Specifically, there has been no decision to ensure dual-capability in the next generation of tactical aircraft, and there is no planning for a next generation of a sea-based nuclear land-attack missile.
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The government's process of certifying "high confidence" in the nuclear stockpile involves randomly selecting for testing about 11 units from each of the nine deployed nuclear warheads on land- and submarine-based intercontinental missiles and bombs on aircraft.
China has a few dozen land-based nuclear missiles capable of hitting some or all parts of America and is soon expected to deploy them on submarines.
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Given the uncertain fate of land-based nuclear forces, timely deployment of the new class of ballistic-missile subs could have a material impact on the durability of American civilization in the current century.
Its exports of missiles and imports of illicit nuclear goods are being disrupted on land, at sea and in the air under the American-led proliferation security initiative, which Russia has formally joined and which even China has said a few kind words about.
The campaigners, who claim nuclear power stations are dangerous, said they planned to scatter a total of 577 seed balls on the land to symbolise each day since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in March 2011.
But critics say Trident is too expensive, and there have been calls to either scrap the nuclear deterrent or switch to a cheaper land-based missile system.
That can be understood by comparing the land use needs of a nuclear plant with those of a wind energy project or a corn ethanol operation.
The old nuclear plants were basically naval reactors put on land and upgraded.
But no land was laid waste by any nuclear accident in this time.
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We're traipsing through nuclear weapons storage sites and junkyards full of old land mines and technicians showing off test tubes where you said, well, what's that?
British Energy is not the only entry point for would-be providers of nuclear power the government plans to sell land it owns around older, decommissioned reactors as well.
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.
Several other nuclear power plants in Japan are also located on unstable land, they pointed out.
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Even with the deep cuts the START follow-on treaty requires in U.S. strategic nuclear delivery vehicles, it may still be possible to retain a nuclear "Triad" of long-range bombers and land- and sea-launched ballistic missiles.
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But tension has been mounting across the entire land, with its 30, 000 or more nuclear warheads.
During the Cold War we had a nuclear triad of manned bombers, submarine-launched missiles and land-based ballistic missiles.
The government says it looked at other nuclear-deterrent systems, including launching adapted Trident missiles from land or ships, or firing cruise missiles from long-range aircraft.
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Why does France, the land of Pascal and Descartes, home to top nuclear physicists and aviation engineers--the birthplace of the World Wide Web's precursor, Minitel--lag little Israel in technology entrepreneurship?
Already, our budget proposal reflects some of our key priorities, including increased funding for our nuclear complex, and a commitment to sustain our heavy bombers and land and submarine-based missile capabilities, under the new START agreement.
If the onerous rules on converting farmland to other uses were waived in Tohoku, land (often wrongly) suspected of being contaminated from the nuclear leak could be turned into fields of money-spinning solar panels.
That won't work in Japan, where land is scarce and attachments to it are strong, says Mr. Hosono, the nuclear-crisis minister.
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It does this by claiming that Israel's refusal to cede its land to the Palestinians is making it impossible for the Arab world to support preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
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