Sentence examples for weapons less from inspiring English sources

At the same time, the National Security Council's interagency group was debating whether the United States could legally offer Pakistan equipment that might make its nuclear weapons less vulnerable to theft or unauthorized use.

The benefits are potentially huge: shared technologies, cheaper new weapons, less risk of protectionism, more chance of competitive tendering, more common equipment for NATO forces and stronger political ties among the allies.Dasa's Manfred Bischoff, a champion of such alliances, thinks it inevitable that NATO members will come to depend on each other for military supplies and technology.

Recent studies have shown that the use of even 100 Hiroshima-sized nuclear weapons, less than 0.5 percent of the world's arsenal, could cause climate disruption and a decline in food production that would put more than a billion people at risk of starvation.

So, even as military planners increasingly find nuclear weapons less useful than decades ago, the public responds to the possibility of nuclear terrorism with the desire for the US to keep its weapons, which are more numerous now than in the 1980s.

Since the shooting, he said numerous constituents including members of the NRA have told him that something needs to be done to make assault weapons less common.

Border Patrol agents have used firearms and other weapons less frequently in recent months on the often-violent Southwest border after implementation of guidelines aimed at curbing abuses, officials said Wednesday.

Of course, it is only logical that having access to a weapon less lethal than a gun would prevent deaths.

Many of the "weapons" look less menacing on closer inspection.

(Ordinary Libyans are not normally allowed to possess weapons, much less shoot them).

Will military action to forestall Iran acquiring nuclear weapons be less or more likely?

Today's global stockpiles of nuclear weapons are less than one-third of what they were in 1986.