In the United States Senate, the nuclear option is a parliamentary procedure that allows the Senate to override a standing rule by a simple majority, avoiding...
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Samson Option The Samson Option (Hebrew: ברירת שמשון, romanized: b'rerat shimshon) is Israel's deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons...
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Look up nuclear option in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The nuclear option is a political tactic used in the United States Senate. Nuclear option may also...
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high level former Soviet nuclear and military–industrial planners reveal that Fidel Castro continued to favour nuclear options, even during the later Cold...
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Senate's filibuster. Notably, in 2013 and 2017, the Senate used the nuclear option to set a series of precedents that reduced the threshold for cloture...
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Harry Reid (section Nuclear option)
leadership, the Senate Democratic majority controversially invoked the "nuclear option" to eliminate the 60-vote requirement to end a filibuster for presidential...
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Nuclear Energy (2007) Protect and Survive (1980) The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation (2006) Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option (2007)...
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A nuclear close call is an incident that might have led to at least one unintended nuclear detonation or explosion, but did not. These incidents typically...
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the Middle East believed to possess nuclear weapons. The Samson Option refers to Israel's ability to use nuclear weapons against attackers as a deterrence...
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detonation of nuclear weapons. Five are considered to be nuclear-weapon states (NWS) under the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons...
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compromise in the spring of 2005 to avoid the deployment of the so-called "nuclear option" by Senate Republican Majority over an organized use of the filibuster...
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2005 debate on the nuclear option was a political debate in the United States Senate regarding the possible use of the nuclear option to allow a simple...
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Filibuster in the United States Senate 'Nuclear option' Kangaroo closure Previous question Gang of 14 Nuclear option cloture in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary...
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Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy is a 1991 book by Seymour Hersh. It details the history of Israel's nuclear weapons...
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planning takeover – The nuclear option". The Economist. 12 November 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2012. "The nuclear energy option in the UK" (PDF). Parliamentary...
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rather than a rule change, is called the constitutional option by proponents, and the nuclear option by opponents. On November 21, 2013, the Democratic-controlled...
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that looks at the global nuclear industry from the mining of uranium through to nuclear power, to the radioactive waste and nuclear weapons. It examines the...
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Nuclear power in Australia has been a topic of debate since the 1930s. Australia has one nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights, New South Wales, although it...
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A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction. Nuclear reactors are used at nuclear power plants for electricity...
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Nuclear marine propulsion is propulsion of a ship or submarine with heat provided by a nuclear reactor. The power plant heats water to produce steam for...
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important books: On Escalation (Herman Kahn, 1965) and Escalation and the Nuclear Option (Bernard Brodie, 1966). In those contexts, it especially referred to...
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nomination to block his confirmation. However, Republicans invoked the "nuclear option", eliminating the filibuster with respect to Supreme Court nominees...
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that Tehran halted a nuclear weapons program in fall 2003, but that Iran "at a minimum is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapon". Russian analyst...
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several programs exploring the use of nuclear fission for military technology, including nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Like the similar wartime programs...
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some clandestine nuclear weapons research into the late 1980s, and the security motivations to seriously contemplate such an option—since the publishing...
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Nuclear engineering is the engineering discipline concerned with designing and applying systems that utilize the energy released by nuclear processes...
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climate change? Embrace the nuclear option". USA Today. Retrieved December 7, 2020. "First time majority oppose nuclear energy", Gallup, March 16, 2016...
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Homi J. Bhabha (category Indian nuclear physicists)
1909 – 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist who is widely credited as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme". He was the founding director...
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rules to prevent administrators from unblocking themselves. Termed the "nuclear option", the move attracted significant controversy. In March 2016, a user...
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judges during a president's first two years. McConnell invoked the nuclear option to eliminate the 60-vote requirement to end a filibuster for Supreme...
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