Sentences with phrase «us nuclear detonation»

«The good news is the «get inside, stay inside, stay tuned» phrase works for both for the threat of a potential nuclear detonation as well as a nuclear detonation that has occurred,» Brooke Buddemeier, a health physicist and expert on radiation and emergency preparedness at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, told Business Insider.

Romeo was the second US nuclear detonation of the Castle Series of tests, which were conducted in 1954.

Instead, the US government says fallout is a greater concern in the event of a terrorist's nuclear detonation, which would be close to the ground.

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

For example, building a «backpack» nuclear weapon still requires an industrial infrastructure and leaves a logistics trail; plus anyone wanting to rely on such a device would probably want to test it and there are systems in place to identify the seismic signatures of nuclear detonations.

Different sources estimate that North Korea's 2013 nuclear detonation had up to a 10 kilotons yield.

Geomagnetic storms caused by violent solar flares can overload transformers and cause electric grids to fail; so can electromagnetic pulses, triggered by nuclear detonations miles above the ground.

Evidence of these eruptions showed up on distant seismometers, which measure waves passing through the ground to record earthquakes, and hydrophone arrays that pick up underwater sound to detect covert nuclear detonations.

Like the meteorite that helped end the Cretaceous period about 65 million years ago, and possibly the reign of the dinosaurs as well, the nuclear detonation may mark for future geologists a turning point in Earth's history.

To test the validity of the method, a second study examined 10 key hazards under the purview of the Department, including earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, pandemic influenza, nuclear detonation, explosive bombing, anthrax attack, cyber-attack on critical infrastructure, accidents involving toxic industrial chemicals, and oil spills.

Nuclear detonations are tremendously extreme events.

Nuclear detonations show two characteristic light pulses.

For a long time after gamma - ray bursts were discovered — accidentally, by Defense Department satellites looking for Soviet nuclear detonations in space — astronomers knew next to nothing about them.

That's particularly true for North Korea, where leaders have been ramping up the pace of military testing since the first nuclear detonation in 2006.

It allowed engineers to examine safety features inside the weapon that prevent inadvertent nuclear detonation.

The team reproduced trinitite, the green - hued glass left by the Trinity test, the first U.S. nuclear detonation, which took place in 1945 at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

Silo cap The only thing visible aboveground is a concrete cap with blast - proof windows, built to withstand a shock wave traveling more than 2,000 miles an hour — about what a nuclear detonation would produce.

Michael Bernardin is considered the nation's expert in electromagnetic pulse (EMP) physics created by high - altitude nuclear detonations, and he is nationally recognized for his understanding of weapons physics.

The Biocomplexity Institute has run simulations on a variety of scenarios, including nuclear detonation in Washington, D.C..

High explosives are used to drive the nuclear «primary» to a critical mass, initiating a nuclear detonation.

Steam engine smoke against a night sky; red targeting lasers slicing through a troop car, the theft and the ensuing nuclear detonation is a beautiful thing to watch.

Starting at the point in the movie when Indy's survives a nuclear detonation test by jumping into a fridge!

is 2017's iteration of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office National Technical Nuclear Forensics Ground Collection Task Force's annual exercise centered on assessing the United States» capability to collect radioactive evidence in the immediate aftermath of a nuclear detonation.

By the same token, if you were on the very outside of the area targeted, and suffered fire as a result of a nuclear detonation that didn't otherwise impact you, that fire could be a covered cause of loss.

This series of eight, large - scale paintings by Robert Beckmann reveals the potential effects of a nuclear detonation on an American - built, single - family home.

Another possibility to consider for the 1945 - 1975 lull is the injection of aerosols via nuclear detonation.

Your comments about poor predictive models leading to so much greater need for preventative action coupled with comments about unstable systems which come and go explosively (nuclear detonations) reminded me of some cold war behaviors.

For example: The fallout from nuclear detonations.

By the same token, if you were on the very outside of the area targeted, and suffered fire as a result of a nuclear detonation that didn't otherwise impact you, that fire could be a covered cause of loss.

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But that story is about what to do after a nuclear weapon blows up by surprise, such as in a terrorist attack — the goal is to limit exposure to radioactive fallout that arrives minutes after a detonation.

And while the U.S. has yet to verify that the weapon was a hydrogen bomb, experts widely agree that the detonation created an explosion exceeding previous North Korean nuclear tests.

They best just bow down because America will turn that country into a hellish lava pit with the detonation of Nuclear weapons... Pakistan is a disgrace because they will stab you in the back.

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.

As proof of concept, the researchers estimated the yield of the 1945 Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico — the world's first detonation of a nuclear device.

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

Authorities could use this technique to retrace where a dirty bomb was stored before detonation to figure out who built it, says Eric Lukosi, a nuclear engineer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville who was not involved in the work.

The detonations took place at the nuclear test site in southern Nevada, where between 1951 and 1992 the U.S. government set off 828 underground nuclear tests and 100 atmospheric ones, whose mushroom clouds were seen from Las Vegas, 100 kilometers away.

The NIF, dedicated in May in Livermore, California, will also mimic the detonation of nuclear weapons and will perform astrophysics experiments.

In 2004, the stations helped scientists prove that what was feared to be a North Korean nuclear test was in fact the detonation of a train carrying explosives.

Hundreds of nuclear bomb detonations in the atmosphere prior to a 1963 test ban treaty doubled the amount of radioactive carbon found in the ocean.

Pyongyang's latest known nuclear test, on September 3, is estimated to have been a 160 - kiloton detonation — far below an H - bomb's capabilities yet much greater than the 10 - kiloton bomb the country tested just a year ago.

The project succeeded in developing and detonating three nuclear weapons in 1945: a test detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium bomb code - named «Little Boy» detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium bomb code - named «Fat Man» on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan.

And the special high explosives fabricated by nuclear scientists to compress the plutonium cores in a deliberate detonation also have an unstable molecular structure.

But if a burst originated within a couple of thousand light years of the Earth, it would expose the atmosphere to as many gamma rays as the detonation of all the planet's nuclear weapons.

The second is impossible to miss — a nuclear bomb detonation in near - future London — and while the film delivers a dystopian teen romance in the center of its aftermath, an unnerving atmosphere and surprising brutality actually creates tangible jeopardy and tension throughout.

It is hypothesized that the detonation of a thermo - nuclear device at the Earth's center could re-start the core.

The screenplay combines a gimmick - a man is plagued by his ability to see two minutes into the future - with a highly unpleasant topic (the possible detonation of a nuclear device on American soil).

An example is a heart - stopping plane hijacking that takes place in mid air and later the fear of a nuclear bomb detonation.

Under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Energy, the Nevada Test Site (now the Nevada National Security Site)-- located just 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — saw the detonation of 928 nuclear devices between 1951 and 1992.

In a paper published online this week by the journal Quaternary International, 26 members of the working group point roughly to 1950 as the starting point, indicated by a variety of markers, including the global spread of carbon isotopes from nuclear weapon detonations starting in 1945 and the mass production and disposal of plastics.