Sentences with phrase «kiloton nuclear»

In fact, this was attempted in Rulison, Colorado in 1969 using a 40 kiloton nuclear device.

As impending disaster meets its fate, a following 75 kiloton nuclear blast throws the world into high alert and sends governments into an international hunt for the parties responsible.

From the fascinating (an intricately diagrammed explanation of nuclear fission) to the terrifying (an in - depth hypothetical example of what would happen if a 150 kiloton nuclear explosion occurred in New York City), the site covers all the bases.

Other physicists, including Nobel laureate Sheldon Glashow of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, calculated that strange quark particles would dash through Earth with dramatic effect: a 1 - ton fleck would unleash the energy of a 50 - kiloton nuclear bomb, spread along its entire threadlike path.

If we ever did need to destroy an asteroid on short notice, a 2009 study led by David Dearborn of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California reassuringly showed that a 900 - kiloton nuclear device — which is within our capability — would permanently disperse a 1 - kilometre asteroid.

Not exact matches

Greg Spriggs, a nuclear - weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, said a 50 - megaton weapon «could possibly induce a tsunami» and hit a shoreline with the energy equivalent to a 650 - kiloton blast.

The scenario assumes a terrorist - caused nuclear blast of about 10 kilotons» worth of TNT or less.

That's as much explosive power as a tactical - grade nuclear weapon — around 1.8 kilotons.

Different sources estimate that North Korea's 2013 nuclear detonation had up to a 10 kilotons yield.

In 2006, the country's first nuclear explosion measured less than one kiloton.

NORSAR, a Norway - based group that monitors nuclear tests, estimated an explosive yield of 120 kilotons, which means the power of 120,000 tons of TNT.

Allison has posted the grim answer on his Web site (www.nuclearterror.org), which shows a three - color «blast map» depicting the effects of a 10 - kiloton bomb, about the smallest a workable nuclear device could be.

Subsequent testing has shown that not to be the case, at least in the opinion of many physicists — many highly respected physicists — and so the supporters of the RRW have moved onto other rationales for why we would need these including margin, which is your, I guess, confidence, that a nuclear weapon will explode as it is intended to; it will deliver exactly, say ten kilotons of destructive force or one megaton or whatever the desired explosive force is.

Seismograms of the North Korean nuclear tests show the magnitude of shaking from each and the approximate kilotons of energy released.

Researchers used data from sensors designed to detect clandestine nuclear tests, among other sources, to identify airbursts with an energy equivalent to or larger than that released by 1 kiloton of exploding TNT.

Pyongyang's latest known nuclear test, on September 3, is estimated to have been a 160 - kiloton detonation — far below an H - bomb's capabilities yet much greater than the 10 - kiloton bomb the country tested just a year ago.

A nuclear exchange involving 100 15 - kiloton, Hiroshima - type weapons is only 0.03 percent of the total explosive power of the world's nuclear arsenal, he said.

It exploded miles above Earth, releasing nearly 500 kilotons of energy - about 30 times the size of the nuclear bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in World War Two, NASA added.