The implementation of a national anti missile defence system could trigger an arms race and lead to the development of more advanced missile systems and an increase in nuclear weapons.

Just three years ago, this missile force comprised 50 ICBMs, each capable of carrying 10 nuclear warheads.

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51. The current United States ballistic missile defence programme consists of theater missile defence (TMD), national missile defence (NMD) and advanced ballistic missile defence technologies.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union transported the missile into Cuba, which almost led to the US Soviet nuclear war.

It had been accepted into the Nuclear Suppliers Group in 2002 and was preparing to join the Missile Technology Control Regime.

Moreover, reducing nuclear weapons to a minimum might theoretically enhance the usefulness of missile defense systems and their destabilizing role. And even non strategic missile defense systems, the deployment of which might be useful, will be questioned.

The Group remains concerned that the implementation of a national missile defence system could trigger an arms race or arms races, the further development of advanced missile systems and an increase in the number of nuclear weapons.

Her Government believed that the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty had great strategic importance for the issue of nuclear disarmament and arms control.

France, meanwhile, continued to design and build new weapon systems for use through 2040 including a new submarine launched missile and longer range cruise missile, both equipped with new warheads and had a highly advanced programme to develop the capability to design and manufacture modified or new nuclear weapons without explosive nuclear testing.

In the United Kingdom, the submarine launched Trident missile, equipped with three to four warheads, was the only remaining operational nuclear weapon system.

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North Korea continues to enlarge its nuclear stockpile and develop long range missile technologies (it can already launch a ballistic missile capable of hitting America s west coast). In short, the country is becoming a direct security threat to the US.

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8. The decades of the 1980s and 1990s meanwhile witnessed the gradual deterioration of our security environment as a result of nuclear and missile proliferation.

The Security Council has unanimously boosted sanctions on North Korea since 2006 in a bid to choke off funding for Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

Ri Yong Ho said on the United Nations General Assembly that North Korea had taken very kind actions during the last year, including cessation of missile and nuclear tests, dismantling of nuclear test sites and commitment to non proliferation of nuclear weapons and technologies

It provoked the missile gap.

As for its ballistic missile submarine force, it was currently working to replace the experimental missile with a more reliable, medium range missile and was developing a new submarine.

We have together eliminated more than 1,700 heavy bombers and missile launchers, including more than 700 launch silos, 45 submarines capable of launching nuclear missiles, and deactivated or eliminated more than 18,000 strategic and tactical nuclear warheads.

North Korea pledged in a meeting with Moon this month to dismantle a missile site and also a nuclear complex if the United States took corresponding measures.

But Japan remains extremely vulnerable. The most immediate regional threat is North Korea, whose unpredictable dictatorship has invested its meager economic resources in nuclear and missile technology.

Latvia has been a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group since 1997 and is a subscribing State to the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation.

Ireland also participates in a number of export control fora, namely the Australia Group, The Missile Technology Control Regime, Nuclear Suppliers Group, Wassenaar Arrangement and Zangger Committee.

Proliferators must know that the NATO allies are unwavering in their commitment to collective defense, including nuclear deterrence. Confronted with the spread of missile technology, and unpredictable regimes and leaders, we owe it to our populations to complement our deterrence capabilities with an effective missile defense capability.

Development of a new generation ICBM, capable of carrying up to 10 warheads, was reportedly under way, while a nuclear variant of a new bomber carried cruise missile might be deployed in 2005, and a new submarine launched missile would be deployed on two submarines under construction.

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As part of its missile and nuclear force modernization, China is also focusing on developing its sea launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) such as the JL 2, testing the DF21 D as an anti ship ballistic missile (ASBM) for maritime strikes, and further developing its anti satellite weapon capabilities (ASAT).

Some nuclear weapon States were also giving precedence to horizontal disarmament (the physical separation of warheads and missile components) over vertical disarmament (the reduction of nuclear stockpiles), and some were ignoring the existing multilateral approach to non proliferation and security issues.

As part of the strategic restraint regime, over the years, we have also made the following proposals maintenance of nuclear weapons on de alert status no operational deployment of nuclear ballistic missiles no acquisition or deployment of anti ballistic missile systems.

By his own writing, this man was either asleep, at a prayer meeting with Al and Tipper or learning how to launch a nuclear missile out of a suitcase.

Japan will continue to make every effort to ensure that the nuclear issue, along with the missile and abduction issues, is comprehensively resolved in accordance with the Pyongyang Declaration.

The satellites use infrared sensors to detect heat from missile plumes as soon as they are launched or heat is generated from an atmospheric or space based nuclear explosion.

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Expressing concern that the development of missile defences could impact negatively on nuclear disarmament and non proliferation and lead to a new arms race on earth and in outer space,

Nonetheless, there are still ambiguities about the missile crisis that make it difficult to attribute the outcome entirely to the nuclear component. The public consensus was that the US won.