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They also list the killing of Iranian nuclear scientists in Iran and elsewhere, the Stuxnet cyber-attack on Iranian computer systems related to the Islamic republic's nuclear program, and the 2007 destruction of a Syrian plutonium reactor built with the help of Iran and North Korea.

Gibney starts out recalling the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists in 2010, and then the discovery of Stuxnet, in Belarus.

Here's the set - up: CIA intelligence officer Titus Ray tries to recruit a nuclear scientist in Tehran.

Not exact matches

North Korea's Kim Jong Un has bought his way in to talks with China's President Xi Jinping, South Korea's President Moon Jae - in, and US President Donald Trump with a commitment to denuclearize his country — but doing so could open up the world to the tremendous risk of loose nukes and loose nuclear scientists.

When the social scientist and derivatives trader sat down at the same table at a friend's wedding in 2011, they got to talking about their shared interest in «epic failures,» like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Hurricane Sandy.

And it also lifts scientists in the authoritarian nation who are working to build an arsenal of missiles with nuclear warheads that can reach the US mainland.

In the coming series of posts, I'll introduce you to scientists who believe fusion is on par with the development of nuclear power or sending men to the moon, and scientists who think these experiments are a dead - end.

On that date, nearly three decades ago, British engineer and scientist Tim Berners - Lee launched the world's first website, running on a NeXT computer at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland.

Author and film producer Eric Schlosser, writing in his book «Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety», captures the raw power of the blast through the perspective of scientist Bernard O'Keefe:

Sarov is an isolated city kept under constant guard by the Russian military, and only scientists and employees of the nuclear centre are allowed to enter, leave, or take residence in the city.

Heller, a scientist at the Vatican Observatory who does research in quantum gravity; Peter E. Hodgson, a professor of nuclear physics at Oxford University; Kenneth R. Miller, a professor of biology at Brown University.

Accompanying his own research in nuclear physics, Dr Hodgson has maintained a high profile in encouraging Catholic scientists and priest - scientists to integrate their studies and belief and to publicize their workeffectively.

And someone care - taking of persons in such situation might not be a nuclear scientist, but they «know» / «imitate» what to do, don't they?

Can theologians, however, with these insights, help scientists achieve responsible action in genetic engineering or nuclear physics?

The same thing can be said of the decision to engage in nuclear tests that have consequences not foreseen by the scientists who plan them and affect distant nations that have no part in the decisions.

Some nuclear scientists sympathetic to the protester's cause wonder if the demonstration did any good: «I don't expect that the protest will result in the plant not operating.

One social scientist recently replied to a flyer on behalf of a political action committee advocating ethically consistent life commitments in political life (embracing protection for the unborn, welfare reform, and nuclear disarmament):

The principal secretary of the USSR Academy of Sciences expressed the view that scientists on both sides of the Atlantic had reached a consensus and were unified in their view that nuclear war would spell disaster for the world.

because it was scientists that created the Nuclear bomb, in fact it was science that created all weapons... so by your logic, Science is to blame for the Death of EVERY human being in Warfare throughout time except for those killed by rocks and sticks that are unsharpened and / or killed by use of barehands... Science has slaughtered BILLIONS...... of course that's nonsense right?

She has a degree in radiochemistry and currently works as a scientist for the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

(Reuters)- Government scientists have not been able to replicate a chemical reaction suspected of causing a radiation leak at a U.S. nuclear waste dump in New Mexico, complicating efforts to understand what went wrong, a U.S. Energy Department official said Friday.

According to Chinese scientists, the last nuclear test in North Korea provoked the collapse of the mountain under which the testing base was built, basically crushing it.

The North Korean nuclear scientists were allowed to engage in their research in Russia until early 2015 when Pyongyang stopped paying an annual membership fee to the Russian government, Japanese news agency Jiji Press reported Monday.

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.

The other side of the «green» argument against nuclear power is the fear by some climate scientists that carbon emissions in New York could increase by more than 31 million metric tons during the next two years, if a number of nuclear power plants close.

► «[M] ore than 300 scholars and scientists, including seven Nobel laureates, have signed an open letter calling on Iran to release [chemist Mohammad Hossein] Rafiee» from its «notorious Evin Prison,» where he has been held «since June 2015, after speaking out in favor of the nuclear deal that was announced a month after he was imprisoned,» Zack Kopplin reported Tuesday at ScienceInsider.

2016: Kurt Godfried — Dr. Gottfried, a recognized leader in the scientific community on missile defense and nuclear terrorism who was among the founders of the Union of Concerned Scientists, was honored for his long and distinguished career as a «civic scientist,» through his advocacy for arms control, human rights, and integrity in the use of science in public policy making.

This «exciting new collaboration,» says Ratan K. Sinha, nuclear engineer and director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai, «will help bridge the gap» between less powerful Indian facilities and the goals of Indian scientists who are eager to carry out experiments with higher intensity beams.

Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists says all nuclear states are investing in modernising their arsenals.

In a recent experiment performed at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory at RIKEN, an international collaboration with scientists from eleven countries, led by scientists of the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC (Spain) and the RIKEN Nishina Center (Japan), made a very surprising observation: High - energy gamma rays — which are mediated by the electromagnetic force — are emitted in the decay of a certain excited nucleus — tin 133, in competition with neutron emission, the decay mode mediated by the strong nuclear forcIn a recent experiment performed at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory at RIKEN, an international collaboration with scientists from eleven countries, led by scientists of the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC (Spain) and the RIKEN Nishina Center (Japan), made a very surprising observation: High - energy gamma rays — which are mediated by the electromagnetic force — are emitted in the decay of a certain excited nucleus — tin 133, in competition with neutron emission, the decay mode mediated by the strong nuclear forcin the decay of a certain excited nucleus — tin 133, in competition with neutron emission, the decay mode mediated by the strong nuclear forcin competition with neutron emission, the decay mode mediated by the strong nuclear force.

It put the German nuclear scientists months behind and allowed the United States to overtake the Germans in the quest to produce the first atomic bomb.

BACKGROUND: The origins of nuclear medicine involve at least a dozen scientists working on different aspects of the technology over a century, culminating in a surge of diagnostic machines in the 1980s and»90s.

In 2006, 20 years after reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was encased in cement, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report compiled by a panel of 100 scientists on the long - term health effects of the level 7 nuclear disaster and future risks for those exposeIn 2006, 20 years after reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was encased in cement, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report compiled by a panel of 100 scientists on the long - term health effects of the level 7 nuclear disaster and future risks for those exposein cement, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency released a report compiled by a panel of 100 scientists on the long - term health effects of the level 7 nuclear disaster and future risks for those exposed.

Concerned that the United States» 10,000 - strong stockpile of atomic bombs are past their prime, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are vying to design the first new nuclear bomb in the United States since the W88 warhead in the mid-1980s.

She was president from 1976 of the Pugwash Conferences, in which scientists from East and West, both sides of the Iron Curtain, met to campaign against nuclear and chemical weapons, exchanging information they had gathered.

The method, called ultrafast electron diffraction (UED), could help scientists better understand the role of nuclear motions in light - driven processes that naturally occur on extremely fast timescales.

«High - speed «electron camera» films atomic nuclei in vibrating molecules: Method gives scientists new ways to study rapid nuclear motions in nature's light - dependent processes.»

To fully understand a plant's nuclear genome, scientists must also study two other genomes found within plant cells — in the «powerhouse» mitochondria and in the photosynthesizing chloroplast organelles.

In making their deliberations about how to update the clock's time, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists focused on the current state of nuclear arsenals around the globe, disastrous events such as the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, and biosecurity issues such as the creation of an airborne H5N1 flu strain.

About 75 % of recent RAMS participants from Fisk University, an HBCU in Nashville, Tennessee, went on to graduate school in computational sciences and engineering related fields, according to Stephen Egarievwe, a computer scientist and nuclear physicist who serves as the main RAMS connection at Fisk.

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.

Buoyed by an allocation of $ 1.25 billion in funding for reactor research from the 2005 Energy Policy Act, INL scientists are working to improve safety, boost efficiency, minimize waste, and decrease cost in a new generation of nuclear reactors.

Twenty - nine high - level U.S. scientists have commended President Obama and his team on the nuclear agreement negotiated with Iran, which will «advance the cause of peace and security in the Middle East,» according to their 8 August letter.

Many of the scientists who signed the letter are well - regarded physicists and have advised federal policy - makers on nuclear weapons issues at various points in their careers.

The crisis at the nuclear plant in Japan, due in part to exposed spent fuel, is forcing U.S. scientists and policymakers to look for safer courses of action

«This signifies the first commercial steps to end India's nuclear isolation and to emerge as a responsible nuclear state with advanced nuclear technology,» says computer scientist Prithviraj Chavan, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office.

Johannis Nöggerath, president of the Swiss Nuclear Society, seismologist Robert Geller of the University of Tokyo, and Viacheslav Gusiakov, who heads the Russian Academy of Sciences» Tsunami Laboratory in Novosibirsk, have looked at the historical record of tsunamis that was available when Fukushima Daiichi was designed in the mid-1960s (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol 67, p 37).

«Scientists slow progression of fatal form of muscular dystrophy: Hope lies in nuclear receptor that regulates muscle.»

The JASONs, a group of elite scientists that advises the US government on national security, has weighed in on issues ranging from cyber security to renewing America's nuclear arsenal.

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.