Sentence examples for nuclear from inspiring English sources

Then came the second world war and the horrors of the nuclear bomb.

"They don't want Iran to become a nuclear power and they will be as sceptical as the Israelis are as to whether this is going to be a real deal.

And it is the Saudis who now, in improbable alliance with Binyamin Netanyahu's Israel, lobby most forcefully against any American nuclear deal, or broader western rapprochement, with Shia Iran, their sworn enemy.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei added that he was concerned about the fate of nuclear talks because the other side was "deceitful and back-stabbing".

On Saturday, within a few minutes after 2 15am, the exact time when the year changed, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say in all state matters including the country's nuclear dossier, appeared on national TV, declaring the new year one of "harmony and solidarity with the government".

This year, the nuclear negotiations in the Swiss city of Lausanne, which are entering a critical phase ahead of a major deadline, are being debated over dried fruits, pistachio nuts and watermelon seeds.

We are making the biggest investment in roads since the 1970s and the biggest in rail since Victorian times, connecting 40,000 premises to superfast broadband every week, and starting an energy revolution with the first new nuclear plant in a generation, the world's first green investment bank and the largest production of offshore wind on the planet.

But Obama made use of the historical setting to try to conjure the very same sort of shared values that brought western nations together when the iron curtain divided Europe; he announced plans to cut nuclear weapons.

He added: "After a comprehensive review I've determined that we can ensure the security of America and our allies – and maintain a strong and credible strategic deterrent – while reducing our deployed strategic nuclear weapons by up to one-third".

It is as yet unclear what effect, if any, the letter and its fallout could have on the seven-party nuclear talks that are due to reconvene in Switzerland on Sunday.

The aim of the negotiations is to reconfigure the Iranian nuclear programme so that the international community can be confident it will not be used to build a warhead in secret, or so quickly that Iran becomes a nuclear-armed state before the rest of the world has time to react.