In remarks broadcast on state TV, Khamenei said atomic weapons do not bring power but that Iran's achievements in nuclear technology, including proficiency in the nuclear fuel cycle from extracting uranium ore to producing nuclear fuel, have brought dignity and pride to the nation.
There is also enormous incentive to downplay another of Obama's legacies: the dramatic enhancement, since he took office in 2009, of the nuclear arsenal and proficiency of North Korea, now honing its increasingly powerful missiles, beefing up its stockpile of nuclear fuel, and preparing for its sixth nuclear test.
We analyzed the single and double mutant cells and tissues for their growth rate, survival, chromosomal break repair proficiency, nuclear architecture and hallmarks of premature aging.
It is conceivable that the incorporation of additional genomic elements into the IDLV backbone may improve the expression proficiency and nuclear stability.
Some were begun under his father, but together they have become emblems of a country that wants to dilute the image of its people as virtual automatons by projecting as much proficiency at building nuclear weapons as "superman" style rollercoasters.
CI: crystallinity index; CPMAS-TOSS: cross polarization under magic angle spinning with total suppression of spinning sidebands; CSA: chemical shift anisotropy; DRIFT: diffuse reflectance Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy; HPLC: high proficiency liquid chromatography; NMR: nuclear magnetic resonance.
Nearly one in five of the Air Force's nuclear missile officers have been implicated in a ring of cheating on monthly proficiency tests.
However, for North Korea, as it has been for other emerging nuclear weapons states, testing is above all a political act, a declaration of technical proficiency and military power.
Hagel called for the two reviews in late January, after an embarrassing scandal in the Air Force in which dozens of officers overseeing nuclear missiles at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana had been caught either cheating on a monthly launch proficiency test, or knew about others who did and did nothing to stop it.
