Sentences with phrase «nuclear testing by»

Tensions between North Korea and the United States and its allies rose after several missile and nuclear tests by the North Korean regime, including one projectile that passed over northern Japan.

I think it is important that I make a comment about the nuclear tests by India.

Ambassador Tibor Tóth, executive secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty Organization, said that with the exception of two nuclear tests by North Korea since 2006, the world has effectively frozen testing.

Not exact matches

According to the report, Kim told Rosen that the U.S. believed North Korea would react to new United Nations sanctions by employing more nuclear tests.

The Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory was built in the 1950s as a radiation testing ground by the Air Force and weapons manufacturer Lockheed.

The «cosmic ray test» was developed by Silas Beane, a nuclear physicist at the University of Washington, and involves scientists building up a simulation of space using a lattice or grid.

However, peak testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere — the most potentially dangerous type of nuclear testing, as nuclear fallout could easily be dispersed by wind currents — occurred between 1961 to 1962 almost exclusively between the US and the USSR.

However, Pyongyang has previously offered to halt nuclear and missile testing if the drills are suspended — a proposal supported by China.

So Pyongyang's renouncement of land - based nuclear tests, for now, appears to be motivated by more than mere diplomatic concerns.

By one estimate, this amount would have been almost enough to both fund North Korea's uranium enrichment facilities, and to design, make and test its nuclear weapons,» the report said.

«Both leaders condemned North Korea's September 9 nuclear test and resolved to strengthen coordination in achieving the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, including by invigorating cooperation in the United Nations Security Council and in law enforcement channels on North Korea,» a White House statement said.

It has been angered by Pyongyang's repeated nuclear and missile tests and signed on to increasingly tough U.N. sanctions, but it has said it believes such steps are not the ultimate answer and called for a return to talks with North Korea.

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.

North Korea, which carries out its nuclear and missile programs in defiance of UN resolutions and sanctions, said on state television the hydrogen bomb test ordered by leader Kim Jong Un had been a «perfect success».

- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he would halt nuclear tests and intercontinental missile launches, in an announcement welcomed by US President Donald Trump ahead of a much - anticipated summit between the two men.

India is also ramping up its nuclear and conventional deterrence against China by testing long - range missiles, raising a mountain strike corps for the border with China, enhancing submarine capabilities and basing its first squadron of French - made Rafale fighter jets near that border.

There could be several factors that had investors on edge — including news that North Korea had completed a fifth nuclear missile test and the European Central Bank had declined to announce additional measures to help stimulate Europe's sluggish economy — but many strategists pointed to a speech Friday morning by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren, in which he said that «a reasonable case can be made» for tightening interest rates in the U.S..

Last month, Trump surprised the world by accepting an offer to negotiate with Kim, who has announced a halt to nuclear and long - range missile tests.

After months of missile and nuclear tests that raised tensions on the Korean Peninsula, Kim suddenly extended an olive branch, saying in his New Year's address on Jan. 1 that he would prepare for his country's participation in the Feb. 9 - 25 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics hosted by South Korea.

The facility is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and is a key element of NNSA's Stockpile Stewardship Program to maintain the reliability and safety of the U.S. nuclear deterrent without full - scale tNuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and is a key element of NNSA's Stockpile Stewardship Program to maintain the reliability and safety of the U.S. nuclear deterrent without full - scale tnuclear deterrent without full - scale testing.

I believe that the sun is powered by the nuclear fusion of hydrogen in to helium, because the spectrum of the emitted light is exactly as predicted by theory and tested by experiment on earth.

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.

If one is to think «rationally» in building a nuclear programme, one must first attempt to acquire the technical know - how, then demonstrate it by testing it (or at least creating enough suspicion about testing it) and once the international community «recognises» one's capability of developing a sufficient deterrent then negotiations can begin.

He said he had spoken with leaders of China, South Korea, Japan and Russia by telephone and all had agreed that the nuclear test was unacceptable.

The move followed condemnation and sanctions by the U.N. Security Council for North Korea's April 2009 launch of a suspected long - range missile and May 2009 test of a nuclear device.

We both strongly oppose the acquisition or testing of nuclear weapons by North Korea and we both want to see a resumption of the six party talks.

In a statement quoted by the agency, Mr Kim said it was no longer necessary to conduct missile tests because «nuclear weaponisation» had been achieved.

The latest information about Kim's detention came amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula, driven by concerns that the North might conduct its sixth nuclear test in defiance of US pressure and UN sanctions.

Seismic activity was detected by several monitoring agencies at 02:57 GMT at North Korea's nuclear test site, with the US Geological Survey recording a shallow earthquake with a magnitude of 4.9.

But plenty of smaller earthquakes, most not even felt by humans, occur across the world every day due to detonations, such as nuclear weapons testing or mining, or rising magma linked to volcanic activity.

When nuclear tests were conducted by North Korea in 2016 and 2017, Zerbo oversaw a response that included providing data and analysis to CTBTO member states as the events unfolded.

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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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Surface rock above a nuclear test will expand enough to be trackable by radar satellites.

The International Monitoring System (IMS), established by the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty, has a number of different ears to the ground to detect clandestine nuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions pNuclear - Test - Ban Treaty, has a number of different ears to the ground to detect clandestine nuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions pnuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions pnuclear explosions produce.

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) released 62 newly declassified videos today of atmospheric nuclear tests films that have never before been seen by the public.

LLNL nuclear weapon physicist Gregg Spriggs is leading a team of film experts, code developers and interns on a mission to hunt down, scan and reanalyze what they estimate to be 10,000 films of the 210 atmospheric tests conducted by the U.S. between 1945 and 1962.

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

By Barani Krishnan (Reuters)- A federal nuclear inspector urged U.S. regulators to shut down a California nuclear power plant until tests showed its reactors could withstand shocks from nearby earthquake faults, according to the Associated Press and an environmental group.

The tests were part of phase one of the Source Physics Experiment, a $ 40 - million project run by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.

A bill introduced by Senator Tom Udall (D - N.M.) and Congressman Ben Ray Lujan (D - N.M.) would expand the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, making it easier for uranium workers and residents downwind from nuclear test sites to get federal cash and medical help.

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.

«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.

But at a workshop cosponsored by AAAS, experts said the crisis also was an inflection point, leading to agreements to limit nuclear testing and curb proliferation and driving a cohort of scientists and engineers into the fields of arms control and science diplomacy.

Researchers used data from sensors designed to detect clandestine nuclear tests, among other sources, to identify airbursts with an energy equivalent to or larger than that released by 1 kiloton of exploding TNT.

Critical to the success of the treaty is an ever - growing array of advanced monitoring stations and sensors — 337 facilities in 89 nations when complete — that provides nuclear test detection capabilities by reading even faint atmospheric, seismic, or acoustic signals.

The impact that produced the crater was two million times more powerful than the largest nuclear device ever tested, a 58 - megaton hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba, detonated by the Soviet Union in 1961.

The team reproduced trinitite, the green - hued glass left by the Trinity test, the first U.S. nuclear detonation, which took place in 1945 at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

Geologists have used the term «induced seismicity» to describe earthquakes triggered by mining, dams, underground nuclear tests and wastewater injection.