We don&apost have nukes in South Korea, but we do have bombers with nukes.
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WILLIAMS: The Iran deal, the Iranians didn&apost have nukes, and we&aposve had a deal to stop them from getting nukes.
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You can support modernizing America's remaining nukes and, at the same time, work to reduce the overall number of nukes the United States has.
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"The lessons that we learned out of Libya ... and Ukraine giving up its nukes is, unfortunately, if you had nukes, never give them up," Coats said.
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We haven&apost had them for decades, but we do have those B-2 bombers that fly over, which have nukes, we have submarines that have nukes.
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First of all, even if you say you're only focused on nukes, not including ballistic missiles, which are the delivery system for nukes, doesn't make any sense.
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"If Russia starts using nukes against our allies in Europe, we may well use nukes in retaliation," said Moulton, a member of the House Armed Services Committee.
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There's a 10% or 20% chance that I can talk him out of those damn nukes 'cause who the hell wants him to have nukes, and there's a chance!
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The bottom line is that nuclear war won't be one sided—the country launching the nukes will get hurt too and the more nukes the greater the negative impact.
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Nukes are designed to kill people — and they have.
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"There are three sites in the game you can launch nukes from, so we originally wanted to see if it was possible to launch the nukes from each of the sites," Nickaroo93 said.
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The purpose of nukes is that they are never used.
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The final -delete argument nukes the results of the find.
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GUTFELD: They had nukes using your old, traditional, bad diplomacy.
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But how many nukes is enough to deter an enemy?
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Let's be very clear: the president alone controls the nukes.
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But why bother when America has the best nukes around?
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What would happen if they launched multiple nukes at once?
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You can totally drop the nukes on other people's bases.
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Let's not even get into where Russia puts their nukes.
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In other words, it is his nukes that demand respect.
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The technology that currently powers these nukes is notoriously antiquated.
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There are multiple arguments against mixing nukes and modern technology.
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Zone, nukes and garbage in Underworld, toxic pollution in White
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Does he really not care if more countries develop nukes?
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Britain could be left looking like an NGO with nukes.
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Let's suppose North Korea agrees to hand over its nukes.
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But the political battle is not being fought with nukes.
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And yet this is a man that has 7,000 nukes.
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And what would they be talking about, if not nukes?
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That was scary when those nukes were only on land.
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To be sure — more nukes won't make the world safer.
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It isn't the nukes that ought mainly to worry us.
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But North Korea doesn't need nukes to prevent regime change.
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The Davy Crockett fired small yield nukes from a tripod.
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While mutually assured destruction — the notion that any country launching nukes would likely also be destroyed by nukes — gets the most ink in terms of deterrence, these cultural and psychological deterrents play powerful roles.
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"It would be wonderful, a dream would be that no country would have nukes, but if countries are going to have nukes, we're going to be at the top of the pack," Trump said.
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"We tried to hold a dialogue and make efforts through international law to remove nuclear threats, but we were left with only one choice, which is to respond to nukes with nukes," Ri said.
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The comparison between nukes and crypto backdoors isn't a perfect one—nukes have a demonstrated ability to wreak mass destruction, while the ability to do violence with hacking remains mostly theoretical at this point.
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But, they reasoned, if the weapons only went part of the way around before coming back to Earth, then they wouldn't be considered Nukes in Space, but merely Nukes with a Strange Deployment Method.
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"We tried to hold a dialogue and make efforts through international law to remove nuclear threats, but we were left with only one choice, which is to respond to nukes with nukes," Ri alleged.
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No one talked about America using nukes during the Iraq War or Russia using nukes against Chechen rebels, because the very idea of using such a destructive weapon under such mundane circumstances is unthinkable.
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But if he realizes -- he gets to keep power with nukes.
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Again: pretty dry stuff, and a world away from handling nukes.
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Why have nukes if you're not going to use them, OK?
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Why would anyone want to lob nukes at an innocent planet?
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Give a little, get a little, ultimately we build our nukes.
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This doesn't just open a can of worms: It nukes one.
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The North Koreans have repeatedly lied about giving up their nukes.
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Global hesitation to ban nukes stems from a multitude of factors.
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Is it so we can hit the Soviets with nukes easier?
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India says it will not develop battlefield nukes of its own.
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A larger arsenal means much more nukes to be concerned about.
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"During the Korean War, we were threatened by nukes," Pak said.
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If I'm him, I take my chances and keep the nukes.
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Senator Obama worked with Republican Dick Lugar to secure loose nukes.
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Trump's new nukes would need to be built and paid for.
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She imagines dates in the 1950s fueled by fear of nukes.
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The risk-return calculation for hacking versus nukes is exponentially different.
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Trump: North Korea's leaders have never kept their word on nukes.
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It's not just that he could become Silvio Berlusconi with nukes.
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When was the last time they did anything with those nukes?
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Even during the Cold War, nobody wanted to think about nukes.
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Thankfully, the "mini-nukes" are still only in the idea stage.
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Will Washington tend to these American nukes that nobody can match?
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Underused assets bother Trump; that's troubling when it comes to nukes.
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They are not to be solved by throwing money at nukes.
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The Legends have also set off a fair number of nukes.
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Go deeper: Coats contradicts Trump: North Korea unlikely to give up nukes
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"Trump: I Never Said Japan Should Have Nukes (He Did)." read one.
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And are they willing to give up their nukes to do that?
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America's bombing campaign of mainland Japan before it used nukes was horrifying.
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It'll only let the president legally lob nukes at enemies willy-nilly.
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But we have people who have nukes and we&aposre containing them.
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They have the trigger to 90 percent of the nukes on earth.
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Acton said the review lowers the threshold for the use of nukes.
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It's a little scary how many nukes are stored near major cities.
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Between the lines: Some of the threats are familiar: Russia, nukes, terrorism.
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MALICE: No, but they believe nukes are an effective deterrent against invasion.
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We&aposre talking about many hundreds of nukes fired back and forth.
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And then there are America's own nukes, of which there are thousands.
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Trump: North Korea&aposs leaders have never kept their word on nukes .
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Should he forgo nukes, a pot of gold is around the rainbow.
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If the USSR lobbed a hundred or a thousand nukes at us,
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Because, after all, the North Korea problem is much greater than nukes.
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We don't even have the production facilities needed to produce new nukes.
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There are, after all, dragons/nukes on both sides of this conflict.
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If nothing else, Tehran doesn't have nukes on the table here, right?
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If they're irrational, it means they can't be allowed to have nukes.
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In the interim, NK developed a new generation of missiles and nukes.
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For some, the dream of a peaceful deployment of nukes never died.
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Pence leaves the door open for putting US nukes in outer space
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When North Korea succeeds, it will sell nukes to anyone with money.
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I can raise the price for my nukes and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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As a kid, Stepanov thought nukes were just really cool gigantic bombs.
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Nukes also provide strategic leverage for Kim's long game against South Korea.
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Without nukes, North Korea would not be as powerful of a buffer.
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When we are sure that the nukes are no longer a factor.
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It is not just get rid of the — rid of the nukes.
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"We're talking about nukes again!" he says with some amount of disbelief.
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"It would be wonderful, a dream would be that no country would have nukes, but if countries are going to have nukes, we're going to be at the top of the pack," Trump told Reuters in a February interview.
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But he has a point: Kim Jong Un has nukes and is unpredictable.
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For the U.S. that means the North Koreans get rid of their nukes.
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And the nuclear option doesn't just tip the scales — it, well, nukes them.
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"The potential threat of North Korea's nukes is enormous to China," he said.
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The fact is that people say this was keeping Iran from having nukes.
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Tens of thousands of people would perish; many more if nukes were used.
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Also, hopefully we can calm down with the nukes here on Earth's surface.
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The North says it won&apost be unilaterally pressured into abandoning its nukes.
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Go deeper: Trump envoy says it's all or nothing on North Korea's nukes
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" And the second thing is, "You are not going to get the nukes.
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We might not be able to rely on cyber ops to stop nukes.
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If he nukes ISIS, he's going to kill a lot of innocent people.
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The Cold War may be over, but the nukes are still getting upgrades.
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Can offshore wind pick up the slack from Pilgrim and other fading nukes?
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If he had, we'd currently be looking at two rogue states with nukes.
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And now we've got nukes and we can comfortably say, 'Let's do it.
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The US says it's self-explanatory -- Pyongyang must get rid of its nukes.
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Pyongyang claims that it needs nukes to defend itself from the United States.
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They aren't exactly going to negotiate away Kim's nukes at this jaw-jab.
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We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.
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China and Russia are trying to catch up to the U.S. on nukes.
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Together, the U.S. and Russia already possess 90 percent of the world's nukes.
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Nor does flirting with Russia or — in the opposite direction — acquiring more nukes.
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China's stockpile of nukes remains small—under 300 warheads, compared with America's 4,000.
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Our topics: Media, Haberman, NY Times, 'Fake News', Nordstrom's, China, Putin, Nukes, more.
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China's stockpile of nukes remains small—under 300 warheads, compared with America's 4,000.
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Objections even to a democratic ally of the U.S. possessing nukes are obvious.
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Keeping his nukes was key to Kim's plan to remain in power indefinitely.
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Kim's nukes will become more devastating, his missiles more accurate and longer-range.
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He would also allow Japan and South Korea to build nukes. http://nyti.
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Look, the French have been ramping their nukes up and down for years.
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He began with the threat of nukes, added the sanctions and then the persuasion.
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"You've been getting some attention for the 'No Nukes' campaign," Lisa tells her grandfather.
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Everyone understood what nukes were and what the benefits of having them would be.
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You know, Kim certainly doesn&apost want to give up his missiles, his nukes.
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Yes, of course it's a good idea to stop the nukes from going off.
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Tell me how pulling out of this deal makes Iran having nukes less likely.
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Banning nukes forever is the only way to protect the planet from nuclear winter.
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It blesses buildings, people, and events as well as tanks, guns, submarines and nukes.
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Additionally, there are reasons other than nukes that limit prospects for a hot war.
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There are several reasons why Kim would be loath to give up his nukes.
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But the headlines today have reminded us of the importance of North Korea's nukes.
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Nukes flew at the end of Far Cry 5, leaving behind an irradiated wasteland.
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Go deeper: What North Korea wants from the U.S. ... North Korea is prepping nukes.
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But the withdrawal from JCPOA effectively nukes any chances for further agreements with Iran.
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Ike did not want Americans to have carry the expensive burden of nukes forever.
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John McCain said in September the US should consider deploying nukes to South Korea.
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For the American side denuclearization is clear: Have the nukes removed from North Korea.
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Russia is now the sum of all their fears: the Christian Coalition with nukes.
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And someone, speaking of nukes, who has control of the entire US nuclear arsenal.
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Now, Trump's national security team has at least one member who knows about nukes.
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"Insanity and folly": experts on Trump's proposal to build tens of thousands of nukes
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And it's very, very hard for terrorists to get nukes unless countries get them.
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Every PM has to decide—if I'm dead, should the nukes fly or not?
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I had a long conversation with Lewis about Trump and nukes before the election.
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In it, Trump expresses confusion as to why the US doesn't use its nukes.
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If the White House sends more nukes to the region, it undermines that initiative.
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In addition to that, however, you're also able to call in off-map assets like heavy artillery, strafing runs, and other support assets all the way up to tactical nukes (which are still the most spectacular and horrifying nukes in strategy games).
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There are a hell of a lot of bad actors out there who have nukes.
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HANNITY: The nukes, I would agree that needs to be a part of the conversation.
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Trump talks in something like metaphors, where "more nukes" means "let's go, Mets" or something.
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If the deal to lift sanctions in return for cutting Tehran's nukes works, keep it.
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Harry J. Kazianis: Pompeo's 'Mission: Impossible' -- Is North Korea serious about giving up its nukes?
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We also talked about what the true impact of detonating the planet's nukes could be.
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LEVIN: Well, it is, and you know Reagan talked about getting rid of nukes altogether?
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Could the dictator really be thinking of giving up nukes in favour of economic development?
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Today's young people grew up in a world where nukes were just a bad dream.
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I remember it was sort of like Russian nukes being loose or something like that.
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After the fall of the Soviet Union, nukes had largely faded from the public imagination.
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With his back to the wall, nukes become more important to Mr Kim, not less.
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Amidst convo about North Korean nukes & Comey leaks/ McCabe lies, the "final q" is this?
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It&aposs much harder to invade a country with nukes than a certainly with slingshots.
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If he gets rid of his nukes he has a chance to transform his country.
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Trump has been planning to team up with Russians on nukes against others since 1987.
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He must see the obvious pattern – keep your nukes and be safe from U.S. attack.
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Get rid of your nukes and face a possible attack, ouster from power and death.
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"The first nukes are scaling down already ...... due to cooling water issues," one trader said.
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They look at Ukraine and Iraq and Libya and see nukes as a security blanket.
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And once in production, North Korea will sell nukes to anyone wishing to buy them.
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Pakistan says tactical nukes are needed because of an Indian doctrine known as "cold start".
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The North Koreans, similarly, have suggested that they prefer war to giving up their nukes.
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We've long known that Obama's efforts to get rid of nukes are kind of pathetic.
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Kelly must have forgotten to ask about Syria, ISIS, Iran, Ukraine, or North Korean nukes.
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Russians, like Americans, don't have any desire to get blown up by nukes anytime soon.
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North Korea Doubts continue to grow that North Korea is getting rid of its nukes.
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Third summit or not, solving the North Korea problem is about more than just nukes.
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Related: North Korea Has Nukes and Missiles — But Does That Mean It Has Nuclear Missiles?
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Hence why the system has no formal checks on the president's authority to order nukes.
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Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama both publicly advocated reducing the number of nukes.
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" Starter episodes: "How to Die Young at an Old Age" (May 230, 219); "Loose Nukes?
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TODAY'S MUST-READ How NK funds its nukes How is North Korea violating its sanctions?
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But Trump's approach to North Korean nukes shows there's a despot double standard at play.
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Global Zero estimates the world will spend $1 trillion on nukes over the next decade.
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Kim Jong Un, buttressed by nukes and ballistic missiles, is a different kind of showman.
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The Mideast is dissolving into chaos, and Israel is readying its nukes in self-defense.
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North Korea Nukes San Francisco (With Computer Graphics)You gotta hand it to the North Koreans.
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Even if the nukes are not re-deployed, there remain clear signs of preparation for conflict.
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He concludes that Germany must think about getting its own nukes, perhaps in collaboration with neighbours.
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No security guarantees will be enough for Mr Kim to give up his nukes, they say.
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Japan has been feeling largely sidelined during the recent high-level diplomacy surrounding North Korea's nukes.
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They see this, and the message is pretty clear: Look what happens when you develop nukes.
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Let's turn America's nukes over to a bad-tempered asshole with no knowledge of foreign policy.
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The Russians, for example, have said they'd use limited nukes to deter or end conventional wars.
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The second subset of foreign F-235 operators comprises those that have to do with nukes.
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Nukes are often cited as the chief deterrent to all-out war, and for good reason.
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Related: China Has a New Hypersonic Glider That Could Deliver Nukes — But Can They Steer It?
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Reality Check quick takes NATO and nukes Global alliances and nuclear nonproliferation were briefly touched upon.
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We&aposve given them enormous amounts of money, enormous amounts of resources and they have nukes.
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So, now the only country there with nukes is North Korea and South Korea has none.
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I mean, they&aposre okay, but they are moving in that direction and, of course, nukes.
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Now, they can merge nukes, 20 years ago they couldn&apost do any of that stuff.
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More recently, he tweeted that it was time for the US to start stockpiling nukes again.
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And especially the signing of the declaration which reiterated the pledge to get rid of nukes.
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I don't know if they have 8,700 nukes, whatever the numbers are, it's a big number.
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The battlefield nukes were removed in 1991 and reintroducing them back might generate anti-American protests.
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Between daily terror, international BDS libels and American support for Iranian nukes, Israel is in trouble.
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Mr Bostrom's book prompted Elon Musk to declare that AI is "potentially more dangerous than nukes".
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There is a difficult supply chain of components needed for Kim Jong Un's missiles and nukes.
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It means deep dives into energy, space, nukes, climate change, AI, and a whole lot more.
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They must act responsibly and put less into nukes and more resources into feeding the hungry.
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So we don't have nukes big enough or powerful enough to continuously match a hurricane's strength.
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Nukes for food would not be a bad demonstration of both North Korean and U.S. intent.
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Here's the full list of countries and the number of stockpiled and retired nukes they have.
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I don&apost care if they have burgers, I just want them to not have nukes.
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This time without Hitler, but with nukes and AI, rendering geopolitical rivalry all the more dangerous.
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How do you ship nukes out of North Korea and yet allow Kim to save face?
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"The U.S. and Russia have about 85033 percent of all nukes in the world," Cirincione said.
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His reasoning is remarkably straightforward: Having nukes gives the regime leverage and a sense of protection.
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We'd make nukes the routine objects of protest movements, nightly newscasts, Hollywood films, and national elections.
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But when this particular old guy controls the world's largest military, nukes included, it's downright scary.
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That was a clear indication that the country wanted to start arming its submarines with nukes.
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At the height of the dream, scientists thought they'd use nukes to widen the Panama Canal.
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Can you imagine the threat to American security if there were loose nukes in today's Syria?
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They estimated that 100 typical nukes detonated in China would kill more than 34 million people.
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All you can do is defend your borders and boast about how big your nukes are.
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However, China's fundamental position regarding the Korean peninsula remained the same: no war, no instability, no nukes.
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This would culminate in all sanctions being removed when all North Korea's missiles and nukes were dissembled.
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Ships and submarines routinely carried nukes into the Baltic and Black seas to the Soviet Union's doorstep.
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We know what they&aposre up to, unfortunately in a major issue like this dealing with nukes.
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Harry J. Kazianis: Pompeo&aposs &aposMission: Impossible&apos -- Is North Korea serious about giving up its nukes?
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It is not perfect, but it was better than confronting an Iran only months from possessing nukes.
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I. is far more dangerous than nukes" and asking "So why do we have no regulatory oversight?
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On Friday the Huffington Post published a leak of Department of Defense plans to build more nukes.
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Multiple panel members even raised the possibility that North Korea may use its nukes to threaten China.
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Nukes don't deter all conflict on the subcontinent, but they do minimize the prospects of major war.
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It increases the danger of war with Iran, or of its hardliners making a dash for nukes.
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Nuclear weapons took center stage in the discussions to move the clock, but it's not just nukes.
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The United States needs to keep its nukes but put an end to nuclear weapons tests worldwide.
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Nuclear weapons in Cuba meant that Miami was geographically closer to nukes than it is to Tallahassee.
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So we're counting on an unstable, insecure 33-year-old (with nukes!) to brush off Trump's taunts.
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" "I mean, you've got this madman playing around with the nukes, and it has got to end.
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"Trump: I never said Japan should have nukes (He did)," the text read during the June broadcast.
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Fallout 76 seems to be, as I had worried, taking nukes to be kind of a joke.
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North Korea has nukes, America and Russia are reducing the number of warheads but modernizing their arsenals.
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Just weeks ago, Trump was demanding Kim agree to get rid of nukes before the pair meet.
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"Pakistan is running full speed to develop tactical nukes in their continuing hostility with India." she said.
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It's that eight digit code players need to input into a computer terminal to launch the nukes.
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"I think it's a dumb idea, but not a particularly dangerous one," Lewis said of smaller nukes.
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Players speculated that the buggy nukes might be part of a disarmament or anti-nuclear war event.
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We didn't isolate China when they got nukes; We isolated them, and talked to them a lot.
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The same goes for recent claims about North Korean nukes triggering a volcanic eruption of Mount Paektu.
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North Korea has too many nukes, dispersed in too many places, to destroy in a preemptive strike.
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And it seemed founded solely in Trump's desire to have as many nukes as presidents before him.
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It had already signaled that it was willing to put nukes on some of its surface ships.
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President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter three days before Christmas to freak everyone out about nukes.
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BREAKFAST BROWSE NK-pop The (seemingly) warming relations between the two Koreas involves more than just nukes.
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Speaking at the UNSC on January 18, Nazarbayev called on North Korea to give up its nukes.
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To be clear, if and when the order comes down to launch nukes, it'll route through SACCS.
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The 46-year Cold War, featuring tens of thousands of nukes poised for instant launch, ended peaceably.
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Iran is not only violating the spirit of the no-nukes deal, it is violating its letter.
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What's more, the US intelligence community assesses that North Korea is unlikely to give up its nukes.
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To be sure, nukes provide geopolitical status for a regime whose entire legitimacy rests on military power.
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In essence, no state with nukes will use them, because it's simply too awful to do so.
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When North Korea succeeds, and sells nukes to any buyer, it will trigger proliferation in Northeast Asia.
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"It means they get rid of their nukes," Trump said when asked what he means by denuclearization.
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The umbrella of American protection meant that its allies didn't have to develop nukes of their own.
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That's the fantasy that the US can somehow convince North Korea to voluntarily give up its nukes.
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In other words, they say Russia would only use nukes in retaliation or to avoid certain extinction.
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"We will, under no circumstances, put the nukes and ballistic rockets on [the] negotiating table," Ri declared.
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Trump's claim to have made America's nukes "far stronger and more powerful" is just completely made up.
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For 5 years, Elon Musk has been warning about apocalyptic runaway AI, calling it more dangerous than nukes.
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If he starts hurling nukes at each other there&aposs not going to be a lot of parties.
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According to the Post, US security experts are "almost universally opposed" to moving nukes back onto the peninsula.
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We&aposll ask our Sunday panel what it means for getting rid of nukes on the Korean peninsula.
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But having nukes is an equalizer and would help Iran deter any American and Israeli plans to attack.
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But North Korea says it would "hit the U.S. first" with nukes if the U.S. signals a strike.
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It's a tremendous stretch to believe the nuclear powers will regress to those old-timey 15 kt nukes.
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This is the first image of Trump's military aide carrying "the football," which allows POTUS to launch nukes.
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But then he also said that Japan and South Korea might want to get nukes of their own.
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Still, many experts agree that mutually assured destruction can't fully explain why no one is using their nukes.
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That is a nonsense to which Americans reply, if you want THAAD gone, deal with North Korean nukes.
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One Obama aide said it would be "catastrophic" to allow the proliferation of nukes to other countries. 3.
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Pyongyang has now countered by saying it won&apost be unilaterally pressured into abandoning its nukes, analysts say.
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Faced with the prospect of Russia developing more nukes, Trump said that an arms race would be good.
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Others are more pressing, from North Korean nukes and Chinese island-building to wars in Afghanistan and Syria.
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But before any nukes were launched in retaliation, it seems Air Force command was told to stand down.
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They're not, for example, allowed to put nukes in orbit, on the Moon, or any other celestial body.
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The US, perhaps bound by its NATO obligations, might decide to use limited nukes when defending an ally.
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Nukes, which can be thought of as Fallout 76's version of raids, are not easy to facilitate.
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Nukes can be detonated in a variety of sites, which will all produce their own high-level enemies.
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As the mishap in Wyoming shows, the aging computers that control America's nukes are by no means perfect.
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The big-picture question, meanwhile, is whether nukes and renewables can ever learn to work side by side.
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But it's unclear exactly how the Moon administration plans to get North Korea to give up its nukes.
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Maybe they would in fact be better off if they defend themselves from North Korea ... including with nukes.
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Demanding North Korea capitulate and surrender all its nukes before any further negotiations is a dead-end move.
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Both Pompeo and Trump have argued there is no daylight between the two governments' positions on Pyongyang's nukes.
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We should avoid steps that might signal, even inadvertently, that the use of "small" nukes is somehow acceptable.
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Yesterday's failure to come to an agreement on NK's nukes brings me no joy, but rather deep concern.
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If not for the U.S. nukes, Russia could march straight to the English Channel if it wanted to.
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Look, nobody messes with Kim Jong-un of North Korea, because he's a crazy, inexperienced guy with nukes.
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Trump won't promise to concede if he loses, and if he wins, he gets control of the nukes.
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So you'd hope that the people in charge of America's nukes are keeping a cool head under pressure.
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Essentially, players are partially hacking through what little protection Bethesda put around the codes to get nukes faster.
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The earliest version of these were simple locks on the nukes themselves bypassed by a three-digit key.
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Even murderous dictators hell-bent on amassing nukes need a hobby, and for Kim Jong Un, it's basketball.
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On the campaign trail, Trump expressed wariness about using nukes — but he wouldn't rule out the possibility entirely.
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At about 100 minutes, it is a brief and generous respite from floods and nukes and violent demonstrations.
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If you were looking for evidence that Trump and nukes are truly a dangerous combination, look no further.
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And all the North Koreans have to do, Washington is expected to say, is give up their nukes.
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Boeing (BA) wins $2.4 billion contract to replace Air Force's aging iconic Huey choppers that guard America's nukes.
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We have not tested a nuclear weapon in a quarter-century; nor have we designed or produced nukes.
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It's time to admit that North Korea's nukes are here to stay, and to plan around that reality.
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For Pearce, it's about making politicians understand that firing nukes abroad could lead to starving citizens at home.
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Not every government can afford them because nukes take billions of dollars to build, maintain, and launch properly.
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Our current arsenal, which prioritizes older and bigger nukes, leads adversaries to think we would never use it.
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" Having nukes in the Cold War made sense, they said, but now they're "increasingly hazardous and decreasingly effective.
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It's never been about nukes or boats or prisoners but rather whether America should deal with Iran at all.
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But unlike legislation, Trump is the first and last person who gets to decide if we use our nukes.
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Harry J. Kazianis: Here&aposs how Trump finds out if North Korea is serious about giving up its nukes .
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Finally, if the Iran nuclear deal taught us anything, it's that a good nuclear deal must go beyond nukes.
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I hope we get to a place where some super smart AI nukes racist trolls before they can strike.
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THE PRESIDENT: The sanctions will come off when we are sure that the nukes are no longer a factor.
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"Nukes and missiles don't scare South Koreans because to them, it seems somewhat political rather than tangible," he said.
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Did you get any resistance towards what -- there's a line of thinking that he wants to keep some nukes.
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"I'm a 40-year no nukes guy," he told PEOPLE of his desire to be involved in this project.
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For example, the US stores its nukes in 10 states (in addition to a few bystander countries in Europe).
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Yet Mr Trump's people were adamant: this was all about the "complete and verifiable" dismantling of North Korea's nukes.
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I wasn't aware that space nukes and gravity tractors were our most mature concepts for this kind of thing!
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Still, it's a stark reminder that even a minor mishap involving our nation's aging nukes could have catastrophic consequences.
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The defector said Kim won't give up on nukes even if offered big bags of cash to stop. 3.
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Russia is a nuclear country, but a country where the nukes work as opposed to other countries that talk.
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In the 1970s it was the training ground for the No Nukes campaign, a prominent anti–nuclear war movement.
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Fear and ignorance will kill you as fast as nukes will, if you manage to survive the initial blast.
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When China came on board, Beijing recognized that if it used its nukes, the United States would obliterate it.
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That kicked off a year of summits and a promise by the North to get rid of its nukes.
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North Korea can keep all its existing nukes, Trump now says, as long as it doesn't manufacture any more.
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Now, one of those new-fangled nukes is a big beast of a missile, the SS-X-30 Sarmat.
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And the North Korean leader reportedly talked about getting rid of his country's nukes with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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By 2040, about 30 states will have nukes, as technologically advanced nations seek the safety of a nuclear arsenal.
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The tangled history of nukes and space is again resurfacing, just up the road from the Redstone test stand.
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North Korean nukes: Kim's still laughing Dynamics on the Korean peninsula are still trending in Kim Jong Un's favor.
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Again, Donald Trump has sole authority to launch any combination of nukes weapons at any time of his choosing.
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Giving Trump new nukes AND new ways to use them is like giving matches and gasoline to Curious George.
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Even rudimentary American missile-defences would then be able to mop up the "ragged retaliation" from China's surviving nukes.
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The question here is who pays for the Patriot missiles ... to shoot North Korea's nukes out of the sky?
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The other most popular scenarios would be A.I. that attacks us and nations fighting with nukes over scarce resources.
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No more cheating under the banner of civilian nuclear research and energy production — and developing nukes "under the table".
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CIA Director Mike Pompeo thinks the North Korean leader is developing nukes for more than just preserving his regime.
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An alternative to deploying its own nukes might be to sell some to ISIS's willing buyers and willing users.
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No doubt he also recognizes that recent history show dictators with nukes (Russia, China) get to stay in power.
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It's got drones instead of nukes, and the gimmick is that viewer interacts with the story to shape it.
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That means Trump could theoretically decide to launch a nuclear strike before an adversary's nukes go off in America.
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North Korea has said it will never unilaterally give up its nukes unless Washington eliminates any threat to the regime.
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The only thing that low-yield nukes do is lower the threshold for use by making them seem less destructive.
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Even after the Trump administration made important concessions, the North does not seem any closer to giving up its nukes.
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Thus, the claim that "100 nukes" is a kind of magic number loses meaning outside the context of explosive yield.
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That's a total reduction of 94 percent, dropping the total number of nukes around the world by a significant margin.
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So at next week's summit Mr Moon will encourage Mr Kim to make progress in talks with America over nukes.
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Though they worry about terrorism and rogue states with nukes, they also see a world in a thrillingly plastic state.
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That would protect America (and be better than war), but it would leave Asian allies vulnerable to the North's nukes.
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Or trying to double down big nukes and hydro that have only been built with gov't ownership or structural subsidy.
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Fallout has always had nukes, of course, but you've never been able to ruin a real person's day with them.
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While neither superpower ever deployed nukes on each others' soil, high-altitude bomb testing caused a kerfuffle in Earth's atmosphere.
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The point is, you can't have chimps with nukes and regulate it with medieval 17th-century, 18th-century institutions. Right.
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Mr Trump might also be fine with that outcome—even if it gets little closer to dismantling the North's nukes.
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Weinstein wouldn't discuss specifics, but he said he's not worried about American nukes getting hacked, now or in the future.
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Still, while the mini-nukes are powerful in and of themselves, he expects they are unlikely to wipe out humanity.
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The presidential ability to launch nukes within minutes is not new, but, like all things, it is different with Trump.
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But Goddard said his nuke training for the F-100 wasn't extreme and he never flew one armed with nukes.
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During the campaign, Trump took a terrifyingly casual attitude toward nukes, saying America should "greatly strengthen and expand" its capability.
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The region would be even more at risk if all we did is take out the nukes and went home.
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After allowing North Korea to research and build Nukes while Secretary of State (Bill C also), Crooked Hillary now criticizes.
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I've been around to a lot of underpopulated counties who would love to have most of them have nukes already.
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It shows that total elimination is still a long-term goal, despite international efforts to rid the world of nukes.
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Many world powers appear serious about removing the world of all its nukes, but nothing concrete has really happened yet.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country has evidence Iran "brazenly" lied when it said it wasn't pursuing nukes.
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The U.S. can deliver nukes by bomber, intercontinental missile and submarine — the three legs of the so-called nuclear triad.
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In August, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough recounted a story an unnamed foreign policy expert told him about Trump and nukes.
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As such, let's hope the players learn about that whole "peaceful protest" bit before they get their hands on nukes.
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Mr. Pompeo opposes the Iran nuclear deal and doubts that talks will persuade North Korea to give up its nukes.
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But another is just that the scale of the threat still posed by nukes might not be obvious to everyone.
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At the same time, you also don't want a rogue military officer going off and launching nukes on his own.
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Seoul's security crucially depends on U.S. military presence to keep China at bay and offer protection from North Korean nukes.
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But the World Court was equally clear that virtually no scenario exists where the P5 could lawfully use their nukes.
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Basically, if Putin decides to let nukes fly, the US is sure to respond in kind, destroying Russia as well.
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United Airlines ain't so friendly these days, and it's like we're back in '62 with all the talk about nukes.
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And the other thing is to put pressure on them when we start our aid and the nukes are not around.
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You have called Vladimir Putin Pablo Escobar with nukes as you just said a cold-blooded killer, a bald faced liar.
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He says humanity won't survive another 1,000 years on Earth because of, you know, the usual suspects -- climate change, nukes, robots.
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The U.S. and Russia own the lion's share of the world's nukes with a combined total of approximately 13,350 nuclear weapons.
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The number of nukes in the world has come down, but could swell again in the absence of controls or trust.
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We talked about nukes, films, and the new details they're learning from nuclear devices detonated more than half a century ago.
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Because the US opposes these countries building their own nukes, they're much less likely to jeopardize the alliance by pursuing them.
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So let's stipulate that Obama claimed he was willing to use military force, if necessary, to stop Iran from acquiring nukes.
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From North Korea's point of view, this was a way to take advantage of its nuclear program without actually building nukes.
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Already, many are reporting nukes going off in Morgantown, one of the first locations that players visit after starting the game.
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But a disturbing new study shows that even small batches of nukes can have disastrous environmental consequences on a global scale.
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He must know that rocketman, as he once called him, is hoping to keep his nukes while seeking relief from sanctions.
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Unlike North Korea, Iran has no nukes, and under the JCPOA cannot get them for well over a decade, if ever.
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If the designs are solid, you don't need to test them — that's why the US doesn't blow up nukes in tests.
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His loose talk about nukes has re-raised the long-dormant question: Is he crazy enough to actually press the button?
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Mr Kim may gamble that his nukes give him the freedom to behave more provocatively, perhaps sponsoring terrorism in the South.
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In the post-Soviet scramble, he appeared to leaders anxious over global stability (and all those nukes) like a steady hand.
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And any mastery of nukes means a need for the flip side of the coin: Defense against the other guy's missiles.
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Known as the NPT, the agreement is focused on curbing the spread of nukes with complete disarmament as its end goal.
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At that point can anyone doubt Iran will provide nukes to their terrorist proxies (Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, etc.) for use?
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Pyongyang would "sharpen its just nuclear treasured sword in its hand and defend independence and justice with nukes," the article said.
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Even Kim's seemingly reckless behavior—testing nukes and ballistic missiles after Trump (recklessly) warns of grave consequences—isn't all that reckless.
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But this is a difficult choice, since the possession of nukes brought him to the negotiating table in the first place.
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That's probably what China expects because Trump originally linked up bilateral trade imbalances with Korean nukes and other East Asian problems.
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And many questions remain about exactly how the world will verify that the North is indeed getting rid of its nukes.
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Russia is an economic pipsqueak — apart from its nukes and its ability to make cyberwarfare, it certainly is not a bear.
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Players need to acquire launch codes from various monsters that make up a cryptogram they then decode to launch the nukes.
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Building a larger arsenal of smaller nukes could have dangerous consequences, according to Bruce Blair, a nuclear expert at Princeton University.
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That status quo is one in which North Korea has real nukes aimed at the US mainland, yet life goes on.
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We're talking about a more or less ordinary corrupt petrostate here, although admittedly a big one that happens to have nukes.
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What damage this attack by these Nukes, who are this warped vision of Captain America, had actually wrought on the Mall.
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As for negotiation, experts believe there's basically no way North Korea would agree to give up its nukes at this point.
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Planes carrying nukes, the terrifying sound of life atomized into static noise: "Unexploded Ordnances (UXO)" feels very much of the minute.
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The United States detonated 27 nukes in Nevada, New Mexico, and Colorado between 1961 and 1973 as part of Project Plowshare.
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Lewis and Sagan both believe Trump is multiple steps removed from dropping the B61-12 or similar nukes on Iranian targets.
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"We will, under no circumstances, put the nukes and ballistic rockets on the negotiating table," Mr. Ri said in a statement.
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"I don't like the term exchange," says Alan Robock, a climate resesarcher at Rutgers who's been studying nukes for three decades.
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Within a year North Korea will manage to produce a few weaponized nukes and will sell them to anyone with money.
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In other words, Kim's nukes and gulags, made possible in part by the generous gifts of Kim's engagers, are for keeps.
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Trump says the nuclear threat is over; the intel chiefs say it's unlikely the North will completely give up its nukes.
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"Civilization connotes a body of ideas and a value system," you add, making the point that Russia's nukes can't destroy it.
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" Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted: "The possessor of REAL nukes cries wolf—on an ALLEGED "demolished" site in Iran.
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In August 2016, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough recounted a story an unnamed foreign policy expert told him about Trump and nukes.
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Matthew Broderick stars as a brilliant teenaged hacker who has to convince an artificial intelligence running NORAD that nukes aren't fun.
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According to their conservative estimates, 100 nukes hitting their targets would put about 7 trillion grams of soot into the air.
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The risk of loose nukes and nuclear proliferation from rogue scientists is huge, but has been faced down in the past.
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Schlesinger told aides in the Pentagon war room to check with him if Nixon started talking to them about launching nukes.
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Many decades ago, even the US and Soviet Union could see that putting nukes in orbit was an absolutely destabilizing thing, because if you have nukes flying over your enemy's head, you could detonate one in space at any moment, frying electronics courtesy of the blast's electromagnetic pulse, and have free rein to nuke at will.
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The Russian leader also discussed the use of nuclear weapons and said Moscow would only deploy nukes in response to an attack.
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If this launch occurred, the U.S. would have presumably retaliated with a barrage of nukes launched at predetermined locations across the USSR.
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Practical technology such as GPS came from scientists solving physics problems they were interested in (also, satellites, nukes, and the Cold War).
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True, the United Nations Charter does ban military force except in self defense, and using nukes could possibly constitute a war crime.
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Mr Trump wants Mr Xi to deliver a breakthrough with the North, by applying ever more pressure until it abandons its nukes.
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The paper is a grim wakeup call for military planners who think small batches of nukes won't result in severe environmental consequences.
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Hawkish Indians look enviously at Israel's model of counter-terrorism and chafe at how Pakistani nukes have defanged their more numerous forces.
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Worse, the money, in effect, helped pay for the North Korean nukes that are now at the heart of the peninsula's crisis.
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Now, the Pentagon wants to strap new missiles to the F-35 and use it to shoot nukes out of the sky.
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If outsiders provide enough money and security guarantees, the argument goes, the North will begin to ease its grip on its nukes.
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Perhaps he will decide to shelve his "nukes first" policy in favour of Chinese-style economic reform and rapprochement with South Korea.
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Sometimes leaders hold on to nukes because they fear that without them as a deterrent their countries might be invaded or destroyed.
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And President Trump, he's likely to blame you -- not the man with the illegal nukes -- if the negotiations do in fact die.
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"After allowing North Korea to research and build Nukes while Secretary of State (Bill C also), Crooked Hillary now criticizes," Trump tweeted.
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But the Trump administration wants to expand the role of nukes to respond to "non-nuclear strategic attacks," possibly include cyber attacks.
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Or moving backward toward an old world that preserves the traditions of the faith in a time before nukes sullied the landscape.
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"Kim Jong Un has no plan to give up nukes now and denuclearisation is fake," Chosun Ilbo newspaper wrote in an editorial.
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The North has said it will refuse to participate in talks where it would be unilaterally pressured to give up its nukes.
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We've actually had to rethink some content that's not just related to nukes, based on the new environment we all live in.
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You can shoot some of those things and, importantly, you can also witness those exploding buildings or detonating nukes in the distance.
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Deep in the nuclear silos of the West Virginia Wasteland, players use code pieces to decrypt an alphanumeric string and launch nukes.
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BuzzFeed and Huffington Post called out Rick Perry specifically for being easily bamboozled when he is in control of the nation's nukes.
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And Kim reportedly is willing to talk about denuclearization and pledged that his regime would suspend testing of his missiles and nukes.
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A monitoring station could also be installed inside North Korea as a first step toward a larger verification regime to disarm nukes.
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With the most powerful conventional and cyber military force in the world, the United States has no need to respond with nukes.
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Questions about the security of the nukes were raised after an unsuccessful coup attempt against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2016.
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The United States pulled out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, an agreement with Russia that limited the range of nukes.
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North Korea won't give up its nukes, and Americans shouldn't fall for the regime's charm offensive, top intelligence told a Senate committee.
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It is already becoming clear to the world that the only safety factor a state can have is possession of ready nukes.
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Well, miniaturized nukes mounted on intercontinental ballistic missiles and heated rhetoric about launching them toward Guam certainly qualifies as a serious crisis.
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A conclusive strike that completely incapacitates Kim Jong Un's offensive capacities could thus be justified, which may in turn call for nukes.
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"Kim Jong Un has no plan to give up nukes now and denuclearization is fake," Chosun Ilbo newspaper wrote in an editorial.
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Weaponizing space with nukes and their delivery vehicles is the last MAD frontier, and whether that madness can be stopped is not clear.
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Nukes are just so vital to North Korea's military and diplomatic strategy that it's difficult to imagine the North ever handing them over.
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"The Obama administration has done virtually nothing to modernize [nukes], and there's a lot of modernization that needs to be done," he contended.
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Just as nukes produce fallout, anti-satellite weapons which explode, or simply hit their target at orbital speed, produce large amounts of debris.
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Will Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hold Kim Jong-un&aposs feet to the fire and get North Korea to ditch their nukes?
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While I hope North Korea has had its come-to-Jesus moment, my gut tells me Pyongyang will never give up its nukes.
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If you're worried about the fate of humanity, you should worry about nukes, climate change, antibiotic-resistant pathogens, food insecurity, or clean water.
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There is deep skepticism about whether Kim would fully give up his nukes, but Trump eventually agreed to meet him for a summit.
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President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the agreement -- which was intended to prevent Iran from developing nukes -- a year ago.
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The North Koreans as they are building their nukes, the Iranians -- he gave them $150 billion and a wet kiss on the lips.
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And how many nukes could an aggressor nation drop on an enemy before the effects of nuclear winter come back to haunt them?
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But even so, in 1996, the UN's judicial branch ruled that it's not illegal to use nukes to ward off an existential threat.
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It's why you prevent them from getting nuclear weapons in the first place — because your hands are somewhat tied once they have nukes.
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Not long before that speech, I'd been in Seattle, where the newspaper had a picture of North Korean nukes on the front page.
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We got to see Sierra and speak with the engineers and physicists tasked with detonating virtual nukes in the name of national security.
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Listening to "Nukes" alone took my breath away and even though it may seem like a heavy topic, I can't recommend it enough.
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This is why the US spent so long trying to stop states like Iraq and Libya from getting nukes in the first place.
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It's also a game that might not be so friendly — especially since some players will be able to get their hands on nukes.
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This election has seen far more talk than usual about nuclear weapons, and El Paso, home to NORAD, has nukes on the brain.
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With North Korea seeking the means to hit American territory with nukes, it would be "malpractice" not to do so, says Mr Barrasso.
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North Korea had sought an end to sanctions while Trump reportedly passed a note to Kim demanding that he turn over his nukes.
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He considered using nukes to jolt the stalemate in Korea (happily the Soviets and North Koreans made peace overtures after Josef Stalin's death).
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To be clear, there are no green-lit missions, at NASA or elsewhere, that involve strapping a bunch of nukes to a spacecraft.
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Trump hasattempted to sell Kim on the idea his country "will rapidly become an Economic Powerhouse" if he only gives up his nukes.
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They lock up fewer of their subjects, and the last time they terrified the world was in 1962, with the Soviet Union's nukes.
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But odds are that even if Kim gets these things he will still find excuses to keep at least some of his nukes.
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North Korea withdrew from the 215 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 21, and it started testing nukes in 26.
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"There is a sense that nukes are a non-negotiable part of North Korean identity, security and place in the world," says Bisley.
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Likely another unparalleled arms race, a growth in global insecurity, and a tacit license for more countries to seek nukes of their own.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Europe Wednesday that any country accepting new U.S. nukes on its territory risks a retaliatory strike from Moscow.
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The first three quarters of the speech were standard stuff: we have nukes, get over it and let's continue to develop our economy.
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The 6,000-tonne boat will provide India with the third leg of its nuclear "triad"—it already has land- and air-launched nukes.
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Fortunately, the satellites came up blank on space nukes, but in 1967, they picked up the first signatures of a gamma ray burst.
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Captain America: Civil War sealed the deal on the superheroes-as-nukes metaphor that it's been building since the start of the MCU.
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Or is Trump ready to make good on his promise to give China a pass on trade for help with North Korean nukes?
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North Korea goaded America with missile tests, declaring itself a "complete" nuclear state with nukes that could hit anywhere in the United States.
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That said, let's be clear: "warhead and delivery systems" means nukes, and that is what this $600 million supercomputer will be dedicated to.
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North Korea and Iran – rogue states – have been driving to produce nukes for over two decades, and they're on the verge of success.
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His comments on nukes are so vague, and so abstract, that it's very difficult to understand how they translate in concrete policy terms.
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Launching nukes is the whole point of Fallout 76, a feature that stands in stark contrasts to the franchise's anti-nuclear war roots.
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White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the U.S. would continue to put "maximum pressure" on North Korea to give up its nukes.
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If they did, then we should all have the right to portable nukes — for that is the logical conclusion of such an argument.
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It's a much scarier situation now that those nukes have been put onto submarines that move deep underwater, holding the deadliest payloads imaginable.
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Above all, I have a particular weakness for the big guns: the BFGs, the fusion cannons, the nukes, the Queens, the King Tigers.
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After three minutes of being touched and felt by Trump, Kim Jong-un is just going to go, 'Fine, fine, take the nukes!
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Ankara gravitates toward Moscow, while we ponder the future of NATO and the safety of our forces and nukes at Incirlik air base.
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In addition, Nazarbayev called for a UNSC resolution outlining sanctions against countries that move to quit the Non-Proliferation Treaty and obtain nukes.
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Donald Trump would get new nukes that his advisers claim are "low-yield," and that Trump might be more inclined to actually launch.
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" The Guardian responded, at the end of that month, with Mr. Billington's, "Knockouts, Nobles and Nukes: The 25 Best British Plays Since 'Jerusalem.
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Instead, Kim may be trying to reset Trump's expectations and make him understand that North Korea isn't willing to hand over its nukes.
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Does that mean that Kim Jong Un is going to give up his entire nuclear arsenal, what is he going to demand in return in terms of the US holding back, taking down its nuclear umbrella, yes we don&apost have nukes on the South Korean mainland, but we do have nukes on the planes that fly over from Guam.
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Officials say if North Korea is not taking enough steps to get rid of its nukes by next year, those exercises would go forward.
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Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway was asked on "Good Morning America" on Tuesday what the President-elect intended to do to stop North Korea's nukes.
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The country that masters new weapons first gets to run the earth, just like nukes, so it better be us or we&aposre screwed.
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If he does that, you can assure him that you will take care of Pyongyang's nukes and inter-Korean disputes with Beijing and Moscow.
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His comments came after a North Korean official said the country is not interested in a meeting if the only focus is on nukes.
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YouTuber Nickaroo93 and his crew launched three nukes at once over the weekend, and seconds after doing so, they were kicked from the server.
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And a lot of people don't know what it means, but to me it's pretty obvious we have to get rid of the nukes.
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Soon after that meeting, he told President Donald Trump that Taiwan (not North Korea's nukes) was the most critical issue in Sino-American relations.
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Thus, it's entirely possible that the UK will be able to have stealthy, nuclear-capable strike aircraft and the nukes to use with them.
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Since he probably fears his own generals more than America's, there is reason to doubt that Mr Kim would ever trade his nukes away.
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Hanford is a legacy site that produced plutonium for the world's first nuclear bomb, and for almost 24,1013 more nukes during the Cold War.
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Kim knows a nuclear weapon offers more protection to his regime than a piece of paper, and he believes he needs nukes to survive.
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For example, which most effectively mobilizes voters: Trump's racism and sexism, his grifting, his temperament, his finger on the nukes, or his economic plans?
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"North Korea's nukes and missiles are an issue for the international community, but it is also a serious security threat to Japan," Abe said.
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Trump is effectively giving Kim an easier pass on his nukes than he is giving Iran, which, by the way, doesn't have a bomb.
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In any case, loose talk of pre-emptive strikes and regime change are not exactly incentives for Kim Jong Un to surrender his nukes.
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Managing and containing Putin, fixing Syria, combatting jihadi terror and stopping North Korean nukes are the long odds issues that will frame Pompeo's world.
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North Korean state media said the US would start easing up on sanctions as the nation made progress on getting rid of its nukes.
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And just as a peace declaration will not inspire Kim to relinquish his nukes, neither will withholding a declaration pressure him to do so.
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Another vaguely worded statement will just kick the nuclear can down the road even further, giving Kim even more time to build more nukes.
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These bunkers, which still exist today, are called "nuclear sponges" because Cold War strategists thought the silos would absorb the bulk of Russian nukes.
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That's the idea that the US should swear off launching a nuclear strike against an enemy unless it has been attacked with nukes first.
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Why it matters: Although talking about Iranian nukes could bolster Netanyahu's domestic support as he navigates corruption scandals, his maneuver is fraught with risks.
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We don't want a president who is on a sugar high of ego, whose demented tweets about nukes and crowd size scare even Omarosa.
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Trump came to his first meeting with the Chinese leader last April convinced that China could easily force Pyongyang to give up its nukes.
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Trump is imposing steel and aluminum tariffs on America's European allies while needing their help to confront China on trade and Iran on nukes.
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In essence, any deal between Trump and Kim comes down to three questions: Can Trump come to terms with Kim continuing to have nukes?
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THERE IS a push in America to subscribe to a "no first use" policy on nukes, in a bid to reduce risks and anxiety.
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"The possessor of real nukes cries wolf," Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a tweet, a reference to Israel's own presumed nuclear arsenal.
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Any jihadi attack or other assault on America will not be met with restraint; Mr. Trump seems to regard nukes as an underused asset.
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Let's just get a clean deal — end of Iranian nukes for end of sanctions — and handle the rest through traditional diplomacy and soft power.
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You're alarmed by President Trump (or Nancy Pelosi), terrorism and the risk of rising seas, if we're not first incinerated by North Korean nukes.
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By 2040, it will be thirty, as our allies, who formerly relied on our nuclear umbrella for protection, will opt for their own nukes.
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For the study, the researchers imagined a "best-case" scenario for nuclear war where an aggressor nation launched its nukes and nothing went wrong.
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But the truth is that we don't know — which makes every stray Trump comment about nukes, even thinly sourced speculation like Scarborough's, deeply terrifying.
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It&aposs easy to feel uneasy about Kim&aposs intentions, the horrifying nature of his regime, and whether he&aposll ever give up his nukes.
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"The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes," Trump tweets.
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"The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes," Trump wrote.
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Of the 14,500 nuclear weapons on the planet, Russia and the United States own the lion's share, with a combined total of approximately 13,350 nukes.
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North Korea's nukes are scattered around the country and likely deep underground – so they can't be destroyed in one bombing raid on a single target.
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It's even less likely that North Korea will give up its nukes now that it sees Trump poised to tear up the Iran nuclear deal.
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But Trump has suggested otherwise — implying that he'd support Japan and South Korea developing nukes as a way to lower costs to the United States.
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The crucial message for Mr Kim as for his predecessors is that, if the North were to use its nukes, the regime would be obliterated.
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Nukes, Fallout's take on raids, are a mechanic that allows players to transform a location so that it spawns higher-level enemies with better loot.
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If the answer is no, Mr Kim will soon be able to keep America at bay with his nukes and threaten his neighbours with impunity.
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But Chinese leaders continue to water down and resist still-harsher sanctions, as they fear the collapse of the Kim regime more than its nukes.
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So, if you want to survive, Kim Jong Un, you need to sit down with the president and do a deal -- giving up your nukes.
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Mr Trump thinks this was a terrible deal that failed to halt the nukes for good or stop Iran from stirring trouble around the region.
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The deal was, under George H.W. Bush, now, we&aposve denuclearized the peninsula as just goodwill to show and now, you don&apost need nukes.
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But Kim clearly sees his nukes as the ultimate insurance policy against a U.S. invasion that could topple his regime and result in his death.
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" The North Korean foreign minister also said Monday that the country is totally unwilling to "put the nukes and ballistic rockets on the negotiating table.
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The HM69 Nike Missile BaseBuilt in Everglades National Park right after the Cuban Missile Crisis, this decommissioned missile base once had nukes aimed at Havana.
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"The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes," Trump tweeted.
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"The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes," he said.
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Mr Obama called again for a world free of nuclear weapons, though under his administration America has upgraded its nukes, as have Russia and China.
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"The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes," he wrote.
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A first principle of international relations is not to provoke armed leaders who are wacky or desperate, and here was Trump needling one with nukes!
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Though patents must be enforced vigilantly, it is time to give up the nukes and establish a logical conventional approach for future design patent cases.
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"The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes," he tweeted.
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The HM220 Nike Missile BaseBuilt in Everglades National Park right after the Cuban Missile Crisis, this decommissioned missile base once had nukes aimed at Havana.
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Like many teenagers, Paige — who's become involved with a no-nukes church youth group — is trying to establish an identity separate from her prying parents.
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"I want them to get rid of their nukes," Trump said at a joint news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House.
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From its opening moments to its final hours, it never let me forget I was playing in the ruins of a world destroyed by nukes.
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When asked about sanctions' impact on aid, a State Department spokesperson told Reuters sanctions will continue "until nukes are no longer a factor," without elaborating.
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The agreement sets the limit of deployed strategic nuclear warheads to 1,550 for both countries and limits the number of submarine- and bomber-based nukes.
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" Or, as one retired senior Army officer told The American Conservative, low-yield nukes provide Trump with "a kind of gateway drug for nuclear war.
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There is also a distinct possibility of an intentional or accidental global armageddon in direct military challenges to nukes- and ICBM-brimming China and Russia.
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The Trump administration wants to expand the role of nukes to respond to "nonnuclear strategic attacks," including cyberattacks, and use them first in a crisis.
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"One of the 2 main US presidential candidates will lead a country which has power, wealth & highest number of nukes & world's biggest media!" he added.
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We would send a clear message to North Korea's dictator, Kim Jong-un: When it comes to nukes, don't believe anything we say or sign.
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Kim "watched an H-bomb to be loaded into new ICBM" and "set forth tasks to be fulfilled in the research into nukes", KCNA said.
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About that nuclear threat: Yeah, Cipher is actually going after nukes, for precisely the kind of reason you might expect from a ridiculous hacker villain.
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He believes nukes are bad but seems far more willing to build more of them — and even think about using them — than any prior president.
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In their scenario, there were no accidents, all the nukes hit their targets, and the target country is so totally destroyed that it can't retaliate.
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Many experts worry that having tinier nukes makes them more usable, thereby increasing the chance of a skirmish turning into a full-blown nuclear war.
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If, at the same time, Trump unilaterally pulls out of the deal we've already signed with Iran to prevent it from developing nukes — and Trump moves to reimpose sanctions — how does that not send only one message to the North Koreans: No deal with the U.S. is worth the paper it's written on, so you'd be wise to hold on to all your nukes?
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They came as a reponse to the report from MSNBC's Joe Scarborough - citing an unnamed source - that Trump repeatedly asked why the U.S. can't use nukes.
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Putin's power is also hugely enhanced by his very personal control of Russia's vast military, much of it including the nukes, is also a Soviet legacy.
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Pyongyang is now thought to have as many as 60 nukes and is in the process of building submarines capable of firing nuclear warheads while submerged.
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Trump has brought drama to the negotiations over North Korea's nukes, upended Obama-era Asia trade plans and is now sowing division in the European Union.
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Specifically, reports suggest that while North Korea has stopped testing nukes or missiles for now, they are continuing to enrich uranium and stockpile the relevant materials.
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Lewis told Bloomberg that the situation is not necessarily more dangerous than before the summit, because North Korea was already building and testing nukes and missiles.
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President Trump agreed to the summit in an effort to show Kim what his impoverished nation's future could look like if Kim gives up his nukes.
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Strategic Command, which controls nuclear weapons in the event of a war, won't let the president just lob nukes willy-nilly at anyone who angers him.
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By virtue of his country's unfortunate place in history, he is keener than most to make sure Iran's theocratic leaders never get their hands on nukes.
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A nuclear war, whether it's with 153 or 1,000 nukes, will still be a horrific affair, the effects of which will be felt around the world.
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Mr Trump has previously said he would be happy to have a hamburger with Mr Kim and try to persuade him to give up his nukes.
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As both Earth and Mars launch nukes to try and stop the asteroid, it's a terrific illustration of the cold war situation between the two worlds.
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It's the replacement of a reality-based community, as formulated in the years of George W. Bush, with a platform of wishful thinking … backed by nukes.
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But such moves are hardly equal to the threats posed by Kim Jong Un's nukes and rockets, or China's muscle-flexing in the South China Sea.
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We can scoff when they call their nuclear program a "treasured sword," but increasingly they are making the point that their nukes are not for bartering.
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Today, the tunnel network inside the rock is more than 34 miles in length (it is rumored that there are even nukes stashed down there somewhere).
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They are not currently known to hold any nukes in their arsenal, though they have threatened to develop or acquire them if regional rival Iran does.
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Oh, and even if North Korea does actually go through with ditching its nukes this time, it's going to be almost impossible to hold them accountable.
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Aside from his frothing belligerence on the use of nukes, LeMay was hard to place politically: He was an early environmentalist and supporter of abortion rights.
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If you play Trump, you met with him, you shook his hand, you told him you wanted to give up your nukes for a good deal.
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After all, Afghanistan doesn't have nukes of its own, the Taliban doesn't pose an existential threat to the US, and millions of innocent civilians would die.
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"Bethesda takes series iconography and tosses it into a blender until all the context is lost," Kotaku wrote when Bethesda announced players could play with nukes.
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This nukes all traffic currently on the bus and tells every other ECU that they need to resend whatever they were in the process of sending.
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Think not German unification, says Andrei Lankov, a Russian expert on the North who teaches in Seoul, the capital of the South, but "Syria with nukes".
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Ultimately, the North Korean strongman will try to shed his buffoonish dictator garb and don the cloak of a veritable global statesman with nukes for keeps.
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From nukes to CEO payIn the years since the Manhattan Project, Monte Carlo simulation methods have become very common in many branches of science and finance.
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DEFENSE CHIEF TALKS NUKES: Defense Secretary Ash Carter was visiting Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota on Monday where he spoke about U.S. nuclear capability.
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" It links out to what appears to be the group's primary channel, which only has one video titled "Fire up the Panzers and launch the nukes!
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"I think it's difficult to do nukes in a game format that doesn't incorporate or allow for meanings that, from certain perspectives, are problematic," he said.
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So it's worth applauding any successful outcome — especially when these tests are meant to help keep North Korean and Iranian nukes from hitting the United States.
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Iranian meddling in the Eastern Province is somewhat like the Soviets putting nukes in Cuba: You can't let it happen if you are the other side.
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Another is that there's an impression — not entirely true, as I'll explain — that nothing ever changes with nukes, so we're just in a peaceful status quo.
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The first was a preventive war against a nuclear-armed adversary — basically the 2003 Iraq model — but in this case applied to a country with nukes.
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I mean, here's a REAL PICTURE of your hero shaking hands with a hereditary murderous dictator with nukes who sits atop a cult of personality: pic.twitter.
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Just as Russia still occupies Crimea, Nicolás Maduro runs Venezuela and Kim Jong Un has his nukes, so Turkey has vowed to fight on in Syria.
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For example: "Mark my words, AI is far more dangerous than nukes," Musk said at the South by Southwest tech conference in Austin, Texas, in March.
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"With North Korea holding three Americans captive and North Korea unwilling to deal away its nukes, there is no basis of foundation for talks," he said.
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The nukes are Kim's this time, whereas they weren't Castro's, so despite China's crucial role we ultimately have to deal with the thirtysomething's regime more directly.
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It has only deepened over the years as the North closes in on the ability to field an arsenal of nukes that can hit U.S. cities.
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Rolling out America's nukes and parading giant warheads down Pennsylvania Avenue is not needed to convince the world that the U.S. is the most powerful country.
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Russia is modernizing its triad legs; abandoned its "no first use" policy; and adopted a military strategy of preemptive, early use of nukes in all conflicts.
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There's only so many times the North Koreans can detonate nukes and launch stuff into space before someone in South Korea demands that somebody do something.
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Go deeper: Exclusive: John Bolton hits Trump for bluffing on North Korea nukes Evidence of new work at North Korea site linked to long-range missiles
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This proposal, which came to be known as "zero nukes," foundered only on Reagan's unwillingness to relinquish his beloved, yet utterly impractical, Star Wars space defense system.
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In a May 2018 podcast, Gebert said whites "need a country of our own with nukes and we will take this thing lickety split," according to SPLC.
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President Trump should meet with Kim and say when are you going to deliver all of your nukes and all of your missiles in the next week?
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"The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes," he said on Twitter.
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But many experts say nothing it has done is consequential enough to be seen as a sign that the country is willing to fully surrender its nukes.
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In one hypothetical scenario, if the US were to drop 215 nukes on China's most populous cities, the initial blasts would kill an estimated 400 million people.
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China knows that Korean nukes are a threat to its own security, destabilising the region and giving America good cause to maintain armies and arsenals in Asia.
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Densely populated cities, easy-to-locate military targets, and vulnerable infrastructure makes the US an especially exposed nuclear target if nukes suddenly became acceptable weapons to use.
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"I believe the biggest bridge we have to our clean energy future are the nukes and, not to mention, the thousands of jobs they support," he said.
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South Korea, like Japan, is surrounded by nuclear powers, and like Japan it has not developed its own nukes, in part because it is under US protection.
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But the long answer, well, it depends on which countries are going to war, how many nukes are being dropped, and where those bombs are being detonated.
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He needs China's support for North Korea's general well-being, but he also needs it in case he can't strike any nukes-for-sanctions deal with Trump.
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Its president apparently miffed her Russian hosts during the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok last month by ignoring trade and investments and talking about Pyongyang nukes instead.
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To get New START ratified by the Senate, Mr Obama had to show that the limited number of nukes it allowed would be of tip-top quality.
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In the past, Trump has suggested that it may be OK with him if some US allies obtained their own nukes, such as Japan and South Korea.
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CHANG: If we don&apost, we are going to have to do something and that something might even be worse than putting nukes back on the peninsula.
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Jonathan Pollack of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank, regards it as "magical thinking" to suppose that Mr Kim has any intention of giving up his nukes.
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" On Thursday, Trump tweeted, "The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.
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In the event of a nuclear accident, or two mad men lobbing nukes at each other, radioactive iodine fills the air around the site of the incident.
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However much China may be embarrassed by its wayward ally, it fears the collapse of the North Korean regime more than Mr Kim's headlong quest for nukes.
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" Trump on Thursday tweeted that the U.S. "must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.
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The money that the U.S. did give to North Korea was used almost totally in food and fuel deliveries -- not money to build nukes, as Cruz claims.
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For its part, the SNP has been insistent that the removal of nukes, or even independence, would not entail the mass job losses envisioned by Trident's proponents.
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The taboo against nuclear weapons rests on three pillars: policies to prevent proliferation, norms against the first use of nukes (especially against non-nuclear powers) and deterrence.
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Just take a look at the behavior of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, whose antics on the world stage only get attention because he has nukes.
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Though it may seem fanciful, there is a powerful tool that is tailor made for simultaneously combating North Korean nukes, Russian aggression, Chinese influence, and Iranian maleficence.
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" Trump on Thursday tweeted that the U.S. must "greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.
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"The deployment of tactical nukes is an impossible solution," Cho Myoung-gyon said, adding that doing so would be a tacit acceptance of a nuclear North Korea.
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Last month, South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis discussed the prospect of returning American nukes to Asia's fourth-largest economy.
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It had tanks, guns, and nukes, but nobody really believed in its ideology anymore; its officials and enforcers were mere careerists, who folded at the first shock.
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North Korea has said it'll stop testing nukes and missiles and would close a nuclear test site, but it hasn't said anything about dumping its nuclear arsenal.
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North Korea The United States is willing to talk to North Korea without the regime first getting rid of its nukes, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said.
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Here are five things to watch during Trump's visit: North Korean nukes The nuclear threat from Pyongyang will loom over most of Trump's engagements in East Asia.
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It cuts to a billowing mushroom cloud, as Mr. Trump is heard exclaiming "including with nukes" while grainy footage shows the immediate decimation from a nuclear explosion.
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"The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capacity until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes," he said Dec. 22.
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"The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes," Trump tweeted. Twitter-plomacy!
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While the Pentagon has recognized the myriad pitfalls plaguing a system composed of thousands of nukes ready to lay waste to our planet, the danger remains omnipresent.
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" (Clinton's account of what happened is basically correct.) When the conversation turned to nukes, Clinton said Trump "advocated more countries getting them: Japan, Korea, even Saudi Arabia.
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But judging by a statement issued by North Korean state media on Friday, the Kim regime has no intention of giving up its nukes any time soon.
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Both Russia and the US met their obligations by the February 2018 deadline and the world has fewer deployed nukes in it than it has in decades.
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"North Korea agrees in a certain time table to give up nukes and inspectors go in," the person, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations, told me.
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CARBON, NUKES, TOBACCO The fund is forbidden by parliament from investing in companies that produce nuclear weapons, landmines, or tobacco, or violate human rights, among other criteria.
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So when an international event occurs, it becomes problem solving — let's get the loose nukes back and then we'll talk about how we stand on this issue.
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With nukes in hand, the Kims have calculated, they need not fear being overrun by South Korea, invaded by the United States or sold out by China.
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What we have is a version of the Queen of Hearts who famously said in "Alice in Wonderland," first the verdict (cut nukes) and then the evidence.
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"The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes," Trump wrote on Twitter.
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It's not actually clear, then, whether the Trump administration is getting the message North Korea is trying to put out — that they won't give up their nukes.
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The Russian president talked Trump, nukes, and Syria in Friday's marathon press conference The Russian president talked Trump, nukes, and Syria in Friday's marathon press conference Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his marathon end-of-year press conference in Moscow on Friday, a typically super-sized affair in which the leader held the floor for nearly four hours, taking questions from some of the 1,400 reporters in attendance.
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Putin's saber rattling over nukes — not to mention incursions in Ukraine and an aggressive approach to the Syrian civil war — should be putting Trump on alert, Woolsey said.
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There is already a deep split over the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, approved by the UN General Assembly in 2017, which seeks to delegitimise nukes.
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He works for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he and other scientists write computer codes to predict how modern nukes will perform and the damage they will cause.
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It's a technology that's intended to help the US follow the paths of new hypersonic vehicles that are being developed to transport nukes from one place to another.
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After all, the North's ability to pound the capital of the South, Seoul, with thousands of dug-in artillery pieces has given it decades of deterrence without nukes.
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As for Europe, nukes are scattered everywhere on the continent and cities like London, Venice, Milan, Brussels and Rotterdam are all within 50 miles of a nuclear bomb.
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Learn more about it with this video by RealLifeLore, which also shows what kind of damage these nukes would do if they were dropped on New York City.
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Intermediate-range nukes were appealing because they could hit key targets while remaining a safe distance away from the front line, without resorting to intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
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But the retired intelligence high-up is "totally not excited" by headlines suggesting that North Korea is willing to scrap its nukes in exchange for American security guarantees.
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But it's not just nukes he loves — he also loves Twitter, and he released the following tweet today to the global town square: Had a busy day today .
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Russia and China are keener on nuclear-tipped ones, partly because they fear their existing nukes might one day be stopped by improvements in America's missile-defence shield.
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Indeed, they have allowed the Kim regime to claim that North Korea needs nukes to defend itself against enemies, led by America, that are bent on its destruction.
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Happy Friday and welcome back to On The Money, where we're wondering if it's going to be a long, long time before North Korea gives up its nukes.
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Then there's the matter of what other countries do—in the region and beyond—when they see that a rogue regime developed nukes and got away with it.
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It wasn't just missiles that Cuba had by November 1962; some of those missiles were armed with nukes, and Fidel Castro was itching to use them on Florida.
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" On Thursday, Trump tweeted that "the United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.
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"But there wasn't that fear, an amnesia of terror," he said — and quashing that fear is what he believes is a vital step to doing something about nukes.
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Then, there was Ukraine, to whom the U.S. signed a security guarantee when they gave up inherited Soviet nukes before looking the other way when Putin invaded Crimea.
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Most Americans now think that we are too tough on North Korea, even while agreeing it's a heinous rogue regime that cannot be allowed to hold onto nukes.
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Nukes started flying across the map soon after the game's initial release, and players have even coordinated the launch of three simultaneous nuclear blasts, which crashed the server.
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The problem is that, at the moment, this cryptogram is easily solved, allowing players to cheat the system to launch so many nukes they can break the game.
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The warheads and missiles have already been assembled and stored in the same place, and individual submarine captains have significant freedom to decide whether to launch their nukes.
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The North gambled that the South wouldn't risk being hit by Northern nukes (and its conventional arsenal) over one destroyer, and so wouldn't respond with all-out war.
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They take Trump's call about nukes If North Korea launches a nuclear attack on the United States, this is the secure underground base that would oversee the response.
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If Kim believes Trump would order a drone strike on North Korea, "then he may feel greater pressure to keep his nukes on a hair trigger," Jackson said.
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The US and South Korea agreed to the cancellation to support "diplomatic efforts" as the US continues to try to get the North to dump its nukes. 4.
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Long before the advent of nukes, Britain and the United States once stood on the brink of a naval arms buildup on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
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Two recent papers anticipate how nukes could be employed to either deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, or blow it into smaller, less hazardous chunks.
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And the millennials and Gen Z's might rethink the sacred values their boomer parents have left unexamined since the Doobie Brothers sang at the 1979 No Nukes concert.
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And even Kim does agree to give up his nukes, the US and its allies will still face the tough challenge of verifying Pyongyang no longer has them.
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And indeed, Trump and top administration officials like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo continue to insist that North Korea has agreed to give up its missiles and nukes.
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And as North Korea pushes the narrative that it needs nukes to deter a U.S. attack, Trump did his part to confirm that belief on a global stage.
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In 1995, the Strano Network targeted French government sites with a one-hour "net strike" after the government tested nukes in the Pacific Ocean — an action with limited success.
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Vine said fewer nukes could mean increased greenhouse emissions in at least the short term as gas—cleaner than coal, but still a carbon-rich fuel—replaces that capacity.
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Moon's focus on reconciliation could "obviate the U.S. focus on nukes and missiles," Pusan National University Professor Robert Kelly said in a new note published on the Lowy Institute.
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It wants Kim to give up his entire nuclear program, all of the nukes, all of the missiles, all of the nuclear infrastructure that can enrich uranium or plutonium.
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And Mr Rawat's recognition of the doctrine's existence provides further reason for Pakistan to develop "tactical" nukes—tiny warheads that could easily end up in inexpert or malevolent hands.
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" Is it, well we'll follow the Libya model, which is to say, "give up your nukes, you get economic aide, and by the way we might overthrow you later.
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"Other than nukes, the aspect of North Korean behavior that actually touches North America most is cyber," Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA and NSA, told BuzzFeed News.
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It's too dangerous — the effects of nuclear winter are no joke — and it's not credible to believe the U.S. would respond to something like an infrastructure attack with nukes.
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But while some of the suggested upgrades to our space-based technology could prove useful, experts say other ideas, like stopping nukes from orbit, are a bit more farfetched.
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"The next thing we want to try is launching the nukes at three different regions of the map to see if the servers can handle the load," Nickaroo93 said.
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"The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes," Trump tweeted on December 22, 2016.
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Mr Trump, in his press conference, promised that the UN-mandated sanctions regime against North Korea would remain in place until it took material steps towards dismantling its nukes.
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That should be the end of the China trade story — and a swift transition to North Korean nukes and the freedom of air and sea navigation in East Asia.
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You'll also be adding to the fray via nukes, which players can set off against one another to create high-end areas full of rare loot and tough baddies.
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"Your insulting message to (Afghanistan) is either accept the (Pakistani) proposal for peace or eventually you may have to use nukes," former intelligence chief Rahmatullah Nabil wrote on Twitter.
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"The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes," President-elect Trump tweeted last week.
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Whether audiences steeped in polarized politics and blaring real-world headlines -- from North Korean nukes to terrorism -- want to escape into such TV fare nevertheless remains an open question.
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He goes aboard a ballistic missile submarine to see why the military wants to upgrade the nukes we have—and the potential danger of reigniting a nuclear arms race.
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If Kim is actually willing to give up his nukes, he will probably bargain off only a small fraction — enough to lend credibility and make some progress in negotiations.
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As coverage graduated from "OMG nudes" to "OMG what if someone makes fake videos of Trump launching nukes," the media attention deepfakes garnered stopped grappling with how it began.
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According to the anti-nukes mob, anyone with the temerity to possess just one short-range ballistic nuclear missile for self-defense must, ipso facto, be a violent evildoer.
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The longer-term danger isn't that Trump blows up the world, but that he pushes the international system towards a world with many more nukes in many more hands.
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"The North Korean pattern is to do provocations whether it is tests of missiles or nukes, ask for negotiations then string us along for months and years," he said.
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Daniel Davis, a senior defense fellow for Defense Priorities, echoed those sentiments, saying that scrapping one deal on nukes will impact the next deal the U.S. tries to make.
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"The gangster-like US imperialists are ceaselessly resorting to their frantic nuclear threat and blackmail to stifle the DPRK with nukes at any cost," a post from KCNA said.
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Earlier this month, Rosenberg appeared on CBN to discuss his latest work of fiction, The Persian Gamble, which posits that Iran used U.S. money to buy North Korean nukes.
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Comments in North Korea's state media indicate Kim sees any meeting with Trump as an arms control negotiation between nuclear states, rather than a process to surrender his nukes.
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It shows that while the international community is working toward the goal of reducing the number of nukes in the world, total elimination is still a long-term reality.
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" Referring to the 73rd anniversary of the US dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, Zarif said, "today in 1945, US became 1st & only country to ever use nukes.
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North Korea A big stumbling block to getting nukes off the Korean Peninsula has been North Korea's insistence that the US pull its 28,000 troops out of South Korea.
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"As a responsible nuclear weapons state, our republic will not use a nuclear weapon unless its sovereignty is encroached upon by any aggressive hostile forces with nukes," Kim said.
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By extension, there are no limited nuclear wars, and American leaders will be as loath to actually use Trump's smaller nukes as they were to use Obama's bigger ones.
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Remember, Trump didn't just say in December that he'd be fine with the US modernizing its nukes — he said he'd be fine with an out-and-out arms race.
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Ultimately, then, we're in the dark about how the Trump administration will handle nukes — no closer to understanding Trump's nuclear policy than we were the day he was elected.
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Old treaties against the creation of long range nuclear weapons are dead and Russia is working on new nukes it promises can strike the United States in record time.
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Even before the age of nukes and perpetual congressional paralysis and a massive federal bureaucracy, presidents wielded a tremendous amount of power to make foreign and domestic policy decisions.
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They and the Americans don't dare negotiate with Kim for fear that they will end up blessing his nukes — and because they don't trust him to keep any deal.
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Saudi Arabia If Donald Trump follows through on his campaign promise to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, one consequence could be Saudi Arabia developing its own nukes.
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Rogue states North Korea and Iran are on the verge of producing deliverable nukes and selling them to willing buyers or passing them to terrorist proxies for use, respectively.
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Read: How Kim Jong Un could hide North Korea's nukes from Trump Much of the Korean Peninsula's current political predicament can be traced back to how nation split apart.
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Nukes remain an ever-present threat, but people have become complacent about them just because they've been reduced by two-thirds from the peak numbers of the Cold War.
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"The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes," Trump said in a post on Twitter.
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Most experts believe the country wants nukes as a deterrent so that no foreign country (like, say, the United States) would dare attempt to remove the Kim regime from power.
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He's an experienced military man who is often described as one of the "adults in the room," making sure that Trump doesn't start flinging nukes because someone mocked his hands.
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We all have a huge amount of work to do, investigating wrongdoing, holding power accountable, enabling decent government, defending basic rights, actually covering the world -- Russia, Syria, North Korean nukes.
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Machines of War's two new maps are Braxis Holdout, a two-lane map featuring Zerg waves, and Warhead Junction, a three-lane map where teams launch nukes at each other.
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And indeed, both President Trump and top administration officials like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo continue to insist that North Korea has agreed to give up its missiles and nukes.
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The relation between terrorists trying to buy nukes in Pakistan and troops heading to the Syrian coast is questionable, since there are two whole countries between the two respective nations.
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"There's a similar mechanic [to nukes] in similar-looking survival game Conan Exiles where you drop a God on other people's bases," said video game fan Phil Hartup on Twitter.
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The lesson that Kim Jong Un has taken from these developments is clear: He needs to keep his nukes if he wants to deter a South Korean and American attack.
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Comments in North Korea&aposs state media indicate Kim sees any meeting with Trump as an arms control negotiation between nuclear states, rather than a process to surrender his nukes.
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The U.S. and our allies would then reimpose the "maximum pressure campaign" and ensure Kim is contained, trapped in isolation until he decides he is serious about abandoning its nukes.
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Read: No need to be scared of Putin's new nukes (any more than the old ones) Proposals immediately began pouring in to the Russian defense ministry's Twitter and Facebook feeds.
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Trump responded on Twitter, saying "the United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes," Trump wrote.
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Read: No need to be scared of Putin's new nukes (any more than the old ones) The strategy was so glaring that his opponents started calling him out on it.
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"We will, under no circumstances, put the nukes and ballistic rockets on (the) negotiating table," North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said at an Asian regional summit in Manila.
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This comes just after South Korea tried discussing military issues with the North in face-to-face meetings earlier this week, and North Korea expressed took nukes off the table.
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In general, options include setting off nukes near the rock, shooting a massive object at it, and spray-painting one side of it so that sunlight interacts with it differently.
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For years, Elon Musk has warned us about the dangers of artificial intelligence — even igniting a global discussion on the danger, calling it our greatest existential threat next to nukes.
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The statement said the discussions with Pompeo were "very concerning," and suggested that the country is no longer as willing to give up its nukes as it had previously been.
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The lesson to North Korea was clear: If you don't want to end up like Gaddafi, don't give up your nukes unless you have another way to guarantee your security.
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"There is, of course, a semantic issue here, but the United States needs to be very clear: They give up their nukes, they give up their missiles," the columnist said.
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Such an increase would be financially costly, break international law, surely lead to more nuclear proliferation, and accomplish nothing, since the US already has plenty of nukes to deter anyone.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed this weapon to the world in a notorious March 2018 presentation that showed a computer visualization of nukes hitting Florida near the Mar-a-Lago.
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As NBC points out, stockpiling more nukes would violate disarmament treaties we've struck with countries across the globe and could trigger round two of a Cold War–style arms race.
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After National Security Adviser John Bolton mentioned that North Korea could get rid of its nukes within a year, he was quickly reined in by Trump and changed his tune.
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"Nukes will put an end to DPRK-US Standoff," a headline read, referring to the uneasy relationship between the U.S. and Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the North's official name.
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Langsdorf initially thought about using the letter U (for uranium) on the cover, but she changed her mind after listening to the debates of the scientists who created the nukes.
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Russia The US military deployed a new type of nuclear weapon that the Pentagon hopes will be a counter to the threat posed by Russia's arsenal of smaller tactical nukes.
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Since the late 1970s, when No Nukes became a signature cause of the Green movement, sympathy to nuclear power became, among many environmentalists, a sign of disloyalty if not treason.
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The US needs a system to launch weapons fast for deterrence to work properly, which means one person needs to be able to order the use of nukes basically unencumbered.
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Such a grand bargain, at least in theory, if North Korea was truly serious about giving up its nukes, should be appealing enough that it would have no problem signing on.
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The two leaders of the world's nuclear club are threatening to withdraw from an arms control agreement, a move that will allow each country to bolster its arsenal with more nukes.
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At the same time, the researchers say 100 nukes is still enough to ensure nuclear deterrence, effectively reducing the risk of war (and accidents), and by consequence, a catastrophic nuclear winter.
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At a time when the Trump administration is pushing to modernize existing nukes and even develop new ones, the hot mess at Hanford shows the lingering environmental impact of such decisions.
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The two states might retaliate by refining their launch systems to make nukes more resilient during the boost phase or they might ramp up their abilities to destroy satellites in orbit.
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Even amid the North&aposs diplomatic outreach of recent weeks, there are lingering doubts on whether Kim would fully relinquish the nukes he likely sees as his only guarantee of survival.
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And Collina noted that when NATO members Turkey and Greece faced off over Cyprus in 1974, the US withdrew its nuclear weapons from Greece and rendered its nukes in Turkey inoperable.
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Nations like the US and Russia don't need to test out new designs; they built their arsenals decades ago by collectively exploding over 423,700 nukes, according to the Arms Control Association.
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The administration, except for John Bolton, publicly has been harping on the word denuclearization as if it means North Korea unilaterally just get rid of all of its nukes day one.
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In the context of the UK's current debates about replacing all their nuclear missile subs, it means delivery of nukes from an F-35 will almost certainly come up in discussion.
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So, if we have that policy, Mark, we&aposve got to be effective in making sure that the rogue regimes, North Korea, Iran and a few others don&apost get nukes.
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It also underscored Seoul&aposs delicate role as an intermediary between Washington and Pyongyang and raised questions about Moon&aposs claim that Kim has genuine intent to deal away his nukes.
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North Korea A North Korea defector says Kim Jong Un's going to take advantage of political upheaval in the US and South Korea to develop nukes by the end of 2017.
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Not even in the late 1950s—when the US military was using nukes to dig holes and considered blowing up the moon—were presidents referring to arms with such cavalier disconnect.
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In fact, the best way to undermine U.S. credibility in this area is to build new lower yield nukes, and thereby admit we are not willing to use the bigger ones.
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Trump said Tuesday that sanctions will remain in place until "we are sure the nukes are no longer a factor," but it's unclear if China will continue to vigorously enforce them.
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But nukes, chemical, biological weapons and a high pain threshold, not to mention the advantage of being dictator-in-perpetuity impervious to public opinion, ensure victory in a war of liberation.
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Kruse was raised in Fort Davis, Texas (population: 1,201), by doomsday preppers who fled the Austin city limits and the Russian nukes that seemed about to fall in the late '80s.
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He ruled out a "first strike," but he also revealed a willingness to use nukes and a misunderstanding of the high-stakes balancing act the nuclear superpowers have pursued for decades.
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"The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capabilities until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes," he said without specifying what prompted his message.
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Failures like this, and the need to make sure nukes actually function, led the Obama administration to devote about $1 trillion over the next 30 years to nuclear maintenance and growth.
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As the BBC reported in 2013, there are indications that Saudi Arabia funded Pakistan's nuclear program in exchange for the option to buy nukes should Iran ever develop a nuclear weapon.
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The isolated country has long said it's justified in seeking nukes in light of the "extreme and direct nuclear threat" from the U.S., which it accuses of pushing for regime change.
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"It's incredible how North Korea stays 'on brand' — last year's parade was all about nukes and this year it's all about the economy," Will Ripley, a CNN reporter, tweeted from Pyongyang.
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But while shiny new nukes may earn him love at home, ultimately Putin's solving a problem Russia doesn't actually have: Russia has so many missiles it could easily swamp American defenses.
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Nazarbayev stated that, having abandoned its own nukes, Kazakhstan has a moral right to reach out to North Korea and Iran, and call on them to give up their nuclear programs.
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If, when the tide of a conventional war turns, Russia or China fears that America may unexpectedly use nukes, they will put their own arsenals on high alert, to preserve them.
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This is to say nothing of the extent to which the war counterproductively undermined the global nonproliferation regime by convincing North Korea to go for broke in its quest for nukes.
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The deepest cuts the CBO proposed could save $200 billion over 30 years, but would leave intact the country's basic nuclear infrastructure, including the Energy Department laboratories that develop new nukes.
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North Korea has consistently said it wouldn't give up its nukes unless Washington stopped threatening it, accepted the legitimacy of the Kim government, and agreed to remove US troops from South Korea.
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Related: Ready the Nukes, Kim Jong-un Tells North Korea "We have cutting-edge attack methods to beat up the U.S. mainland at anytime and from anywhere," the KRT news reader said.
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The Dems have been crying about nukes forever and as this President openly negotiates for the safety and security of this nation, and enhances our military strength, destroys ISIS, they still complain.
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To determine the point at which nukes present a blowback problem to the aggressor nation, the researchers calculated the effects of 7,25, 2000,21.4, and 21 nuclear warheads dropped on a single country.
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The threat North Korea has posed to the US has only grown since then as international sanctions have failed to stop it from continuing to develop its nukes and methods of delivery.
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But the North's hardball attitude in past months have raised doubts on whether Kim Jong Un would ever voluntarily give away his nukes he may see as his strongest guarantee of survival.
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Graham: NKorea will give up nukes one way or the other Senator Lindsey Graham says on 'Justice with Judge Jeanine' that President Trump will put an end to threats from North Korea.
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There is no sign Kim Jong Un means to give up his nukes and, in the normalising of North Korea's neighbourly relations, a growing risk the world will put up with them.
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A handy drop down allows users to pick various nukes to see their effects—including the North Korean Hwasong-14—and see the difference between a surface detonation and an air burst.
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North Korea has long argued its nukes are aimed at coping with U.S. military threats, saying it wants to sign a peace treaty with the United States to formally end the war.
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Officials are waiting to see how the latest United Nations sanctions agreement affects North Korean behavior, but if the regime keeps firing rockets and testing nukes, watch for escalated tension with China.
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In this particular case, it's what they called "nuclear stockpile stewardship," which was making sure our nukes blow up when you push the button and don't when you don't push the button.
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Read: Accepting North Korean nukes is not an option Haley said North Korea's sixth nuclear test was a clear sign that "the time for half measures" from the UN had to end.
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So, though a world without nukes would be nice, we don't really need North Korea to denuclearize in order to keep the chances of nuclear war roughly where they've been for decades.
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Erdogan's temporary closing of the Incirlik airbase where U.S.-led Coalition jets (not to mention U.S. nukes) are based, curtailed Coalition planes from offering air support to Kurds fighting ISIS in Syria.
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So even if post-summit diplomacy goes nowhere and President Trump cannot convince Kim Jong-un to give up his nukes, preventive war to disarm North Korea is an unnecessary, dangerous tactic.
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They are contradicted by others who think that America is not doing enough of that because, in their view, it should be confronting China and Russia head-on — with nukes, if necessary.
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"I am the first one that would like to see everybody — nobody have nukes, but we're never going to fall behind any country, even if it's a friendly country," he told Reuters.
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KCNA said Kim accused the United States of "browbeating" countries that "have no nukes", warning Washington not to misjudge the reality that its mainland was in the North's "sighting range for strike".
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Failures like this, and the need to make sure nukes actually function, has led the Obama administration to devote about $1 trillion over the next 30 years to nuclear maintenance and growth.
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Today, Donald Trump simultaneously lied about the Iranian nuclear deal, undermined global confidence in US commitments, alienated our closest allies, strengthened Iranian hawks, & gave North Korea more reason to keep its nukes.
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The airmen who may-or-may-not have been coked up on the job were part of the security force responsible for patrolling the base, missile fields, and convoys that carry nukes.
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The theory was nukes launched that way could come around the South Pole and hit the US without lighting up all the early warning radars strewn across Alaska and the Canadian Arctic.
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Washington (CNN)The US military deployed a new submarine-launched low-yield nuclear weapon, something the Pentagon sees as critical to countering the threat posed by Russia's arsenal of smaller tactical nukes.
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Gadhafi conceded to Western demands that he give up his quest for nukes in 2003, only to be toppled by NATO and his Libyan opponents during a brief civil war in 2011.
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The implied dissonance between ends and means gets even more puzzling as countries that Washington wants to go to bat for, with nukes if necessary, are seen schmoozing with America's arch rivals.
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Or is he a latter-day Midas who beds porn stars only with their consent … with the same manly hands he used to romance North Korea&aposs leader out of his nukes?
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All the rest - including WaPo -- is simply repetition … This story also says to me that we have to keep up our good work of calming down asteroid rhetoric - city-killers, nukes, etc.
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And China might finally be willing to help with this deal, because freezing North Korea's nuclear capability would likely forestall China's rivals — Japan and South Korea — from getting nukes of their own.
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A country on alert for an atomic sneak-attack could mistake a non-nuclear, hypersonic weapons-launch for an atomic strike—and strike back with nukes the instant it detected a launch.
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The UN Security Council recently voted to enact harsh new sanctions, which prompted young leader Kim Jong-un to publicly order his military to ready their nukes for use at any time.
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Trump wants the North Koreans to give up their nukes unilaterally; they want him to in exchange remove his nuclear umbrella and maybe even troops from the Korean peninsula and nearby areas.
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Read: How Kim Jong Un could hide North Korea's nukes from Trump Lately, Trump has been signaling the process may indeed proceed in stages, and require multiple rounds of high-level meetings.
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Now the situation seems poised to escalate even further, with South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo investigating the possibility of having the US plant its nukes back on the demilitarized zone's doorstep.
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China's move will test whether Trump really is willing to do something about North Korea's nukes -- the President has vowed to deal with North Korea and his administration is conducting a policy review.
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"The legal regime of outer space is meant to ensure transparency—originally for strategic reasons, to make sure we knew neither the US nor the USSR was storing nukes in orbit," said McDowell.
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In the last couple of years, Musk has made headlines for comparing AI to "summoning the demon" and calling it the greatest threat to mankind — "potentially more dangerous than nukes," he once said.
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Yet in the absence of a timetable for abandoning the North's nukes, along with clear steps for verification, "denuclearisation" is meaningless—and a peace treaty an unwarranted, even risky, gift to the North.
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In the weeks since, North Korea has refused to commit to giving up its nukes, while the Trump administration has doubled down on the threats that characterized its pre-summit approach to Kim.
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MORE FROM REUTERS COMMENTARY Noga Tarnopolsky: Netanyahu's bad call on the Western Wall Bennett Ramberg: How to stop Kim Jong Un using his nukes Anger is now the default position of public reaction.
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Max Baucus, America's ambassador to Beijing until January 2017, recalls the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, privately expressing "disgust" at Mr Kim's reckless pursuit of nukes and missiles to carry them to other continents.
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Nukes have been an existential threat since they were invented decades ago, but many experts think the risk of a nuclear war is actually higher now than it has been in many decades.
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Still if this strike leads to a situation where the United States is actively intervening in Syria to change the regime, it could make Kim even more determined to cling to his nukes.
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The risk: Any increase in the nuclear arsenal could violate international disarmament treaties and set off an international arms race — one which Tehran said Trump has already instigated with his rhetoric about nukes.
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A common refrain among the many so-called experts weighing in on why Kim stubbornly refuses to give up his nukes is that the reclusive dictator is irrational, arrogant, or just plain crazy.
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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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Her life may be only minutely different from those around her — her marginally exotic cooking, the pronunciation of certain words when under stress, her attendance of a no-nukes march — but that's enough.
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We can't expect Kim to believe that we won't overthrow him if he gives up his nukes, when he sees us threaten to carry out regime-change war in Iran and Venezuela. pic.twitter.
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Read more: Experts: America Doesn't Need All These Nukes At present, Strategic Command works out of a smaller building at Offutt dating to 1957, when the Air Force alone oversaw America's nuclear forces.
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Couched under the odd phrase "denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula" (there are no nukes in the South), Washington and Seoul have engaged in this charade since 2005, when the phrase came into being.
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Plus, Pyongyang may turn on Trump by the end of the year, the deadline Kim gave the US to lift sanctions put on his country to get him to negotiate his nukes away.
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Although there are no Tomahawk missiles in Romania, Buzhinsky said the launchers there could be repurposed to fire them, moving U.S. nukes much closer to Russia than the Kremlin would like to tolerate.
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When an aggressive Kaine demanded he defend his running mate's comments on everything from declaring Mexican immigrants "rapists" to Trump's suggestion that the U.S. encourage other countries to develop nukes, Pence mocked him.
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"The coward American-style fanfaronade militarily browbeating only weak countries and nations which have no nukes can never work on the D.P.R.K., and is highly ridiculous," Mr. Kim said, without naming Mr. Trump.
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His comments came after the Defense Department on Friday unveiled a new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), its first in eight years, which calls for developing smaller nukes in a bid to counter Russia.
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The Pentagon announced Tuesday that it had deployed a new submarine-launched low-yield nuclear weapon, something it sees as critical to countering the threat posed by Russia's arsenal of smaller tactical nukes.
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Not all industry officials are confident FERC will move ahead, but many expect regulators will advance the issue in a piecemeal fashion, slowly instituting market-by-market changes to help coal and nukes.
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But as more and more countries, some of them harboring ill will towards the U.S. and led by unstable leaders, acquire deliverable nukes — acquiring and maintaining this capability is something we must do.
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"The gangster-like U.S. imperialists are ceaselessly resorting to their frantic nuclear threat and blackmail to stifle North Korea with nukes at any cost," a statement from state-run KCNA news agency blustered.
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But nobody thinks the North Koreans are crazy enough to use a surprise nuclear attack as their opening salvo in a war against a country able to hit back with hundreds of nukes.
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He endorses Hillary Clinton for this year's presidential race, because, despite her faults, she at least can be trusted not to fire off nukes at 3 am when a Twitter egg insults her.
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When Trump talks loosely and aggressively about the power of American nukes at a time of crisis with Pyongyang — a crisis partially created by his own comments — it fuels Kim Jong Un's paranoia.
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Success in Singapore would see Kim making a bold decision to exchange his nukes for economic support and security assurances, according to Ryan Haas, an Asia expert at the John L. Thornton China Center.
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In her piece, she notes that there has been a shift between how nukes are rhetorically position on the original Fallout games versus how Bethesda have depicted them in their past couple of games.
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The February summit in Vietnam, however, abruptly ended without an agreement when the North demanded an end to sanctions and Trump reportedly passed a note to Kim demanding that he turn over his nukes.
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But unlike this earlier work, which focused on relatively small, 15-kiloton nukes exploding over cities, the new study looked at whether today's more powerful weapons could trigger nuclear autumn all on their own.
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The announcement came a day after North Korea threatened to scrap next month&aposs historic summit, saying it has no interest in a "one-sided" affair meant to pressure it to abandon its nukes.
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Though treaties are reducing nuclear stocks around the world, the aging nukes that are left are either being refurbished or getting slight modifications, though some experts warn this is fueling a new arms race.
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Instability and loose nukes: Chinese moves to clamp down on North Korea may create instability in Pyongyang's government and security apparatus, increasing chances of parts of its nuclear arsenal getting into the wrong hands.
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Kim's argument -- ridiculous as it sounds -- is that North Korea needs nukes to ensure the regime's survival and defend it against the United States, a nation he remains convinced is out to unseat him.
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"After allowing North Korea to research and build Nukes while Secretary of State (Bill C also), Crooked Hillary now criticizes," Trump tweeted this morning, responding to Clinton's appearance on Stephen Colbert's show last night.
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In The Black Cloud a massive, sentient cloud of gas wedges itself between the sun and the Earth, blocking out all the light, and refusing to budge after the army fire nukes at it.
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This would be an especially logical outcome since Trump, by abiding North Korean nukes so long as they can't reach the U.S., is washing his hands of his obligations to America's allies in Asia.
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" But with regard to North Korea, he explained, "When John Bolton made that statement, he was talking about if we're going to be having a problem, because we cannot let that country have nukes.
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And the unease produced by the aliens' arrival has some nations thinking about nukes — if the silent invaders don't take humankind out, infighting between panicked nations that refuse to coordinate with one another will.
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I hold out for thinking seriously about violence, whether it is the context of Mafia III's hyperviolent encounters or Fallout 76's astoundingly cynical nukes or the personal, catastrophic precision of the Hitman games.
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North Korea watchers have observed a steep increase in the number of missile tests starting in about 2014, but experts weren't certain Kim Jong-Un had nukes small enough to put on those missiles.
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While it'd be nice to see a bug that prevents total nuclear annihilation become a feature in real life, if players can't launch nukes in Fallout 76 they can't initiate high level ("endgame") content.
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"Today, Donald Trump simultaneously lied about the Iranian nuclear deal, undermined global confidence in US commitments, alienated our closest allies, strengthened Iranian hawks, & gave North Korea more reason to keep its nukes," Brennan tweeted.
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In his Twitter post, Trump said, "The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes," but gave no further details.
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"I don't want to turn the economy back on in a way that just nukes our hospital system, and that's what we would do right now" if we abruptly ended social distancing, Konyndyk says.
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In NWS, users can set up their own full scale nuclear war—including designing warheads—launch nukes across the planet, and study the humanitarian impact on a Google Earth-style map off the planet.
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There are lingering doubts on whether Kim would ever agree to fully relinquish his nukes, which he may see as a stronger guarantee of survival than whatever security assurance the United States could offer.
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That's why in addition to planning for an impact, it's crucial that scientists continue to catalog and track hazardous asteroids so that when one comes knocking, we'll be ready—potentially g'd up with nukes.
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Recent thermal imagery suggests that the two facilities are being used to manufacture more raw material for bombs and nukes, meaning the North Koreans could be producing even more weapons than they already have.
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Kim is suggesting he would be open to one day giving up his nukes, while Trump's team is reportedly hoping for a "big bang" agreement that would settle the North Korean nuclear issue for good.
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Trump and Kim Jong Un's meeting merely elevated the image of a dictator, a number of presidential hopefuls contended, while others argued it would net no tangible results -- like getting rid of North Korea's nukes.
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The two sides, however, still have to negotiate the terms under which the North would give up its nukes and win relief from sanctions — a goal that has eluded U.S. administrations for a quarter-century.
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The bad news is that nukes have become central to North Korea's plan for securing itself from attack, which means that there's basically nothing plausible the US could offer that would convince them to denuclearize.
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Called Camp Century, the facility was built by the US Army of Engineers in 1959, and it doubled as a top-secret site to see if it was possible to deploy nukes from the Arctic.
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MALICE: Quite low because they regard themselves as a hedgehog with spines going in every direction, and they need those nukes to make sure that the U.S. imperialists, as they call us, can&apost invade.
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Lest anyone was unsure at whom that part of the speech was aimed, it featured a computer-generated animation of nukes falling on Florida, where Donald Trump, America's president, has his Mar-a-Lago resort.
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Kim Jong-un, ultimately, if he does give up the nukes, the denuclearization, in addition to his safety, it has got to be something on the other side of this with respect to economic prosperity.
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He's also a custom home builder and remodeler who, for the right price, can construct for you a super swanky, highly functional bomb shelter to survive underground for several years after the nukes rain down.
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Consider how North Korea's foreign minister reacted to the UN Security Council resolutions yesterday: "We will, under no circumstances, put the nukes and ballistic rockets on the negotiating table," Mr. Ri said in a statement.
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Of course, if the moderators at Fox Business decided to push back on any of that fantastical fear, they might have mentioned that squirrels are currently a larger threat to the electric grid than nukes.
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What value is a piece of paper that renounced the use of war absent a process to begin mutual force reductions and dismantle Pyongyang's ballistic missiles and nukes that have Seoul and Tokyo within range?
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" Those comments, in turn, directly contradicted a December tweet, where he said that the US "must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.
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The Trump administration had "relaxed U.S. enforcement of both financial sanctions and diplomatic pressure that are meant to force Kim Jong Un to choose between his nukes and the survival of his regime," he added.
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Protecting the nukes — from India, from homegrown terrorists, and from the US military, which has spent millions of dollars helping Pakistan secure its nuclear arsenal but still remains a suspect ally — is Pakistan's highest priority.
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India's political leadership has made clear that it views nukes as political weapons — a way to project global power and perhaps win a seat on the United Nations Security Council — not as war-fighting weapons.
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It's a good overview, and more than a little scary: As Max Tegmark of MIT explains in the video, the real risk of nukes is that they'll be set off in some sort of mistake.
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But that has the effect of making the Russians less paranoid that a massive nuclear sneak attack form the Americans would work, and when people with the nukes are more chill, we're all more chill.
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The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes That's Cold War talk, made worse by similar statements from Russian Pres.
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We West Coasters can't go our separate way on nukes, as we're doing on climate change, vowing to adhere to the Paris accord even as you turn your back on the rest of the world.
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Iran's announcement that it would be abandoning the last remaining restrictions placed on the country under a landmark nuclear arms limitation agreement doesn't mean it will soon have nukes, arms control experts told BuzzFeed News.
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Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of Iran, in a Twitter post, responded sarcastically to Mr. Netanyahu's latest accusation: "The possessor of REAL nukes cries wolf — on an ALLEGED "demolished" site in Iran," Mr. Zarif said.
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President Xi Jinping of China will probably amp up the pressure somewhat, and that's useful — North Korean missiles are built using some Chinese parts — but few expect Kim Jong-un to give up his nukes.
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The then-USSR leader had an extraordinary and unanticipated proposal: Both the US and Russia should move toward reducing their nuclear arsenals to zero, he said, ultimately paving the way toward a world without nukes.
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Before he began his nuclear negotiations with North Korea, Trump vowed in August 2017 to rain down "fire and fury" on the country if it continued to test missiles that could hit America with nukes.
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While the exact number of nukes in each country's arsenal is closely guarded, below is a breakdown of how many weapons exist, according to estimates from the Arms Control Association and Federation of American Scientists.
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"We knew North Korea wasn't going to give up nukes, and we knew a grand bargain-style deal would be problematic for Kim Jong Un," says Van Jackson, a scholar at Victoria University of Wellington.
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So, for sake of argument, if Uruguay loses its ever-loving mind, gets nukes, and threatens to launch a full nuclear strike on Paraguay, then the DoD will be able to do something about it.
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She and her team helped get 69 countries to adopt the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations, although none of the countries that have nukes signed on to the measure.
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You might think this system would be incredibly destabilizing — that leaders of other countries might have been terrified about a US president deciding that nukes are a simple way to solve a hard policy problem.
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Yet line up all the bold claims Trump and his lieutenants made ahead of Tuesday&aposs summit, and it&aposs clear that the end result, at least where nukes are concerned, don&apost hit the mark.
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Similarly, there was nothing specific on nukes in Tuesday&aposs declaration — and no joint affirmation of the goal of "complete, verifiable and irreversible" dismantlement that Trump&aposs aides had previously made the litmus test for success.
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Claiming to fear that America would not honor a security guarantee for his regime, Kim seems certain to demand some sort of trust-building measures before he takes any measures to get rid of his nukes.
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What was it in the soul of America that could bring forth this sea of unthinking support for Goldwater, a man who wanted to threaten Soviets with nukes while rolling back Civil Rights reforms at home?
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Kim has offered to deal away his nuclear arsenal but doubts remain over whether he is truly willing to give up his nukes or is using the summit to weaken U.S.-led sanctions against his country.
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The authors sought to determine the maximum number of nukes that could be dropped on an enemy before a nuclear winter sets in, and by consequence, instigating the collapse of trade, industry, and agriculture back home.
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Miller and a group of Belters travel to the station with Holden and the Roci to drop off some nukes to help change the asteroid's orbit, and plan to escape before the ship crashes into it.
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If society starts to crumble—be it from climate change, nukes, zombies, whatever—while some people may retreat to the safety of their underground bunkers, others will probably flee the cities and head to the forests.
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First, Trump doesn't get what he wants on all these key issues (no deal with China; Iran remains unchanged; Maduro remains in power and North Korea keeps its nukes) and America's interests suffer across the board.
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MORE: Trump, Clinton debate nukes, ISIS, hackers It was a moment that will have sent shudders down the spines of America's international allies -- an isolationist vision that has many global leaders wary about a President Trump.
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Mr Kim responded with an unusual personal statement, calling Mr Trump a "mentally deranged US dotard", who had convinced him that his course of seeking nukes is "correct" and needs to be followed "to the last".
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The plan to shoot nukes out of the sky with F-35s relies on the image of a hotshot fighter pilot going toe-to-toe with a nuclear missile and blasting it out of the sky.
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Some pretty far-out ideas have been proposed on this front, ranging from nukes in space to giant sun-powered lasers, but the most likely method is simply ramming into the asteroid to change its course.
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At around the same time on Sunday, Heather Nauert — the former Fox & Friends anchor currently serving as State Department spokesperson — tweeted something implying North Korea doesn't yet have nukes: #DPRK will not obtain a nuclear capability.
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We weren't recreating our youth, but our sense of what that gaming youth should have been: firing Redeemer nukes at each other across Facing Worlds, or spamming rockets down the tunnels on the Overlord assault map.
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But all of this can't be done without political will and, most importantly, allies who will work with us to ensure that if we can't remove North Korea's nukes, we can contain North Korea's worst impulses.
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The combination of small nukes and long-range missiles would put the U.S. within range of nuclear attack by a hyper-dangerous regime with a leader that does not appear to be calm, steady, or rational.
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The Obama administration had moved to limit the use of nuclear weapons to only deter nuclear attacks against the United States or its allies, as opposed to using nukes to counter chemical, biological or conventional weapons.
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"It's great to have good vibes going into the Trump summit, but you need to put emotion aside and wonder what this means on the question of nukes, which is not much," Jackson told the Guardian.
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Resource war is the most brutal kind of war, and you don't have to be a Pentagon planner to see that climate and nukes are on glide paths to intersect, barring radical intervention, sometime mid-century.
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Whatever the case, in one fell swoop, Trump's "fire and fury" statement: established a redline, handed KJU an exploitable narrative to justify why he needs nukes and opened the door to further escalation and even miscalculation.
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According to Iranian state TV ... the country has vowed to completely stop abiding by Obama's 2015 nuclear deal, which limited enrichment of their uranium stockpile (y'know, the stuff used to make nukes and bombs and such).
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North Korea knows it could never win a conventional war with the United States and South Korea, so it perpetually seeks ways to raise the costs of war — and nukes are the strongest deterrent of all.
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He has been preparing for this for quite a while insofar as he has been conferring with and receiving briefings from folks though who are versed in the region and certainly those versed with respect to nukes.
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The statement could jeopardize a second Trump-Kim summit as the United States may have difficulty negotiating further if the North ties the future of its nukes to the U.S. military presence in the South, analysts said.
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U.S. officials have previously been calling for North Korea to abandon its nukes rapidly, with the expectation of getting benefits afterward in the form of security assurances, sanctions relief and the opportunity to boost its meager economy.
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Mr Pence acknowledged that if America will not talk to North Korea, and if the North will not give up its nukes, then American military action in the form of a pre-emptive strike becomes more likely.
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The idea can be traced back to the Reagan administration's Strategic Defense Initiative — nicknamed "Star Wars" by its critics — which called for creating a large swath of space-based technologies to prevent nukes from reaching US soil.
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But, we already know he's going ratchet up the intensity of his world-ending plot to creating the actual apocalypse soon (the events of this episode take place less than three years before nukes end the world).
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America has little or no good human intelligence inside North Korea, so a surgical pre-emptive strike would probably fail in its objective, whether that was to knock out the North's nukes or the Kim regime itself.
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Mr Trump's insistence that there is "no rush" to disarm North Korea suggests a preference for a deal that is much less ambitious than ridding the world of Mr Kim's nukes: ensuring that they are not used.
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In essence, within a few years, there will be US-owned nukes in three European countries that will have their host nations' names on them and will be able to be delivered by stealthy nuclear-strike aircraft.
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