In the absence of new production, old weapons must be repaired and upgraded, often using nuclear material recovered from weapons that are being retired.
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The United States will not test any of its old weapons, either - even when changes to their components have to be made to try to maintain their viability.
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But visiting those facilities, seeing the work that so many of you do, seeing these old weapons once aimed at us now being turned into scrap truly brought home how important this work was.
Neither China nor Japan has any experience of disposing of old chemical weapons.
If they miss, they are inert: unlike old-style weapons, they won't go off when prodded with a stick.
We led in concluding the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which will bring to life a decades-old dream of ending nuclear weapons testing.
This week he asked it to ratify another four-year-old treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention, which would make Russia destroy 40, 000 metric tonnes of chemical agents.
Russia and America finalised a decade-old deal to eliminate 68 tonnes of weapons-grade plutonium, enough for nearly 17, 000 nuclear devices.
Part of the fun of the old Halo games was knowing where the best weapons were, and fighting tooth and nail to secure them for yourself.
They have consistently shifted the focus among various provisions, raised new arguments to old issues, and proposed solutions that would expand weapons use and training instead of increasing regulation.
He boasts that he can buy better weapons with the money he received for the old ones.
And he cited the old U.N. inspectors' organizations reporting on weapons of mass destruction, for which Iraq had never accounted adequately.
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In the old apartheid days, South Africa was a successful exporter of weapons, despite sanctions, but in recent years Denel has struggled.
On September 29th Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old Afghan immigrant, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in New York.
The assumption is that if African purchasing power remains relatively constant over the next few years and the cost of imported replacement weapons remains significantly higher than the cost of the old stuff, total numbers will decline over time.
It was at the old Buckinghamshire RAF base after WWII where the government established its guided weapons programme, producing solid motors and liquid engines.
Mtayari, a junior at Southwest DeKalb High School, said he believes the old protest methods of marches and sit-ins can be effective weapons on new battlefields.
The introduction of nuclear weapons would harm India's relations not only with its old rival Pakistan, but with many smaller countries in the region and the established nuclear powers.
Never mind buying new weapons systems to replace those that are now a quarter-century old.
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Although there have been numerous accusations, there has so far not been any confirmation that chemical weapons have been used during Syria's two-year-old conflict.
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There has so far not been any confirmation that chemical weapons have been used during Syria's two-year-old conflict although there have been numerous accusations.
The 60-year-old Lee went free on September 13 after pleading guilty to one felony count of mishandling weapons secrets.
Colorado voted to make background checks for gun-show purchases mandatory after Columbine, when investigators learned that the weapons used by the teenage killers were bought by an 18-year-old at a gun show to avoid a background check.
From the conventional to the unconventional, from nations seeking weapons of mass destruction to the cell of terrorists planning the next attack, from the old danger of piracy to the new threat of cyber, we must be vigilant.
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Prosecutors at the Old Bailey said he had been denied a licence because of the risk the parts could be used to make weapons.
What if we could build a nuclear reactor that offered no possibility of a meltdown, generated its power inexpensively, created no weapons-grade by-products, and burnt up existing high-level waste as well as old nuclear weapon stockpiles?
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Smith says she's heard of some pushback among parents -- including the mother of an 18-month-old and a 3-year-old who told an educator who subscribes to Smith's campaign that her children already knew how to handle weapons.
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