Sentences with phrase «nuclear bombs»

Although the Tsar Bomba was the pinnacle of nuclear bombs, the arms race changed directions shortly after it was detonated.

I still remember air raid drills, practicing duck and cover when we hid under our desks with our hand over our heads to protect us from nuclear bombs.

Strom recalls a scrapbook her father made for her about successful women, and a disturbing article he clipped from the New Yorker about «Hiroshima Maidens,» young Japanese women disfigured by radiation from the nuclear bombs the United States had dropped there.

The opening moments show the nuclear bombs blasting the city.

It's not as drastically different as what's depicted on the show, an America where the Nazis and Japanese won World War II, but still, depictions of an America besieged by Nazis and under threat of nuclear bombs is less the stuff of pure historical fiction here in the fall of 2017.

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.

The world is on the cusp of some kind of global crisis, but though there are mentions of escalating tensions and constant intercutting of footage of nuclear bombs being detonated and asteroids crashing into Earth, none of that actually matters to the story.

The war was won, if you can call it that considering the horrific devastation caused by nuclear bombs, but resulted in the remaining humans being shuttled off to live on one of Saturn's moons.

Violence: Mass destruction is seen after nuclear bombs are dropped.

Randall Park, «The Interview» «You know what hurts worse than nuclear bombs, Dave?

After Dreamworks SKG was launched to great fanfare, its first movie release was an escapist action thriller, 1997's The Peacemaker, starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman trying to save the world from some rogue Russian army officers who steal some nuclear bombs.

Beckett assembles a crack team to deliver and detonate not one but two nuclear bombs that must go off simultaneously in the only place on the planet in which they will do any good at stopping the movement of the plates — Los Angeles.

The story has to do with nuclear bombs being stolen from the Russians and smuggled into Bosnia for use by terrorists.

Note there are some 2000 + nuclear bombs sitting in storage at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, still awaiting dismantlement.

Moreover, there are «very real and specific dangers of nuclear energy,» including the reactor's «potential for massive destruction in an immediate danger,» plants are potential terrorist targets, plants provide «the means and excuse» to build nuclear bombs, and they create wastes that persist for thousands of years, and uranium mining causes lung disease and large volumes of wastes.

When the ageing survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombs and the contaminated Mayak workers started to develop cardiovascular disease at above - normal rates, it became clear that radiation does more than just cause cancer.

We do, after all, already have plenty of nuclear bombs lying around for no other real purpose than destroying civilization.

Between 1951 and 1963, 390 nuclear bombs were exploded above the ground, 205 by the US, 160 by the former Soviet Union, 21 by Britain and four by France.

The building lies in the middle of a 40 - acre campus in the mountains above Santa Fe hastily built during World War II to coordinate the construction of the two nuclear bombs used in Japan.

Specifically, they suggest that a three - mile - wide comet moving at 135,000 miles an hour blew up over Canada with the force of a million nuclear bombs.

Scientists can no longer fly coach with a pair of nail scissors, much less imagine flying to Saturn in a first - class space cabin, carrying thousands of nuclear bombs.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, France detonated four nuclear bombs on the Fangataufa atoll — a ring - shaped island of coral in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

When the Fangataufa atoll populations were decimated by the nuclear bombs, it opened up a new habitat to colonize for the free floating larvae, but which species happened to land on the reef is mostly a matter of luck.

Graphic artist Isao Hashimoto depicts the startling number of nuclear bombs that have gone off between 1945 and 1998, from the early U.S. and Soviet tests to the activities of Pakistan's nuclear program.

Pakistan later reported that five nuclear bombs had been placed inside the test tunnel where it hooked sharply, eight hundred feet beneath the mountain's peak.

«In order to spread nuclear technologies, you have to have the people who have the expertise in nuclear engineering, who know about nuclear materials and chain reactions and things like that — the same expertise for nuclear bombs.

This material «measured in tens of tons — which could be used for making thousands, if not tens of thousands,» of nuclear bombs, he says.

But science's achievements often mix risks with benefits; science brought us nuclear bombs, chemical weapons and DDT.

It is the waste left over when the isotope uranium - 235 is extracted from naturally - occurring uranium to fuel nuclear power stations and build nuclear bombs.

• NUCLEAR WEAPONS Since February 2010, Iran has enriched uranium to 20 percent and has recently tripled production rates; uranium enrichment at 90 percent would provide the core material of four nuclear bombs.

The hot, dense plasma produced is also the state of matter created in a nuclear explosion, hence the importance of this field to understanding nuclear bombs in the absence of explosive testing.

Western experts do not know exactly how the nuclear bombs are placed inside the mountain before being detonated.

International checks on plutonium are so lax that terrorists or would - be nuclear nations could acquire enough plutonium to make eight nuclear bombs without ringing any alarm bells, a pressure group claims in a report released this week.

How about using nuclear bombs?

It even tested nuclear bombs in space before orbital weapons of mass destruction were banned through the United Nations» Outer Space Treaty of 1967.

In a million years, barring profound shifts, the climate should have returned to its natural rhythms but any cities buried in sediment by rising seas should still be preserved, along with those signs of anthroturbation, human - induced disturbances underground, like the plutons from underground explosions of nuclear bombs.

Orion: Set in motion shortly after DARPA was created, Project Orion aimed to drive an interplanetary spacecraft by periodically dropping nuclear bombs out of its rear end.

This work enabled Pakistan to build the nuclear bombs that it exploded in May 1998.

Neutron cameras versus smuggled nuclear bombs.

Long gone are the days when the RAF possessed free - fall nuclear bombs they could use tactically against Russian columns steamrolling into western Europe.

Enough plutonium to make seven or eight nuclear bombs went «missing» from Sellafield nuclear plant last year, new figures suggest.

Neither the USA nor Russia would «survive» 100 nuclear bombs in their 100 largest cities.

But the people who killed him have nuclear bombs and missiles and these people should not be trusted.»

I.e. more and more people in more and more countries are capable of building nuclear bombs, giving more opportunities for them to be used.

The last of the RAF's WE177 nuclear bombs were taken out of service in March that year.

In that context, «brainpower» means people capable of building nuclear bombs.

The driving force was that the U.S.S.R. was absolutely terrified of the United States» new Nuclear bombs and were really good at intelligence operations, both offensive and defensive.

In relation to GD the Boeing design offered a ferry range of more than ~ 1200 miles, 69 % more load on fully extended wings (11 % more on fully swept ones), 50 % more nuclear bombs, twice more AAMs and weighted 2200 pounds less, GD's designs only offered more place on carriers.

By now, that reactor would have produced enough plutonium for several nuclear bombs — had it not been destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in 2007.

But, there is only ONE way to kill yeast SPORES and, if not killed, these can grow and reinfect / infect ALL, no matter if you use bleach, creams, prebiotic, nuclear bombs, etc., and that is Grapefruit Seed Extract!