Hence 10% of all electricity in this country comes from post-Cold War weapons dismantling.
Hanford is now the most contaminated Cold War weapons-production facility.
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Long before he became the bleeding edge of the green building industry, David Borchardt, the Chief Sustainability Officer at Rockville, MD-based Tower Companies, earned his spurs cleaning up many of the most polluted Cold War weapons sites in the United States.
Cartwright has described that system, now entering its second study phase, as a key component in transforming the aging Cold War nuclear weapons stockpile.
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Mr Bush will never entirely escape from his frat boy image indeed his very likeability may be one of his strongest weapons against the cold Al Gore.
Under Rumsfeld's plans to "transform" the military with more lethal, more mobile and lighter weapons, the Cold War-era Crusader has been highly vulnerable to a budget cut.
While certain military interests have pushed for anti-satellite weapons since the Cold War, concern over the space junk that destroyed sats would create has kept the international community from serious pursuit of any "Star Wars"-like programs.
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And, even if they were not obsolescing, weapons designed for the Cold War may be ill-suited and incredible as deterrents to today's threats.
This sort of ambiguity could be useful during the cold war, when Syria bought weapons from the Soviet Union while flirting with American peace proposers.
Fourteen years of no-new-nuke-orders later, uranium mining's drop in popularity came with the post-Cold War decision to buy Soviet weapons and turn them into reactor-grade fuel.
With the end of the cold war, millions of Soviet weapons came on to the market, undercutting the profits of private dealers, while a number of wars fostered by the superpowers fizzled out.
Libya started to come in from the cold around 2003 by relinquishing its weapons of mass destruction program, agreeing to help fight terrorism and later paying large sums to the families of terrorism victims, including those killed in the airliner bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, for which a Libyan was convicted.
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But its 16 authors, led by Michael Ladisch, a biological engineer at Purdue University, reckon that high-tech chow will, within the next 25 years, protect troops from attack by biological weapons, insulate them against cold weather and even make them visible to their commanders by satellite.
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The lead discussant for the Roundtable's first session, concerning "Why Nuclear Weapons Matter in the Post-Cold War World, " was Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ).
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Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. nuclear weapons program has suffered from neglect.
The Hanford facility processed plutonium for nuclear weapons during World War II and the Cold War.
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The United States benefitted both during World War II and during the cold war in being the nation to develop nuclear weapons first.
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He has been at the forefront of issues and legislation related to terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, post-Cold War Europe, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia.
He was also instrumental in a second track of talks that led to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or Start, that called for deep cuts in the number of long-range weapons deployed by each side in the Cold War.
In many ways, nuclear weapons represent both the darkest days of the Cold War, and the most troubling threats of our time.
Supporting gun ownership does not make one a cold and unfeeling human being who puts their interest in weapons above their interest in humanity.
Apparently everyone from the New York Daily News to TV stations in Portland, Oregon has forgotten that nuclear weapons production from WWII and early in the Cold War has nothing to do with a nuclear power plant today.
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Nuclear weapons may have gone out of style since the cold war ended, but they have not gone out of service.
The Obama Administration therefore has embarked on a costly effort to refurbish and replace a nuclear-weapons arsenal that has seen little modernization since the Cold War ended 20 years ago.
Nuclear proliferation has continued since the Cold War with eight ( really nine) countries possessing a nuclear weapons capability.
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It has reduced its nuclear-weapons stockpile by 75% since the end of the Cold War and 90% since the height of the Cold War.
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Under the Moscow Treaty, signed in 2002, the U.S. has committed to reducing its strategic nuclear arsenal by two-thirds -- to between 1, 700 and 2, 200 deployed nuclear weapons from about 10, 000 at the height of the Cold War.
During the cold war, the U.S. also threatened first use of nuclear weapons.
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