Sentence examples for weapon modernization from inspiring English sources
At a Goldman Sachs investor conference in New York, Mr. Albaugh predicted a flattening in military spending as the government attempts to rein in the deficit and balance the need for more troops against Pentagon weapon modernization plans, Bloomberg News reported.
Third, like it or not, we should expect China's ongoing nuclear weapons modernization to continue.
Treaty skeptics insisted on $85 billion for nuclear weapons modernization and on a dubious and destabilizing missile defense.
But he would plow the savings into troops and weapons modernization, maintaining modest growth in overall spending.
He has warned that weapons modernization programs and equipment for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are in jeopardy.
About $70 billion of those savings -- found through operating efficiencies and cancellations of weapons systems -- are to be reinvested by the services into personnel and quality-of-life accounts, as well as into weapons purchases and weapons modernization.
Clinton said strains on troop readiness and weapons modernization required reversing a trend toward declining defense spending that began in 1985.
His strategy for a protracted nuclear war -- based on weapons modernization, protection of governmental leaders from a first strike and an early version of Star Wars -- effectively beggared the Soviet war machine.
"The budget signals that the price for the START follow-on agreement with Russia and Senate certification of the CTBT [Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty] is additional money for nuclear weapons modernization and production facilities," said Hans M. Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project of the Federation of American Scientists.
A board of prominent scientists advanced the minute hand because in their view, unchecked climate change and global nuclear-weapon modernization are pushing humanity to the brink.
Russian and American nuclear weapons modernization programs and growing Chinese, Pakistani, Indian, and North Korean atomic programs are also worrisome.
