31. Nearby mines provided raw material for the plant that produced weapons-grade uranium as the Soviets furiously developed an arsenal of atomic weapons for the Cold War. 32. None had atomic weapons when the Council membership and its rules were adopted, not even the United States. 33. Non-nuclear countries are more easily dissuaded from developing atomic weapons when nuclear states restrain their own arsenals. 34. Plutonium, the nuclear core of atomic weapons, is one of the most dangerous substances known to man. 35. Roughly a thousand times more powerful than the first atomic weapon, the hydrogen bomb was a two-stage device. 36. Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States has been vigilant regarding atomic weapons. 37. Stone instructed him to learn whether Germany was secretly contemplating building its own atomic weapons, Schevitz said. 38. The agency has told policy-makers that it is not certain that Iran actually has atomic weapons now. 39. The best example involved the use of atomic weapons against Japan. 40. The computers can be used to design atomic weapons and long-range missiles. |