Sentences with phrase «nuclear test ban»

Nature of Gamma - ray Bursts Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) were discovered in 1967 by satellites designed to monitor compliance with the atmospheric nuclear test ban treaty.

His book is a collection of essays, some written with collaborators, recording his experiences from his time with the Manhattan Project which saw the birth of the atomic bomb, to his role as US ambassador during the nuclear test ban negotiations in Geneva.

Now that the global nuclear test ban negotiations in Geneva are getting down to serious business and a ban could be achieved by March 1995, it looks increasingly likely that Britain's nuclear weapons designers will never be able to test their weapons again.

Jason has provided technical advice on topics ranging from biomedical imaging to ballistic missile defense to verification of the nuclear test ban treaty.

Confidential data held by nuclear test ban organisation emerging as key to monitoring Fukushima radiation.

President Kennedy will be remembered for his many accomplishments such as the successful outcome of the Cuban missile crisis, expanding the space program, founding the Peace Corps, addressing discrimination and poverty and establishing the nuclear test ban treaty.

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American opposition to atmospheric nuclear testing helped make possible the 1963 partial test - ban treaty.

One may wonder why Mr Kim should give up so much in advance instead of hanging on to a nuclear test - ban and an ICBM moratorium as aces up his sleeve.

Also they had legal recourse since in 1996 nearly every country in the world had signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which effectively banned nuclear testing (although we must note both India and Pakistan were not signatories, but were considered informally bound), thus more people were angry, and the greater outcry at the 1998 tests rather than the 1974 tests.

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 report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

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It even tested nuclear bombs in space before orbital weapons of mass destruction were banned through the United Nations» Outer Space Treaty of 1967.

In March 2003, for instance, seismometers detected a disturbance coming from near Lop Nor, a dried - up lake in western China that the Chinese government, which signed but hasn't ratified the test ban treaty, has used for nuclear tests.

He detailed how the crisis propelled the United States and the Soviet Union into a limited ban on nuclear testing and then to a series of arms control agreements in ensuing years.

With the nuclear powers due to begin negotiating a test ban treaty next January, Vertic believes independent verification of testing activity will help to foster openness.

Hundreds of nuclear bomb detonations in the atmosphere prior to a 1963 test ban treaty doubled the amount of radioactive carbon found in the ocean.

A complete ban on nuclear testing is a major part of the US policy to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

For several years now the weapons labs in the US have been preparing for a ban on nuclear testing.

This pulse stopped with the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned aboveground tests of nuclear weapons, and the unstable carbon - 14 isotopes have steadily decayed.

Cousins is the author of a number of nonfiction books on the topic of world peace and nuclear disarmament; and facilitated communication between the Holy See, the Kremlin and the White House which helped lead to the Soviet - American test ban treaty.

Eight chapters are devoted to Berlin and nuclear strategy, 14 to Cuba, 4 to JFK's work on a test - ban treaty and on taking advantage of the Sino - Soviet split, and 11 to Laos and Vietnam.

He negotiated the Limited Test Ban Treaty with the Soviets which he was unable to sign because Francis Gary Powers was shot down and the Soviets grandstanded for several months before getting to the banning of atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons.

Our committed activists and supporters have come together to ban commercial whaling, convince the world's leaders to stop nuclear testing, protect Antarctica, and so much more.

For example, the programs to control air and water pollution starting in the 1960s — including the ban on above ground nuclear testing — were a response to some horrific scenarios that could have come true.

The objective being to not end up in an verification deadlock a la nuclear weapons test bans.

Radiation from nuclear testing, banned hopefully before it was to late, has been a source of tracing in the environment ever sense.

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