Sentences with phrase «first nuclear explosion»

The collection includes an intelligence report from August 1964 predicting that the Chinese would not conduct their first nuclear explosion before the end of the year.

He arrived at Los Alamos in April 1943 and witnessed the first nuclear explosion, at Alamogordo, N.M., on July 16, 1945.

«First nuclear explosion helps test theory of moon's formation.»

In 2006, the country's first nuclear explosion measured less than one kiloton.

Not exact matches

The new theory suggests the first of the two explosions reported by eyewitnesses was a nuclear and not a steam explosion, as is currently widely thought and is presented by researchers from the Swedish Defence Research Agency, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, and Stockholm University.

They hypothesize that the first explosive event was a jet of debris ejected to very high altitudes by a series of nuclear explosions within the reactor.

This rich account details everything from the project's first calculations run simulating nuclear explosions to its legendary parties that once drew poet Dylan Thomas.

The U.S. Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), in a report last November, related desperate actions by TEPCO crews to contain the reactor accident in the critical first week of the crisis, as they tried to operate crucial valves and instruments with truck batteries; hauled massive emergency power cables over flooded passageways where manhole covers had been dislodged; and faced a series of hydrogen explosions and sudden spikes in radiation.

More than 10 years ago, it took a nuclear explosion under the Nevada desert to power the world's first X-ray laser, in an experiment carried out by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that is still highly classified.

The first seismic waves generated by temblors and explosions — those from mining operations as well as underground nuclear tests — are sharp and distinct, says Göran Ekström, a seismologist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.

Indeed, this is not the first time a contemporary composer has recognized the seemingly limitless potential for atomic Sturm und Drang; two previous operas — Steve Reich's Three Tales and Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach — take as a central symbol the explosion of a nuclear bomb.

In this exhibition, the artist presents the first step on the moon cast in «trinitite», the substance that formed after the explosion of the first nuclear bomb in 1945 in New Mexico, and a bronze model of the liferaft of the Mercury 1 missile, presented as if it were a contemporary version of the ark of Noah.

In its 36 minutes duration, the film presents footage of one of the first nuclear tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in 1946; Conner shows the underwater explosion from fifteen different angles, in extreme slow motion — at some points one second of real time becomes three minutes of screen time.

The proposal has received broad support from key researchers and institutions within the field, and it is desired to date the beginning of the epoch at the first successful nuclear explosion (Trinity in 1945).