The Kremlin's more recent announcements, which took the form of stories in state media and official videos on YouTube, confirm that all of the weapons exist at least in prototype form.
Nuclear weapons exist mainly to prevent their own use - exist, that is, for nuclear deterrence.
If the Iraqi weapons exist, we need to find them not to placate critics but to prevent them from being used for devastating attacks on the United States!
The US will maintain a "strong deterrent as long as nuclear weapons exist", but begin to take steps on the "long road towards eliminating nuclear weapons".
It would also authorize Israel to add as many weapons which don't exist to its arsenal as it deemed necessary to keep Arab nations in their place.
American carriers don't actually carry very much in the way of weapons themselves, but rather exist to support three things: a flat surface, a steam catapult to launch aircraft from very short runways, and arresting cables to help them land.
"As long as nuclear weapons exist, Australia will continue to rely on US nuclear forces to deter nuclear attack on Australia," a Dfat briefing note says.
As long as these weapons exist, they will continue to spread.
If a terrorist group, say, did have the means of creating smallpox, the effort may not be worth it compared with other methods of terrorism, such as the use of chemical weapons, says Lane. Vaccines exist to contain smallpox's spread, and it isn't the most contagious of pathogens.
Officially, the Bush Administration claims that as long as nuclear weapons exist, we should be free to test.
