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So does Japan, which has almost all the same advantages as India, albeit with a latent nuclear capability.
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Joshua Shifrinson, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2023
And over the past year, the North has enshrined its nuclear capability in its laws and started talking about its first-strike capabilities, rather than casting its arsenal as purely defensive.
—Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2023
Since then, powerful computer models have been their primary tools for maintaining the country’s nuclear capability via NNSA’s Stockpile Stewardship program.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Apr. 2023
North Korea would eventually use its boosted nuclear capability as a bargaining chip to win international recognition as a legitimate nuclear state, the relaxing of international sanctions, and other concessions, analysts say.
—Hyung-Jin Kim, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Dec. 2022
Putin’s geopolitical power is vastly enhanced by the fact that Russia has retained massive nuclear capability.
—Cassie Werber, Quartz, 1 Sep. 2022
The secretary said after the meeting that the US and Israel agree that Iran should not be allowed to have access to nuclear weapons and stressed the efforts to deter Iran's nuclear capability will continue even if negotiations on a nuclear deal ultimately fall apart.
—Devan Cole, Adam Pourahmadi and Mostafa Salem, CNN, 27 Mar. 2022
Bennett and bin Zayed will also confront emerging disagreements over international efforts to slow the nuclear capability of Iran.
—Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2021
At the Senate hearing, VanHerck expressed concern that North Korea's nuclear capability may soon overwhelm the U.S. capacity to respond.
—Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 16 Mar. 2021
Joshua Shifrinson, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2023
And over the past year, the North has enshrined its nuclear capability in its laws and started talking about its first-strike capabilities, rather than casting its arsenal as purely defensive.
—Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2023
Since then, powerful computer models have been their primary tools for maintaining the country’s nuclear capability via NNSA’s Stockpile Stewardship program.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Apr. 2023
North Korea would eventually use its boosted nuclear capability as a bargaining chip to win international recognition as a legitimate nuclear state, the relaxing of international sanctions, and other concessions, analysts say.
—Hyung-Jin Kim, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Dec. 2022
Putin’s geopolitical power is vastly enhanced by the fact that Russia has retained massive nuclear capability.
—Cassie Werber, Quartz, 1 Sep. 2022
The secretary said after the meeting that the US and Israel agree that Iran should not be allowed to have access to nuclear weapons and stressed the efforts to deter Iran's nuclear capability will continue even if negotiations on a nuclear deal ultimately fall apart.
—Devan Cole, Adam Pourahmadi and Mostafa Salem, CNN, 27 Mar. 2022
Bennett and bin Zayed will also confront emerging disagreements over international efforts to slow the nuclear capability of Iran.
—Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2021
At the Senate hearing, VanHerck expressed concern that North Korea's nuclear capability may soon overwhelm the U.S. capacity to respond.
—Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 16 Mar. 2021
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