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nuclear weapons were a power to be
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Had the Cold War erupted, it would have been catastrophic as the use of nuclear weapons would certainly have eliminated most, if not all of Earth’s population
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The Department of Energy later found that many of the declassified documents contained nuclear weapons secrets
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It seems crazy to unleash nuclear weapons
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The existence of nuclear weapons had for over a century not been a part of any conflict, and then only ever used as miniature targeting devices
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However, it must be remembered that South Africa had nuclear weapons as last resort
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A story to Judith Miller from the New York Times about a source codenamed Curveball claimed Iraq was building nuclear weapons
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When Ike's election opponent, Adlai Stevenson, called for an end to nuclear weapons testing, Ike called that “a moratorium on common sense
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Carter was far less successful in trying to prevent Pakistan from building nuclear weapons
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In Libya, fearing that what happened to Saddam might happen to him, Kadaffi has renounced terrorism and nuclear weapons as well as those of mass destruction
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The UN succeeded in barring nuclear weapons from Antarctica, the ocean beds, and in space
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The greatest successes the UN can point to is its ban on chemical weapons agreed to by 190 out of 196 nations in the world and its Non Proliferation Treaty, in which all but nine countries in the world agreed to never develop nuclear weapons
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The nine nations with nuclear weapons, in order from most to least are: US, USSR, France, UK, China, Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea
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Nine US presidents deserve limited credit for trying to limit nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction
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Both the US and USSR hoped the test ban would pressure China to not develop its nuclear weapons
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By 2003, North Korea admitted to nuclear weapons
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At the start of his presidency, Obama proposed an end to all nuclear weapons worldwide
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By the end of this treaty, the number of nuclear weapons will be down to less than 2,000 each for the US and USSR
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It is the latest in a number of huge steps from when the arms race was at its worst in Reagan's time, with over 60,000 nuclear weapons between the two nations
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Obama proposed in 2013 even further cuts, yet one third more of all long range nuclear weapons
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For nuclear weapons, one needs at least 95% purity
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One of the lesser known facts is that MacArthur actually had requested the right to use nuclear weapons without needing the President's approval
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Subsequent accounts, including that of a MacArthur meeting with Richard Nixon, claimed MacArthur opposed using nuclear weapons
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Thus there is little doubt he would have authorized nuclear weapons against China, likely in December 1950 as he proposed
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But that assumes the war ends with US nuclear weapon use
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As noted before, there is no clear evidence of Iran trying to develop nuclear weapons, just the opposite
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William was telling me that the meteor was going to hit the Earth, and we were all going to die, and there was no way that they could build a big enough nuclear weapon to, ‘vaporize it,’ in his words, and that’s when I put on my little thinking cap
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nuclear weapons would have been developed by another country since nuclear physics
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All he wanted to watch was science shows about nuclear weapons
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I develop a ballistic missile; you develop a nuclear weapon
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would be far less expensive without the nuclear weaponry, and the
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But midway through the migration back north, hardly a fifth of the people had come back when the rest left behind in the southern or equatorial regions were destroyed by nuclear weapons, neutron bombs, and nerve gas
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But it was the other duty that consumed most of his waking hours---arming his nation with nuclear weapons
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Having renounced war, the possession of war potential, the right of belligerency and the possession of nuclear weaponry, Japan held the view that it should possess only the minimum defense necessary to face external threats
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“But his most controversial position involves nuclear weapons
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At least openly, the majority of the population doesn’t support rearming our forces beyond what they already have and that clearly rules out nuclear weapons
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Nuclear weapons are considered to be great equalizers when it comes to war with countries that have overwhelming numbers of troops and conventional armaments; not to mention nuclear ones as well
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“As you’re probably well aware, Japan has the resources, know-how and technology to produce nuclear weapons in large quantities
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Kodama and his followers support nuclear weapons for Japan?”
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Dick, my country would never develop nuclear weapons given its history and repeated assertions it would never do so under any circumstances
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However, the militarists had to bide their time and timing for a military build-up until public sentiment changed regarding the deployment of nuclear weapons
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No, Japan would hold its head high among those who’d initially belittled its consumer products, but now military armaments made in Japan would no longer be sneered at once it became known she possessed enough nuclear weapons to level half of the developed world
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He was still betting he could beat the system and, at some point, continue to carry on his mission to arm his country---Japan---with nuclear weapons
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It became apparent to many of us that only Japan could adequately protect Japan and that required the acquisition of nuclear weapons
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However, by that standard, the United States, in its extermination of the Native Americans in the conquest of its Western Frontier and by virtue of its use of nuclear weapons in Japan, would have qualified as deserving of overthrow
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Why do you think our government has been so distrustful of Iraq to gain power of nuclear weapons? Why were we distrustful of Nazi Germany gaining that power? These countries have not been trusted with that responsibility
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numerous nuclear weapons strikes, what they had seen up to now had surpassed their worst nightmares
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‘’As Mike said earlier, the American forces seemed to be preparing for war when this base and others were hit by nuclear weapons
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However, the crew of the station knew from the last few radio messages received after the nuclear war that the horrors of both biological and chemical weapons had been added to those of nuclear weapons
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The fears some have about us planning to produce nuclear bombs are unjustified and, if I may say so, quite hypocritical, considering that Israel already has plenty of nuclear weapons and has not signed the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty, contrary to Iran
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“But at what cost? Over forty million people still died in the war and I accelerated the development of nuclear weapons, at least for the British
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Around the same time, Valerie and others in the CIA were looking into aluminum tubes that were in Iraq’s possession, another ingredient for nuclear weapons
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That Imperium, apart from having kidnapped Princess Margaret, is now resolved to find and then destroy with nuclear weapons the Global Council
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Apart from having enough firepower to vaporize half of the major cities on Earth, it can probably withstand about anything short of a direct hit by a nuclear weapon
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“What about the covert recordings of that Imperium meeting where King Stan and his staff decided to restart mass production of nuclear weapons, so that they could be ready to deal with us?”
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We paid through the cultivation of nuclear weaponry to the point where the vast and useless nuclear arsenal had become (and remains today) a danger to the very environment of the planet
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“Our identification is positive: that ship is the battleship ROYAL SOVEREIGN, flagship of the Imperium Navy, and it is armed with nuclear weapons
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From there, they will immediately start producing plutonium from irradiated natural uranium, since Nancy’s data on nuclear weapons made most preliminary research work unnecessary
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To top the cake, once successfully tested, that atomic bomb design will become the core for a thermonuclear weapon with a yield of about two megatons
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d) Or supposing that GE (a nuclear bomb maker) had a couple of nukes that are not accounted for in the military arsenal, and that are hidden in different American cities, and that after Iran gets nuclear weapons, New York City is blown off the face of the earth, and “intelligence sources”, hot on the trail, are “sure” that it was Iranian agents who did the deed and became martyrs in the detonation
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e) Now suppose that the Corporatocracy leadership, instead, had control of the GE nuclear weapons and used this fact as blackmail to make members of other parties do what they want them to do, or suffer the loss of a couple of US cities and the push into nuclear war while the other party is in office, (or the wussing out of the other party and a total right wing take over in all elections to come, or some kind of coupe)
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This led to a request by Castro to have nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union in Cuba, which started the Cuban missile crisis
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I see the mission as tracking and preparing to neutralize all strategic nuclear weapons that could be brought to bear upon us, including from within by rogue forces under private control
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I’d count and locate all US strategic nuclear weapons and monitor to ensure that they were under safe keeping
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She then flew down to the rocky ground and fell to her knees, sobs choking her: Mount Ophel, on which had stood the Temple Mount of Jerusalem, had been decapitated by a nuclear weapon that had also razed everything for kilometers around the site
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One of them was finally able to obtain the use of a nuclear weapon and launched a surprise attack on Jerusalem at night, managing to destroy it and to kill everybody in it, including you and your son
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� Another thing you should know is that those nuclear weapons will create more than forty years of terror and tension between the great powers
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� By 2012, many long range nuclear weapons had been eliminated, but small rogue countries were trying to acquire them in order to play local bully
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� Believe me, Doctor, the World is better off without nuclear weapons
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The worst part was that he felt some guilt personally for listening to those who had advocated that the advent of nuclear weapons had rendered conventional military forces obsolete and had thus encouraged severe reductions in Army, Navy and Marine Corps capabilities
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‘’I probably should have done this months ago, Mister President, instead of listening to the nonsense from your so-called experts, who claimed that our nuclear weapons rendered useless our aircraft carriers
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In the world of my dead adoptive mother, the nuclear weapons stockpiles numbered at a time tens of thousands of warheads each for the United States and the USSR, before shrinking gradually due to nuclear disarmament treaties
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, and without a single nuclear weapon being used
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However, the British missiles changed that equation and we stayed away in order not to expose our own troops to the poison spread by the British nuclear weapons
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In recent years, a global outcry has arisen that the United States has no moral standing on the issue of weapons of mass destruction; as they are the only nation, ever to use nuclear weapons
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Neither President Dewey nor the American people would accept that outcome, something that would raise the possibility that the use of nuclear weapons would become tempting to many in Washington
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He didn’t need nuclear weapons to judge Sodom,
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figurhead that they could reach agreement with, General MacArthur, who would later encourage the use of nuclear weapons and invasion of China in the Korean War, protected Emperor
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But that advantage was essentially lost in 1949 when the Soviets developed their first nuclear weapon 113
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The kinetic energy of the impact, equivalent to that of a large nuclear weapon, made the rock smash clean through the hull of the fortress
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“A nuclear weapon detonation inadequately explains the huge amounts of energy released in that
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Tell him also that any hint of threatening us with nuclear weapons in any way, including by threatening to give one to terrorists, will result in me branding them as ‘a clear and present danger’ to the United States
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Thanks to the information on nuclear weapons stolen from the computer that had belonged to Nancy Laplante, Great Britain now was way ahead of the American atomic bomb program, PROJECT MANHATTAN and could produce both fission and fusion weapons
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Nancy had refused more than once to share her information on nuclear weapons, even rebuffing a direct request by Prime Minister Churchill
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China's manic development of nuclear weapons
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Her heart then sank as she realized what had just been blasted by a nuclear weapon
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Tears came to her eyes as she thought about her native city and what a nuclear weapon could do to it
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Plutonium 239, another type of isotope that is used in nuclear weapon, cannot be used in such gun type devices, as it will only partially explode, producing what is called a fizzle reaction
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In thermonuclear weapons, a fission bomb is used to trigger a fusion reaction in a mix of deuterium, lithium and tritium isotopes, with the whole often contained inside a thick jacket of uranium 238 that serves to both contain the explosion for the first crucial microseconds and to add to the explosive power of the weapon
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What about their effects? What could our troops expect if they entered an area struck by a nuclear weapon?’’
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Since most of those prisoners are British, then Prime Minister Churchill may be about to regret his decision to use nuclear weapons the way he did on Japan
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Why now? Because Humanity is now at a dangerous crossroads, a crossroads where we are able to destroy ourselves utterly, thanks to nuclear weapons
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This does not however entail that I will actually try to prevent nuclear weapons from existing: if we prove responsible about their use, we can survive them until we can regulate their use and scale back their stocks on all sides
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Know that, while I dislike nuclear weapons, I will not oppose their service in the American arsenal, Mister President
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I will only oppose demagogues and irresponsible idiots from advocating their use on a routine basis, like when some generals and politicians said that we could use nuclear weapons instead of conventional forces to prevent or stop every kind of war, including guerrilla wars and insurgencies
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‘’I certainly can understand the anxiety of your ‘One’ concerning nuclear weapons
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It preaches humanity to others but kills millions of people itself by means of nuclear weapons
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She had been in Karlsruhe in 1944, heading the heliborne force that had taken the city by air assault in advance of rushing American mechanized columns, when the British had destroyed Berlin with a two megaton thermonuclear weapon
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There was a large stock of nuclear weapons of Zulimistan
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On the other hand, he could bet that many of his own military leaders would want to reply with nuclear weapons to this ultimatum, despite the risks that this would entail for the United States