Sentences with phrase «nuclear time bomb»

Did a nuclear time bomb deep inside the young Earth tear the planet apart?

As I have commented on several times previously, Deutsche Bank's balance sheet is a ticking financial nuclear time bomb.

Not exact matches

On April 26, 1986, a radioactive release many times as large as the that of the Hiroshima bomb occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union.

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded 29 years ago on 26 April 1986, releasing radioactive particles into the air that were 250 times more powerful than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Fusion bombs are also on alert and ready to launch, and they are thousands of times more powerful than any nuclear weapons detonated during World War II.

North Korea's hidden artillery pieces have managed to deter outside invaders for decades, but with Kim scrambling to perfect his fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles and top US officials viewing Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions like a ticking time bomb, the use of the US's most advanced aircraft in exercises signals the US is serious about the possibility of war.

Circling back to the mall / REIT ticking time - bomb, while the Fed can keep the stock market propped up as means of preventing an immediate nuclear melt - down in U.S. pensions (all of which are substantially «maxed - out» in their mandated equities allocation), the collapse of commercial mortgage - back securities (CMBS) will have the affect of launching a nuclear sub-missile directly into the side of the U.S. financial system.

because it was scientists that created the Nuclear bomb, in fact it was science that created all weapons... so by your logic, Science is to blame for the Death of EVERY human being in Warfare throughout time except for those killed by rocks and sticks that are unsharpened and / or killed by use of barehands... Science has slaughtered BILLIONS...... of course that's nonsense right?

I don't really know anything about anime, but every time I watch Ace Sanders here (and I've watched this, like, 40 times, easy), I think about one of those anime scenes where the guy with the dinosaur hair has his arm explode and turn into an even bigger arm that's actually a nuclear bomb and there's all this FLASHING and SQUEALING going on and a factory turns into a robot that knows how to turn its arms into nuclear bombs and the backgrounds are all just PINK SPEED LINES and nothing makes any sense and everyone's SCREAMING.

I don't think that argument holds merit because Japan at the time of its unconditional surrender had already been bombed twice by nuclear weapons.

Armageddon The Willis character drills into an Earthbound asteroid, plants a nuclear bomb inside, and detonates it just in time to split the rock in two.

Fifth, the bomb used to split the asteroid would need to explode with the force of a hundred billion one - megaton bombs, millions of times the total yield of all nuclear weapons ever detonated.

But the yield of North Korea's nuclear tests crept up each time, and the most recent test, in September 2016, may have exceeded the size of the Hiroshima bomb.

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.

And then they were able to give the president the results of the Trinity test just in time for Potsdam which is when Harry Truman informed Stalin that the nuclear bomb had been — was ready.

Indeed, this is not the first time a contemporary composer has recognized the seemingly limitless potential for atomic Sturm und Drang; two previous operas — Steve Reich's Three Tales and Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach — take as a central symbol the explosion of a nuclear bomb.

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.

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

Another product, the atomic bomb, was constructed by way of nuclear reactors that could, in peace time, provide an abundant supply of radioactive isotopes, which are now of great value not only in biophysical research but also in biochemistry and medicine.

They figured it must have released 10 billion times as much energy as the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.

All this leads to President Kennedy getting Russia to remove its nuclear warheads from Cuba, the Russian atom bomb test in Nova Zemlya, in 1960 that was 1,570 times greater than Hiroshima that led to President Kennedy's call for international inspection and control of all nuclear technology and the real reason he was killed, who ordered it and how it was carried out.

How about tanks, destructible environments, nuclear bombs, and real - time (sort of) voice chat?!

With the games now awarded to Tokyo, if these stations are running, the «Nuclear Games will have a ticking time bomb powering every moment.»

I made the prints by combining time - lapse photographs of both the Hanford Reach and the mouth of the Columbia River with layers of text derived from stories told by Nagasaki bombing victims, data regarding the environmental and health effects of nuclear processing at Hanford, and poems by Dylan Thomas and Mary Oliver.

Nuclear is likely to be out of the frying pan into the fire, a time bomb waiting for our kids, just as much as climate change.

Rough calculations show if you drill about a dozen mine shafts as deep as possible into the thing, and plunk megaton nuclear bombs down there, and then fire them off simultaneously, you'll get a repeat of the Long Valley Caldera explosion of about 800,000 years ago — which coated everything east of it with miles of ash and injected a giant aerosol cloud into the stratosphere — the ash layer alone formed a triangle stretching from the caldera to Louisiana to North Dakota, including all of Arizona and most of Idaho and everything in between — I bet that would have a cooling factor of at least -30 W / m ^ 2 — and you could go and do the Yellowstone Plateau at the same time — geoengineering at its finest.

By the time he was 40, Weinberg had co-invented the pressurized water reactor, the boiling water reactor, the sodium fast reactor, the homogeneous reactor, the molten salt reactor, the atomic bomb — and the American Nuclear Society.

I suspect a more apt comparison of Climate is with the whole Population Bomb / Club of Rome / Nuclear Winter forays of science into politics that never achieved the political muscle of the climate change movement, though they had their time and power, but all suffered ill fates and deservedly so.

Nuclear power stations make a much better target than solar or wind power stations in war time because so much can be destroyed by one or a few well aimed bombs.

For something as complicated as climate science, the long run is longer than for making a bomb and nuclear power plant after the discovery of fission, which itself was a long time coming after the discovery of radioactivity.

At the time Alinsky wrote that book, 1971, radicals preferred pipe bombs, or nuclear weapons if they could have got their hands on them.

It exploded miles above Earth, releasing nearly 500 kilotons of energy - about 30 times the size of the nuclear bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in World War Two, NASA added.

There are other obstacles as well, such as the facts that nuclear power plants take a long time and a lot of material to build, release radioactive material into the environment in «unplanned releases,» generate waste which must be kept isolated from the biosphere for as much as 10,000 years, and create more potential bomb material cruising around the economy.

Splicing jealousy with religious fervour and nuclear capability creates a potentially ticking time bomb whose fall - out could affect us all.