Sentences with phrase «us nuclear blast»

This formerly used defense site was engineered by the U.S. government in 1960 with nine - foot - thick walls to withstand a nuclear blast.

The scenario assumes a terrorist - caused nuclear blast of about 10 kilotons» worth of TNT or less.

Additionally, the spy agency noted that North Korea had some trouble with its nuclear test site, with a recent nuclear blast causing landslides and cave - ins that apparently restricted access to the site.

To put the size of history's largest nuclear blasts to scale, we have used Alex Wellerstein's Nukemap, a tool for visualizing the terrifying real - world impact of a nuclear explosion.

Castle Bravo, detonated on February 28, 1954, was the first of the Castle series of tests and the largest US nuclear blast of all time.

When it was a bunker, the complex could feed up to 3,000 people for 90 days in the event of a nuclear blast.

Buddemeier recommends visiting Ready.gov to see a complete list of what to do in various emergency scenarios, including a nuclear blast, and what to include in a full emergency kit.

That's because fallout is formed and spread when dirt and debris get sucked up by a nuclear blast, irradiated to dangerous levels, pushed into the atmosphere, and sprinkled over great distances.

The protection factor that various buildings, and locations within them, offer from the radioactive fallout of a nuclear blast.

Our own government set off nuclear blasts and told observers close by that it was safe — nothing to fear.

The momentum from a nuclear blast would give the reassembled asteroid a slightly different trajectory, so it would miss Earth if it was nuked far enough in advance, she says.

On the other hand, if the push is too strong, the asteroid could break apart — a worry that has often been raised in connection with using nuclear blasts in particular.

The fireball is spherical, almost sun - like, until the shockwave «outruns» the fireball, bounces off the ground, then smacks back into the bottom of the fireball, flattening it into the shape many have come to associate with a nuclear blast.

The underlying physics, describing how seismic energy travels through the ground, is virtually the same for both chemical and nuclear blasts.

The mission would culminate with a squadron of the metallic silver RB - 47s, their undersides painted white to reflect the flash of a nuclear blast, flying in attack formation in broad daylight several hundred miles into Soviet territory.

Each time, researchers outside the country compared the seismic data with the record of past nuclear blasts.

That could potentially lead to a dangerous buildup of particles after solar storms or a nuclear blast in space.

In particular, he's focused on the option of «last resort,» which may, in extreme circumstances, be our first and only resort: using nuclear blasts in outer space to push a menacing asteroid out of harm's way and onto a benign trajectory.

Sandia's Z machine uses magnetic fields and electrical currents to mimic the temperatures, pressures and radiation of a nuclear blast.

After spending about 10 years gathering meteorite samples, in 2000 Remo finally gained access to the perfect device for exploring the nuclear option: Sandia National Laboratories» Z machine, which happens to be the world's most powerful nuclear blast simulator, apart from nuclear weapons themselves.

The nuclear blasts annihilated much of the vegetation on the island and many aquatic species as well, but the scientists focused on mollusks because of their longevity and stationary nature.

The machine offered Remo his best hopes for figuring out how the X-rays from a nuclear blast would interact with, and possibly deter, incoming asteroids of varying compositions.

In fact, a popular activity at the Trinity open house is searching for Trinitite, emerald - colored glassy rocks formed from sand caught up in the firestorm of the nuclear blast — in essence, shards of fallout.

A company called CHETEK, which seems to enjoy close ties to the Soviet Ministry of Atomic Energy, is offering to carry out the nuclear blasts for profit.

Soviet scientists made redundant by the end of the Cold War want to earn a living by incinerating toxic chemicals and old nuclear reactors in underground nuclear blasts.

The explosion rivaled a nuclear blast, but the space rock was still too small for existing advance - warning networks to spot

We had one expert on the show, Dr. Peter Pry who explained that a solar storm, or a hostile nuclear blast in the upper atmosphere, could crash the grid and most of the electronics behind our civilization.

These insects can survive for weeks without their heads and even withstand the fallout following a nuclear blast.

As impending disaster meets its fate, a following 75 kiloton nuclear blast throws the world into high alert and sends governments into an international hunt for the parties responsible.

Of course, «The Peacemaker's» real selling point is action, and Leder proves herself a crackerjack action director, with some seriously intense set - pieces — a train wreck that opens the film, a horrifying nuclear blast, a car chase in a crowded plaza, a foot chase through the streets of New York and, best of all, a nail - biting standoff on a bridge between a truck armed with nuclear weapons and military helicopters.

The album which is being released via Nuclear Blast and features 12 take no prisoner tracks produced by Terry Date (Slipknot, Pantera).

There are many unsubtle references to nuclear bombs and holocaust — these are the elements the director objects to — and we're supposed to see Nicola as an epic femme fatale, the human equivalent of a nuclear blast.

FARROW: But, you know, I think what we see now is a community really struggling to take that kind of nuclear blast of the Weinstein story and translate it into tangible, lasting change.

The album is being released via Nuclear Blast records and features 11 ear splitting tracks that harkens back to the early 80's when thrash metal reigned supreme.

But if Wolverine can shield a guy from what appears to be a nuclear blast, then a giant robot samurai shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Last but not least, just in case you care a little less about silent cruising, the SVR returns with a supercharged five - liter V8 tuned to produce 575 horsepower, and all the noise in the radius of a semi-serious nuclear blast.

Before I began Phantasy Star III, I was told by well - meaning fans of the series to run and hide under a desk, lest I be destroyed with the game's 50 + hr nuclear blast of mediocrity.

The holy grail is a gun that provides a nuclear blast if you can string together 25 kills.

Sure, they are linear, they are wildly histrionic, but they're also built around iconic moments; the nuclear blast in MW1, the controversial No Russian, the death of Ghost — all of them compelling and memorable.

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His team focused on the black smoke generated by a nuclear blast and firestorms — intense and long - lasting fires that create and sustain their own wind systems.

After a nuclear blast, however, loads of black smoke would settle into the upper atmosphere and absorb sunlight before it reaches our planet's surface.

Due to factors such as wind direction, the nuclear blast released radiation «in a very patchy manner, so while the highest areas of contamination are closest to the plant, there are also areas of higher radiation quite a ways away from the reactor,» Mousseau said.

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Soviet nuclear bombs devastated the city in the 1983 television movie, The Day After and it was destroyed by a nuclear blast in the television series Jericho in 2006.

Xapo's is a decommissioned Swiss military bunker that can survive a nuclear blast.

If you wanted an Android Wear smartwatch but you didn't want to rest until you found one that could withstand a nuclear blast, you're in luck.

The noise - cancellation is so powerful that you'd probably miss a nuclear blast, sending those angry spouses packing - and if s / he steals them and threatens to break them, they'll robust enough to withstand a considerable amount of aggro.

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Staying inside can also limit how much invisible nuclear radiation produced by a blast will reach your body.

Greg Spriggs, a nuclear - weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, said a 50 - megaton weapon «could possibly induce a tsunami» and hit a shoreline with the energy equivalent to a 650 - kiloton blast.