Sentences with phrase «hydrogen bomb»

One possibility is a rocket powered by nuclear fusion, essentially a sequence of hydrogen bombs.

But the strategy had to change after the development of the more powerful hydrogen bomb, and with it the realization that having people living in the suburbs but working downtown was a problem.

It allows astronomers to measure the properties of stars, engineers to design GPS satellites, and nations to build hydrogen bombs.

The inventor of the Soviet hydrogen bomb became an advocate of peace and human rights.

Without physicists we would not have moon rocks or enough hydrogen bombs to destroy the planet several times over.

The precise constituents vary according to a weapon's design — whether it's a simple gun - triggered uranium device, for example, or an intricate hydrogen bomb.

People watch a news report on North Korea's first hydrogen bomb test at a railroad station in Seoul on January 6, 2016.

In addition to firing at least 23 missiles in 2017, North Korea put the progress of its nuclear weapons program on full display, testing a miniaturized hydrogen bomb in September.

A fascinating full figure woodcut on Japanese paper, The Hydrogen Man, 1954, by Leonard Baskin, meditates on the first hydrogen bomb test.

The presence of Stalin's Soviet empire armed with hydrogen bombs and the 300 divisions of the Red Army, only 100 miles from the Rhine at one point, compelled military collaboration and an intimate and subordinate alliance with the United States.

In 1954, the United States exploded the Bravo hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific.

North Korea said an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long - range missile was tested on Sunday, prompting the warning of a «massive» military response from the United States if it or its allies were threatened.

The impact that produced the crater was two million times more powerful than the largest nuclear device ever tested, a 58 - megaton hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba, detonated by the Soviet Union in 1961.

Sept. 3, 2017: The rogue regime carries out its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, saying it detonated an advanced hydrogen bomb designed for a long - range missile.

This forced them to steal working designs from the United States, including the decisive Teller - Ulam hydrogen bomb design.

Military experts can discuss «first strike,» «second strike,» and «counter-strike-with bonus»; but beyond these semantic exercises, it is obvious to the careful inquirer that both the U.S. and the USSR are now equipped to eliminate each other as viable societies by exploding a few large hydrogen bombs high in the stratosphere, generating firestorms of meteorological dimensions.

What we have here is a potential hydrogen bomb for the budget smartphone market, because on paper this phone delivers stupendous hardware, a refined design aesthetic and a secure software experience in a package that won't break the bank.

A CNN reporter quoted a North Korean official as saying the US should take «literally» its threat to detonate the «strongest hydrogen bomb test over the Pacific Ocean.»

Maybe like the first hydrogen bomb explosion on Thong Atoll in Hawaii.

«North Korea's deeply disturbing claim to have exploded its first hydrogen bomb underlines the importance of taking our national security seriously, not handing it to a Labour Party that would unilaterally disarm Britain.»

Governments and private - sector start - ups are still trying to wrangle thermonuclear fusion — the process that lights up stars and ignites hydrogen bombs — for clean energy, with limited progress (SN: 2/6/16, p. 18).

If enough material, mostly in the form of hydrogen gas, accumulates on the surface of the white dwarf, nuclear fusion reactions can occur and intensify, culminating into a cosmic - sized hydrogen bomb blast.

So difficult is it to achieve those pressures that hydrogen bombs use a small fission bomb to get the process going.

Simply pouring a teaspoonful of anti-water into regular water would unleash the energy equivalent to 200,000 tons of TNT, the yield of a typical hydrogen bomb — enough to power the world's entire energy needs for about seven minutes.

That plane was loaded with four hydrogen bombs when it went down on the sea ice near the Thule Air Base — 200 kilometers west of Camp Century — releasing radioactive elements including uranium and plutonium.

Others included Edward E. David, Jr., a former science advisor to President Richard Nixon, and James F. Black, who worked on hydrogen bomb research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1950s.

One of the first conversations I had about adding sulfur to the atmosphere to counteract global warming was, appropriately, with Edward Teller — yes, the physicist and hydrogen bomb pioneer who was one of the inspirations for Stanley Kubrick's «Dr. Strangelove.»

The clock's hands «are the closest they've been to catastrophe since the early days of above - ground hydrogen bomb testing» in the 1950s, largely due to the ongoing threats to the planet from ACD.

While doing my PhD in ecology in 1971 I joined a group of activists who had begun to meet in the basement of the Unitarian Church, to plan a protest voyage against US hydrogen bomb testing in Alaska.

If it struck the Earth, it would trigger a 1.13 - gigaton blast, more than 20 times larger than the biggest hydrogen bomb ever tested.

During the era of atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons, the total strength of hydrogen bombs that were tested was comparable to hundreds of modern nuclear warheads.

Extend this dilemma to problems of family life and business dealings, to the moot problems of school integration and the use of atomic and hydrogen bombs in war, and it becomes evident that there is no unanimity among Christians as to the will of God in concrete matters of ethical decision.

The U.S. strikes that brought nuclear destruction of those two cities also thrust the world onto a new trajectory — one that led to the terrifying development of the far more powerful hydrogen bomb and the ruinous arms races of the cold war it entailed.

«Despite being tiny by solar standards, each packs the wallop of a 10 megaton hydrogen bomb.

According to Nuclear Fuel, an American newsletter that covers the nuclear industry, CHETEK was formed at the suggestion of experts from the Arzamas - 16 research complex, where the Soviet hydrogen bomb was developed.

What we have here is a potential hydrogen bomb for the budget smartphone market because on paper this phone marries stupendous hardware, a refined design aesthetic and liquid and secure software experience in a package that costs 1 / 4th of the current generation iPhone.

Ivy Mike was the world's first hydrogen bomb and had a yield of 10.4 megatons, making it 700 times as strong as the first atomic bomb.

The international fallout from North Korea's announcement of a «successful» hydrogen bomb test has already begun with world leaders slamming the development as a «grave threat» and «deeply worrying.»

North Korea says it conducted its sixth nuclear test with a powerful hydrogen bomb — a stark move against President Donald Trump's warnings.

Outside of Harvey, Mnuchin told Wallace he was drafting a sanctions package regarding North Korea amid news that the country had detonated a hydrogen bomb as part of its sixth nuclear test.

North Korea successfully tested a hydrogen bomb that can be mounted onto an intercontinental ballistic missile on Sunday, marking its sixth — and biggest — test since 2006.