Sentence examples for civilian programme from inspiring English sources

America has long accused Iran of using this civilian programme to mask covert efforts at bomb-making.

Nor does it need its heavy-water production plant for a civilian programme based on light-water reactors; these would, however, be very useful for bomb-building.

Before meeting the Iranian president Hassan Rouhani at the UN, Hollande said he expected "concrete gestures" by Iran to show it would give up its military nuclear programme, "even if it clearly has the right to pursue its civilian programme".

The negotiating states in Vienna – the US, UK, France, Germany, China and Russia – have hitherto insisted on fewer than 10,000 in total so it would take Iran more than six months to change its civilian programme to a military one and build a warhead.

The danger now is that other friendly countries that have considered acquiring nuclear weapons, but decided not to do so because help with their civilian programmes was judged to matter more, might think that they too can have it both ways.

But the reality is that North Korea has no civilian nuclear programme.

IS IRAN'S civilian nuclear programme a front for developing nuclear weapons?

AMERICA'S civilian space programme is built atop its military one.

On the other hand, 3,000 centrifuges are not nearly enough for a civilian power programme.

The Iranian government has insisted throughout that it is only pursuing a civilian nuclear programme.

Its civilian space programme is aimed partly at showing that it can achieve what the Americans and Russians have done.