The destructiveness of nuclear weapons is immense and their use would be catastrophic.

Grischa.

The catastrophic consequences of a nuclear war make it imperative to prevent one from ever taking place.

Abolition was the key to building confidence among the negotiating partners and to preventing the rise of clandestine nuclear programmes.

Convinced that the continuing existence of nuclear weapons poses a threat to all humanity and that their use would have catastrophic consequences for all life on Earth, and recognizing that the only defence against a nuclear catastrophe is the total elimination of nuclear weapons and the certainty that they will never be produced again,

Next year will mark the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe, which had a serious political impact and changed attitudes to nuclear energy all over the world.

Disaster risk reduction, peace building, and conflict prevention were, therefore, as important before, during and after a disaster.

The CCCs provide the framework for addressing the protection of children in humanitarian disasters.

Disaster.

The Chernobyl disaster contaminated the Belarusian territory with long lived caesium, strontium and plutonium radionuclides.

It continued to believe that the most effective way of preventing the catastrophic consequences of nuclear terrorism was the total elimination of nuclear weapons.

But look, it can't AIDS, Iran Contra, the Challenger disaster, Chernobyl.

This is the largest metropolitan area disaster in decades, and it was not a natural disaster it was a disaster of engineering.

It's a catastrophe.

The Diet Debacle

Catastrophes that we can avert are not as interesting as ones we could avert.

Nuclear weapons arouse apocalyptic visions and prompt legitimate fear in public opinion.

(f) Disaster management

Disaster and Development

Europe u0027s Calamity

He must be taken care of.

It's a disaster.

A catastrophe.

A scourge of God, Excellency.

A complete disaster.

Falling apart

The storage of nuclear waste in some parts of the territory raised the spectre of ecological disaster.

It could benefit from tragedies.

Dialogue or Disaster

Why disaster?

That's too bad.

Disaster.

BERLIN The Fukushima disaster in March reminded the world, 25 years after Chernobyl, that nuclear energy is anything but clean, secure, and affordable. Unfortunately, another nuclear catastrophe was needed to trigger a fresh debate on the use of nuclear power.

So this is a catastrophe.

... and then a catastrophe happened.

And they prevent disaster.

Coping with Catastrophic Risks

The Ill Wind from the West

The Politics of Cosmic Catastrophe

Disaster prevention and preparedness

Good heavens, a catastrophe!

It would mean chaos.

That's apt to be disastrous.

This is a disaster.

13. Finally, the El Niño phenomenon, the forest fires in Indonesia and Brazil, and the Chernobyl and Semipalatinsk nuclear disasters have reminded the international community of the vulnerability of many parts of the world to natural, environmental and technological disasters.