Sentences with phrase «bomb tests»

But those two decades of atomic bomb tests increased the C - 14 in the atmosphere.

Even the hundreds of bomb tests in the 1950s and 1960s failed to give me cancer, and I drank a lot of milk.

In 1954, a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll exposed the 23 man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon 5 to radioactive fallout.

Bruce Conner's best - known film, «Crossroads» (1976), pulls a pivotal moment of history into the art world, using declassified footage of the first underwater atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean in 1946.

In this nerve - racking thriller, outlaw Stephen McNally and hostages Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling and others are trapped together in a desert nuclear bomb testing site.

The state is home to the Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, and was the site of the first atomic bomb tests during World War II.

It was later famously quoted by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to describe the first nuclear bomb test on July 16, 1945.

All this leads to President Kennedy getting Russia to remove its nuclear warheads from Cuba, the Russian atom bomb test in Nova Zemlya, in 1960 that was 1,570 times greater than Hiroshima that led to President Kennedy's call for international inspection and control of all nuclear technology and the real reason he was killed, who ordered it and how it was carried out.

Many members viewed plutonium or radiocarbon traces in sediment from atmospheric nuclear bomb tests as the primary indicator of those changes.

Dr Zalasiewicz said: «Like any geological boundary, it is not a perfect marker — levels of global radiation really rose in the early 1950s, as salvoes of bomb tests took place.

A CNN reporter quoted a North Korean official as saying the US should take «literally» its threat to detonate the «strongest hydrogen bomb test over the Pacific Ocean.»

North Korea, which carries out its nuclear and missile programs in defiance of UN resolutions and sanctions, said on state television the hydrogen bomb test ordered by leader Kim Jong Un had been a «perfect success».

For sixty years the U.S. military used Vieques, an outlying island, for extensive bomb testing.

The Big Question: What does another North Korea H - bomb test mean for markets?

Ever bombed a test you spent weeks studying for, or botched a simple play that cost your team the game?

Russia has supported the most recent UN resolution for greater sanctions on North Korea following bomb tests, but has also said it would be willing to mediate talks between North Korea and its stated enemies.

Cold war nuclear bomb tests let us pinpoint the age of murder victims and individual brain cells — but thanks to the test ban, we're running out of fallout

In fact, a rehearsal for Trinity — America's first atomic bomb test detonation — was conducted on May 7, 1945, the very day that Germany surrendered.

Jackson also studied a population of underground rats on the Marshall Islands and found that radiation from atomic bomb tests barely fazed them.

Iran's attempt to develop nuclear weapons will not be the last challenge faced in a journey that began with the world's first fission bomb test during World War II

In a study presented at the meeting of the American Chemical Society, researchers revealed how atmospheric atomic bomb testing changed carbon isotope ratios, allowing easy identification of vintages of wines bottled in the years testing went on.

Even brief exposure to high radiation released from nuclear power plants or from bomb testing deranges DNA for generations to come, says Yuri Dubrova, a geneticist at the University of Leicester in England.

We use a technique that is based on the incorporation of nuclear bomb test derived 14C into genomic DNA, which allows for the analysis of cell and tissue turnover in humans.

With a ramshackle plot that appears to have been cooked up after drawing deep on the Dude's biggest bong, the film pinballs between awol movie stars, red - scare nightmares and Bikini Atoll bomb tests, while raising important questions of whether God is still angry («what, he got over it?»)

Lehman Brothers was a mini-atom bomb test that showed the fed and gov» t would could happen — seeing that result all but solidified the «too big to fail» mantra.

The former government bombing test site was saved by a group of environmentalists that included famed Sea Explorer Jacques Cousteau.

Outcries against bomb tests focused on the radioactive materials they spread around the world on the winds.

Hayward may have developed cancer from radioactive fallout from atmospheric atomic bomb tests [14] while making The Conqueror with John Wayne in St. George, Utah.

Due to fossil fuel burning (the so - called Suess effect), since the late 19th century, and atomic bomb testing after 1950, the 14C records can not be used for the modern epoch.

Thanks to radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing there was enough radioactive material in the oceans for Wallace Broecker (the very famous environmental scientist mentioned above) to use to map the currents of the Atlantic Ocean.

The ABC reported that veterans exposed to nuclear bomb tests welcomed the Budget decision to grant Gold Card access.

People watch a news report on North Korea's first hydrogen bomb test at a railroad station in Seoul on January 6, 2016.

While doing my PhD in ecology in 1971 I joined a group of activists who had begun to meet in the basement of the Unitarian Church, to plan a protest voyage against US hydrogen bomb testing in Alaska.

NEW DELHI, INDIA — Indian and Pakistani scientists are beginning to pay a price for last May's atom bomb tests — a price that many believe is unfairly penalizing civilian science.

Just as his original movie from that year used nuclear bomb tests as the impetus for the plot, this new Godzilla also mines contemporary issues to find its storyline.

Well, you play a mute, incorporeal soul trapped between life and death in a land which looks like a nuclear bomb test site redesigned by a feng shui master, and your only means of interacting with the world is the removal and application of colour from a first person perspective.

North Korea will shutter its Punggye - ri test site, a secluded mountain facility believed to be damaged after a hydrogen bomb test in September.