Sentences with phrase «nuclear blast»

FARROW: But, you know, I think what we see now is a community really struggling to take that kind of nuclear blast of the Weinstein story and translate it into tangible, lasting change.

On the other hand, if the push is too strong, the asteroid could break apart — a worry that has often been raised in connection with using nuclear blasts in particular.

The Chinese proved the spooks wrong when they conducted an atmospheric nuclear blast on 16 October 1964.

The Tsar Bomba, as the test was ultimately known, had a yield between 50 and 58 megatons, twice the size of the second - largest nuclear blast.

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

In particular, he's focused on the option of «last resort,» which may, in extreme circumstances, be our first and only resort: using nuclear blasts in outer space to push a menacing asteroid out of harm's way and onto a benign trajectory.

The album is being released via Nuclear Blast records and features 11 ear splitting tracks that harkens back to the early 80's when thrash metal reigned supreme.

Additionally, the spy agency noted that North Korea had some trouble with its nuclear test site, with a recent nuclear blast causing landslides and cave - ins that apparently restricted access to the site.

Tests # 173, # 174, and # 147 all stand out as being the fifth -, fourth -, and third - strongest nuclear blasts in history.

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.

A new type of fallout forensics can reconstruct nuclear blasts decades after detonation.

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.

Researchers have reproduced trinitite, the green - hued glass left by the first U.S. nuclear blast, for use in forensic studies.

Soviet scientists made redundant by the end of the Cold War want to earn a living by incinerating toxic chemicals and old nuclear reactors in underground nuclear blasts.

We had one expert on the show, Dr. Peter Pry who explained that a solar storm, or a hostile nuclear blast in the upper atmosphere, could crash the grid and most of the electronics behind our civilization.

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.

Of course, «The Peacemaker's» real selling point is action, and Leder proves herself a crackerjack action director, with some seriously intense set - pieces — a train wreck that opens the film, a horrifying nuclear blast, a car chase in a crowded plaza, a foot chase through the streets of New York and, best of all, a nail - biting standoff on a bridge between a truck armed with nuclear weapons and military helicopters.

Last but not least, just in case you care a little less about silent cruising, the SVR returns with a supercharged five - liter V8 tuned to produce 575 horsepower, and all the noise in the radius of a semi-serious nuclear blast.

Almost 50 years before, nuclear blasts decimated thousands of citi

Before I began Phantasy Star III, I was told by well - meaning fans of the series to run and hide under a desk, lest I be destroyed with the game's 50 + hr nuclear blast of mediocrity.

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The album which is being released via Nuclear Blast and features 12 take no prisoner tracks produced by Terry Date (Slipknot, Pantera).

To put the size of history's largest nuclear blasts to scale, we have used Alex Wellerstein's Nukemap, a tool for visualizing the terrifying real - world impact of a nuclear explosion.

As science equipment, Angara is useful in plasma physics experiments and, ultimately, could help determine the conditions necessary for nuclear fusion; as a military tool, its powerful pulse of electrical energy can be converted into X-rays, providing scientists with a more convenient source of the radiation for testing weapons systems against the effects of nuclear blasts than that generated traditionally by a real nuclear explosion underground.

All nuclear blasts are marked by a handful of important effects:

He wrote that there was speculation that the underwater weapon might be «salted,» or surrounded with metals like cobalt, which would dramatically extend fatal radiation levels from fallout — for at least several months, or possibly even decades — since the burst of neutrons emitted in a nuclear blast could transform those metals into long - lived, highly radioactive chemicals sprinkled all over.

This formerly used defense site was engineered by the U.S. government in 1960 with nine - foot - thick walls to withstand a nuclear blast.

When it was a bunker, the complex could feed up to 3,000 people for 90 days in the event of a nuclear blast.

Our own government set off nuclear blasts and told observers close by that it was safe — nothing to fear.

The momentum from a nuclear blast would give the reassembled asteroid a slightly different trajectory, so it would miss Earth if it was nuked far enough in advance, she says.

The satellite unwittingly became an experiment to analyze the aftermath of a nuclear blast on electronic equipment.

How earthquake scientists eavesdrop on North Korea's nuclear blasts.

The fireball is spherical, almost sun - like, until the shockwave «outruns» the fireball, bounces off the ground, then smacks back into the bottom of the fireball, flattening it into the shape many have come to associate with a nuclear blast.

This story appears in the August 5, 2017, issue of Science News with the headline, «Spying on Nuclear Blasts: Seismologists track down clues to North Korea's underground weapons testing.»

The mission would culminate with a squadron of the metallic silver RB - 47s, their undersides painted white to reflect the flash of a nuclear blast, flying in attack formation in broad daylight several hundred miles into Soviet territory.

That could potentially lead to a dangerous buildup of particles after solar storms or a nuclear blast in space.

Microchip manufacturers already make «hardened» memory chips, which are shielded to protect data from the strong pulse of electromagnetic radiation created by a nuclear blast.

Remo also realized during the conference that we can't predict how an asteroid will respond to a nuclear blast without a clear understanding of the object's material properties.

Sandia's Z machine uses magnetic fields and electrical currents to mimic the temperatures, pressures and radiation of a nuclear blast.

The nuclear blasts annihilated much of the vegetation on the island and many aquatic species as well, but the scientists focused on mollusks because of their longevity and stationary nature.

The machine offered Remo his best hopes for figuring out how the X-rays from a nuclear blast would interact with, and possibly deter, incoming asteroids of varying compositions.

In fact, a popular activity at the Trinity open house is searching for Trinitite, emerald - colored glassy rocks formed from sand caught up in the firestorm of the nuclear blast — in essence, shards of fallout.

A company called CHETEK, which seems to enjoy close ties to the Soviet Ministry of Atomic Energy, is offering to carry out the nuclear blasts for profit.

But that's the case in the explosion at the fertilizer plant in the town of West, Texas, which witnesses likened to a nuclear blast.