Then last year, India and Pakistan went ahead and exploded a series of nuclear bombs.
More than 1, 000 ex-servicemen say their lives were destroyed after the UK carried out a series of nuclear weapons tests in mainland Australia, the Montebello islands off the west Australian coast and on Christmas Island, in the Pacific, between 1952 and 1958.
The killing was among a series of attacks against Iranian nuclear scientists in recent years.
Security at Israeli embassies has been tightened in recent months following warnings of potential attacks, after Iran accused Israel of a series of attacks on its nuclear scientists.
"Following a series of missile launches and nuclear tests, North Korea has become overconfident, " said Paek Seung-joo, a senior researcher at the Korea Institute of Defense Analyses in Seoul.
Pyongyang has made a series of threats since its last nuclear test in February prompted the UN to tighten sanctions.
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.
The proposals for new UK nuclear power plants are part of a series of national policy statements on energy which have been published following a public consultation.
Underscoring the concerns are calls by hawkish South Korean and Japanese politicians to consider whether their governments should pursue nuclear weapons after North Korea began a series of atomic-weapons tests in 2006.
Sanger's reporting about the cyberattacks on Iran revealed that the code name for the series of computer viruses unleashed on Iran's nuclear program is "Olympic Games" and also laid out some of the modus operandi of the viruses themselves, but since much of this was generally known by the Iranian regime, it is unlikely U.S. national security was really harmed by the disclosures.
It is the advice that we would give to Americans living within a 50-mile radius of a nuclear power plant that was experiencing a similar series of problems that this power plant is experiencing, and that is why we issued the advisory.
The Iranian nuclear program has undertaken -- has undergone a series of problems throughout the year.
Other countries are going to have to be making a series of decisions about how they approach the issue of their nuclear weapons stockpiles.
WHITEHOUSE: Signing of New START Nuclear Arms Treaty with Russia
Throughout the 1990s the United States negotiated a series of agreements with Russia, aimed mainly at securing and dismantling military nuclear weapons and the bomb-making materials that went into and came out of them.
Some suggest using the ultimate goal of total elimination just as a framework for a whole series of steps that could in time ensure greater security, with much reduced nuclear numbers.
Temporary flight restrictions also apply near nuclear sites and large public outdoor and sporting events such as the World Series.
But Mr Blix is also demanding answers to a series of other longstanding questions he has about Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programmes.
In fact, the program has created a series of perverse incentives that may have hindered, rather than advanced, the stabilization of nuclear weapons in the former Soviet Union.
The earthquake launched a tsunami, which killed thousands, and knocked out the nuclear power plant at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, about 140 miles northeast of Tokyo, setting off a series of explosions, fires and large radiation leaks at the facility.
Also on Wednesday, the watchdog decided to freeze further steps to bring the Monju prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor online, criticizing Japan Atomic its operator for a series of significant safety lapses.
The latest series of threats are being seen as "bluff" because the North's leaders know a nuclear attack would be suicidal and impractical, given the North's rudimentary missile programme.
Rather than installing automatic response systems, the plant would rely on employees to perform a series of complex manual actions, which the NRC has not authorized as a means of adequately protecting nuclear facilities in the event of a fire.
But ultimately, if in fact Iran does not seek nuclear weapons, then it shouldn't be that hard for us to have a series of negotiations in which the international community feels that confidence, and in which Iran then is able to enjoy a whole host of economic and political benefits and gain much greater legitimacy in all of its other endeavors.
North Korea has issued a series of unusually strong threats since it was sanctioned by the UN in March for carrying out a third nuclear test.
On Feb. 12, North Korea staged its third test of a nuclear weapon, a move that triggered an escalation in tensions on the Korean peninsula and a series of provocative warlike threats from Pyongyang.
The primary reason the United States led in aerospace, communications technology, information technology, computing and the major new energy technologies of the later 20th century (gas turbines, nuclear, wind and solar power) is because the U.S. government made a series of smart investments on the cutting edge of each of these technology fields to catalyze entrepreneurship and innovation.
North Korea has issued a series of unusually strong threats since it was sanctioned by the UN in March for having carried out a third nuclear test.
Also on Wednesday, the watchdog decided to freeze further steps to bring the Monju prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor online, criticizing the Japan Atomic Energy Agency its operator for a series of significant safety lapses.
The release of the review will kick off a lengthy series of defense-policy events that Mr. Obama hopes will further his aims of countering the proliferation of nuclear weapons and materials, and of isolating Iran.
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