Sentences with phrase «nuclear device»

The impact of a dirty bomb would be far less than that of a true nuclear device, and the radiation would probably not harm many people.

On September 15, 1971, the newly founded Don't Make a Wave Committee sent a chartered ship, Phyllis Cormack, renamed Greenpeace for the protest, from Vancouver to oppose United States testing of nuclear devices in Amchitka, Alaska.

Although the Soviet Union and the US were the primary testers of nuclear weapons, France, the UK, China, India, Pakistan, and North Korea have all also tested nuclear devices at some point since the end of World War II.

The computer - modeling study showed a nuclear war between the two countries involving 50 Hiroshima - sized nuclear devices on each side would cause massive urban fires and loft as much as 5 million metric tons of soot about 50 miles into the stratosphere, said CU - Boulder Research Associate Michael Mills, chief study author.

Retired black - ops CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device in Red 2.

«It was confirmed that the nuclear test that was carried out at a high level in a safe and perfect manner using a miniaturised and lighter nuclear device with greater explosive force than previously did not pose any negative impact on the surrounding ecological environment,» state - run KCNA news agency said.

The crew, including Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich and Mary - Louise Parker are back, this time to recover a missing portable nuclear device from, I'm guessing, the hands of Anthony Hopkins who makes an appearance.

Researchers had begun testing nuclear devices at the Nevada Test Site in 1951; this latest series of blasts was codenamed Operation Julin, and the final two tests of the series — dubbed Hunters Trophy and Divider — took place on 18 September and 23 September, respectively.

I can remember very well that in the eighties of the twentieth century I used to have nightmarish dreams of nuclear devices exploding on the horizon after which I woke up realizing that luckily it was just a dream.

Greater numbers make the bosses less overwhelming, and we all hunger for opportunities to show off our party tricks, like how my insect glaive's vaulting ability makes it easy for me to mount creatures, while my gunlance - toting partner can unload what appears to be a small nuclear device into a sleeping monster's face.

A bunch of hi - tech Russian soldiers hi - jack a train and rob 10 nuclear devices from it.

It is the essential vulnerable nature of a free society that we all walk down the sidewalk trusting in strangers we don't know who might be carrying a small nuclear device and looking like a regular person.

The Russian government reportedly leaked a diagram of such a weapon in 2015 that suggested it would carry a 50 - megaton nuclear bomb about as powerful as Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear device ever detonated.

The impact that produced the crater was two million times more powerful than the largest nuclear device ever tested, a 58 - megaton hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba, detonated by the Soviet Union in 1961.

If we ever did need to destroy an asteroid on short notice, a 2009 study led by David Dearborn of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California reassuringly showed that a 900 - kiloton nuclear device — which is within our capability — would permanently disperse a 1 - kilometre asteroid.

By 1958, the US had exploded 67 nuclear devices around the Marshall Islands — leaving a long legacy of contamination behind.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a wild state of the nation address to the country's elites on Thursday, and he chose to conclude the speech by hyping up a bunch of doomsday nuclear devices and threatening to retaliate against anyone who attacks the US with nuclear force.

«China will probably continue to press for diplomatic talks, arguing for the suspension of North Korean nuclear device and missile tests in exchange for the suspension of U.S. - South Korean military exercises,» Evans said in a note Wednesday.

North Korea has tested intercontinental ballistic missiles before, but researchers found them prohibitively small for delivering a heavy nuclear device halfway around the world to the continental US.

North Korea's announcement on Wednesday that it had successfully conducted a test of a hydrogen nuclear device added to a growing list of geopolitical worries for investors.

In other words, if estimates are correct, the North Koreans have tested a more powerful nuclear device compared to those in 2006 and 2009.

@Keith McClary: About the only way that could happen, and happen quickly enough that those eliminated from the succession wouldn't be replaced, would involve the explosion of numerous nuclear devices.

Britain demanded «significant» and «robust» action against North Korea today, after the Communist state successfully tested what may be a miniaturised nuclear device.

In 1963, the US, the UK, and the USSR promised, possibly with their fingers crossed behind their backs, not to test nuclear devices anymore.

It bears a brass plaque that simply reads, «Trinity Site — Where the world's first nuclear device was exploded on July 16, 1945.»

The recovery of a rogue nuclear device is worth any means neccessary, be they civilian casualties or even acts of war.

Why a homemade nuclear device has been made (with such a ridiculously easy trigger) is anybodies guess at this point, but we're sure it has something to do with a situation gone terribly wrong as the anti-heroes search for Peter Quill's true parents.

As it all falls into place for the finale, it should probably feel more amplified than it does — it's a missing nuclear device after all — but Feig's expert modulation of the comedy and the obvious delight of his crack cast manage to skate right past such concerns.

The purpose of these exercises is to evaluate the whole community effort to prevent, protect from, respond to, and plan initial recovery after the effects of an Improvised Nuclear Device (IND) attack.

In Little Inferno you burn flaming logs, screaming robots, credit cards, batteries, exploding fish, unstable nuclear devices and tiny galaxies.

Under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Energy, the Nevada Test Site (now the Nevada National Security Site)-- located just 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — saw the detonation of 928 nuclear devices between 1951 and 1992.

**** It's been nearly 2 months since Steven Cooper's ground breaking Cape Bridgewater acoustic study exploded like a small, but rather effective nuclear device — putting him on the international stage — and Scotching, once and for all, the nonsense that wind farm victims» complaints about sleep deprivation, and other adverse health effects, caused by -LSB-...]

Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the scientific arguments, the environment ministers maintained last month that the French had no moral right to explode nuclear devices in someone else's back yard.

In RED 2, the high - octane action - comedy sequel to the worldwide sleeper hit, retired black - ops CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives — including former colleague Marvin (John Malkovich), ever - deadly sharp - shooter Victoria (Helen Mirren) and Frank's beloved Sarah (Mary - Louise Parker)-- for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.

It is hypothesized that the detonation of a thermo - nuclear device at the Earth's center could re-start the core.

So far, one of the biggest problems for North Korea in the weaponisation process has been delivery: although it has been able to develop and test nuclear devices, these have been too bulky and big to place on a missile.

The massive blast radius caused by a nuclear device, which North Korea, according to news reports this week, is believed to have perfected and miniaturized to deliver on missiles, could make up for a lack of accuracy.

On Sunday, North Korean media warned of a «terrible retaliation» to the exercise, but short of testing more missiles or nuclear devices, there's little it can do to stop jets it can't see from training on land it doesn't control.

Even considering Fort Knox's sturdy granite, concrete and steel construction, standing outside while detonating the nuclear device seems profoundly unwise.

I do not think that a person can have a role in the wartime firing of a nuclear device, or even in the development or production of a destabilizing weapon, as an agonized participant.