The most urgent question is control of weapons, which has yet to be worked out between the two parties.
The White House said that it was not entirely clear who was in control of the weapons, leaving open the possibility that the attacks were accidental or unauthorized.
Second, the republics have already stated their willingess to cooperate in the control of nuclear weapons.... I don't think we should exaggerate this fear, and I don't think that we should be blackmailed by the threat.
The United States is concerned about the command and control of Soviet nuclear weapons, the potential for ethnic strife inside the former USSR and the international implications of economic collapse there.
While there are differences of opinions regarding Georgia, Scheffer said member states "share common security interests, " including stability in Afghanistan, arms control, nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and concerns over drug trafficking, piracy and terrorism.
South Korea, separated from the North by the world's most heavily armed border, said the test launches would further deepen its neighbor's international isolation, sour public opinion in the South toward Pyongyang and hurt efforts to control weapons of mass destruction.
Beyond the politics of defense cuts, the wording of the Budget Control Act makes more slashing of weapons accounts inevitable if sequestration is triggered.
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The draft treaty does not control the domestic use of weapons in any country, but it would require all countries to establish national regulations to control the transfer of conventional arms, parts and components and to regulate arms brokers.
Anna Macdonald, Oxfam's head of arms control, said the scope of the weapons covered in the latest draft is still too narrow.
At the same time, the United States should seek to provide means of enforcing the present arms control regime banning first use of chemical weapons.
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer now proposes a new "international regime" to control and destroy weapons of mass destruction, as an alternative to the US strategy of threatening military force.
Legislation to control the spread of deadly semiautomatic weapons will not, of course, eliminate such violence.
But in the case of chemical weapons control, there is reason to believe that the past is prelude.
This is a joint committee of members of the Business and Enterprise, Defence, Foreign Affairs and International Development Committees which, every year, scrutinises the government's annual report on the control of strategic exports, including weapons.
Rivalry for the control of lucrative criminal businesses fuelled violent feuds and delayed the decommissioning of weapons.
The Obama administration will also seek a passage of an assault weapons ban as part of a push for new gun control laws, an administration official said Friday.
According to Shelton, that explanation was enough to satisfy this officer, whose responsibility was to confirm the security of the codes necessary to control weapons that could literally destroy all life on Earth and that hopefully deter an attack on the US with similar weapons, and no one checked again that month.
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She acknowledged that other provisions of a gun-control package might have a better chance of passing without the controversial assault weapons ban.
Chief among these interests are: counter-terrorism, disposal of Soviet-built chemical and biological weapons, security of nuclear and radiological materials, arms control, nonproliferation, and the responsible withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan.
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"The United States should be able to clearly state that the only purpose we hold nuclear weapons for is to deter the use of nuclear weapons, " said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association.
But proponents of gun control argue that many illegally held weapons were licensed guns that were stolen, so curbing licensed gun ownership should cut illicit gun use.
Some conventional weapons or legal crowd control can also release smoke that causes respiratory problems, a common symptom of chemical weapons exposure.
In fact, one leading analyst has calculated that Republican dominance of the government explains about 90 percent of the increases in weapons outlays over the last 50 years, making partisan control a much more powerful predictor of demand than threats, deficits or public opinion.
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In Oakland, California, the police department is now barred from using a number of less-lethal weapons for crowd control.
In short, naval arms control is an excellent example of the degree to which weapons limitation or reduction agreements have become ends in themselves.
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The Nuclear Posture Review proposes that we consider a series of options that extend presidential decision-making time, by strengthening command and control apparatus around those nuclear weapons, and that we open discussions with Russia to reduce the possibility of either an accidental launch or a false detection of a launch.
He also told Reuters that most of the weapons evidence has been found but that any further search would be much more difficult after control of the country is returned to Iraqis.
One such burn got out of control in 2000, briefly threatening the Los Alamos weapons centre in New Mexico.
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He would, however, support and has supported some gun control legislation like the assault weapons ban, like closure of the gun show loophole.
And the list is less daunting than its 300 pages would suggest, consisting mostly of advanced components for weapons and command and control systems.
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