The phrase "abandon a nuclear" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to refer to abandoning a nuclear weapon or nuclear power, but it is incomplete without additional context.
Example: "The decision to abandon a nuclear program was met with mixed reactions from the international community."
Alternatives: "abandon a nuclear weapon" or "abandon a nuclear facility".
"We think it's clear that Iran has not made any decision, any strategic decision to abandon a nuclear weapons effort," the State Department spokesman, Richard A. Boucher, said Tuesday in Washington.
However, there has been no indication of any narrowing of differences over US demands that North Korea abandon a nuclear weapons programme that threatens the US or over Pyongyang's demand for a lifting of punishing sanctions.
Yes, we will support you.' " The United States, and Europe, have moved aggressively to block Iran's ability to sell oil, hoping to create enough economic pain and social instability that Iran's leaders will abandon a nuclear program that the West says is aimed at building nuclear weapons, but that Iran says is for peaceful purposes.
Sanctions of that nature might dial up the pressure on the North Korean regime a notch but are very unlikely to persuade it to abandon a nuclear program that has become a cornerstone of the regime's national security calculations, experts said.
Obama took office in January last year offering to talk directly with the North in an effort to persuade them to abandon a nuclear weapons programme, but the North has responded with missile launches, a nuclear test and the alleged torpedoing this year of a South Korean naval ship, the Cheonan, killing 46.
That's no surprise: He didn't appear to have a plan to prepare for the summit when he agreed to it; nor did he appear to have a plan for what comes next with Iran when he announced the United States would abandon a nuclear agreement with that nation.
Warren Buffett's MidAmerican Energy also abandoned a nuclear power plant proposal this year, so momentum for the industry isn't strong.
Iran took the US to court after it re-imposed sanctions on the back of abandoning a nuclear deal in May.
And the North Korean leaders have learned the sad lesson of Libya's Gaddafi, who abandoned a nuclear program in an agreement with the West only to meet his horrible end at the hands of Western-supported rebels soon afterwards.
Hitachi has scrapped plans to build a nuclear power station in Wales, becoming the second firm in two months to abandon a major nuclear project and triggering "a full-blown crisis" for the UK energy's strategy.
BLOOMBERG NEWS European Officials Consider Sanctioning Iranian Bank | The European Union is weighing a plan to freeze assets of Bank Tejarat, an Iranian bank financing activity on the Continent, as officials try to pressure Iran to abandon a suspected nuclear weapons program, Bloomberg News reports.
