Sentences with phrase «nuclear device in»

The alternate universe version of Superman comes across as an embittered bad guy, no doubt as a result of falling for the Joker's ruse that not only saw him killing Lois Lane but inadvertently detonating a nuclear device in the process that wiped out Metropolis, along with the lives of millions of innocents.

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.

13 One way of deflecting a Near Earth Object is to explode a nuclear device in its vicinity.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

«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.

Further, Russia designed its nuclear weapons arsenal as absolute doomsday devices that rain up to 10 high - yield nuclear warheads down on targets at Mach 23 in a salvo that the US can't possibly hope to intercept.

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.

sam harris said that it is possible to be so well educated that you could construct a nuclear device and believe there are a great reward waiting for you in the great beyond...

One is reminded of Pat Robertson's recent comment in interviewing the author of a book denouncing the State Department: «If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that would be the answer.»

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.

Thanks to the mechanical devices which we increasingly charge with the burden not only of production but also of calculation, the quantity of unused human energy is growing at a disturbing rate both within us and around us; and this phenomenon will reach its climax in the near future, when nuclear forces have been harnessed to useful work.

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.

In addition to dismantling the bombs themselves, the START treaties have provisions for dismantling nuclear bomb delivery devices (aka bombers).

«North Korea's action is in direct defiance of the will of the international community coming as it does just days after the United Nations presidency statement last week, which urged North Korea not to carry out its declared intention to test a nuclear device.»

In other words, if estimates are correct, the North Koreans have tested a more powerful nuclear device compared to those in 2006 and 200In other words, if estimates are correct, the North Koreans have tested a more powerful nuclear device compared to those in 2006 and 200in 2006 and 2009.

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.

Say a mad scientist detonated a nuclear device that killed everyone in Washington including everyone in the president's line of succession and say, he somehow figured out where the designated survivor was and killed him also.

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.

«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.

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.

Understanding the nature of radiation damage in materials is of paramount importance for controlling the safety of nuclear reactors, using ion implantation in semiconductor technology, and designing reliable devices in space.

For more than a decade, Iranian specialists in nuclear fusion experimented on aging tokamaks and other devices in seclusion, cut off from the global fusion community because of Iran's status as a nuclear pariah.

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.

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.

The film shows the two characteristic light output pulses that are seen only in nuclear weapon blasts, which correlate with the device's yield (the amount of energy given off from the explosion).

IF ALL the red traffic lights in the US were fitted with a new energy - saving device, the country could close down one nuclear power station.

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California began testing a device in May that can quickly detect concealed nuclear materials.

In past negotiations aimed at reducing the arsenals of the world's nuclear superpowers, chiefly the U.S. and Russia, a major sticking point has been the verification process: How do you prove that real bombs and nuclear devices — not just replicas — have been destroyed, without revealing closely held secrets about the design of those weapons?

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.

Today, his legacy is evident in everyday life, far outside the labs of physicists — from cell phones and satellite communications to nuclear power plants to medical scanning devices.

«Scientists were not interested in figuring out what kind of device had detonated, because they already knew that,» says analytical chemist Michael Kristo, a nuclear forensics expert at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

After spending about 10 years gathering meteorite samples, in 2000 Remo finally gained access to the perfect device for exploring the nuclear option: Sandia National Laboratories» Z machine, which happens to be the world's most powerful nuclear blast simulator, apart from nuclear weapons themselves.

His most recent research has helped quantify the amount of push a nuclear device could deliver in a dire emergency, when no other technology could save us.

This movement is largely a reincarnation of cold fusion, the short - lived, quickly dismissed phenomenon from the late 1980s of achieving nuclear fusion in a simple benchtop electrolysis device.

The device uses Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR) spectroscopy, a non-invasive and non-destructive analytical technique for medicines and supplements in pill or powder form.

Weapons - grade fuel in a nuclear reactor emits a steady rate of telltale antineutrinos that could be detected by a newly designed portable device

It has many sources, including the sun, electronic devices such as microwaves and cellphones, visible light, X-rays, gamma waves, cosmic waves, and nuclear fission, which is what produces power in nuclear reactors.

For example, the treaty forbids igniting devices based on nuclear fission; Küntzel draws attention to how, just a few weeks after West Germany signed the treaty, a working paper published by the Science and Politics Foundation in Ebenhausen emphasised that research into detonating H - bombs with a laser beam was permitted by the treaty, and should be encouraged.

These devices heat the plasma to more than 150 million degrees Celsius, simulating the conditions that cause natural nuclear fusion reactions in stars.

The arm will allow scientists studying neutrinos that originated at the beginning of the universe to load a tiny amount of nuclear material into the device while still maintaining a vacuum in the PTOLEMY laboratory.

The device will be used to calibrate safety detectors at nuclear reactors in the United Kingdom.

«Following the 1994 Shoemaker - Levy 9 comet impacts with Jupiter, Edward Teller proposed to a collective of U.S. and Russian ex-Cold War weapons designers in a 1995 planetary defense workshop meeting at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), that they collaborate to design a 1 gigaton nuclear explosive device, which would be equivalent to the kinetic energy of a 1 km diameter asteroid.

They're all reunited for a twisty tale that finds the gang globe - hopping in an effort to locate a nuclear device before anyone else does.

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.

Sure, soon after there was a nuclear device detonating in a major American city in Clear & Present Danger and Arnie as a vengeful fireman killing those responsible for the death of his family in a terrorist attack in the unfortunately named Collateral Damage.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Cruise and Company Go Undercover for Dangerous Assignment in Russia Before he could intercept a courier carrying the activation codes for Russia's nuclear devices, an American spy (Josh Hollaway) is slain in Budapest, Hungary by a blonde assassin (Lea Seydoux).

External catalysts today could include war breaking out with North Korea, a nuclear device being detonated somewhere, a sovereign debt default, a cyberattack on critical infrastructure in the United States, or something that threatens business and commerce.

They were, in fact, «soldier» dolphins, trained by the US Navy to follow a sonic recall device or «pinger», detect explosives, locate lost torpedoes, guard nuclear submarines and possibly even kill divers.

The game's main shtick is that you'll be able to switch between widely different weapons and devices in real - time, as the developers describe the game as a mix of The Binding of Isaac and Nuclear Throne.