Sentences with phrase «from nuclear weapons»
For the sake of the whole of humanity and for the sake of generations still to come, we need to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons.
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Human industrial activity may also prove to be visible in the geological record in the form of long - lived synthetic molecules from plastics and other products, or radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons.
Are there any ways that he can gain from nuclear weapons without using them?
The threat to humanity as a whole from nuclear weapons has led many to oppose them since their development.
That search had ground to a halt in the 1980s and 1990s thanks to the moratorium on new nuclear plants in much of the world and an influx of fuel from nuclear weapons.
For nearly 65 years, the clock has served as an international symbol of the level of risk — figurative midnight — that the world faces from nuclear weapons.
Their broad portfolio of research ranges from nuclear weapons science and basic physics to better batteries and renewable energy technologies.
... Mr Alexander replied: «This proposition that a nuclear threat from another nuclear weapons state, overnight, out of the blue, to be a threat to the United Kingdom, is not supported by any analysis that I have seen.»
Russia is not a global power in any respect apart from nuclear weapons and land - mass.
These new Energy Frontier Research Centers will provide a foundation of basic science for a top priority of DOE — tackling environmental cleanup of hazardous waste from nuclear weapons research and production,» said Cherry Murray, director of DOE's Office of Science.
That is why he has successfully blocked any serious attempt to replace the butcher Assad's regime in Syria, and that is why Russian policy has been a serious obstacle to keeping Iran away from a nuclear weapon.
I know lots of men who are doing lots of things — working to make the world safer from nuclear weapons, helping poor farmers in Africa and Sudan increase their crops so they can feed their families, investigating fraud, fighting for justice... Oh, wait — that's not what Regnerus means; he means try getting them to woo a woman properly and commit and marry.
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, where drums of radioactive refuse from nuclear weapons sites and laboratories are buried in salt caverns 2,100 feet (640 meters) underground, has...
The current debate tends to remove the focus from nuclear weapons themselves as the referent of threat and transfers it to particular potential possessors and users of the threat.
That's similar to background levels in the ocean from nuclear weapons testing, suggesting the Fukushima plume has not reached the U.S. coastline yet, he said.
Cesium - 137, on the other hand, is also present from nuclear weapons tests and discharge from nuclear power plants.
Plus, nuclear requires emissions of greenhouse gases for construction, including steel and cement as well as the enrichment of uranium ore required to make nuclear fuel (or the downblending of uranium from nuclear weapons as in the case of the «Megatons to Megawatts» program).
In the West, scientists from nuclear weapons establishments have tended to write off red mercury as a hoax.
Investigations turned up nothing — until a team of chemists from a nuclear weapons lab got involved.
«The risk from nuclear weapons is not that someone is going to press the button, but the existence of these weapons costs a lot of time, effort and money to keep them secure,» Squassoni said, adding that there have been troubling safety discrepancies reported in recent years at power plants.
At the moment, concentrations of plutonium in waters off Fukushima are so low that background radiation from nuclear weapons testing more than 50 years ago makes the signal undetectable with our instruments.
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 consensus on Thursday appeared to be the mid twentieth century, reflecting various indicators of humanity's surge, from exponential growth in resource extraction to radionuclides from nuclear weapon tests.)
It published two books, Nuclear War Survival Skills (foreword by H - bomb inventor Edward Teller), which argues that «the dangers from nuclear weapons have been distorted and exaggerated» into «demoralizing myths.»
Every cubic meter of air and water and every hectare of land now have a human imprint, from hormones in the seas, to fluorocarbons in the atmosphere and radioactivity from nuclear weapons tests in the soil.
In insurance policies, acts of war include loss or damage from nuclear weapons, damage from risks of war such as invasions, civil war, revolution or rebellion, or any other type of military action.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology scholar Vipin Narang, for example, points out that one interpretation of this statement (which is consistent with recent North Korean rhetoric about «building of the world free from nuclear weapons») is that Kim is offering to give up his nuclear weapons as part of a global — i.e., complete — disarmament process.
Radiation damage has been shown to happen in cancer patients who receive radiation therapy as a form of treatment, though it may also happen if the person is exposed to nuclear power, nuclear fallout from nuclear weapons, and x-ray imaging.
After spending about 10 years gathering meteorite samples, in 2000 Remo finally gained access to the perfect device for exploring the nuclear option: Sandia National Laboratories» Z machine, which happens to be the world's most powerful nuclear blast simulator, apart from nuclear weapons themselves.
Even though federal laws limit the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) to be used only for defense transuranic (plutonium - contaminated) waste from nuclear weapons, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed actions to expand WIPP to three additional missions in 2012 - 2013.
The doomsday clock was initially designed to communicate the threat from nuclear weapons, but has since been expanded to include cyber and biosecurity and the dangers of unsustainable climate change.
Amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) to, among other things, include certain New Mexico counties in the areas exposed to fallout from nuclear weapons testing, expand the universe of compensable diseases for uranium workers, and extend eligibility for compensation to workers who worked after 1971.
Responding to the debate, Tory frontbencher Baroness Goldie said the Government was committed «to a world free from nuclear weapons».
As Ian Leslie pointed out in a recent essay in the New Statesman, most people would love to see a world free from nuclear weapons, but disarmament — even in the complete fantasy world in which it is mirrored by all other world powers — wouldn't create this in a meaningful way.
Prime minister Gordon Brown has already said he wants to «accelerate disarmament amongst possessor states, to prevent proliferation to new states and to ultimately achieve a world that is free from nuclear weapons».
The Foreign Office told inthenews.co.uk it was «working hard to reinvigorate the global commitment to a world free from nuclear weapons».
In their analyses of the beaches, the scientists detected not only cesium - 137, which may have come from the Dai - ichi plant or from nuclear weapons tested in the 1950s and1960s, but also cesium - 134, a radioactive form of cesium that can only come only from the 2011 Fukushima accident.
From nuclear weapons to intensive farming, there is overwhelming evidence that our activities will leave a lasting impact on the geological record
Just two dates met the criteria: 1610, when the collision of the New and Old Worlds a century earlier was first felt globally; and 1964, associated with the fallout from nuclear weapons tests.