Mr Cameron's schedule included a visit to a Trident nuclear missile submarine based on the Clyde.
The United States is close to exhausting its non-military options to prevent Iran from building a nuclear missile.
For that matter, why has the notion of a Russian nuclear missile cruiser basking in the Caribbean remained unaddressed?
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In March this year, he joined 94 other Labour rebels to vote against renewing the ageing Trident nuclear missile system.
'I used to think, oh, it's a nuclear missile', he told me.
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The Russian navy has received a new nuclear missile submarine which has an escape capsule, to avoid any repetition of the 2000 Kursk disaster.
This examines what would happen if an independent Scotland insisted on the immediate removal of the Trident nuclear missile submarines from their base on the Clyde.
It has agreed to host the radar component of a proposed NATO nuclear missile defence shield, a project that is aimed mainly at Iran, with which Turkey has a tricky relationship.
Ronald Reagan launched his Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983 out of a conviction that it would be better to "protect American lives than to avenge them" after a nuclear missile attack.
Friedman said one review his office conducted last year turned up backlogs in flight and laboratory test schedules for five of nine nuclear missile warheads and bombs in the operational stockpile.
Like a nuclear missile silo, my agency's Vatican file had its own doomsday file - a hardbound manila folder on which a typewritten sticky label had emblazoned in telex font capitals: WHAT TO DO IN CASE THE POPE DIES. While many of the instructions dated back to 1961 and could be safely ignored, it was still an interesting study in panic.
Colonel Myron Pankiv, the farm's director, used to command a nuclear-missile silo in Kazakhstan.
Under those resolutions, North Korea is officially banned from developing nuclear and missile technology.
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Security Council has issued three separate resolutions on North Korea, in response to its nuclear and missile tests since 2006.
In the Cold War the nuclear-missile standoff between the U.S. and USSR led to gargantuan stockpiles of another sort under a security doctrine known as Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD.
South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok told reporters Tuesday there were no signs that North Korea could conduct additional nuclear and missile tests anytime soon, or launch some other provocation.
But whether the two vote yes, or merely abstain, they will work to keep UN sanctions narrowly targeted on the individuals, companies and banks most directly involved in Iran's nuclear and missile programmes.
We also adopted a Deterrence and Defense Posture Review that showed what the appropriate mix of conventional nuclear and missile defense forces should be in order to advance our deterrence and defense capabilities.
Resolution 1747, passed unanimously, adds 28 names to a list first adopted by the council in December of organisations and individuals to be sanctioned for their involvement in Iran's nuclear and missile programmes.
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If voted through, the new resolution would add more names to a list of individuals, firms and banks sanctioned for their links to Iran's nuclear and missile programmes and slap an arms embargo on heavy weapons.
In addition, planned replacement of the Ohio-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine has also been delayed, and no decision has yet been made on whether the U.S. next-generation strategic bomber force will even be capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
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But as nuclear and missile technology has proliferated in the post-Cold War period, and more technologically primitive countries get their hands on missiles and limited nuclear capabilities, the threat of an EMP attack as become far more acute.
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If America can obtain Russian help in squeezing Iran's nuclear and missile programmes, and if Russia also backs down on its threatened deployment of missiles in the Kaliningrad region, which borders Poland, it would be easy for the administration to walk even further away from missile defence.
Today, ladies and gentlemen, we had a very useful and constructive discussion on a wide array of issues from North Korea's nuclear and missile development and including other security issues, and also how to promote bilateral trade between our two countries, and of course, other topics of mutual interest.
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The New Start treaty limits each side to no more than 800 deployed nuclear warhead delivery systems including bombers, missile launchers and nuclear submarines - a cut of about 50%.
Both countries have limited command and control structures, and neither has developed the technology to recall a nuclear-tipped missile fired in error.
Mr Gates wants a regular forum at which the two sides discuss issues such as nuclear weapons, missile defence, cyber-warfare and space.
President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative is an example of a global strategy for dealing with the spread of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons and missile-related materiel and technology.
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Both acts defied three Security Council resolutions that bar North Korea from testing or using nuclear or ballistic missile technology and from importing or exporting material for these programs.
Bishop, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, is accused of telling her secrets about U.S. nuclear weapons, missile defenses, war plans, early warning radar systems and other issues.
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