Hundreds of
nuclear bomb detonations in the atmosphere prior to a 1963 test ban treaty doubled the amount of radioactive carbon found in the ocean.
The second is impossible to miss —
a nuclear bomb detonation in near - future London — and while the film delivers a dystopian teen romance in the center of its aftermath, an unnerving atmosphere and surprising brutality actually creates tangible jeopardy and tension throughout.
An example is a heart - stopping plane hijacking that takes place in mid air and later the fear of
a nuclear bomb detonation.
Not exact matches
And while the U.S. has yet to verify that the weapon was a hydrogen
bomb, experts widely agree that the
detonation created an explosion exceeding previous North Korean
nuclear tests.
To test the validity of the method, a second study examined 10 key hazards under the purview of the Department, including earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, pandemic influenza,
nuclear detonation, explosive
bombing, anthrax attack, cyber-attack on critical infrastructure, accidents involving toxic industrial chemicals, and oil spills.
Authorities could use this technique to retrace where a dirty
bomb was stored before
detonation to figure out who built it, says Eric Lukosi, a
nuclear engineer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville who was not involved in the work.
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.
The project succeeded in developing and detonating three
nuclear weapons in 1945: a test
detonation on July 16 (the Trinity test) near Alamogordo, New Mexico; an enriched uranium
bomb code - named «Little Boy» detonated on August 6 over Hiroshima, Japan; and a plutonium
bomb code - named «Fat Man» on August 9 over Nagasaki, Japan.