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These false alarms continue, despite US national intelligence estimates according to which Iran has not decided to build a nuclear weapon.
Just before the naval skirmish broke out, the Bush administration sent Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly to Pyongyang to probe North Korea on missile and nuclear weapon proliferation and conventional forces.
The US wants to find out whether the North is hiding nuclear weapon materials before South Korean workers begin to create the foundations for the two light water nuclear reactors promised in that 1994 agreement.
They see even the Euro as a weapon against the dollar and rejoice when the Euro is "strong" and the dollar is "weak".
More recently, food insecurity has been used as a weapon in the wars in Yemen and Syria.
This case –the first-ever terrorist attack in a Western capital using a radioactive weapon – will be remembered as a hallmark of Putin’s ruthless and corrupt reign.
Yes, the IMF ought to develop a voluntary code of conduct for SWF’s, but it should not be used as a weapon to enforce financial protectionism.
The new treaty will verifiably prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon for at least a decade – and keep it bound to nuclear non-proliferation thereafter.
Prosperity became the main weapon that ensured the West’s victory over Soviet communism.
Greek Cypriots are using their European Union membership as a weapon to frustrate Turkey’s EU ambitions and to block attempts to increase trade between the EU and the island’s north.
This year’s conference marks the initiative’s third meeting since 2010, continuing a process that seeks to raise awareness about the threat of nuclear terrorism and catalyze much-needed action to secure the materials that terrorists would need to make a weapon.
Today, nearly 2,000 metric tons of plutonium and highly enriched uranium – the raw materials of a nuclear weapon – are spread across 25 countries.
Turning, finally, to death, the AK-47 has been the world’s most popular weapon for some 50 years.
To solve this problem, Japan’s political leaders have three options: find some way to raise the country’s birthrate dramatically, open a long-insular society to a wave of immigrants, or finally unveil the country’s secret weapon – the energy, talents, and ingenuity of Japanese women.
They do not have to detonate a nuclear weapon, but only alert adversaries to the dramatic increase in the political stakes and dangers of a showdown.
The Out campaign’s main economic argument – that Britain’s huge trade deficit is a secret weapon, because the EU would have more to lose than Britain from a breakdown in trade relations – is flatly wrong.
In 1990, before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, he declared that there was no nuclear weapon's program in Iraq.
In 1994, Blix accepted the Iraqi story that there was no real nuclear weapon program, only a small research effort.
In his famous 2002 speech on the potential of deflation in America, Bernanke suggested that Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 40% devaluation of the dollar in 1933-1934 shows that exchange-rate policy can be an “effective weapon against deflation.”
Then there is the Iranian regime, still intent on getting a nuclear weapon, and still exporting terror and instability.
Iran may or may not be planning to go all the way to production of a nuclear weapon.
Although the Iranian government could most likely be deterred from using a nuclear weapon, the price of a nuclear Iran could well be a regional arms race – a nuclear Saudi Arabia, possibly followed by Turkey and Egypt.
In the US, the Republican Party’s leading presidential candidate in this year’s election, Mitt Romney, declared at a recent debate, “If you elect me as President, Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.”
Broad-based recovery – in investment, demand, and employment – is the best weapon with which to confront those who would destroy the European project.
In any case, Turkey lacks the know-how and technical infrastructure to produce a nuclear weapon quickly, and the country would need a long time – probably more than a decade – to develop this capacity.
Despite serious problems with extraction, production and depletion (production at three of Russia’s four major fields is already declining), the propensity to use hydrocarbon resources as a geo-strategic weapon trumps economics.
China’s rulers have so far been reluctant to use overt demand stimulus as a weapon in the trade war because of strong commitments made by President Xi Jinping to limit the growth of China’s debt and to reform the banking sector.
There has been widespread fear that Iran would abrogate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and use its enrichment facilities to develop a nuclear weapon.
And, of course, he will need to pursue the negotiations with Iran to persuade them to keep their word and remain in the NPT as a non-nuclear weapon state.
None of this is true in cyberspace where a weapon can consist of a few lines of code that can be invented (or purchased on the so-called dark web) by any number of state or non-state actors.
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