Sentences with phrase «first nuclear bomb»

In this exhibition, the artist presents the first step on the moon cast in «trinitite», the substance that formed after the explosion of the first nuclear bomb in 1945 in New Mexico, and a bronze model of the liferaft of the Mercury 1 missile, presented as if it were a contemporary version of the ark of Noah.

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

Some similar already happened: in 1947, Stalin's CCCP exploded its first nuclear bomb.

Not exact matches

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.

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

«Until recently having or not having nuclear weapons appeared to be and was treated as a question of yes or no», wrote Thomas Schelling in a piece called «Who Will have The Bomb», written in 1976 following India's first use of a «peaceful» nuclear explosive (PNE).

In 2006, sixty - one years after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Robert Harney and his colleagues published «Anatomy of a Project to Produce a First Nuclear Weapon.&rfirst atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Robert Harney and his colleagues published «Anatomy of a Project to Produce a First Nuclear Weapon.&rFirst Nuclear Weapon.»

Prime Minister Clement Attlee authorised a British nuclear weapons programme in 1947, two years after the USA dropped its first atomic bombs on Japan.

It put the German nuclear scientists months behind and allowed the United States to overtake the Germans in the quest to produce the first atomic bomb.

Concerned that the United States» 10,000 - strong stockpile of atomic bombs are past their prime, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are vying to design the first new nuclear bomb in the United States since the W88 warhead in the mid-1980s.

On Wednesday, the government's nuclear power utility inked a deal to buy at least two power reactors from France — India's first major nuclear purchase from the West since it exploded an atom bomb in 1974 and came under international sanctions.

As part of the Manhattan Project effort to build an atomic bomb during World War II, Szilard worked together with physicist Enrico Fermi and other colleagues at the University of Chicago to create the world's first experimental nuclear reactor.

The West's first worry was that nuclear experts might flee abroad, offering their knowledge to regimes keen to build a bomb in exchange for cash.

A much better way to prevent a nuclear or dirty - bomb terrorist attack is to keep radioactive ingredients from getting inside the nation's borders in the first place, and here physics is on our side.

Satellites designed to detect nuclear bomb blasts first noticed them in the late 1960s and the Swift satellite was launched in 2004 to study them in greater detail.

Doctor Atomic, a new opera about to open at the Met, brings nuclear proliferation, «rogue states» and the terrorists» dream of a dirty bomb back to the first «ground zero»

Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race.

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

Scientists can no longer fly coach with a pair of nail scissors, much less imagine flying to Saturn in a first - class space cabin, carrying thousands of nuclear bombs.

Indeed, this is not the first time a contemporary composer has recognized the seemingly limitless potential for atomic Sturm und Drang; two previous operas — Steve Reich's Three Tales and Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach — take as a central symbol the explosion of a nuclear bomb.

The world is closer to nuclear annihilation than at any point since the first hydrogen bombs were tested in the early 1950s, says a group of scientists who monitor global tensions.

8/5/16 While Barack Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima as the first sitting U.S. president in May highlighted again the need to eliminate nuclear weapons, Japan's major anti-nuclear group, which has led the movement for 60 years at home and abroad, sees a rocky road ahead as its membership declines with the passing of atomic bomb survivors.

Alerted to this crisis, two American experts - a brainy atomic scientist and a brawny intelligence officer - scoot from Washington to Eastern Europe and finally New York, tracking first the nuclear thieves and then a lone psychopath with a bomb in his backpack.

After Dreamworks SKG was launched to great fanfare, its first movie release was an escapist action thriller, 1997's The Peacemaker, starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman trying to save the world from some rogue Russian army officers who steal some nuclear bombs.

John Woo's first effort as a parolee from movie jail (post - «Hard Target,» nowhere near as terrible as you remember) beat «24» to the punch in harmlessly (but harrowingly) detonating a nuclear bomb on American soil.

More controversial might be the way the film turns the nuclear attack on Hiroshima into a cheap pun: «Little Boy» was the name of the first atom bomb dropped on Japan.

Based on 20 years of global research, humiliation could be aptly understood as a nuclear bomb of emotions in the twenty - first century (Hartling, Lindner, Spalthoff, & Britton, 2013; Lindner, Hartling, & Spalthoff, 2012).

Other details gleamed from the teaser trailer show modern day London after what looks like a nuclear attack (man London can't catch a break first ZombiU now this) as well as learning that Dirty Bomb will be using the Unreal Engine.

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.

In 1949, when the USSR detonated its first atomic bomb, the US had to face the reality that it had lost its monopoly on nuclear weapons.

We didn't have an H - bomb on board the boat that sailed on the first Greenpeace campaign against nuclear testing.

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