Sentences with phrase «nuclear catastrophe»

So far neither the threat of nuclear catastrophe, the starvation of millions nor the destruction of vast habitats has done it.

And the test went badly, and they had an explosion — the biggest nuclear catastrophe in the world.

It was at this time that the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe had started.

His most celebrated work La Jetée (The Pier, 1962) imagines a Paris devastated by nuclear catastrophe and is composed almost entirely of black - and - white still photographs, which informed the narrative of Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys (1995) and influenced James Cameron's Terminator (1984).

«The distance that almost caused nuclear catastrophe is also a distance where we share so many resources and interests,» Turekian said.

2013's «Olympus Has Fallen» featured terrorists taking over the White House and destroying much of Washington, D.C., with Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Butler) having to rescue President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) while preventing nuclear catastrophe.

The clone of Big Boss who thwarted multiple potential nuclear catastrophes, the chiseled, bandana - wearing agent is a hardened hero.

For much of his career, he wrote bitterly satirical novels about well - off Londoners; even when the prospect of nuclear catastrophe arises, as it does in London Fields (1989), Amis seems to treat «The Crisis,» the coming «horrorday,» primarily as a vehicle for revealing the largely unpleasant traits of his handful of main characters.

Nuclear catastrophe seemed more likely than ever.

When it comes to radiation, the nuclear weapons testing conducted from the 1940s to the 1980s contributed orders of magnitude more radioactivity to the oceans than Fukushima (even when combined with Chernobyl, a much larger nuclear catastrophe).

In the year prior to her show, Ambe proposed at least three different installations, all of which, upon her return from Japan last spring, referred to the tragedy in Japan, the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and the subsequent nuclear catastrophe in March 2011.

Craig Zobel's Z for Zachariah concerns a lone young woman, Ann (Margot Robbie), still living on her parents» farm up in the mountains of West Virginia after some kind of nuclear catastrophe has apparently wiped out everyone else.

Their presentations focused on the ongoing impact of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe and the implications for the nuclear disaster in Japan.

2012 Kiyoshi Kurokawa is honored for his contribution to society by his remarkable stewardship of an independent investigation into the causes of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe.

In the new sequel «London Has Fallen,» terrorists destroy much of London, and Banning has to rescue the Prez while preventing nuclear catastrophe.

But what is most striking about this image is again its similarity to Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, where a religious order like the Benedictines is what keeps at least a fragmentary knowledge of science alive after a nuclear catastrophe.

Indeed, our cold war with the Russians, with whom we wrestle on the edge of the abyss of a nuclear catastrophe, must be solved spiritually, but by what specific political methods?

Since mid-century, some Christians have foreseen not global conversion but global destruction, hastened perhaps by a nuclear catastrophe.

Elected officials, residents and environmental activists have criticized the proposal, saying that a rupture of the pipeline could unleash a nuclear catastrophe.

Sixty years later, officials are still reckoning with the consequences of a nuclear catastrophe in regular NPS1 exercises.

Otherwise we risk a nuclear catastrophe.

«The danger of a nuclear catastrophe today, in my judgment, is greater than it was during the Cold War... and yet our policies simply do not reflect those dangers,» said Perry, who is a faculty member at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation.

So, coming within hours of the Exxon Valdez oil disaster, and with the nuclear catastrophe of Chernobyl still fresh in people's minds, the sudden possibility of «cold fusion» captured everyone's attention.

The first, by Tepco itself last November, placed blame for the nuclear catastrophe on a once - every -1000-year «unforeseeable» combination of earthquake and tsunami.

Whether it's the result of a meteor, a fireball, tidal wave or nuclear catastrophe, the Earth has been annihilated on screen hundreds of times over.

Director Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser will be in attendance at the screening of this new documentary film based on Schlosser's book of the same name, about the 1980 accident in an Arkansas missile silo that nearly caused a nuclear catastrophe.

Their schism is rich and detailed, with Cranston firing on all cylinders throughout, and when Joe finally convinces his reluctant son to enter the irradiated forbidden zone where this nuclear catastrophe occurred, their discovery begins to convince Ford that his obsessive father had not been crazy for all these years.

«I can close my eyes and probably be okay — short of a nuclear catastrophe.»

With riots throughout Turkeyand the Spanish economy collapsing, and Japan with a nuclear catastrophe, is this a precursor to something much worse in 2020?

The artist was a key figure of Tokyo's Anti-Art Movement in the late 1950s, where his performative paintings and installations marked the beginning of his preoccupation with the impact of nuclear catastrophe and the excess of consumer society associated with the post-war economic boom.

Atom Boy was among the many attempts in Japanese pop culture to exorcise the fear of nuclear catastrophe that is unfolding today in real - life, reality catching up with fiction.

1997 Goldman Prize winner Alexander Nikitin was awarded the Prize for revealing the potential for a nuclear catastrophe due to Russia's aging nuclear submarines based near the Norwegian border.

I interviewed Kiyoshi Kurokawa from the Japanese government and Yoichi Hunabashi, former chief editor of Asahi Shimbun newspaper, authors of the two prominent reports on the nuclear catastrophe.