Sentences with phrase «bomb detonation over»

Not exact matches

The March 1954 Castle Bravo H - bomb test has been studied extensively over the past six decades, and its lessons provide some clues about the potential impact and lingering effects of such a detonation if North Korea were to test an H - bomb somewhere in the Pacific.

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.

When the warming of the Earth's entire climate system is considered, global warming continues to rise at a rate equivalent to about 4 Hiroshima atomic bomb detonations per second, faster over the past 15 years than the prior 15 years.

During the talk, I showed the following graph of the Earth's total heat content, demonstrating that even over the last decade when surface temperature warming has slowed somewhat, the planet continues to build up heat at a rate of 4 Hiroshima bomb detonations worth of heat every second.

This heating amounts to 136 trillion Joules per second (Watts), which as Glenn Tramblyn noted in a previous post, is the equivalent of more than two Hiroshima «Little Boy» atomic bomb detonations per second, every second over a 55 - year period.

In addition to this rapid surface warming, the global oceans have also been accumulating heat at an incredible rate - the equivalent of more than two Hiroshima «Little Boy» atomic bomb detonations per second, every second over a the past half century.