Sentences with phrase «ii nuclear world»

Unlike the Abstract Expressionist artists of the mid-20th century, who communicated the uncertainty and fear of a post World War II nuclear world, Pan's abstract painting evokes an idealistic, optimistic, global view.

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Nuclear weapons have been used exactly twice in combat — both times by the US, and both times dropped by a propeller aircraft over largely unprotected Japanese airspace at the close of World War II.

Fusion bombs are also on alert and ready to launch, and they are thousands of times more powerful than any nuclear weapons detonated during World War II.

Throughout the Cold War immediately following the end of World War II, the world tested a mind - boggling number of nuclear weaWorld War II, the world tested a mind - boggling number of nuclear weaworld tested a mind - boggling number of nuclear weapons.

Its conglomerate period began in 1945, after World War II, when the company expanded its plastics business and became, over time, a major player in jet engines, nuclear reactors, computers, missiles, satellites, and other widely diverse businesses.

The world from San Francisco to the Ural Mountains seemed permanently divided into two hostile, ideologically opposed, nuclear - armed camps, along a fault line defined at the end of World Waworld from San Francisco to the Ural Mountains seemed permanently divided into two hostile, ideologically opposed, nuclear - armed camps, along a fault line defined at the end of World WaWorld War II.

During World War II, it was not considered «bad» to build a nuclear bomb.

He confesses that during World War II, Americans grieved little over the killing of German or Japanese civilians by Allied firebombs and nuclear detonations.

Even worse was to follow: the Great Depression, World War II, the Holocaust, the Russian gulags, the construction of nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction, ethnic cleansing, to say nothing of the breakdown of many marriages and increase in petty crime — and all within the nations of Christendom.

After World War II the executive branch of government argued that it needed absolute power in foreign affairs because (1) in a nuclear age, when missiles can make the trip from Moscow to New York in 20 minutes, there is no time to consult Congress and the people, and (2) the «secret, subversive» techniques of the communists can be challenged only by subversion and secrecy on our part.

Since World War II, when War Departments all over the globe became Defense Departments, this militarism has reached its apotheosis in the nuclear arms race.

Thus we live now with the fruits of the actions of early industrial capitalism, nuclear weapons used in World War II, the Green Revolution, widespread deforestation.

Since World War II we have lived under this shadow of nuclear destruction, darkening as missiles and carriers grew in numbers and power, darkening as our defense budget doubled every decade: $ 10 billion in the «40s, $ 20 billion in the «50s, $ 40 billion in the «60s, and $ 80 billion in the «70s.

The intervening years had seen World War II; the rise of the United States to «superpower» status as (in its own view) the guarantor of the security of the «free world,» a status underwritten by nuclear power and illustrated by the United States» participation in a United Nations «police action» in Korea; and rapid economic growth and high prospeWorld War II; the rise of the United States to «superpower» status as (in its own view) the guarantor of the security of the «free world,» a status underwritten by nuclear power and illustrated by the United States» participation in a United Nations «police action» in Korea; and rapid economic growth and high prospeworld,» a status underwritten by nuclear power and illustrated by the United States» participation in a United Nations «police action» in Korea; and rapid economic growth and high prosperity.

The political and economic system created by the United States and its allies after World War II — a system built around common defense measures and free trade — rescued Europe from the self - inflicted catastrophe of 1914 - 1945, prevented nuclear war, preserved the peace until the collapse of the Soviet empire, and allowed once - captive nations to reclaim their liberties.

After 71 years, the federal government has decided that all the nuclear waste from the World War II atomic bomb project should be removed from Lewiston.

The anniversary of the first controlled nuclear chain reaction marks an achievement of immigrants who served America in World War II.

On September 1, 1939, the opening day of World War II, the Physical Review published a landmark paper describing the theory of nuclear fission.

These events — even more than the use of nuclear weapons at the end of World War II — launched an ongoing public debate over whether the risks of radiation exposure outweigh the benefits of nuclear technology.

Q: Do you think that the atomic bombings of Japan during World War II are affecting how people are reacting now to the nuclear disasters?

As part of the Manhattan Project effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II, Szilard worked together with physicist Enrico Fermi and other colleagues at the University of Chicago to create the world's first experimental nuclear reaWorld War II, Szilard worked together with physicist Enrico Fermi and other colleagues at the University of Chicago to create the world's first experimental nuclear reaworld's first experimental nuclear reactor.

Since the end of World War II, violent conflict between states has declined drastically, owing in part to the nuclear standoff of the major powers (two scorpions in a bottle writ large).

In retrospect, one might wonder how our modern world might look today if World War II's nuclear conclusion had played out differeworld might look today if World War II's nuclear conclusion had played out differeWorld War II's nuclear conclusion had played out differently.

It accumulated there from the middle of World War II, when the Manhattan Project invented the first nuclear weapon, to 1987, when the last reactor shut down.

The Physical Review Letters paper announcing the find is headed by Yuri Oganessian, a nuclear physicist at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia — a lab that was born in secrecy immediately after World War II and only emerged into daylight in thenuclear physicist at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia — a lab that was born in secrecy immediately after World War II and only emerged into daylight in theNuclear Research in Dubna, Russia — a lab that was born in secrecy immediately after World War II and only emerged into daylight in the 1950s.

The numerical capability developed in computers in World War II remains valuable today for such tasks as nuclear weapons simulations.

Iran's attempt to develop nuclear weapons will not be the last challenge faced in a journey that began with the world's first fission bomb test during World Wworld's first fission bomb test during World WWorld War II

They presented historical examples of scientists helping to bring nations together dating back to the establishment of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, which was established in 1954 after World War II, and, more recently, SESAME, a major research project in the Middle East that involves scientists from nations still engaged in conflict.

The Manhattan Project refers to the effort to develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II by the United States with assistance from the United Kingdom and Canada.

The building lies in the middle of a 40 - acre campus in the mountains above Santa Fe hastily built during World War II to coordinate the construction of the two nuclear bombs used in Japan.

The PRISM evolution of EBR II would be a world - first for the UK, building on West Cumbria's status as a center of global excellence for nuclear technology.

The ore taken from Nevada's Comstock load financed the means by which we preserved the Union during the Civil War, and Nevada has hosted aboveground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site, the result being a weapon of such mass destruction that it swiftly brought the end to the World War II conflict.

The President also made a stop today to Hiroshima, Japan — and he's the first sitting president to visit the city, saying he was there to «honor all those who were lost in World War II and reaffirm our shared vision of a world without nuclear weapons.&rWorld War II and reaffirm our shared vision of a world without nuclear weapons.&rworld without nuclear weapons.»

The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.

It's not as drastically different as what's depicted on the show, an America where the Nazis and Japanese won World War II, but still, depictions of an America besieged by Nazis and under threat of nuclear bombs is less the stuff of pure historical fiction here in the fall of 2017.

Hiroshima Nagasaki By Paul Ham Picador • $ 20 • ISBN 9781250070050 A journalist and historian, Ham investigates the World War II nuclear bombings of two Japanese cities, which claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people, and concludes that the bombings did little to change the course of the war.

By the end of World War II, coastal defense had changed dramatically and the artillery system was replaced by modern air power, amphibious warfare, and nuclear weapons.

After the World War II bombings of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima, the threat of foreign attack on U.S. soil shifted from naval assault to air attack, particularly by aircraft carrying nuclear weapons.

The National Atomic Testing Museum details America's nuclear history, from the Manhattan Project, the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan during World War II and the use of nuclear power as an energy alternative.

It started as what many considered a decent third person, World War II - themed shooter that follows Karl Fairburne's mission to stop Soviet forces from acquiring Germany's information for building nuclear weapons.

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Bellas Artes Projects's Bataan campus at Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar is a perfect site for this work given the World War II history of this region — including the Battle of Bataan (Japanese three - month invasion) that resulted in the unforgettable Bataan Death March (April 9, 1942)-- and the 1984 completed but never activated Bataan Nuclear Power Plant visible on the adjacent peninsula.

Courtesy 303 Gallery] In a way, Williams's reaction to 9/11 is reminiscent of the Abstract Expressionists» resort to emotion and the joy (or struggle) of process in the painful aftermath of World War II, as the nuclear age dawned and the Cold War emerged.

He was an optical engineer who repaired aircraft instruments in Alaska in WWII, a mountain man who could turn a canoe into a sailboat with a folding machete, bed sheets and a few sticks, who taught me diffraction, color theory and relativity on paper when other kids were learning multiplication tables, who designed a potentiometer that went to the Moon by pointing the world's fastest camera at the world's fastest oscilloscope, who designed those traffic lights which only appear bright when you are in the appropriate lane, who didn't have to help me at all when I built my own Heathkit dual - channel scope in grade school, nor had to help me program my Apple II in machine language, who quit Honeywell to work for 3M when the Space Program turned into the nuclear missile program, who studied mining geology in college after growing up in a mining town in Utah, it was he who taught me, early on: make sure your contraption works!

The aftermath of World War II brought a wide range of ideas for the peaceful application of nuclear power, including nuclear - powered aircraft, rockets, and even cars (the Ford Nucleon).

And during the first half of this year I wrote a series of articles (part I, II, III) about why South Korea's nuclear power program is a model for the world and — with Richard Rhodes — why nuclear energy is critical to peace on the Korean peninsula.

Repeated studies around the world have shown that wind energy does not directly cause these harms [i]; while no form of electricity generation is free of adverse effects, wind power is relatively benign compared to coal, nuclear, heavy petroleum, major dams, etc. [ii] Nor has harm been proven in countries, such as Denmark and Germany, which have a dense network of turbines and a high level of wind energy generation.

New tools often upend pre-existing hierarchies, because they empower folks (think archers versus knights at Agincourt, or nuclear physicists versus battleship commanders in World War II) who create and use the new tools at the expense of those who were on top with the previous generation of tools.