Sentences with phrase «nuclear weapons scientists»

Much productive work might be achieved if this book became required reading for nuclear weapons scientists and antinuclear activists, as a way of overcoming the stereotypes that preclude debate.

Many of the folks who are involved in building the last round of nuclear weapons or even the first round of nuclear weapons are either passing away or retiring or otherwise their knowledge is becoming inaccessible; and of course there are records, but there is, as many physicists who I interviewed said, «There is nothing like learning by doing and if we want to maintain the ability to build nuclear weapons for the indefinite future, then some argue that we need to continue to build them to train up this next generation of potential nuclear weapon scientists.»

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After Trump was elected, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved their Doomsday Clock closer to «midnight,» saying his election brought the world closer to the apocalypse due to Trump's «casual talk about nuclear weapons,» as well as his environmental policies.

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?

When asked why this project is so important to him, he voiced the dominant perspective among weapon scientists at LLNL: He doesn't want nuclear weapons to be used and passionately believes the key to ensuring they aren't is to making sure the U.S. stockpile continues to be an effective deterrent.

It could be the end of a five - year - long struggle for the Iranian scientist, who has said all along that he was punished for refusing to help a covert nuclear - weapon programme.

She was president from 1976 of the Pugwash Conferences, in which scientists from East and West, both sides of the Iron Curtain, met to campaign against nuclear and chemical weapons, exchanging information they had gathered.

NEW DELHI, INDIA — Pakistan has removed one of its top nuclear scientists as part of a major reshuffling of the country's nuclear weapons program.

Livermore scientists will dismantle Nova — used primarily for experiments that probe the subtleties of nuclear weapons explosions — in May to make way for the 192 - beam National Ignition Facility.

Many of the scientists who signed the letter are well - regarded physicists and have advised federal policy - makers on nuclear weapons issues at various points in their careers.

The scientists praised the nuclear deal for its «stringent constraints,» which ensure that it would take Iran many months to enrich uranium for a weapon, as opposed to the several weeks that would have been required before the agreement was reached.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — Even when they're underground, nuclear tests can be detected in the skies — and as a result, global satellite networks could become a powerful new tool in the arsenal of weapons to help detect clandestine underground nuclear explosions, a team of scientists reported here today at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

While the superpowers were busy threatening to destroy each other with nuclear weapons, Albert B. Sabin turned to a surprising ally to test his new oral polio vaccine — a Soviet scientist

Scientists in California, New Mexico win federal competition to design hardier nuclear weapon

As a scientist and political heavyweight within his party, Joshi is also expected to be an influential voice in the government's nuclear weapons policy.

Many scientists and environmentalists warn that the government's present strategy of simply storing the plutonium could do more harm than good because it does nothing to reduce the risk of environmental disaster, and, rather than discourage other countries from developing nuclear weapons, it could provoke them to increase their efforts.

For nearly 2 decades, NNSA has supported the construction and operation of NIF because ICF's miniature explosions can aid weapons scientists who are trying to maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile.

Scientists often compare the damage an incoming asteroid might do to that of a nuclear weapons test of equivalent energy, but Chelyabinsk proves that this model doesn't work in all cases.

Many of those scientists were not Americans, though, but immigrants appalled by Hitler and horrified at the prospect that he might acquire a nuclear fission weapon.

The Union of Concerned Scientists has organized a letter, signed by Nobel prize — winning physicist Leon Lederman, urging President Obama to aggressively cut the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal.

The new role is needed, Moses says, so that Atherton can coordinate with scientists in the three major user communities that NIF serves: nuclear weapons researchers involved in maintaining the U.S. stockpile, fusion energy researchers, and basic scientists working with materials and in other fields.

Investigative journalist William Langewiesche tracks the proliferation of nuclear weapons, focusing his story on Pakistani scientist A. Q. Khan, who stole plans and equipment from the West and peddled the technology to countries hostile to Western interests: «That same afternoon a small group of Pakistanis associated with the weapons program, including, of course, A. Q. Khan, gathered in a concrete bunker in Chagai, facing the chosen mountain seven miles away.

International law should make working on nuclear or biological weapons a crime against humanity, thereby helping scientists and engineers exercise their consciences.

But a document newly obtained by the Washington, D.C. — based Federation of American Scientists (FAS)-- founded by the creators of the original nuclear bomb in 1945 and monitoring the weapons ever since — reveals that in recent years the U.S. target list has expanded to include so - called «regional proliferators,» smaller states seeking to acquire such weapons of mass destruction.

Moody hopes the discovery of stable superheavy elements will help scientists better understand the mechanics of how nuclei are held together, opening the door for future discoveries in nuclear power generation or weapons development.

In their analyses of the beaches, the scientists detected not only cesium - 137, which may have come from the Dai - ichi plant or from nuclear weapons tested in the 1950s and1960s, but also cesium - 134, a radioactive form of cesium that can only come only from the 2011 Fukushima accident.

Part of the rationale for building NIF was that weapons scientists could use it to validate simulations of nuclear explosions and so keep the country's nuclear stockpile safe and working properly.

In the West, scientists from nuclear weapons establishments have tended to write off red mercury as a hoax.

A third of these are warheads — dubbed W76 — which, since 1978, have been deployed atop submarine - based ballistic missiles or stored in what is known as the Enduring Nuclear Stockpile, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal everNuclear Stockpile, according to Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal everNuclear Information Project at the Washington, D.C. - based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), an organization founded by the creators of the original nuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal evernuclear weapon in 1945 that has been monitoring the nation's nuclear arsenal evernuclear arsenal ever since.

Analysts who are sifting through documents recovered from Iraq's nuclear weapons programme have concluded that scientists working on the programme «took Saddam Hussein for a ride».

By poring over images from commercial satellites and freely available seismic data, a scientist in London has pieced together a detailed picture of China's secret nuclear weapons testing site.

China's nuclear test last week probably signals an attempt to develop a new generation of smaller warheads, according to a dissident Chinese weapons scientist.

But, having served successive governments in their nuclear weapons policies for nearly 50 years, the Aldermaston scientists and engineers deserve proper consideration of their future.

Joint projects with Russian nuclear scientists began to ebb soon after President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, and reached a nadir last October when Russia suspended an agreement with the United States on nuclear R&D cooperation and terminated another on retooling Russian research reactors to no longer run on weapons - grade uranium fuel.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced today that it has moved its Doomsday Clock to 2 minutes before midnight, citing North Korea's recent tests of missiles and nuclear weapons and the world's lack of progress in confronting climate change.

«Nuclear weapons and climate change are precisely the sort of complex existential threats that can not be properly managed without access to and reliance on expert knowledge,» the scientists wrote in their report.

Kelly, a scientist who worked on bombs and is now trying to save the world from them, is drawn into what Devoe keeps referring to accusingly as the «real world,» as in «In the real world, nuclear weapons are heading toward Iran!»

They demand that all governments give up their nuclear weapons leaving the scientists to govern a utopian world.

The meeting with the widow of Manhattan Project scientist Alexander Langsdorf led to other interviews, including a conversation with Al Wattenberg, who also worked on the U.S. government initiative to develop nuclear weapons.

His covert mission: to infiltrate the city's thriving Jewish community and locate a refugee nuclear scientist who could be key to America's new weapons program.

1961, October: Atomic Robo stops a rogue Russian scientist from detonating a nuclear weapon powerful enough to destroy all life on Earth.

The CIA scientist also joins your organization, and later, he beings to make YOU a nuclear weapon.

After accepting the mission, a scientist working for the CIA informs you that he's being forced to make them a dangerous, nuclear weapon.

Zanzibar Land military obtains nuclear weapons and plans to hold the world hostage by kidnaping Dr. Kio Marv a Czech scientist.

In one study, scientists led by Owen «Brian» Toon of the University of Colorado, Boulder, analyzed potential fatalities based on current nuclear weapons inventories and population densities in large cities around the world.

A lot of the world's best scientists (including the trespassers, safe crackers, and illegal emigrants mentioned above, but no flashers as far as I know) got together and invented nuclear weapons.

Or How many climate scientists does it take to realize that it was the scientists themselves who also brought us cruise missiles, cancer causing chemical cocktails, plastic, land mine technology, nuclear weapons, germ warfare, cluster bombs, strip mining technology, Y2K, Y2Kyoto, deep sea drilling technology and now climate control?

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a prestigious journal, established in 1945 to warn the public about the consequences of using nuclear weapons.

When Mr. Moore — who is not a scientist — was with Greenpeace it was mostly devoted to resisting the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons.

Too little action on cutting nuclear weapons and reducing climate change, along with the increased threat of wars, caused the time on the clock to be changed to five minutes to midnight, announces the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS).