They stormed the arsenals of tomsk.

Excessive arsenals of conventional weapons are a destabilizing element.

Do the nuclear powers intend to hold on to their nuclear arsenals indefinitely?

Obviously, the current nuclear arsenals of the five nuclear Powers do differ.

The existence of well stocked nuclear arsenals still threatens humankind with nuclear holocaust.

Also, we note that chemical arsenals have been reduced since the Convention's entry into force.

It is time to put an end to the irresponsible trafficking in weapons, and time to empty the arsenals of illicit weapons.

The efforts of nuclear weapon States to reduce their nuclear arsenals should be duly appreciated.

The arsenals of nuclear weapons that are the monopoly of some in the region are cause for great concern.

Global stockpiles have dropped from 68,000 warheads at the height of the Cold War to 20,000 today.

However, those reductions would not suffice to protect mankind from destruction all nuclear arsenals must be eliminated.

Such a treaty would freeze existing nuclear inventories and prevent qualitative improvements in nuclear weapons systems.

The United States and the Russian Federation under START II have significantly reduced their nuclear arsenals.

Global stockpiles have dropped from 68,000 warheads at the height of the Cold War to 20,000 today.

Over the next three days, more than 1000 students staged raids on the naval yards and other arsenals.

But surely there can be a balance between Second Amendment rights and rational constraints on the ability of mentally unstable people to accumulate arsenals.

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

We encourage all nuclear weapon States to securely reduce and dismantle their nuclear weapons arsenals with a maximum degree of transparency.

Since a legally binding international instrument had never been ratified, existing arsenals continued to pose a threat to mankind.

There was still a need, however, to scale down nuclear arsenals as rapidly as possible and to take practical steps to phase out all nuclear weapons.

Instead, they have insisted that nuclear weapons are essential for their security and continued to modernize their nuclear arsenals.

2. To reduce the real risk to man and the environment from atomic radiation, the large stockpiles of nuclear weapons had to be progressively dismantled and destroyed.

China might be willing to make a unilateral, but enforceable, commitment not to augment its nuclear arsenal, if Russia and the US reduce theirs further.

By eliminating the huge stockpiles of armaments left behind by the armed forces at the former Soviet Union, Belarus could make an invaluable contribution to strengthening regional and international security.

Such arsenals and the phenomenon of proliferation must be eliminated if the international community is to ensure that international peace and security may be maintained.

And yet excessive accumulations of such arms, which are not commensurate with the legitimate security concerns of a country, can also be a destabilizing factor.

In calling upon the world s nuclear powers to preach by example and dramatically reduce their nuclear arsenals, the article was also a call for equality among nations in the nuclear domain.

South Africa eliminated its nuclear weapons and became a party to the NPT, while Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan transferred their nuclear arsenals to Russia.

It was essential that the nuclear weapon States should reduce their arsenal in a progressive, systematic, irreversible, transparent and measurable manner, thus proving that they were respecting their obligations.

That is why, today more than ever, we demand that it is high time to destroy nuclear arsenals and to implement measures that will forestall any chance of those truly inhuman weapons being used.

Despite this ideological thaw, however, we still have arms trafficking and nuclear arsenals and, therefore, a serious threat to peace.

Taken together these levels will not exceed the holdings of the States which existed before 1991 on the territories of the new CSCE States in the region

Although an understanding to curb the increase in nuclear stockpiles has been reached as a result of certain concerted efforts, those stockpiles have yet to be adequately reduced.

Nuclear weapon States and those States remaining outside the NPT continue to develop and modernize their nuclear arsenals, threatening international peace and security.

But Obama also knows that if the existing nuclear states want others to accept tougher restrictions, they will have to cut back their nuclear arsenals.

However, the nuclear weapon States are reluctant to scrap their nuclear arsenals totally, even in the current post cold war era.

You know, in the Cold War, we built up this huge arsenal of nuclear weapons, and that was great, and we don't need them anymore, and what are we doing with all the waste, essentially?

But if the two countries fail to overcome their bad old habits of mutual suspicion, their remaining quite powerful nuclear arsenals will continue to serve deterrence and self deterrence.

Yet, we are far from having rid ourselves completely of the legacy of the cold war, which includes immense quantities of armaments and the technology for producing them.

We believe that the Register must continue to be maintained and developed to include weapons holdings and weapons acquired through national or domestic procurement.

Major reductions in strategic and non strategic nuclear arsenals and their means of delivery have taken place since then and the EU looks forward to further systematic and progressive efforts towards nuclear disarmament.

In 2003, German, Italian, British, and American authorities confiscated nuclear equipment bound for Tripoli, leading to Libya s decision to open its weapons inventories to inspectors.

In this regard, it is a matter of serious concern that, while we are trying to limit and even eliminate nuclear arsenals, there has been an increase in the manufacture of conventional weapons and in the traffic in them.

Sri Lanka is among those who hold the view that existing stockpiles have to be taken into account in our discussions, and, as such, they should be included in the mandate of the proposed ad hoc committee.

On the contrary, they continue to refine their arsenals, while countries without nuclear weapons want them, believing that the nuclear club s monopoly is a threat to the world peace.