While important penalties are mandated by the Senate bill for persons involved in trafficking in technologies related to chemical, biological, and ballistic missile weapons, the sanctions would only apply to violations actually occurring after the legislation becomes law.
Foreign ministers from the G8 group of nations have condemned in the "strongest possible terms" North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes.
Both countries have nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
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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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Ukraine and Kazakhstan demonstrated a similar pattern of cooperation when they decided to rid themselves of the nuclear weapons, intercontinental ballistic missiles and heavy bombers inherited from the Soviet Union.
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Other Europeans, for their part, assured Mrs Albright that they shared American worries about ballistic missiles and chemical or biological weapons in the hands of dictators or terrorists.
Continued development and deployment of strategic offensive and defensive weapons, particularly naval, ballistic, space and cyber forces.
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Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantial increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in their deployment may well be regarded as a definite threat to peace.
The proliferation of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons technology and that of the means of delivering such weapons over very long distances with ballistic missiles are of particular concern in this regard.
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The U.S. and Afghan commando teams put on heavy armored vests, helmets and ballistic eyeglasses and pick up their American-made 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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But, whatever Mr Bush's scepticism about the usefulness of sanctions, he is unlikely to pursue a softer policy so long as Iran is suspected of using Russian technology to develop nuclear and biological weapons, devices that Iran's ballistic missiles might be capable of delivering to Israel.
Such a proposition was dubious twenty years ago when the only threat of ballistic missile attack was from the USSR and involved nuclear weapons.
Russia's hold on us is the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty, which essentially prohibits building defensive weapons.
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Thus, the U.S. has sought to organize its nuclear forces so that no enemy can launch a disarming first strike, mainly by fielding three distinctly different types of weapons: manned bombers, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles in hardened silos, and sea-based intercontinental ballistic missiles on stealthy Trident submarines.
The investigation report says the weapons were destined initially for an RAF base, before being sent to an army firing range for ballistic testing.
These include: eight sophisticated diesel submarines, advanced SU-30 fighter aircraft, modern air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons, supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles and as many as 350 short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.
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