The reasoning notwithstanding, Mr. Vance described Mr. Ferhani as a volatile threat.
For months, he has remained steadily determined to disarm Saddam Hussein, first in the face of warnings that doing so without a Middle East peace risked Arab rage, and now despite worries that North Korea is the more volatile threat.
Harris, who oversees about 375,000 military and civilian personnel, has taken a hard line against North Korea in the past, saying at a Senate confirmation hearing in 2014 that he viewed the country as "our most dangerous and volatile threat".
Reports by Human Rights Watch and the International Committee of the Red Cross found that an estimated 10 percent of the 289,000 submunitions scattered across Kosovo's countryside had failed to detonate on deployment, making them a persistent and volatile explosive threat.
The winding down of nuclear and strategic confrontation under Gorbachev allowed states like Britain to cut military spending, but also created the conditions for untrammelled US power in a unipolar world, while potentially more volatile nuclear threats emerged.
Some of the things we are trained to handle are medical emergencies, Ditching (evacuating in water), volatile fuel threats and fires, evacuations, blocked exit procedures, decompressions, life raft procedures, and malfunctions.
Already the key figure in the burgeoning folk movement with his Ballad & Blues club at the Princess Louise in London's Holborn district, MacColl wrote characteristically volatile songs about the threat to peace, notably 'Against the Atom Bomb'.
Other components of fungi or bacteria in damp spaces that are known or suspected to pose a threat include volatile organic compounds, live or dead spores, fragments such as beta glucans, and numerous allergens.
There is unsettled business in the Balkans; Vladimir Putin's Russia is accelerating its military modernisation at an ominous clip while showing few signs of wanting a warmer relationship with the West; north Africa is close and volatile; there are old threats such as the spread of terrorism from failed states and newer ones such as proliferating weapons of mass destruction and cyber-warfare.
China is hot, Japan is cold, and the rest of Asia looks just plain volatile: Political unrest, nuclear threats and sometimes-violent protests don't make for stable markets.
These threats emerge because of a volatile combination of acute and attritional threats combined with low levels of awareness and preparation.
