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(This timescale is also in agreement with the rapid decline of the C14 spike due to atmospheric nuclear explosions in the fifties.)

From 1945 onwards there were nuclear explosions in the atmosphere injecting massive quantities of particulates into the stratosphere.

Operation Fishbowl is a multi-media sculpture displaying publicly sourced video of nuclear explosions in outer space.

«Rats survived nuclear explosions in the Pacific.

The method, which has taken Spalding more than a decade to develop, hinges on a massive pulse of radioactive carbon - 14 isotopes released by nuclear explosions in the 1950s and»60s, which doubled the amount of carbon - 14 in the atmosphere.

The designers want $ 900 million for a laser that will simulate nuclear explosions in the laboratory more accurately than ever before.

North Korea may be planning one of the most powerful nuclear explosions in history, if the nation's foreign minister is to be believed.

A nuclear explosion in the air, on the ground, underwater, or in space has not happened in decades.

I thought it had something to do with an evil Galactic Overlord detonating a nuclear explosion in a volcano, scattering the confused spirits of his enemies throughout the Earth's atmosphere.

Perhaps it's a learned response, from growing up in an era where even the best game stories featured characters who could shrug off a nuclear explosion in «game mode» with a healing potion, but who could then be fatally wounded by a single sword swipe in «story mode», but I've always been able to compartmentalize what happens in a game's story from what happens in the gameplay when necessary.

I was of the generation in which we practiced ducking under our desks in case of a nuclear explosion in elementary school.

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Meanwhile, hanging out in the living room of your one - story, wood - frame house will only cut down the radiation by half, which — if you are next to a nuclear explosion — will not do much to help you.

Nuclear explosions produce radioactive substances that are rare in nature — like carbon - 14, a radioactive form of the carbon atom that forms the chemical basis of all life on earth.

The report mentions that the explosion would have caused significant flooding in Kent, but that the nuclear option would be «100 per cent effective» at ensuring «totally irreversible total collapse, rupture [of] tunnel and seabed to cause total flooding and complete collapse of part of tunnel.»

Last November he unveiled a new electric semi-truck that can apparently withstand a nuclear explosion and go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in five seconds.

But Love evinced a tough side also, recording a number of remarkably angry songs: the garage - punk classic «My Flash on You,» one the fastest versions of «Hey Joe,» a cover of «My Little Red Book» that ditches the lost - love vibe of the original, and finally «7 and 7 Is,» a breath - taking hardcore punk prototype from early» 67, complete with a nuclear explosion finale and lyrics about throwing one's Bible in the fireplace.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

When this so called «rapture» happens, and however it happens — earthquake, flooding, nuclear explosion, it will only happen in places where Christians live.

On the other hand, there are horrendous dangers of worldwide misery implicit in the threat of nuclear war, extinction by ecological disruption, the explosion of population, and the political problems of governing the world's peoples during a period of such momentous crises.

In 2006, the country's first nuclear explosion measured less than one kiloton.

It also called for all states to refrain from conducting nuclear test explosions and to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty in order to bring it into force as soon as ponuclear test explosions and to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty in order to bring it into force as soon as poNuclear - Test - Ban Treaty in order to bring it into force as soon as possible.

«You can get academics in reports saying it's totally safe, and the next week you get a report that says it's the most dangerous thing since a nuclear explosion,» said Cuomo «It's become a very highly politicized, highly emotional, highly opinionated topic.»

Because all elements in the universe heavier than hydrogen, helium, and lithium have been forged by nuclear fusion in the cores of stars and then scattered into space by supernova explosions, the find indicates that the galaxy, at the age we're now observing it, was old enough for at least one generation of stars to have formed, lived, and died.

In asserting that the explosions on 11 and 13 May provide «enough data» to continue the country's nuclear weapons program without further testing, the two government experts hope to free up the hands of politicians who want India to join the 149 countries that have agreed to the ban.

The explosions tore open reactor buildings, damaging the 12 - meter - deep pools where used nuclear fuel is kept cool, potentially setting off another meltdown in the fuel there as the surrounding water drained away or boiled off.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009 Science historian Michael D. Gordin recounts the events leading up to August 29, 1949, when the Soviets detonated an atomic bomb in the deserts of Kazakhstan — a test explosion that brought the U.S. monopoly on nuclear weapons to a close.

In late April 1986, Sladek was hobbling around her home with a broken leg, the result of a skiing accident, when she heard a news report about an explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant.

Nuclear fusion of heavy elements (absorbing energy) occurs in the extremely high - energy conditions of supernova explosions.

Livermore scientists will dismantle Nova — used primarily for experiments that probe the subtleties of nuclear weapons explosions — in May to make way for the 192 - beam National Ignition Facility.

In a million years, barring profound shifts, the climate should have returned to its natural rhythms but any cities buried in sediment by rising seas should still be preserved, along with those signs of anthroturbation, human - induced disturbances underground, like the plutons from underground explosions of nuclear bombIn a million years, barring profound shifts, the climate should have returned to its natural rhythms but any cities buried in sediment by rising seas should still be preserved, along with those signs of anthroturbation, human - induced disturbances underground, like the plutons from underground explosions of nuclear bombin sediment by rising seas should still be preserved, along with those signs of anthroturbation, human - induced disturbances underground, like the plutons from underground explosions of nuclear bombs.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — Even when they're underground, nuclear tests can be detected in the skies — and as a result, global satellite networks could become a powerful new tool in the arsenal of weapons to help detect clandestine underground nuclear explosions, a team of scientists reported here today at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

The day before launch, the U.S. had set off a nuclear explosion at an altitude of 400 kilometers just southwest of Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean.

The terrifying meltdowns and hydrogen explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in the days following 11 March 2011 made the importance of backup electricity generators painfully clear.

By measuring the relative abundance of various elements in debris left over from nuclear explosions, researchers say they can accurately estimate the amount of energy released during the initial blast.

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).

Pakistan has replied to India's recent round of nuclear tests with five underground explosions today in the desolate Chagai region in Baluchistan province barely 50 kilometers from the Iranian border.

Neutrinos are elementary particles produced in the nuclear furnaces inside stars and in supernova explosions.

They are abundantly produced in supernova explosions, star - powering nuclear fusion and other nuclear processes, resulting in trillions of neutrinos passing through us every minute.

In the movie, a «chain reaction» occurred, but it was difficult to determine if this was a nuclear chain reaction or just a big hydrogen explosion.

As ever, the presentations covered a wide range of topics from HIV in the dentist's surgery to the risks of accidental nuclear explosions.

The explosion of a nuclear weapon happens in literally a flash.

Just after 6 AM local time on Tuesday in Japan, a sound like an explosion was heard near the suppression pool of reactor No. 2 at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

In this new work, Carrigan's team injected gas tracers into an old cavity in Nevada created by an underground nuclear explosion and studied how the gases were transported and released from the cavitIn this new work, Carrigan's team injected gas tracers into an old cavity in Nevada created by an underground nuclear explosion and studied how the gases were transported and released from the cavitin Nevada created by an underground nuclear explosion and studied how the gases were transported and released from the cavity.

Separately, physicists have conducted an unprecedented set of six explosions at the U.S. nuclear test site in Nevada.

Scientists have improved their ability to detect underground nuclear explosions set off by rogue nations, a development sure to be of interest as the Nuclear Security Summit kicks off its 2016 meeting in Washington D.C.nuclear explosions set off by rogue nations, a development sure to be of interest as the Nuclear Security Summit kicks off its 2016 meeting in Washington D.C.Nuclear Security Summit kicks off its 2016 meeting in Washington D.C. today.

April marks the 30th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear power disaster, the explosion and fire at a reactor at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, in the former Soviet Union.

The arguments for the reliable replacement warhead include, obviously, reliability, which is in the title of it, although that has somewhat been put to rest by expert study of the plutonium pets that rest at the center of a nuclear weapon; these are the key items for making a nuclear explosion.

Elements heavier than hydrogen and helium are forged in the nuclear furnaces of stars or during supernova explosions.

He arrived at Los Alamos in April 1943 and witnessed the first nuclear explosion, at Alamogordo, N.M., on July 16, 1945.

The hot, dense plasma produced is also the state of matter created in a nuclear explosion, hence the importance of this field to understanding nuclear bombs in the absence of explosive testing.