Sentences with phrase «atomic weapons tests»

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 atomic - 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.