Sentences with phrase «nuclear blasts in»

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.

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.

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

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.

Sure, they are linear, they are wildly histrionic, but they're also built around iconic moments; the nuclear blast in MW1, the controversial No Russian, the death of Ghost — all of them compelling and memorable.

Soviet nuclear bombs devastated the city in the 1983 television movie, The Day After and it was destroyed by a nuclear blast in the television series Jericho in 2006.

Not exact matches

Though these events are unlikely to trigger the last - ditch option of nuclear war, let alone a blast in your neighborhood, they are very concerning.

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

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.

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

Buddemeier recommends visiting Ready.gov to see a complete list of what to do in various emergency scenarios, including a nuclear blast, and what to include in a full emergency kit.

Author and film producer Eric Schlosser, writing in his book «Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety», captures the raw power of the blast through the perspective of scientist Bernard O'Keefe:

In 2013, China's Communist Party - affiliated newspaper Global Times published a detailed report on future nuclear attacks on the western United States showing how the strikes would kill 12 million Americans through blast and radiation.

North Korea has set off several powerful nuclear test blasts in recent years, but they all occurred deep inside a mountain.

General Eisenhower has repeatedly told us that in a nuclear war there can be no victors, only victims; and General MacArthur, speaking in Tokyo, said, «Another war may blast mankind to perdition, but still we hesitate, still we can not, despite the yawning abyss at our very feet, unshackle ourselves from the past.»

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, in turn, blasted Schumer and referenced the state's senior senator's opposition to the multinational Iran nuclear agreement.

Hillary Clinton used a conference in Beijing to blast both Trump and the Chinese over their stance toward North Korea — saying it needs to soften up soon before things get out of hand and nuclear war breaks out.

Anti-nuclear activists are blasting the state for agreeing to turn over about $ 1.5 billion it held in nuclear plant decommissioning funds to two energy companies.

And in a chapter on the radioactive elements carried in nuclear fallout, there's Pig 311, a sow that survived a nuclear test blast only to be used as propaganda for the weapons» supposed safety.

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.

Researchers had begun testing nuclear devices at the Nevada Test Site in 1951; this latest series of blasts was codenamed Operation Julin, and the final two tests of the series — dubbed Hunters Trophy and Divider — took place on 18 September and 23 September, respectively.

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.

Applying the method to modern blasts could help regulators identify nuclear tests long after the fact and better enforce nonproliferation treaties, the researchers propose in a paper to appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of July 4.

By measuring the relative abundance of various elements in debris left over from nuclear explosions, researchers say they can accurately estimate the amount of energy released during the initial blast.

The film shows the two characteristic light output pulses that are seen only in nuclear weapon blasts, which correlate with the device's yield (the amount of energy given off from the explosion).

Although nuclear fusion may ignite in the star's core, it never kicks in at full blast; the mass of the star and thus its internal pressure are just too small.

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.

At low altitudes, about half the energy of such a bomb is released in the air blast, 35 percent as heat and 15 percent as nuclear radiation.

Satellites designed to detect nuclear bomb blasts first noticed them in the late 1960s and the Swift satellite was launched in 2004 to study them in greater detail.

Nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s and»60s blasted radioactive particles into the atmosphere.

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.

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 fallouIn 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 fallouin the firestorm of the nuclear blast — in essence, shards of fallouin essence, shards of fallout.

You have those, you kind of solve a lot of the blanket problems where you have your fusion blast in the center and then it hits a blanket which is basically nuclear waste, depleted waste, and there's a lot of left over energy in that waste; and you have neutrons hit that waste and then that catalyzes further reactions, you get a lot more heat.

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.

«The Peacemaker» begins with a gang of greedy terrorists hijacking a trainload of nuclear weapons in the Russian countryside, setting off a blast to cover their tracks.

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.

You're going to have a blast watching Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer portraying opposites as American and Russian spies during the Cold War that must put their differences aside and work together to infiltrate some dangerous people and locate a nuclear bomb; the banter that they share regarding the technical gadgets from their respective countries, their dissonance in personality (Cavill is the fast - talking, suave ladies man while Hammer is the brute that much control his temper), and constant feeling to one - up the other is all deeply fun.

Indie developer Vlambeer recently announced that their work in progress, Nuclear Throne, has been given a 2 - player local co-op mode that looks like a blast to play with a friend, literally.

A family locks themselves in a bomb shelter when they fear a nuclear attack in Blast From the Past.

Getting involved in a nuclear - weapons heist, the two are about to have a blast in Moscow.

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.

«Lente Missile Base» is a Warzone map that features a missile launch environmental hazard, similar to the nuclear explosion from the Killzone 2 DLC map «Southern Hills» (any players caught in the underground exhaust vents will be killed by the missile's engine blast).

From East Asia, Shomei Tomatsu's photographs from 1961 evoke the nuclear bombing of Japan, through images of humble everyday objects damaged in the blasts.

Besides its role in ensuring that no nuclear explosion escapes detection, the system generates a wealth of scientific data that can be applied, for example, to tsunami warnings, probing the Earth's structure, tracking emissions from nuclear accidents, analyzing meteor blasts and volcano eruptions, listening to whales or environmental monitoring of the atmosphere and oceans.

Not only the killing of flora and fauna due to the radiation of the nuclear explosions but also the blasts itsself, could this not have been a cause of more instability of that ocean's floor in terms of earthsquakes, tsunamis, volcanic activity, etc.?

You've probably heard the lunatic proposition floating around the web that the last resort option in stopping the oil gushing out of the the sunken Deepwater Horizon is to deploy some variety of nuclear weapon to blast

Due to factors such as wind direction, the nuclear blast released radiation «in a very patchy manner, so while the highest areas of contamination are closest to the plant, there are also areas of higher radiation quite a ways away from the reactor,» Mousseau said.

The new scenario differs from two reports last week, one of which has been accepted for publication in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, that pinpointed the blast nearly a kilometer to the northwest of the site identified in the new paper, and concluded that the blast rendered the entire mountain unfit for future nuclear tests.

If you wanted an Android Wear smartwatch but you didn't want to rest until you found one that could withstand a nuclear blast, you're in luck.