Sentences with phrase «nuclear explosions tested»
Half of my family has died from cancers that I believe were a result of radioactive fallout caused by aboveground nuclear explosions tested in the Nevada desert from 1945 to 1962....
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And while the U.S. has yet to verify that the weapon was a hydrogen bomb, experts widely agree that the detonation created an explosion exceeding previous North Korean nuclear tests.
If this is not a matter of imprecise wording, such a blast would exceed the US» strongest - ever nuclear test explosion.
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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.
«First nuclear explosion helps test theory of moon's formation.»
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.
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 International Monitoring System (IMS), established by the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty, has a number of different ears to the ground to detect clandestine nuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions pNuclear - Test - Ban Treaty, has a number of different ears to the ground to detect clandestine nuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions pnuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions pnuclear explosions produce.
Reuters reports that the Australian Geological Organization registered Pakistan's nuclear tests as one explosion of 5 magnitude on the Richter scale.
The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation, which watches out for nuclear weapons tests worldwide, looked at its data for the last few days to see if its infrasound — below the range of human hearing — recordings, normally used to seek out the muffled crump of underground tests, contained any signature of an aircraft expNuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation, which watches out for nuclear weapons tests worldwide, looked at its data for the last few days to see if its infrasound — below the range of human hearing — recordings, normally used to seek out the muffled crump of underground tests, contained any signature of an aircraft expnuclear weapons tests worldwide, looked at its data for the last few days to see if its infrasound — below the range of human hearing — recordings, normally used to seek out the muffled crump of underground tests, contained any signature of an aircraft 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.
North Korea has said it has carried out a «higher level» nuclear warhead test explosion which will allow it to finally build «at will» an array of stronger, smaller and lighter nuclear weapons.
Separately, physicists have conducted an unprecedented set of six explosions at the U.S. nuclear test site in Nevada.
Chemical explosion experiments to improve nuclear test monitoring.
The U.S. continues to observe a moratorium on nuclear testing, so scientists, particularly at government facilities such as LLNL and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), develop ways to detect these events without creating an explosion themselves.
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.
So if somebody had real - time access to our data, they could say to the media: «I have found that Burkina Faso has carried out a nuclear test explosion.»
The CTBT would prohibit the U.S. and every other signatory from conducting test explosions, no matter how small, of nuclear weapons underground, in space or anywhere else.
FULL - BLOWN FALLOUT Remnant radiation levels from nuclear testing near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, as seen in this explosion in 1946, are far higher than previously predicted, new research shows.
The first seismic waves generated by temblors and explosions — those from mining operations as well as underground nuclear tests — are sharp and distinct, says Göran Ekström, a seismologist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.
His research has been valuable to the Laboratory's nuclear - test - detection satellite programs, and his work is significantly increasing the accuracy of predictions for the behavior of energetic electrons from high - altitude nuclear explosions.
And it turned out to be a nuclear explosion, because it wasn't in the interest of the school district to tell the community how each and every kid was doing on their test.»
In its 36 minutes duration, the film presents footage of one of the first nuclear tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in 1946; Conner shows the underwater explosion from fifteen different angles, in extreme slow motion — at some points one second of real time becomes three minutes of screen time.
Her Zero Panorama series was inspired by an image she found while searching for historical explosions on the Internet — one of naval officers and one of the wives cutting into a cake to celebrate a nuclear testing site — which was deemed obscene by The Washington Post.
Whether rendering nuclear test sites, aerial views of the scarred desert of eastern Washington State where he grew up, or haunting undisclosed explosions across a region's expanse, LoPresti's environments are ones of man - made disruption.
Atmospheric nuclear explosions can be regarded as full - scale in situ tests for nuclear winter.
This is a constant process compared to the one - offs that represent each nuclear explosion, a factor that allowed another test to be made.
(1) Every person is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to a term of imprisonment for life who (a) carries out a nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion for the purpose of developing qualitative improvements in nuclear weapons or developing new types of nuclear weapons...