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From the outset in 1948, Nehru had high ambition to develop this program to stand against the industrialized states and the basis of this program was to establish an Indian nuclear weapons capability as part of India's regional superiority to other South-Asian states, most particularly Pakistan.
Instead Waltz argues that it would probably be the best possible outcome, as it would restore stability to the Middle East by balancing Israel's regional monopoly on nuclear weapons.
A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December 2006 found that even a small-scale, regional nuclear war could disrupt the global climate for a decade or more.
* New studies of climatic consequences of regional nuclear conflict from Alan Robock, including links to new studies published in 2007.
A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December 2006 asserted that even a small-scale regional nuclear war could produce as many direct fatalities as all of World War II and disrupt the global climate for a decade or more.
In a regional nuclear conflict scenario in which two opposing nations in the subtropics each used 50 Hiroshima-sized nuclear weapons ( ca.
Now a private home, it was originally designed and operated as a nuclear bunker to house and protect the ' London North Group ' emergency regional government between about 1951 and 1985.
" We will maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula by effectively working with allies and other regional states to deter and defend against provocation from North Korea, which is actively pursuing a nuclear weapons program.
In addition to those who farm, many residents work at the Idaho National Laboratory ( a. k. a. " the Site "), a regional division of the Department of Energy that focuses on nuclear energy and security technology.
The United States, Japan, South Korea, and other regional allies promised to provide North Korea with two light water nuclear reactors, at an eventual cost of '$ 4 billion ', to replace existing or partially constructed facilities that could produce plutonium for nuclear weapons.
The team would be capable of handling extraordinary hostage situations, large-scale counter-terrorist operations, situations involving nuclear or biological agents, or operations that local law enforcement or the regional FBI field office were not trained or equipped to handle.
Scientific data about the global climate effects of regional nuclear war presented at that conference became the basis of an IPPNW project onnuclear famine.
Soviet science also formed the base for several high-technology programs for regional specialization and cooperation, such as nuclear power and computers ( see ES EVM ).
Ergo planners opted to locate the centre underground to minimize the possibility of destruction by a nuclear attack, the only subterranean regional air defence command and control centre in NORAD.
Gorbachev ’ s repudiation of expansionism leaves America in a good position, no longer having to support anti-communist dictators, and able to pursue better goals: the environment, nonproliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, reducing famine and poverty, and resolving regional conflicts.
During the Cold War, the British Telecom speaking clock network was designed to be used in case of nuclear attack to broadcast messages from Strike Command at RAF High Wycombe to HANDEL units at regional police stations.
The authors envision that a strategy of selective engagement would involve a strong nuclear deterrent with a force structure capable of fighting two regional wars, each through some combination of ground, air and sea forces complemented with forces from a regional ally.
Cooperative security considers nuclear proliferation, regional conflicts and humanitarian crises to be major interests of the United States.
Showing the relative amounts of radioisotope within the heart muscle, the nuclear stress tests more accurately identify regional areas of reduced blood flow.

regional and conflict
The Greek states of Athens and Eretria allowed themselves to be drawn into this conflict by Aristagoras, and during their only campaigning season ( 498 BC ) they contributed to the capture and burning of the Persian regional capital of Sardis.
The conflict in the countryside from 1952-1954 between the Ladinos and Indians was not a new occurrence, but rather a continuation of a dilemma fueled by a complicated mix of class, regional, political, and ethnic differences since the colonial times.
In addition to continuing economic malaise, his government faced regional, interethnic, and interreligious conflict, particularly in Aceh, the Maluku Islands, and Irian Jaya.
The rulers across this region spoke a similar language, albeit with regional dialects, followed the same religion and were closely interrelated ; they were also highly competitive and frequently in conflict with one another for valuable territory and the castles that controlled them.
Henry responded by forming a net of alliances with the western counties of France against Louis, resulting in a regional conflict that would last throughout Stephen's early life.
In 1756, the war escalated from a regional affair into a world-wide conflict.
The battle pitted the two bands against each other, with the conflict as much about British class and regional divisions as it was about music.
In 582 CY ( six years after Gygax's original setting of 576 CY ), a regional conflict started by Iuz gradually widened until it was a war that affected almost every nation in the Flanaess.
Many of its elements originated in religious ideas, but the conflict between Horus and Set may have been partly inspired by a regional struggle in Egypt's early history or prehistory.
The rulers of the competing island states of Ternate and Tidore also sought Portuguese assistance and the newcomers were welcomed in the area as buyers of supplies and spices during a lull in the regional trade due to the temporary disruption of Javanese and Malay sailings to the area following the 1511 conflict in Malacca.
The attention paid by the Qing authorities to aboriginal land rights was part of a larger administrative goal to maintain a level of peace on the turbulent Taiwan frontier, which was often marred by ethnic and regional conflict.
The city became a base from which they ravaged the countryside, leading to a conflict with the expanding regional empire of Syracuse.
Henry of Huntingdon, who lived in the east of England, produced the Historia Anglorum that provides a regional account of the conflict.
Another common issue in federal systems is the conflict between regional and national interests, or between the interests and aspirations of different ethnic groups.
The new republic was immediately disrupted by political and military strife and regional secessionist movements, while the central government was paralyzed by conflict between the conservative Kasa-Vubu and his nationalistic prime minister Patrice Lumumba.
a land or sea area, and the airspace above it, established to employ one's forces to neutralize a strategic threat to national or alliance / coalition interests in regional or general conflict ; it is part of the theater ( of war ); normally the nation's highest leadership and the respective theater ( of war ) commander would designate a part of the theater as the theater of operations in case of a major regional or national emergency and general war ; the theater of operations can also be established in the case of a major counterinsurgency effort.
Thus they ended up on opposite sides in the conflict, as regional stability gives way to national discord and social breakdown, and the war begins to quite literally tear families apart.
Throughout the 1990s, Kusturica was frequently attacked by French public intellectuals Bernard-Henri Lévy and Alain Finkielkraut ( both of whom held staunchly Anti-Slavic sentiments during the disintegration of Yugoslavia, subsequent Yugoslav Wars and other regional conflict ) in the French media over his life and career choices.
In the two centuries following the conquest, a few of these domains became regional states that came into conflict with the central government.
Despite intense conflict amongst the FAR regional commanders, Ouane was pivotal in providing local military support against the North Vietnamese Army and the Pathet Lao in the northern regions of Laos.
India became involved in the conflict in the 1980s for a number of reasons, including its leaders ' desire to project India as the regional power in the area and worries about India's own Tamils seeking independence.

regional and scenario
Economics graduates are employable in varying degrees, depending on the regional economic scenario and labour market conditions at the time for a given country.
During 2005 and 2006 it was determined that the governance scenario best suited for the regional stakeholders was to create a new independent town.
In such a scenario, appealing to a national sense of Islamic identity, as in the case of Pakistan and Indonesia, may serve to override regional tensions.
Those numbers are the result of the endeavours of the Bahian Government, the result of increasing productive investment, and therefore, potential production, something that has been carried out through attractive enterprise policies in all segments of the economy, placing Bahia in a privileged position in the regional and national scenario.
Since the 1978 deregulation of the U. S. airline industry, U. S. carriers increasingly contracted flying to smaller destinations to small regional carriers ; David Messing, a spokesperson with Continental Airlines Holdings in 1991, said that Continental Express was formed because, from a business standpoint, having one subsidiary airline for Continental was preferable to the previous scenario of numerous agreements with various smaller airlines.
Cohen stated that the Pentagon would retain the " two regional wars " scenario adopted after the end of the Cold War.
In such a scenario, small regional plants or even local filling stations could generate hydrogen using energy provided through the electrical distribution grid.
* influence of the Milanese variety of Italian — Western Lombard has been argued to also have an " indirect " influence on the development of a modern standard Italian, as the regional Italian spoken in Milan has become increasingly important in the Italian sociolinguistic scenario due to the strong socio-economic position of Milan.
After the Turkish government's decision on the undeclared war with Syria, the military received orders to develop military operational plans, including the worst scenario ( regional war: Turkey against Syria, Iran and maybe Greece ( 1995 military agreement on airbases ) and Russia ).

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