In addition, planned replacement of the Ohio-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine has also been delayed, and no decision has yet been made on whether the U.S. next-generation strategic bomber force will even be capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
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Both acts defied three Security Council resolutions that bar North Korea from testing or using nuclear or ballistic missile technology and from importing or exporting material for these programs.
In addition, planned replacement of the Ohio-class nuclear-ballistic-missile submarine has also been delayed, and no decision has yet been made on whether the U.S. next-generation strategic bomber force will even be capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
Foreign ministers from the G8 group of nations have condemned in the "strongest possible terms" North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes.
It is, moreover, painfully clear that ballistic missile-delivered nuclear weapons are not the only, or even the most imminent, threat to the security of the American public.
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Finally, Soviet ballistic missile-delivered nuclear weapons are hardly the only -- or, at present, even the most imminent -- threat to the security of the American public.
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It has also built nuclear-powered ballistic missile and attack submarines.
The letter was drafted by Hans Bethe, who headed the group that designed the world's first nuclear bombs and who has served as a senior adviser to previous presidents on nuclear and anti-ballistic missile issues.
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"But the Iranian nuclear program and the Iranian ballistic missile program must be of concern for the entire International community, " Regev said.
The year the oldest Ohio-class ballistic-missile sub completes its final nuclear patrol is now expected to be 2027, which sounds a long way off until you realize it takes nearly two decades to design, develop, build and test the lead ship in a successor class.
It delayed development of a new nuclear bomber and a successor to Trident ballistic-missile submarines.
Such a proposition was dubious twenty years ago when the only threat of ballistic missile attack was from the USSR and involved nuclear weapons.
An agreement to destroy within 30 days and under international supervision all biological, chemical and nuclear weapons-related facilities and stockpiles and ballistic missile sites.
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Clinton told Putin that changes would have to be made in the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty before the United States could engage in the next round of nuclear arms reduction talks, known as START III, Talbott said.
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But even that franchise had slowly waned as the superior flexibility and survivability of Navy ballistic missile subs called into question the future of land-based bombers and missiles in nuclear strategy.
The nation should not have to choose between an immensely powerful conventional and nuclear force-projection system like the B-2 and affordable, global defenses against ballistic missile strikes.
Friday's successful advanced missile defense test, which shot down a mock nuclear warhead in space, shows that the US is getting closer to defending the country against ballistic missile attack.
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