Sentences with phrase «first nuclear test»

In yet another journal, the Quaternary International, they nominate 16 July, 1945: the day of the world's first nuclear test.

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.

The Laboratory's rich history includes many interwoven stories — from the first nuclear test failure to...

Jim Eckles worked for decades for the White Sands Missile Range Public Affairs Office, managing open houses and tours of the Trinity site, where the world's first nuclear test took place.

Nuclear Suppliers Group: The NSG is an export control group which was created directly in response to India's first nuclear test, the amazingly named Smiling Buddha.

Thus India conducted its first nuclear test, «Smiling Buddha», in 1974.

In its 36 minutes duration, the film presents footage of one of the first nuclear tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in 1946; Conner shows the underwater explosion from fifteen different angles, in extreme slow motion — at some points one second of real time becomes three minutes of screen time.

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Castle Bravo, detonated on February 28, 1954, was the first of the Castle series of tests and the largest US nuclear blast of all time.

Romeo was the first device to be tested on a barge over open water instead of on a reef, as the US was quickly running out of islands upon which it could test nuclear weapons.

Under third - generation North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the reclusive state has conducted its most powerful nuclear test, launched its first - ever intercontinental ballistic missile and threatened to send missiles into the waters near Guam.

Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea has conducted its most powerful nuclear test and launched its first - ever intercontinental ballistic missile.

Tillerson had said after that test that the U.S. was «ready to talk any time they're ready to talk,» but there would first have to be a «period of quiet» without nuclear and missile tests.

Under third - generation North Korean leader Kim, the reclusive state has conducted its most powerful nuclear test, launched its first - ever intercontinental ballistic missile and threatened to send missiles into the waters near the U.S. territory of Guam.

India is also ramping up its nuclear and conventional deterrence against China by testing long - range missiles, raising a mountain strike corps for the border with China, enhancing submarine capabilities and basing its first squadron of French - made Rafale fighter jets near that border.

Although it had been widely expected that suspending North Korea's nuclear and missile tests would be a first step to be discussed in the Trump - Kim meeting, the North Korean leader proactively announced before the inter-Korean summit that he will immediately stop nuclear tests and launches of inter-continental ballistic missiles.

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«In 2004, the Hollands became the first intact nuclear family in the United States to undergo body burden testing.

Compare this to the first North Korean nuclear test being far later in 2006.

If one is to think «rationally» in building a nuclear programme, one must first attempt to acquire the technical know - how, then demonstrate it by testing it (or at least creating enough suspicion about testing it) and once the international community «recognises» one's capability of developing a sufficient deterrent then negotiations can begin.

An entire international body designed for restricting trade of nuclear materials was created in response to India's first test, and the US did impose sanctions on India for their tests in the 90's.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for more weapons tests targeting the Pacific Ocean, Pyongyang announced — a day after his nation for the first time flew a ballistic missile designed to carry a nuclear payload over Japan.

On October 3 1952, the UK conducted its first successful nuclear test, in the Monte Bello Islands off the north - west coast of Australia - and Britain became a nuclear power.

«First nuclear explosion helps test theory of moon's formation.»

First, the General Assembly voted 71 to 20 to request all powers to stop nuclear testing immediately and permanently.

As proof of concept, the researchers estimated the yield of the 1945 Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico — the world's first detonation of a nuclear device.

That's particularly true for North Korea, where leaders have been ramping up the pace of military testing since the first nuclear detonation in 2006.

Sandia National Laboratories has sent a mock B61 - 12 nuclear weapon speeding down the labs» 10,000 - foot rocket sled track to slam nose - first into a steel and concrete wall in a spectacular test that mimicked a high - speed accident.

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.

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

Standard reactor design helps fuel a boom After testing their first nuclear weapon in 1960, the French turned their infrastructure for enriching and processing uranium toward energy.

The first seismic waves generated by temblors and explosions — those from mining operations as well as underground nuclear tests — are sharp and distinct, says Göran Ekström, a seismologist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.

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.

DENVER — Along the way to testing an old - but - new concept in nuclear waste storage — burying spent fuel in a hole drilled kilometers below the surface — the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its contractors relearned a lesson that seems frequently forgotten: Get the locals on board first.

Game Maker, our middleware, absolutely isn't built for PlayStation updates, and Nuclear Throne being the first test case of a Game Maker game natively on PlayStation means that every problem we run across needs to be found by SONY, addressed by YoYoGames, tested by us, and then submitted to certification again.

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

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.

Also on view is a 2016 large format black - and - white photograph from Charriére's First Light series, which examines the long - term devastation of Bikini Atoll by American nuclear testing between 1946 and 1958.

For the first of these three, the artist ventured into the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan for a series of photographs in the analogue medium format.

MUCH WIDER THAN A LINE SITELINES SANTA FE 2016 Curated by Rocío Aranda - Alvarado, Kathleen Ash - Milby, Pip Day, Pablo León de la Barra and Kiki Mazzucchelli «Brighter than several suns at midday» was how Manhattan Project nuclear program director General Leslie Groves described the impact of the first controlled nuclear test in history, 1945's «Operation Trinity,»...

For instance, «Freeze, Memory,» Charrière's first outing at Sean Kelly last year, featured double - exposed photographs of a former Soviet Union nuclear testing site in Kazakhstan speckled with fragments of fallout.

Charrière's first outing at Sean Kelly last year, featured double - exposed photographs of a former Soviet Union nuclear testing site in Kazakhstan speckled with fragments of fallout.

16 July, 1945: Did the first nuclear weapon test herald the dawn of the Anthropocene epoch?

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

Standard reactor design helps fuel a boom After testing their first nuclear weapon in 1960, the French turned their infrastructure for enriching and processing uranium toward energy.