Sentences with phrase «nuclear test blasts»

North Korea has set off several powerful nuclear test blasts in recent years, but they all occurred deep inside a mountain.

And in a chapter on the radioactive elements carried in nuclear fallout, there's Pig 311, a sow that survived a nuclear test blast only to be used as propaganda for the weapons» supposed safety.

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Additionally, the spy agency noted that North Korea had some trouble with its nuclear test site, with a recent nuclear blast causing landslides and cave - ins that apparently restricted access to the site.

Castle Bravo, detonated on February 28, 1954, was the first of the Castle series of tests and the largest US nuclear blast of all time.

If this is not a matter of imprecise wording, such a blast would exceed the US» strongest - ever nuclear test explosion.

When North Korea conducted its recent nuclear weapon test, the blast had been detected by a global seismic sensing network operated by the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty Organization (nuclear weapon test, the blast had been detected by a global seismic sensing network operated by the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty Organization (CTBtest, the blast had been detected by a global seismic sensing network operated by the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty Organization (Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTest - Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).

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.

Applying the method to modern blasts could help regulators identify nuclear tests long after the fact and better enforce nonproliferation treaties, the researchers propose in a paper to appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of July 4.

The news of the blasts came as the Indian Parliament was debating its own nuclear tests.

For North Korea, the question is not so much whether the government is setting off nuclear tests, but how powerful and destructive those blasts might be.

The organisation set up to verify the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty (CTBT) has a global network of air samplers that monitor and trace the origin of around a dozen radionuclides, the radioactive elements released by atomic bomb blasts — and nuclear accNuclear - Test - Ban Treaty (CTBT) has a global network of air samplers that monitor and trace the origin of around a dozen radionuclides, the radioactive elements released by atomic bomb blasts — and nuclear accnuclear accidents.

Nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s and»60s blasted radioactive particles into the atmosphere.

Smaller earthquakes can also be caused by volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear tests.

The new scenario differs from two reports last week, one of which has been accepted for publication in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, that pinpointed the blast nearly a kilometer to the northwest of the site identified in the new paper, and concluded that the blast rendered the entire mountain unfit for future nuclear tests.