Sentences with phrase «nuclear test series»

One other factor over the period post-1945 to 1963 which limited and affected SST observations in the Pacific Ocean were the various nuclear test series, for numerous military, political, physical and biohazard reasons, and the consequential local hydrophysical, hydrobiological, and atmospheric perturbations such testing occasioned.

Not exact matches

North Korea has conducted all six of its nuclear tests at the site, a series of tunnels dug into the mountains in the northeastern part of the country.

From August 5 to September 27, 1962, the USSR conducted a series of nuclear tests over Novaya Zemlya.

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.

Romeo was the second US nuclear detonation of the Castle Series of tests, which were conducted in 1954.

Tension between North Korea and the United States has been building after a series of nuclear and missile tests by Pyongyang and bellicose verbal exchanges between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump.

In Nevada, however, there is bipartisan opposition to the Yucca project, and the state's congressional delegation prepared a series of amendments meant to ensure that the House would consider key safety provisions for the project, which is located about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas and adjacent to the land where the government tested nuclear weapons.

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.

We got into a series of science and technology conferences whereby we try to think out of the box, moving away from our everyday work on nuclear test monitoring to see what the outside scientific community could do with the technology that we use.

«It's the SKUA9 design,» Goodwin says, one of a series of primaries created by Livermore during the nuclear testing program simply to test the viability of secondaries, and never produced as a weapon.

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.

Tests of the new cladding material, a ceramic compound called silicon carbide (SiC), are described in a series of papers appearing in the journal Nuclear Technology.

If the series of tests goes ahead, France will carry out its 124th underground nuclear test on Mururoa, an uninhabited coral atoll about 1200 kilometres southeast of Tahiti in the South Pacific (see Map).

Nuketown is one of the Call of Duty series» most famous maps, set around an abandoned nuclear test site.

Also on view is a 2016 large format black - and - white photograph from Charriére's First Light series, which examines the long - term devastation of Bikini Atoll by American nuclear testing between 1946 and 1958.

For the first of these three, the artist ventured into the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan for a series of photographs in the analogue medium format.

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.

The film Somewhere, 2014, and the photographic series Polygon, 2015, document the devastation caused by human activity in Semipalatinsk, the site in Kazakhstan where, between 1949 and 1989, the Soviet Union conducted 456 nuclear tests.