Sentences with phrase «nuclear detonation in»

The Biocomplexity Institute has run simulations on a variety of scenarios, including nuclear detonation in Washington, D.C..

That's particularly true for North Korea, where leaders have been ramping up the pace of military testing since the first nuclear detonation in 2006.

For a long time after gamma - ray bursts were discovered — accidentally, by Defense Department satellites looking for Soviet nuclear detonations in space — astronomers knew next to nothing about them.

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But that story is about what to do after a nuclear weapon blows up by surprise, such as in a terrorist attack — the goal is to limit exposure to radioactive fallout that arrives minutes after a detonation.

Romeo was the second US nuclear detonation of the Castle Series of tests, which were conducted in 1954.

Instead, the US government says fallout is a greater concern in the event of a terrorist's nuclear detonation, which would be close to the ground.

They best just bow down because America will turn that country into a hellish lava pit with the detonation of Nuclear weapons... Pakistan is a disgrace because they will stab you in the back.

For example, building a «backpack» nuclear weapon still requires an industrial infrastructure and leaves a logistics trail; plus anyone wanting to rely on such a device would probably want to test it and there are systems in place to identify the seismic signatures of nuclear detonations.

Like the meteorite that helped end the Cretaceous period about 65 million years ago, and possibly the reign of the dinosaurs as well, the nuclear detonation may mark for future geologists a turning point in Earth's history.

As proof of concept, the researchers estimated the yield of the 1945 Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico — the world's first detonation of a nuclear device.

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.

The detonations took place at the nuclear test site in southern Nevada, where between 1951 and 1992 the U.S. government set off 828 underground nuclear tests and 100 atmospheric ones, whose mushroom clouds were seen from Las Vegas, 100 kilometers away.

The team reproduced trinitite, the green - hued glass left by the Trinity test, the first U.S. nuclear detonation, which took place in 1945 at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

The NIF, dedicated in May in Livermore, California, will also mimic the detonation of nuclear weapons and will perform astrophysics experiments.

In 2004, the stations helped scientists prove that what was feared to be a North Korean nuclear test was in fact the detonation of a train carrying explosiveIn 2004, the stations helped scientists prove that what was feared to be a North Korean nuclear test was in fact the detonation of a train carrying explosivein fact the detonation of a train carrying explosives.

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 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.

And the special high explosives fabricated by nuclear scientists to compress the plutonium cores in a deliberate detonation also have an unstable molecular structure.

Michael Bernardin is considered the nation's expert in electromagnetic pulse (EMP) physics created by high - altitude nuclear detonations, and he is nationally recognized for his understanding of weapons physics.

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.

Starting at the point in the movie when Indy's survives a nuclear detonation test by jumping into a fridge!

An example is a heart - stopping plane hijacking that takes place in mid air and later the fear of a nuclear bomb detonation.

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In a paper published online this week by the journal Quaternary International, 26 members of the working group point roughly to 1950 as the starting point, indicated by a variety of markers, including the global spread of carbon isotopes from nuclear weapon detonations starting in 1945 and the mass production and disposal of plasticIn a paper published online this week by the journal Quaternary International, 26 members of the working group point roughly to 1950 as the starting point, indicated by a variety of markers, including the global spread of carbon isotopes from nuclear weapon detonations starting in 1945 and the mass production and disposal of plasticin 1945 and the mass production and disposal of plastics.