Sentences with phrase «by nuclear bombs»

The war was won, if you can call it that considering the horrific devastation caused by nuclear bombs, but resulted in the remaining humans being shuttled off to live on one of Saturn's moons.

When the Fangataufa atoll populations were decimated by the nuclear bombs, it opened up a new habitat to colonize for the free floating larvae, but which species happened to land on the reef is mostly a matter of luck.

This city, which had, in the perspective of Japanese history, a long experience with Christianity, was annihilated by a nuclear bomb on August 9, 1945.

Such arguments make even less sense today than they did in Luther's age, for the sword has been replaced by the nuclear bomb.

Therefore, less than 1/10 of the energy released by the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Japan) by the US in 1945.

I mean it's to the point now where the entire East coast could be leveled by a nuclear bomb and there would be some stupid article about how it would be great for console sales.

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While the attack Thursday was the first of its kind by the US, Lowther said the bomb was «not even close to being a nuclear weapon» and he would «not make the argument that it's a symbol of escalation» in the conflict in Afghanistan.

The first atomic bomb was tiny by nuclear weapons standards.

The trucks were used to evacuate people during the Boston Marathon bombings, are stationed at nuclear power plants around the world, and are used by the State Department in hostile regions.

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».

Apart from the destruction and loss of life, Saudi Arabias oil reserves are bombed, the U.S. is poised to enter another Middle East conflict and, in the end, Irans nuclear capabilities are only set back by a couple of years.

Israel's decision on whether to bomb Iran's nuclear sites — as it has repeatedly threatened to do — could hinge on its estimate of the retaliatory costs, including damage inflicted by rockets fired from southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

Thorp even asked Goldman Sachs what would happen to PNP's account if a nuclear bomb went off in New York harbor (Goldman allayed his concerns by having a backup system in Colorado).

What guides you in deciding whether fire - bombing a city or using nuclear weapons is permissible under the moral framework you try to live by?

The neutron bomb is called by the much more innocent name, nuclear enhancement device, while a missile is designated the Peacekeeper.

Much more favorable conditions for the eventual achievement of such an agreement could be created if nuclear bombs were first revealed to the world by a demonstration in an appropriately selected uninhabited area.4

They began by claiming that we have to overthrow Saddam because he is building a nuclear bomb.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

In the unfortunate case of nuclear war, Pyungyang City might be bombed by the nuclear warheads.

It has been reported by many sources that there are more than enough nuclear bombs in South Korea to destroy the peninsula biologically forever.

because it was scientists that created the Nuclear bomb, in fact it was science that created all weapons... so by your logic, Science is to blame for the Death of EVERY human being in Warfare throughout time except for those killed by rocks and sticks that are unsharpened and / or killed by use of barehands... Science has slaughtered BILLIONS...... of course that's nonsense right?

By now, that reactor would have produced enough plutonium for several nuclear bombs — had it not been destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in 200By now, that reactor would have produced enough plutonium for several nuclear bombs — had it not been destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in 200by an Israeli airstrike in 2007.

In simple terms, «nuclear security» is an effort to prevent the use of an atomic bomb by terrorists or illicit actors and provide security against nuclear terrorism.

I don't think that argument holds merit because Japan at the time of its unconditional surrender had already been bombed twice by nuclear weapons.

I would say that clear defining point of Nuclear War is when a nation achieves what is called «The Nuclear Triad» which refers to the three ways to deliver a nuke to a target: Ground Based Launches, Sea Based Launches (usually uses Submarines) and Sky based Launches (by both missile systems on a plane and gravity bombs).

Pyongyang could still use a «dirty «nuclear bomb by installing raw nuclear material in short range missiles aimed at Seoul.

[2] The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimates that Israel has approximately 80 intact nuclear weapons, of which 50 are for delivery by Jericho II medium - range ballistic missiles and 30 are gravity bombs for delivery by aircraft.

Speaking to reporters earlier today, Mr Litvinenko's father, Walter, said: «My son died yesterday and he was killed by a little tiny nuclear bomb.

By July, with a reelection campaign looming and Albany's dirt staining his image, Cuomo resorted to what an aide termed «the nuclear bomb»: his Moreland Commission on state corruption.

Since tactical WE.177 free - fall bombs were decommissioned in 1998, Trident has been the only nuclear weapon system that is operated by the UK.

A relatively small 150 - foot asteroid that struck Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908 packed the punch of 15 million tons of TNT, equivalent to the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated by the United States.

Orion: Set in motion shortly after DARPA was created, Project Orion aimed to drive an interplanetary spacecraft by periodically dropping nuclear bombs out of its rear end.

In a million years, barring profound shifts, the climate should have returned to its natural rhythms but any cities buried in sediment by rising seas should still be preserved, along with those signs of anthroturbation, human - induced disturbances underground, like the plutons from underground explosions of nuclear bombs.

The organization's early years chronicled the dawn of the nuclear age and the birth of the scientists» movement, as told by the men and women who built the atomic bomb and then lobbied with both technical and humanist arguments for its abolition,» states the organization's Web site.

The Bulletin acknowledges that the increased use of carbon - free nuclear energy could help mitigate global warming brought on by fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions but concludes that the possibility of misusing enriched uranium and separated plutonium to create bombs is a «terrible trade - off» for trying to control climate change.

At the summit, 47 countries pledged to prevent the theft of fissile material, which could be used to create a nuclear bomb, by securing all stockpiles within four years.

«The radioactivity released by dirty bombs is not life threatening,» says Angelo Acquista, former medical director of the Office of Emergency Management in New York City and author of The Survival Guide: What to Do in a Biological, Chemical, or Nuclear Emergency.

The organisation set up to verify the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty (CTBT) has a global network of air samplers that monitor and trace the origin of around a dozen radionuclides, the radioactive elements released by atomic bomb blasts — and nuclear accNuclear - Test - Ban Treaty (CTBT) has a global network of air samplers that monitor and trace the origin of around a dozen radionuclides, the radioactive elements released by atomic bomb blasts — and nuclear accnuclear accidents.

But a document newly obtained by the Washington, D.C. — based Federation of American Scientists (FAS)-- founded by the creators of the original nuclear bomb in 1945 and monitoring the weapons ever since — reveals that in recent years the U.S. target list has expanded to include so - called «regional proliferators,» smaller states seeking to acquire such weapons of mass destruction.

That problem has been addressed by the design of a «new triad» — traditionally the three nuclear limbs comprising intercontinental ballistic missiles, air - delivered gravity bombs, and submarine - launched ballistic missiles — to include other weapons systems.

The impact that produced the crater was two million times more powerful than the largest nuclear device ever tested, a 58 - megaton hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba, detonated by the Soviet Union in 1961.

For example, the treaty forbids igniting devices based on nuclear fission; Küntzel draws attention to how, just a few weeks after West Germany signed the treaty, a working paper published by the Science and Politics Foundation in Ebenhausen emphasised that research into detonating H - bombs with a laser beam was permitted by the treaty, and should be encouraged.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 by scientists who created the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project and wanted to raise awareness about the dangers of nuclear technology.

Between 1951 and 1963, 390 nuclear bombs were exploded above the ground, 205 by the US, 160 by the former Soviet Union, 21 by Britain and four by France.

Jonas Frisén at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and colleagues used the carbon - 14 produced by above - ground nuclear bomb tests carried out between 1945 and 1963.

Another product, the atomic bomb, was constructed by way of nuclear reactors that could, in peace time, provide an abundant supply of radioactive isotopes, which are now of great value not only in biophysical research but also in biochemistry and medicine.

From the uranium inside a North Korean nuclear bomb to the gold on your grandfather's watch, heavy elements were likely once produced by two neutron stars smashing into each other at nearly the speed of light.

Finally, if your bacterial insufficiency includes a strange absence of gas accompanied by frequent constipation (which can often happen if you've been on some big antiobiotic regimens) and you simply want the shotgun, nuclear bomb, fix - everything - all - at - once approach, the best solution I've found is called the «Colorectal Recovery Program ``.

The FBI and Darwyn move to intercept the cell's plans to detonate a pair of nuclear dirty bombs in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July, but their victory is overshadowed by a pair of tragedies for Darwyn.

The story has to do with nuclear bombs being stolen from the Russians and smuggled into Bosnia for use by terrorists.