reduction of weapons
31Defense Threat Reduction Agency — Emblem der DTRA Die Defense Threat Reduction Agency (kurz: DTRA, gesprochen diitra) ist eine dem Verteidigungsministerium der Vereinigten Staaten angegliederte Behörde. Die DTRA beschäftigt mehr als 2.000 Personen und verfügt über ein Budget von… …
32Nuclear Risk Reduction Center — The Nuclear Risk Reduction Center is part of the United States Department of State. It has counterpart in Moscow in the Russian Ministry of Defense. The NRRC was created in 1987 by an agreement between the United States Secretary of State and the …
33United Nations — 1. an international organization, with headquarters in New York City, formed to promote international peace, security, and cooperation under the terms of the charter signed by 51 founding countries in San Francisco in 1945. Abbr.: UN Cf. General… …
34Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty — noun an international treaty aimed at the general reduction of weapons by the nuclear countries and encouraging non nuclear nations to refrain from developing such weapons; signed in 1968 by many countries including the US, Britain and the Soviet …
35disarmament — [n] reduction of weapons arms limitation, arms reduction, conquest, crippling, de escalation, demilitarization, demobilization, disablement, disqualification, freeze, neutralizing, occupation, pacification, paralyzing, rendering powerless,… …
36nuclear disarmament — reduction of nuclear weapons …
37United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
38Military Affairs — ▪ 2009 Introduction Russia and Georgia fought a short, intense war in 2008, fueling global fears of a new Cold War. On August 7 Georgia launched an aerial bombardment and ground attacks against its breakaway province of South Ossetia.… …
39United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …
40international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
