Sentences with phrase «nuclear devices on»

The screenplay combines a gimmick - a man is plagued by his ability to see two minutes into the future - with a highly unpleasant topic (the possible detonation of a nuclear device on American soil).

In addition to discussing climate change, Ms. Pelosi said she raised a number of issues during her talks with Chinese leaders, including intellectual property rights, human rights and North Korea's test of a nuclear device on Monday.

Not exact matches

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.

«There is enormous pressure when a missile reenters the atmosphere... If (electrical) circuits break and a trigger device fails to detonate nuclear fuel, you can imagine that only some twisted metal will fall on Alaska or Hawaii, even if North Korea fires missiles at them,» said Kim Dong - yub, an analyst at Seoul's Institute for Far Eastern Studies.

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.

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.

Romeo was the first device to be tested on a barge over open water instead of on a reef, as the US was quickly running out of islands upon which it could test nuclear weapons.

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.

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.

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.

Every other nuclear armed nation doesn't threaten to use the devices on a regular basis.

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.

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.

It is now highly unlikely that any rogue group could get its hands on an existing nuclear weapon, because the devices are well - guarded and have fail - safe protective mechanisms that no amateur is likely to crack.

Allison has posted the grim answer on his Web site (www.nuclearterror.org), which shows a three - color «blast map» depicting the effects of a 10 - kiloton bomb, about the smallest a workable nuclear device could be.

To understand these effects and exploit them for novel, e.g., acoustooptical, devices, one needs to image the delicate interplay of nuclear and electronic motions on a time scale much shorter than 1 ps.

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

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.

They created a device, known as High - pressure Magic Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (MAS NMR), that provides detailed information on the reactions happening between minerals and carbon dioxide.

Dubbed the compact fusion reactor (CFR), the device is conceptually safer, cleaner and more powerful than much larger, current nuclear systems that rely on fission, the process of splitting atoms to release energy.

She hasn't reinvented the action film, not by a long shot: clichés of the genre abound, from the soulful, tortured bad guy to the digital display on the nuclear device counting down the seconds to annihilation.

All of a sudden a nuclear device is detonated, it's WWIII, and they're on the run for their lives while trying to get home from the English countryside.

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.

I was trying to estimate the mining footprints of solar and nuclear, and came up with some very tentative rough estimates that ore input for solar energy might have an energy density (per unit mass) ~ 5 to 80 times coal, while nuclear (convential US fuel cycle) may be ~ 20 times coal — on the solar side, this doesn't include some balance of system components, and on the nuclear side, it only includes the U, but on the solar side, the actual energy density could get much higher with recycling of the same material into multiple successive generations of solar energy devices, and on the nuclear side, breeder reactors.

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.

Sixty years ago, on a day in August, the dawn of the Nuclear Age in Asia left nearly a quarter of a million people dead, with two devices considered crude by modern standards.

The IAEA has categorized four potential nuclear security threats (or, more accurately, nuclear security risks): the acquisition of nuclear weapons by theft; the creation of nuclear explosive devices using stolen nuclear materials; the use of radioactive sources in radiological dispersal devices (RDDs); and the radiological hazards caused by an attack on, or sabotage of, a facility or a transport vehicle.

Although the failure of a transformer at the 1,346 Mw Krümmel nuclear facility on July 4 did not endanger the public, revelations that Vattenfall, the Swedish utility, failed to install a monitoring device or promptly inform its regulator have caused alarm.

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If rebooting iCloud Keychain didn't do the trick, it's time to consider the nuclear option: Logging out of iCloud on your device.

The differences in joint family and nuclear family setting is fast waning and the attention on the youth is minimized as the youth at home spends most of the time with electronic gadgets, communication devices and internet based social networking, while the elders at home are busy with television based entertainment media.