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.
The opening moments show
the nuclear bombs blasting the city.
Not exact matches
Each
blast of particles — called a coronal mass ejection, or solar storm — can pack the explosive energy of thousands or even millions of
nuclear bombs:
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.
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.
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.
The organisation set up to verify the Comprehensive
Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty (CTBT) has a global network of air samplers that monitor and trace the origin of around a dozen radionuclides, the radioactive elements released by atomic bomb blasts — and nuclear acc
Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty (CTBT) has a global network of air samplers that monitor and trace the origin of around a dozen radionuclides, the radioactive elements released by atomic
bomb blasts — and
nuclear acc
nuclear accidents.
Nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s and»60s
blasted radioactive particles into the atmosphere.
Fallout is a mélange of the vaporized environment — soil and structures that were near the
blast — laced with fission products (radioisotopes created when fissile materials like uranium or plutonium fission), activation products (radioisotopes formed when the
blast radiation transmutes shielding and other
bomb components), and residual
nuclear material.
Visible amid the detritus of
bomb blasts are simple examples of plutonium's power — telltale shards of the radioactive green glass that is created at ground zero during a
nuclear explosion.
To set off an H -
bomb, a
nuclear fission
blast is used as a detonator.
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.
There are many unsubtle references to
nuclear bombs and holocaust — these are the elements the director objects to — and we're supposed to see Nicola as an epic femme fatale, the human equivalent of a
nuclear blast.
A family locks themselves in a
bomb shelter when they fear a
nuclear attack in
Blast From the Past.
I had a recent infestation of those little super fleas; you know, the ones that can hold their breath for 15 minutes and escape a pinch from your fingernail and possibly the
blast from a
nuclear bomb, yes those ones.
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.
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.