the Commission believes it is time to re- examine prevailing ideas of how to preserve peace and ensure the security of people, and of how to develop more effective means of preserving peaceful relations among states. (gdrc.org)
  • We believe the BRICS are an important force for incremental change and reform of current institutions towards more representative and equitable governance, capable of generating more inclusive global growth and fostering a stable, peaceful and prosperous world. (narendramodi.in)
  • In the 1980s, the arms race between major powers intensifies, accentuated by popular anti-nuclear movements and technological strides in nuclear capabilities by diverse nations. (issarice.com)
  • It bars the nations to placing weapons of mass destruction in earth orbit, installing them on the moon or any other celestial body or otherwise stationing them in outer space. (chanakyaiasacademy.com)
  • The type and yield of weapons in the higher estimate is not known. (icnnd.org)
  • Heaviest U.S. weapon, second highest yield of any U.S. weapon. (findatwiki.com)
  • Mark 18 - Very high yield fission weapon ( Ivy King device). (findatwiki.com)
  • Thus, both sides have recognized a vital mutual interest in halting the dangerous momentum of the nuclear arms race. (ucsb.edu)
  • But I do believe that he is spending far too much time on the 'Palestinians' (whose support he believes to be a sufficient for an entire foreign policy, let alone for the Middle East) in light of other events in the region. (blogspot.com)
  • In 1967, I was a correspondent for the Times in the Middle East war reporting from Beirut and Amman. (theyworkforyou.com)
  • Understanding the Greek experience thus allows us to draw some more general conclusions about the paradox of these movements - namely, the divergence between their mass insurrectionary dimension and their limited political impact. (cadtm.org)
  • It is used for volumetric surveillance, detection, tracking and friend/foe identification of aerial targets of different types and transmission of prioritised target data to multiple command posts and weapon systems. (chanakyaiasacademy.com)
  • Mark 3 - " Fat Man " plutonium implosion weapon (used against Nagasaki), effectively the same as the "Gadget" device used in the Trinity nuclear test with minor design differences. (findatwiki.com)
  • We believe that strengthened dialogue among BRICS and South American countries can play an active role in enhancing multilateralism and international cooperation, for the promotion of peace, security, economic and social progress and sustainable development in an interdependent and increasingly complex, globalizing world. (narendramodi.in)
  • Since that moment a number of additional countries acquired nuclear weapons, each of them for different reasons, but with the underlying common factor of enhancing security and ascertaining power for every one of them[2]. (unicamp.br)
  • The coalition consists of over 2,000 organizations from 90 different countries that work both independently and in concert to accomplish the goal of nuclear abolition through an eleven point program. (nti.org)
  • Given that early conscience of the unacceptability of nuclear weapons it is always useful to remind that the first possessor and the subsequent four proliferators are not more legitimate than others that later followed the same path. (unicamp.br)
  • This is a timeline of nuclear risk , which refers to the potential dangers and uncertainties associated with the possession, development, deployment, and potential use of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy . (issarice.com)
  • I am talking, of course, about nuclear power plants. (indepthnews.net)
  • Low Power Tic Tac UAV warp drive, UFOs Were Seen Over Air Force Nuclear Weapons Facilities, Stop Tornadoes and Hurricanes with Weather Modification. (nationalufocenter.com)
  • This period marks the inception of the nuclear age, defined by transformative events and the emergence of a global power dynamic centered around nuclear capabilities. (issarice.com)
  • Then, we were the only great power whose society and economy had escaped World War II's massive destruction. (ucsb.edu)
  • All designs which were formally intended to be weapons at some point received a number designation. (findatwiki.com)
  • The result was a firestorm that did, if fact, lead to the total destruction of the city. (countercurrents.org)
  • The world has become too small and too crowded, its people too intermingled and too interdependent, its weapons too lethal. (gdrc.org)
  • Needless to say such contentions are condemned by those who believe Jews are a people unique and entirely apart from others (and this includes many who profess Christianity) who can trace their unbroken genealogy back to the biblical patriarchs, and who would never abandon their sacred ancestral religion for another, or deny a seamless heritage as Jews. (counterpunch.org)
  • What we can do here, as I am doing now, is to work to avoid the sad commemoration, not so far away in time, of the first centennial in the company of nuclear weapons. (unicamp.br)