Sentences with phrase «about nuclear testing»

I think it is important that I make a comment about the nuclear tests by India.

But I was afraid of governments launching gigaton nuclear weapons on spacecraft, as was a Russian colleague who had participated in the Soviet weapons program and had some wonderful stories about nuclear tests that went wrong.

Not exact matches

Although North Korea likes to brag about their successful missile launches and nuclear tests, they still need more time to complete their program.

He and his staff will have to think about how they might cajole and persuade Kim to agree to things the U.S. values, such as a permanent freeze on further missile and nuclear tests.

While there has been controversy about testing, there is no dispute as to the magnitude of the catastrophe of actual nuclear warfare.

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...

If one is to think «rationally» in building a nuclear programme, one must first attempt to acquire the technical know - how, then demonstrate it by testing it (or at least creating enough suspicion about testing it) and once the international community «recognises» one's capability of developing a sufficient deterrent then negotiations can begin.

More context please: why are you asking about India, and hasn't India received sanctions in the past for conducting nuclear tests?

When people think about the origin of nuclear weapons, they tend to quote Robert Oppenheimer, who quoted Hindu scripture after the Trinity test.

In Nevada, however, there is bipartisan opposition to the Yucca project, and the state's congressional delegation prepared a series of amendments meant to ensure that the House would consider key safety provisions for the project, which is located about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas and adjacent to the land where the government tested nuclear weapons.

The congressman said they want to see Iran's nuclear facilities, visit with detained Americans, meet with Iranian officials about their recent ballistic missile tests and the Jan. 12 detention of U.S. sailors, and observe Iran's Feb. 26 elections.

The latest information about Kim's detention came amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula, driven by concerns that the North might conduct its sixth nuclear test in defiance of US pressure and UN sanctions.

Concerns about nuclear fallout and the signing of the Partial Test Ban Treaty ended the project in the early 1960s.

Aside from waffling a bit on questions about the wisdom of nuclear - weapons testing and whether climate change represents a global crisis, Perry generally said the right things, says Michael Lubell, a physicist at the City College of New York.

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If the series of tests goes ahead, France will carry out its 124th underground nuclear test on Mururoa, an uninhabited coral atoll about 1200 kilometres southeast of Tahiti in the South Pacific (see Map).

But Richard Garwin, a retired IBM physicist and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient who has long been a technical adviser on nuclear weapons and stockpile surveillance to the Defense Department and the NNSA, said the government had not been transparent enough about the long lapse in testing and production.

That's about 70 times as much energy as was released just a few days earlier when North Korea tested a nuclear bomb.

If you're concerned about the radiation, although it's far less exposure than a nuclear stress test or heart catheterization, take an antioxidant vitamin pack 45 minutes before the CT to reduce the DNA risk by 50 %.

Kelly's moxie is about to be put to the test when she's put in charge of a horrifying situation: Someone has stolen 10 nuclear warheads from the former USSR, and has detonated one of them in the Ural's.

The nuclear tests are the true horror revealed here, but what Jacobsen turns up about the purported Roswell crash is more gruesome than anything any movie has imagined.

The artists in the show address complex themes ranging from government pro-nuclear propaganda to the power of «sublimely beautiful» nuclear images to distill fear about dangers posed by nuclear testing.

So, instead of the counterproductive rhetoric and posturing about postulated changes such as «global warming» now or «nuclear winter» of the 1980s, would it not be much more in line with time - tested human traditions to trust our ability to turn whatever situation may occur to our advantage?

And it was her recognition of an exact parallel with the steady rain of fallout from nuclear testing that helped her explain what we knew... and didn't know... about the consequences and potential collateral damage from heedless tampering with global ecosystems.

About «nuclear winter», is it foolish to think that aerosols released from nuclear testing in upper atmosphere have contributed to the cooling phase 1950 - 70?

And then if we're talking about specialist exams, say the ones I mentioned like nuclear inspector, or competition lawyer, or development cooperation advisor; for these there would be a second interview which tests a person's technical knowledge or technical background.

Another major loss is the death last Friday of Yankunytjatjara Elder Yami Lester, who was blinded as a child by British nuclear tests at Maralinga and Emu Field and played a vital role in bringing about a Royal Commission into the testing program.