Sentences with phrase «nuclear tests during»

It also represented individuals involved in nuclear tests during the 1950s and set a precedent that means future appellants for war pensions will be subject to a lower burden of proof.

That missing radioactivity, originating as fallout from atmospheric nuclear tests during the 1950s and 1960s, routinely provides researchers with a benchmark against which they can gauge how much new ice has accumulated on a glacier or ice field.

Not exact matches

Hundred of bombs detonated in the open air (and several more in the ocean) during the heyday of atmospheric nuclear testing — with thousands more tests conducted underground.

During this period of testing, the USSR and the US detonated 340 megatons of nuclear weapons between the two of them.

The reasons are ostensibly diplomatic, pointing to a thaw in relations between Kim Jong - un's regime and South Korea and the West, but some noted that Pyongyang might have also been worried that the mountain was at risk of collapsing, as it visibly shifted during the last nuclear test.

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.

Kim also vowed during his meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae - in on Friday to shut down the North's nuclear test site in May and disclose the process to experts and journalists from South Korea and the United States, Seoul's presidential office said.

During a wide ranging interview with CBS» «Face the Nation,» Trump praised North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as a «pretty smart cookie,» but added he «would not be happy» if the rogue strongman conducts another nuclear test.

In Westchester County, the troubled Indian Point nuclear reactor was shut down yet again during electrical systems tests.

During the mission, Clementine will test technology that could one day be used to track nuclear missiles in the Earth's atmosphere.

Camp Century, a United States military base built within the Greenland ice sheet in 1959, doubled as a top - secret site for testing the feasibility of deploying nuclear missiles from the Arctic during the Cold War.

«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.

Iran's attempt to develop nuclear weapons will not be the last challenge faced in a journey that began with the world's first fission bomb test during World War II

The Marshall Islands were one of the United States's go - to nuclear testing sites in the 1940s and 1950s: Sixty - seven of the almost 200 tests during that period took place in these remote Pacific islands.

His book is a collection of essays, some written with collaborators, recording his experiences from his time with the Manhattan Project which saw the birth of the atomic bomb, to his role as US ambassador during the nuclear test ban negotiations in Geneva.

During a drill simulating a criticality accident on June, 15, 2016, some alarms at PF - 4 didn't work, and workers showed «inattentiveness» to a colleague who pretended to be wounded, according to a Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board summary of the exercise; as a result, they were judged to have failed portions of the test.

The last time NASA tested a fission reactor was during the 1960s» Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power, or SNAP, program, which developed two types of nuclear power sNuclear Auxiliary Power, or SNAP, program, which developed two types of nuclear power snuclear power systems.

The ore taken from Nevada's Comstock load financed the means by which we preserved the Union during the Civil War, and Nevada has hosted aboveground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site, the result being a weapon of such mass destruction that it swiftly brought the end to the World War II conflict.

Small amounts of caesium - 134, caesium - 137, and iodine - 131 were released into the environment during nearly all nuclear weapon tests and some nuclear accidents, and are not otherwise produced in nature.

However, back in the 1960s said Bruce Banner turned into the Hulk after being bathed in gamma rays during an accident with nuclear bomb test.

So before I round up Fred, my intrepid dachshund, and huddle with the Truett nuclear family for what promises to be a Christmas week full of stuffing my stubbly face with high - calorie holiday food, let me take a few moments to recognize the best cars, trucks, sport - utilities and minivans I tested during the last 12 months.

The National Atomic Testing Museum details America's nuclear history, from the Manhattan Project, the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan during World War II and the use of nuclear power as an energy alternative.

During that period there were almost 500 nuclear tests (in the atmosphere).

Pittsburgh may have enjoyed a little more blue sky thanks to Shippingport, but for the rest of us during that era, the sky was raining radioactivity, the fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests.

Using the abnormal levels of tritium released during nuclear testing in the 1950s, plus carbon14 dating, researchers have categorized the time since groundwater had last left the surface into 25, 50, 75 and 100 - year old age classes.

Camp Century is a U.S. military base built in northwestern Greenland in 1959 as a research facility to test nuclear missiles during the Cold War.

In addition to discussing climate change, Ms. Pelosi said she raised a number of issues during her talks with Chinese leaders, including intellectual property rights, human rights and North Korea's test of a nuclear device on Monday.

The orthopedic surgeon's opinion was that the condition was caused by infiltration during the nuclear stress test.

A group of 1,011 claimants seek damages for exposure to ionising radiation as a result of exposure to nuclear tests undertaken during the 1950s in the Pacific Ocean.