Contamination from
atomic weapons tests may sound scary, but they contribute less than 1 millirem.
Not exact matches
The Polish scientists were looking to send someone to set up monitoring of radioactive contaminants in the upper atmosphere, the legacy of
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weapons testing by the Soviet Union, the United States, and other countries in the 1950s.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009 Science historian Michael D. Gordin recounts the events leading up to August 29, 1949, when the Soviets detonated an
atomic bomb in the deserts of Kazakhstan — a
test explosion that brought the U.S. monopoly on nuclear
weapons to a close.
The Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists announced today that it has moved its Doomsday Clock to 2 minutes before midnight, citing North Korea's recent
tests of missiles and nuclear
weapons and the world's lack of progress in confronting climate change.
A former Apollo astronaut claims that aliens are visiting the Earth and witnessed the first
test of an
atomic weapon.
When the undersea kingdom of Seatopia is threatened by Japan's
atomic testing, the Seatopians fear for the survival of their civilization; they send their secret
weapon, Megalon, to destroy Tokyo and eliminate the human race.
Enlisted to the pursuits of science and war, the sites were used for the covert
testing of
atomic and long distance
weapons.
Atomic Afterimage: Cold War Imagery in Contemporary Art at the Boston University Art Gallery focuses on recent artistic re-interpretations of pictures from the era of aboveground nuclear
testing (1945 - 1962) and new interpretations of
weapons -
test sites.
And the atmospheric
tests in the 1950s and 1960s of
atomic and thermonuclear
weapons left a series of «spikes» of signature isotopes.