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The official military establishment can only threaten to use its nuclear arms ; ;
The President is the supreme authority for military matters and is the sole official who can order a nuclear strike.
" A high-ranking Russian military official said, " Poland in deploying US system opens itself to a nuclear strike.
When asked what their plans for surviving nuclear war were, a FEMA official replied that they were experimenting with putting evacuation instructions in telephone books in New England.
The plan originated as a 1979 field training exercise war game, and metamorphosed into official Warsaw Treaty battle doctrine, until the late 1980s – thus why the People ’ s Republic of Poland was a nuclear weapons base, first, to 178, then, to 250 tactical-range rockets.
The official technical history for that first nuclear test states, " All signal lines were completely shielded, in many cases doubly shielded.
Although there is no official information about the test's location, it is believed that it happened in the north-eastern region near Kilju, the site of North Korea's first nuclear test.
" In late August North Korea's official news agency reported the government would " consider soon a step to restore the nuclear facilities in Nyongbyon to their original state as strongly requested by its relevant institutions.
The phrase " Atomic Age " was coined by William L. Laurence, a New York Times journalist who became the official journalist for the U. S. Manhattan Project which developed the first nuclear weapons.
According to an official report which was submitted to the American congress in 2004, it may be that with a payload of 1, 000 kg the Jericho III gives Israel nuclear strike capabilities within the entire Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia and almost all parts of North America, as well as within large parts of South America and North Oceania.
URENCO Group, a nuclear fuel company operating several uranium enrichment plants in Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States, uses Frutiger as its official typeface for all marketing materials.
But Brower concluded that nuclear power at any location was a mistake, and he voiced his opposition to the plant, contrary to the Club's official policy.
Designated areas include Government Houses, official residences of government officials, Parliament, nuclear facilities, airport restricted areas, maritime ports, and any large-scale events that are sponsored by the federal government ( e. g., 2010 Winter Olympics ).
The use of the term dates from the Cold War, when the United States and Soviet Union both had nuclear missiles on constant alert, and a responsible official had to be available to authorize a retaliatory strike to an attack within minutes.
He also worked on several official bodies connected with nuclear physics, and arranged a major travelling exhibition for schools on civil nuclear energy, the Atom Train.
In France, the gendarmerie has crowd and riot control units ( the Gendarmerie Mobile, along with some corresponding units in the civilian police ), counter-terrorism and hostage rescue ( GIGN, again along with some corresponding units in the civilian police ), maritime surveillance, police at sea and coast guard ( Gendarmerie maritime ), control and security at airports and air traffic police ( Gendarmerie des transports aériens ), official buildings guard, honorary services and protection of the President ( Garde Républicaine ), mountain rescue ( Peloton de Gendarmerie de Haute Montagne ) and security of nuclear weapons sites.
Brower had come to believe that nuclear power was a dangerous mistake at any location, and he publicly voiced his opposition to Diablo Canyon, in defiance of the Club's official policy.
Among these stories are the tales of an intelligence official working to combat nuclear terrorism, a detainee lawyer fighting for rights at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a young Pakistani man interrogated under the White House, an Afghan teenager who spends a year in American high school, and former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto as she returns to Pakistan to challenge President Pervez Musharraf.
The two nearly identical billboards showed the downtown areas of each convention city in a cross hairs, with the message that “ when only one nuclear bomb could destroy a city ” like Minneapolis or Denver, “ we don ’ t need 6, 000 .” The name of Senator John McCain or Senator Barack Obama follows, with this admonition: “ It ’ s time to get serious about reducing the nuclear threat .” The billboards were removed after a complaint from Northwest Airlines, the official airline of the Republican convention.
As Iran's top nuclear envoy he said on April 25, 2007 that he expected " new ideas " from senior EU official Javier Solana at talks on resolving the deadlock between Tehran's refusal to freeze its nuclear programme and United Nations Security Council demands that it do so.

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certainly not in the same sense that the establishment of a parochial school system has been a matter of official policy.
Using former slaves in the military was official government policy after the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation.
* 1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
: The name " Republic of China " is not listed as Taiwan's " official name " under the " Government " section, due to U. S. acknowledgement of Beijing's One-China policy according to which there is one China and Taiwan is a part of it.
* setting the official interest rate – used to manage both inflation and the country's exchange rate – and ensuring that this rate takes effect via a variety of policy mechanisms
Throughout the 1920s and most of the 1930s, the Labour Party's official policy, supported by Attlee, was to oppose rearmament and support internationalism and collective security under the League of Nations.
" In 2010 this was written into the church's Handbook, which directs official church policy and programs.
Among the official changes to the organization during the modern area include the ordination of black men to the priesthood in 1978, reversing a policy originally instituted by Brigham Young.
Bell appealed both requirements, citing that the rules do not apply to cable companies and that they constituted proactive rate regulation by the CRTC, which goes against government official policy direction that the regulator only intervene in markets after a competitive problem has been proven.
While the new ex-colonial states appeared to follow the blueprint of the idealized state-centralized government, territory enclosed by defined borders, and citizenry with defined rights -, as well as accessories such as a national flag, an anthem, a seat at the United Nations and an official economic policy, they were in actuality far weaker than the Western states they were modeled after.
The U. S. Secretary of State is analogous to the foreign minister of other nations and is the official charged with state-to-state diplomacy, although the president has ultimate authority over foreign policy ; that policy includes defining the national interest, as well as the strategies chosen both to safeguard that and to achieve its policy goals.
It is generally believed that current NASCAR owners have agreed never to use the No. 3 in Sprint Cup competition again, although this is not official NASCAR policy.
" Don't ask, don't tell " ( DADT ) was the official United States policy on homosexuals serving in the military from December 21, 1993 to September 20, 2011.
Dignity and Respect, the U. S. Army's 2001 training guide on the homosexual conduct policy, gave official guidelines on what can be considered credible information of someone's homosexuality.
Racial discrimination differentiates individuals on the basis of real and perceived racial differences and has been official government policy in several countries, such as Papua New Guinea in the apartheid era.
Beginning with the 1967 election, the indigenous population abandoned its traditional policy of shunning the official political system and participated actively.
The government's official policy is one of nonalignment.
During the Cold War, Finland's foreign policy was based on official neutrality between the Western powers and the Soviet Union, while simultaneously stressing Nordic cooperation in the framework of the Nordic Council and cautious economic integration with the West as promoted by the Bretton-Woods Agreement and the free trade treaty with the European Economic Community.
This was reversed in the 2000s, when Tarja Halonen and Erkki Tuomioja made Finland's official policy to resist other EU members ' plans for common defense.
Its duties have expanded over the years, and today, according to official Federal Reserve documentation, include conducting the nation's monetary policy, supervising and regulating banking institutions, maintaining the stability of the financial system and providing financial services to depository institutions, the U. S. government, and foreign official institutions.
Biblical scholar Paul Achtemeier believes that persecution of Christians by Domitian would have been in character, but points out that there is no evidence of official policy targeted specifically at Christians.
Orwell also uses the technique of false document in an appendix to the same novel, titled " The Principles of Newspeak ," where Orwell offers a linguistic guide to Oceania's official language, Newspeak from the perspective of the country's ruling party, along with policy prescriptions for how the language may develop in the future.

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