Sentences with phrase «by nuclear detonations»

Geomagnetic storms caused by violent solar flares can overload transformers and cause electric grids to fail; so can electromagnetic pulses, triggered by nuclear detonations miles above the ground.

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But that story is about what to do after a nuclear weapon blows up by surprise, such as in a terrorist attack — the goal is to limit exposure to radioactive fallout that arrives minutes after a detonation.

He confesses that during World War II, Americans grieved little over the killing of German or Japanese civilians by Allied firebombs and nuclear detonations.

But plenty of smaller earthquakes, most not even felt by humans, occur across the world every day due to detonations, such as nuclear weapons testing or mining, or rising magma linked to volcanic activity.

For a long time after gamma - ray bursts were discovered — accidentally, by Defense Department satellites looking for Soviet nuclear detonations in space — astronomers knew next to nothing about them.

The team reproduced trinitite, the green - hued glass left by the Trinity test, the first U.S. nuclear detonation, which took place in 1945 at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

And the special high explosives fabricated by nuclear scientists to compress the plutonium cores in a deliberate detonation also have an unstable molecular structure.

Michael Bernardin is considered the nation's expert in electromagnetic pulse (EMP) physics created by high - altitude nuclear detonations, and he is nationally recognized for his understanding of weapons physics.

Starting at the point in the movie when Indy's survives a nuclear detonation test by jumping into a fridge!

The screenplay combines a gimmick - a man is plagued by his ability to see two minutes into the future - with a highly unpleasant topic (the possible detonation of a nuclear device on American soil).

By the same token, if you were on the very outside of the area targeted, and suffered fire as a result of a nuclear detonation that didn't otherwise impact you, that fire could be a covered cause of loss.

This series of eight, large - scale paintings by Robert Beckmann reveals the potential effects of a nuclear detonation on an American - built, single - family home.

In a paper published online this week by the journal Quaternary International, 26 members of the working group point roughly to 1950 as the starting point, indicated by a variety of markers, including the global spread of carbon isotopes from nuclear weapon detonations starting in 1945 and the mass production and disposal of plastics.

The proposal, signed up to by 26 members of the working group, including lead author Dr Jan Zalasiewicz, who also chairs the working group, and Dr Mark Williams of the University of Leicester's Department of Geology, is that the beginning of the Anthropocene could be considered to be drawn at the moment of detonation of the world's first nuclear test: on July 16th 1945.

By the same token, if you were on the very outside of the area targeted, and suffered fire as a result of a nuclear detonation that didn't otherwise impact you, that fire could be a covered cause of loss.