Sentences with phrase «semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test»

Since 2011, Kim has fired more than 85 missiles and four nuclear weapons tests, which is more than what his father, Kim Jong Il, and grandfather, Kim Il Sung, launched over a period of 27 years.

It seems that half the countries on the planet are involved in guerrilla conflict, drug smuggling, nuclear weapons testing, and counterfeiting Disney DVDs.

Analysts believe the latest case may be another effort to engage American leadership in talks about lifting sanctions that resulted from illegal nuclear weapons tests...

Following North Korea's third nuclear weapons test in February this year, much attention has been paid to debates within China over its troublesome neighbour, with some suggesting severing ties to the North altogether.

But plenty of smaller earthquakes, most not even felt by humans, occur across the world every day due to detonations, such as nuclear weapons testing or mining, or rising magma linked to volcanic activity.

Global warming is altering — and threatening to erase — much more of the Marshall Islands than the shorelines of this independent Micronesian nation that once served as a Pacific Ocean nuclear weapons test site for the U.S..

When North Korea conducted its recent nuclear weapon test, the blast had been detected by a global seismic sensing network operated by the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

The International Monitoring System (IMS), established by the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty, has a number of different ears to the ground to detect clandestine nuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions produce.

Those two also became the last nuclear tests the United States conducted before President George H. W. Bush signed a law imposing a moratorium on all nuclear weapons testing, on 2 October 1992.

Between 1945 and 1962 the U.S. conducted more than 200 atmospheric nuclear weapon tests and captured the detonations on film.

Cesium - 137, on the other hand, is also present from nuclear weapons tests and discharge from nuclear power plants.

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation, which watches out for nuclear weapons tests worldwide, looked at its data for the last few days to see if its infrasound — below the range of human hearing — recordings, normally used to seek out the muffled crump of underground tests, contained any signature of an aircraft explosion.

But the ground shaking had originated at North Korea's nuclear weapons test site.

8 Aside from Curie, one other person has nabbed a Nobel in two separate categories: Linus Pauling, who won the 1954 chemistry award and the 1962 peace prize for his fight against nuclear weapons testing.

It's like a miniature, nonnuclear version of a nuclear weapons test.

NUCLEAR SHAKEDOWN Rumblings of seismic waves reveal clues about North Korea's nuclear weapons tests, detonated in a mountain.

Scientists often compare the damage an incoming asteroid might do to that of a nuclear weapons test of equivalent energy, but Chelyabinsk proves that this model doesn't work in all cases.

The Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty (CTBT) has spawned a globe - girdling network of 300 detector stations that sniff out radionuclides, listen for low - frequency sounds, and record tremors — all to discern whether countries are carrying out clandestine nuclear weapons tests.

In their analyses of the beaches, the scientists detected not only cesium - 137, which may have come from the Dai - ichi plant or from nuclear weapons tested in the 1950s and1960s, but also cesium - 134, a radioactive form of cesium that can only come only from the 2011 Fukushima accident.

Normally, radiocarbon dates have error ranges of several centuries, but the researchers could improve the estimates because the smallest sharks measured showed the «bomb pulse» — a huge increase in global radiocarbon released from the hundreds of nuclear weapons tested in the 1950s and»60s.

When it comes to radiation, the nuclear weapons testing conducted from the 1940s to the 1980s contributed orders of magnitude more radioactivity to the oceans than Fukushima (even when combined with Chernobyl, a much larger nuclear catastrophe).

But, Tóth said, «we must put the genie of nuclear weapons tests back in the bottle, and we must seal the bottle.»

Events such as the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and nuclear weapons testing would have been expected to affect aerosol production in the atmosphere, but no such effects could be seen.

By poring over images from commercial satellites and freely available seismic data, a scientist in London has pieced together a detailed picture of China's secret nuclear weapons testing site.

The unlikely source of much of the recent information comes from data sent back to earth by a small satellite designed to detect clandestine nuclear weapons tests.

Last year the clock moved half a tick, from 3 minutes to 2.5 minutes before midnight; it has been in single digits since India and Pakistan staged back - to - back nuclear weapons tests in 1998.

Amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) to, among other things, include certain New Mexico counties in the areas exposed to fallout from nuclear weapons testing, expand the universe of compensable diseases for uranium workers, and extend eligibility for compensation to workers who worked after 1971.

Some of these substances are natural, but many are the result of human activity, such as the Chernobyl accident or nuclear weapons testing, and now releases at Fukushima.

At the moment, concentrations of plutonium in waters off Fukushima are so low that background radiation from nuclear weapons testing more than 50 years ago makes the signal undetectable with our instruments.

One of the most prevalent substances released through nuclear weapons testing, the accidents at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima, is cesium - 137 (137Cs).

Storm dates were determined by matching key markers in the sediment samples with known events; rye pollen started to appear after Europeans colonized the region, for example, and exotic caesium isotopes settled in the pond following nuclear weapons tests.

Small amounts of caesium - 134, caesium - 137, and iodine - 131 were released into the environment during nearly all nuclear weapon tests and some nuclear accidents, and are not otherwise produced in nature.

(The monstrous Godzilla was produced by nuclear weapons testing; sci - fi speaks to its times.)

Polygon - Чаrа ́н, 2015 medium format black and white photograph, double exposure through thermonuclear strata, on Photo Rag Baryta, Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan 48 3/8 x 56 1/4 inches (122.8 x 142.9 cm) each 48 3/8 x 172 5/8 inches (122.8 x 438.4 cm) overall edition of 3 with 1 AP JCh - 137

Julian Charrière Polygon XXVIII, 2015 medium format black and white photograph, double exposure through thermonuclear strata, on Photo Rag Baryta, Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan 48 3/8 x 56 1/4 inches (122.8 x 142.8 cm) edition of 3 with 1 AP JCh - 146

Photographer unknown, [Nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific Ocean], ca. 1950, gelatin silver print.

Polygon XXVIII, 2015 medium format black and white photograph, double exposure through thermonuclear strata, on Photo Rag Baryta, Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan 48 3/8 x 56 1/4 inches (122.8 x 142.8 cm) edition of 3 with 1 AP © Julian Charrière / VG Bild - Kunst, Bonn, Courtesy: DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin and Sean Kelly, New York

Polygon XXVIII, 2015 medium format black and white photograph, double exposure through thermonuclear strata, on Photo Rag Baryta, Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan 48 3/8 x 56 1/4 inches (122.8 x 142.8 cm) edition of 3 with 1 AP JCh - 146

The second part of the exhibition, in Bataan, includes the 36 - minute film Crossroads (1976), assembled from archival footage of the Operation Crossroads Baker nuclear weapons test conducted at Bikini Atoll on 25 July 1946.

In other projects, he's conquered themes from nuclear testing to the extinction of plant species, and has traveled from the salt flats of Bolivia to a former Soviet nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan.

Medium format black and white photograph, double exposure through Thermonuclear strata, on Photo Rag Baryta, Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons Test Site in Kazakhstan.

Pittsburgh may have enjoyed a little more blue sky thanks to Shippingport, but for the rest of us during that era, the sky was raining radioactivity, the fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests.

16 July, 1945: Did the first nuclear weapon test herald the dawn of the Anthropocene epoch?

The reference core top date must be approximately correct, since 3 cm below was the classic isotope «bomb spike» caused by atmospheric nuclear weapons testing in the 1950's.

«A tracer for CO2 transport from the Northern Hemisphere to the Southern Hemisphere was provided by 14C created by nuclear weapons testing in the 1950's and 1960's.

Cancer has always been, and remains, the ultimate bogeyman of environmentalism, a fixation that reflects how the environmental movement arose from our 1950s fear of nuclear weapons and the carcinogenic radioactive fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing.

Every cubic meter of air and water and every hectare of land now have a human imprint, from hormones in the seas, to fluorocarbons in the atmosphere and radioactivity from nuclear weapons tests in the soil.

Lying far above the Arctic Circle, the Russian archipelago of Novaya Zemlya is one of the most remote places on Earth, which is precisely why these mountainous, wind - swept islands were used as the Soviet Union's main nuclear weapons test site from 1955 to 1990.

We are dedicated to ensuring nuclear weapons testing never again threatens our public health.