The recoil, for example, was negligible, and the gun was certainly not on a hair-trigger. |
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But I know our hair-trigger reputation has jolted dictators in Libya, North Korea and elsewhere. |
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Much would be gained in terms of global security if the nuclear-weapons States could agree to stand down from hair-trigger postures. |
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Many warheads are deployed on land-based missile systems, bombers and submarines in a hair-trigger situation. |
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Today, the United States and Russia maintain approximately 4,000 strategic nuclear weapons on constant, hair-trigger alert. |
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The two former Cold War foes still maintain more than 20,000 nuclear warheads between them, many on hair-trigger alert. |
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Those who survive greatly rely on the hair-trigger control of just about every muscle, from head to foot. |
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The Tokyo Forum calls for all states with nuclear weapons to endorse and implement the goal of zero nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. |
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While there has been some progress towards disarmament, nuclear weapons worldwide still number in the thousands, many of them on hair-trigger alert. |
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Russia and the United States should agree on reciprocal steps to take their nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert and should create a joint commission to facilitate this goal. |
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One particular concern is that more than a decade after the end of the cold war, large parts of strategic arsenals are still configured on hair-trigger alert, to be launched within minutes of the warning of an attack. |
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McDermott is petite and sharp-featured and has reddish-highlighted brunet curls, snappy New York-Irish diction, and a hair-trigger laugh. |
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The instantaneous transmission of both good and bad economic news creates a climate of hair-trigger reactions as traders in different markets buy or sell on the rumor of the day. |
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Thousands of nuclear weapons remain on hair-trigger alert. |
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Even though Presidents Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev agreed that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, thousands of nuclear weapons remain on hair-trigger alert. |
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At that tight course, I recall the R6 was the most demanding bike to ride, not because of its handling, which was the nimblest of the machines on test, but because of its engine's hair-trigger response. |
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And Mr. Bettany's hair-trigger envy is astonishing. |
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Was he protecting Stell from her hair-trigger stepson? |
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Currency devaluations set off hair-trigger inflationary expectations. |
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The painting catches this hair-trigger instant. |
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Not only that, I once saw where a lynx had walked along the same trail and obviously jumped right through the snare without making the hair-trigger set spring. |
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Missiles obscure the threshold between conventional, biochemical and nuclear war and increase the risk of nuclear war by accident, in particular if they are left on hair-trigger alert. |
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These ideologues of non-proliferation seldom raise their voices against the existence of thousands of nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert possessed by their allies. |
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