Sentences with phrase «by nuclear fallout»

Set in a near - future United States ravaged by nuclear fallout, widespread plagues, and chemical contamination, Armageddon's Children follows a handful of unlikely heroes as they struggle to survive in a poisoned world infested by demons, insane «once - men,» and other mutant creatures too horrific to describe.

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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.

The next danger to avoid is radioactive fallout, a mixture of fission products (or radioisotopes) that a nuclear explosion creates by splitting atoms.

However, peak testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere — the most potentially dangerous type of nuclear testing, as nuclear fallout could easily be dispersed by wind currents — occurred between 1961 to 1962 almost exclusively between the US and the USSR.

That's because fallout is formed and spread when dirt and debris get sucked up by a nuclear blast, irradiated to dangerous levels, pushed into the atmosphere, and sprinkled over great distances.

Nuclear war would not only kill us directly by blast and radioactive fallout.

Unless you are just coming out of a nuclear fallout shelter that you sealed by mistake, you know Cards Against Humanity.

It also triggered the meltdowns at Fukushima and the evacuation of 150,000 people from within 20 kilometers of the nuclear plant as well as from areas beyond that were hard hit by fallout.

But the overall hazards posed by fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine in 1986 are still much greater than those from Fukushima, he says.

Even if it means spending the rest of his days locked in Civilis, a tower prison for society's unwanted — «half - humans» gifted by the fallout of nuclear holocaust centuries past.

You and your squad of Desert Rangers must traverse the remains of a land laid to waste by nuclear war. The Wasteland's hellish landscape is waiting for you, so arm your team to the teeth with the most devastating weaponry this side of the fallout zone.

Dan Gunn's stand is a nuclear fallout shelter — at least as imagined by New York artist Michael Smith, as «Mike», the naive, bumbling character he invented for his performances.

Half of my family has died from cancers that I believe were a result of radioactive fallout caused by aboveground nuclear explosions tested in the Nevada desert from 1945 to 1962....

String theory was reformulated from hadronic string theory in the 70s, and global warming received its first major publicity in 1975 from a founding conference organized by anthropologist Margaret Mead and 1950s RAND Corporation nuclear weapons fallout prediction expert Dr William Kellogg.

Amongst the fallout from nuclear explosions was carbon 14, an unstable isotope of carbon that has six protons and eight neutrons in the nuclei of its atoms (the most abundant by far, forming 98.9 % of all carbon on Earth, is carbon 12 with six protons and six neutrons).

No, not on the power irradiating from the nuclear infused desert sand from the fallout, but by its education system.