Sentences with phrase «nuclear testing ground»

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However, barring a nuclear war or a rogue state conducting more dangerous above - ground tests, this method has a limited lifespan.

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

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.

But the ground shaking had originated at North Korea's nuclear weapons test site.

Due to lingering radiation from the 1986 meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, humans aren't allowed to live there — but the region has become an accidental ecological testing ground for scientists interested in studying the effects of radiation on wild animals.

Jonas Frisén at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and colleagues used the carbon - 14 produced by above - ground nuclear bomb tests carried out between 1945 and 1963.

At the end of Ground Zeroes an underground nuclear testing facility, abandoned by South Africa in 1977 is mentioned, likely the new location of Mother Base (Outer Heaven).

Living things — including you and me — contain 14C that is continuously generated in the upper atmosphere (and from above - ground nuclear tests in the 50s and 60s).

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 above - ground nuclear tests that occurred in several countries between 1955 and 1980 (see nuclear test list) dramatically increased the amount of carbon - 14 in the atmosphere and subsequently in the biosphere; after the tests ended, the atmospheric concentration of the isotope began to decrease.»