Another option would be to bring the country s nuclear arsenal out of the basement altogether.

And, most significant, during the collapse of the Soviet Union, the vast nuclear arsenal remained intact.

Military authorities said that soldiers tallied in the arsenal depot since a couple of days.

Major downsizing of the US nuclear arsenal, which President Barack Obama wants to achieve, will become politically more difficult.

Estimates as to the size of the Israeli nuclear arsenal vary between 75 and 400 nuclear warheads.

Those mechanisms constitute the humanitarian arsenal of the High Commissioner, her regular army of protection, her institutional base and source of findings and legitimacy.

Together, they hold nearly 25,000 nuclear warheads 96 of the global nuclear arsenal.

In order to defeat them, the opposition needs more sophisticated weapons and its backers are ready to oblige.

In the same year, the first new ship built at the Gölcük Naval Shipyard, the tanker TCG Gölcük , was laid down and launched the following year.

The US media and government focus their rhetoric on the possibility of Pakistan s nuclear arsenal falling into Taliban hands.

In addition, the military s role as guarantor of stability, and its tight control of Pakistan s nuclear arsenal, the army s crown jewels, will continue.

Part of the Israeli nuclear arsenal is being shifted to sea, with atomic warheads on diesel submarines, to prevent their being targeted in a surprise attack.

For that reason, works in the depot continued in the night although any work in the arsenal depots is not allowed in the darkness due to lack of lighting in those facilities.

I have no doubt that India s political leaders are just as responsible in handling their country s arsenal as leaders of the five original nuclear powers.

This belief still features prominently in the rhetorical arsenal of US conservatives, notably in the inflamed proclamations of the Tea Party movement.

The information provided by States in response to the questionnaire on the implementation of the Trafficking in Persons Protocol demonstrated that in most States action had been undertaken with a view to ensuring the availability of the necessary legislative arsenal to deal with the complex phenomenon of trafficking in persons.

Appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 17, Dempsey added that he had no confidence that US forces could secure the arsenal given the number of sites.

At the same time, no significant steps are being taken to reduce the worldwide arsenal of almost 30,000 nuclear weapons now possessed by the US, Russia, China, France, Israel, Britain, India, Pakistan, and perhaps North Korea.

Just a few weeks ago, it was feared that Syria s crumbling regime might transfer part of its arsenal of weapons of mass destruction to Hezbollah, or that some of that arsenal might fall into jihadis hands.

Another option would be to bring the country s nuclear arsenal out of the basement altogether. Israel could then mimic other nuclear armed states by flexing its capacity through announcement and transparent nuclear deployment on land and sea, thereby promoting deterrence.

He has no doubt that this ability will, one day, be a common tool in the military arsenal. Who would screw around with an army that could do that? That's from an article in Playboy, which I was reading the other day.

But it is not incredible to set a date like 2025 as a target for minimizing the world s nuclear arsenal to less than 10 of its current size, with very few weapons actually deployed, and their role in all states military doctrine dramatically reduced.

Major downsizing of the US nuclear arsenal, which President Barack Obama wants to achieve, will become politically more difficult. America s tentative steps toward reducing the role of nuclear weapons in its overall security strategy, including defending its regional allies, will be harder to implement.

MADRID After long years of failed international efforts to end Iran s cunning drive to develop nuclear weapons, the question today is no longer whether the West can prevent the nuclearization of Iran s military arsenal, but whether the Islamic regime collapses first.

While North Korea s nuclear arsenal is much smaller, persistent doubts about the regime s sustainability make it a matter of grave concern. In the event of the regime s collapse a distinct possibility it would be difficult to prevent the diversion of its assets, or even the use of its weapons.