Sentences with phrase «nuclear test earlier»

The rest of the world has enforced stricter sanctions on the hermit state following its sixth nuclear test earlier this month.

U.N. diplomats say the two countries have started discussions on a possible U.N. sanctions resolution in response to the nuclear test earlier this month, but Beijing has not said directly whether it will support tougher steps against North Korea.

Not exact matches

Every person alive on the 71st anniversary of those attacks holds in their flesh radioactive remnants of the nuclear era — a period centered in the early decades of Cold War when nuclear nations conducted atmospheric tests of ever - larger bombs.

Since the Winter Olympics earlier this year in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and sweeping rounds of US - led sanctions after North Korean nuclear and missile tests, Kim has also apparently opened up to diplomacy.

South Korea said on Monday it was preparing fresh military drills with its ally the United States and ramping up its ballistic missile defenses in response to North Korea's sixth and most powerful nuclear test a day earlier.

North Korea has shown a persistent interest in computer technology since the early 1980s so it is conceivable that a country, which has launched long - range missiles and tested nuclear weapons has also developed a smartphone, said Kang Ho Jye, a research fellow at Ewha Institute of Unification Studies.

During the summit, Kim also confirmed his earlier announcement that he would dismantle a nuclear test site located at Punggye - ri, denying an allegation that the site may be dysfunctional.

At a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Worker's Party of Korea earlier this month, North Korea decided to dismantle its Punggye - ri nuclear test site in the country's northeast, as well as suspend nuclear and missile tests.

Earlier today, North Korean leaders tested nuclear weapons for the fourth time since 2006.

Speaking earlier today, US president George Bush said the nuclear test was a «provocative act» and deserved an «immediate response» from the security council.

When Mr Moon was last in government, in the early 2000s, South Korea had a «Sunshine Policy» which meant co-operation with North Korea, a policy which was abandoned as North Korea tested nuclear weapons.

According to Paris, «The early universe is becoming such a tightly constrained environment with increasingly good measurements that we can test our descriptions of microscopic quantum physics, such as nuclear cross sections, to high accuracy.»

Concerns about nuclear fallout and the signing of the Partial Test Ban Treaty ended the project in the early 1960s.

Graphic artist Isao Hashimoto depicts the startling number of nuclear bombs that have gone off between 1945 and 1998, from the early U.S. and Soviet tests to the activities of Pakistan's nuclear program.

Robert Geller, a seismologist at the University of Tokyo, says the litmus test came earlier this month when the government rubber - stamped the restarting of a nuclear power plant in Oi, western Japan.

Earlier this week, John Parmentola, senior vice president of energy and advanced concepts at General Atomics, told a House energy subcommittee that the United States needs to invest in a test bed nuclear reactor to ramp up development in the next generation of atomic energy (E&E Daily, May 14).

The world is closer to nuclear annihilation than at any point since the first hydrogen bombs were tested in the early 1950s, says a group of scientists who monitor global tensions.

Radiation may also have led to a high incidence of cancer in those who witnessed early nuclear tests or have been in contact with depleted uranium munitions, though a recent study contests this risk.

A pioneer in the diagnostic uses of radiation and the development and testing of radiotracers in the early days of nuclear medicine, Robert N. Beck, professor emeritus in the Department of Radiology at the University of Chicago, died at the University of Chicago Medical Center on August 6, 2008, from myelodysplasia, a form of leukemia.

That's about 70 times as much energy as was released just a few days earlier when North Korea tested a nuclear bomb.

The group has found that a broad range of potential physical, chemical and biological markers characterise the Anthropocene, the clearest global markers being radionuclide fallout signals from nuclear testing and changes in carbon chemistry through fossil fuel burning — these in particular show marked changes starting in the early to mid-1950s.

«Probably among the earliest designations of a coral reef protected area, this site has been subjected to massive military development, high atmospheric nuclear testing, chemical waste disposal, and other threats,» the institute notes.

In previous years, the group tested an early prototype detector at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, a nuclear power plant in CaliforniNuclear Generating Station, a nuclear power plant in Californinuclear power plant in California, USA.

An early test could come in New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo has offered state subsidies to prevent the closure of three upstate nuclear plants, which are currently priced out of the NYISO market because of low natural gas prices.

What's needed now is a new national commitment to the development, testing, demonstration, and early stage commercialization of a broad range of new nuclear technologies — from much smaller light - water reactors to next generation ones — in search of a few designs that can be mass produced and deployed at a significantly lower cost than current designs.

The North Korean dictatorship launched a nuclear test missile earlier this month and given the current events, there is a high change of another nuke launch in days to come.