Sentences with phrase «nuclear weapons testing»

But in the 1950s and 60s, nuclear weapons testing caused a sharp increase.
We are dedicated to ensuring nuclear weapons testing never again threatens our public health.
Every cubic meter of air and water and every hectare of land now have a human imprint, from hormones in the seas, to fluorocarbons in the atmosphere and radioactivity from nuclear weapons tests in the soil.
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.
Polygon - Чаrа ́н, 2015 medium format black and white photograph, double exposure through thermonuclear strata, on Photo Rag Baryta, Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan 48 3/8 x 56 1/4 inches (122.8 x 142.9 cm) each 48 3/8 x 172 5/8 inches (122.8 x 438.4 cm) overall edition of 3 with 1 AP JCh - 137
But, Tóth said, «we must put the genie of nuclear weapons tests back in the bottle, and we must seal the bottle.»
Julian Charrière Polygon XXVIII, 2015 medium format black and white photograph, double exposure through thermonuclear strata, on Photo Rag Baryta, Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan 48 3/8 x 56 1/4 inches (122.8 x 142.8 cm) edition of 3 with 1 AP JCh - 146
One of Bruce Conner's most iconic works is the thirty - six - minute film CROSSROADS (1976) created from archival footage of the first nuclear weapons tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in the summer of 1946.
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 produce.
Radioactive fall - out from the world's nuclear weapons tests during the Cold War has killed 11,000 Americans with cancer, according to a new report by US scientists.
And in civil society, the global environmental movement traces its origins in significant part to a small gang of Vancouver activists, whose «Don't Make a Wave» campaign against nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific Ocean morphed into Greenpeace, one of the first environmental groups with truly worldwide reach.
A major reason the United States pursued the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which moved the signatories» nuclear weapons tests underground, was to still public outcry over fallout.
Global warming is altering — and threatening to erase — much more of the Marshall Islands than the shorelines of this independent Micronesian nation that once served as a Pacific Ocean nuclear weapons test site for the U.S..
The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation, which watches out for nuclear weapons tests worldwide, looked at its data for the last few days to see if its infrasound — below the range of human hearing — recordings, normally used to seek out the muffled crump of underground tests, contained any signature of an aircraft explosion.
Analysts believe the latest case may be another effort to engage American leadership in talks about lifting sanctions that resulted from illegal nuclear weapons tests...
Following North Korea's third nuclear weapons test in February this year, much attention has been paid to debates within China over its troublesome neighbour, with some suggesting severing ties to the North altogether.
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.
Cesium - 137 has a half - life of roughly 30 years and is also known to have entered the Pacific as a result of aboveground nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s and»60s, providing a benchmark against which to measure any additional releases from the reactors.
When North Korea conducted its recent nuclear weapon test, the blast had been detected by a global seismic sensing network operated by the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).
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.
But the U.S. is well - versed in those uncertainties, having presided over history's most catastrophic nuclear weapons test to date.
At the moment, concentrations of plutonium in waters off Fukushima are so low that background radiation from nuclear weapons testing more than 50 years ago makes the signal undetectable with our instruments.
One of the most prevalent substances released through nuclear weapons testing, the accidents at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima, is cesium - 137 (137Cs).
Storm dates were determined by matching key markers in the sediment samples with known events; rye pollen started to appear after Europeans colonized the region, for example, and exotic caesium isotopes settled in the pond following nuclear weapons tests.
Photographer unknown, [Nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific Ocean], ca. 1950, gelatin silver print.
Building upon Mega Death, with its memorial to Hiroshima, he began the series in response to French nuclear weapons testing in the Moruroa Atoll, in the Pacific Ocean, during the mid-1990s.
The second part of the exhibition, in Bataan, includes the 36 - minute film Crossroads (1976), assembled from archival footage of the Operation Crossroads Baker nuclear weapons test conducted at Bikini Atoll on 25 July 1946.
In other projects, he's conquered themes from nuclear testing to the extinction of plant species, and has traveled from the salt flats of Bolivia to a former Soviet nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan.
16 July, 1945: Did the first nuclear weapon test herald the dawn of the Anthropocene epoch?
Lying far above the Arctic Circle, the Russian archipelago of Novaya Zemlya is one of the most remote places on Earth, which is precisely why these mountainous, wind - swept islands were used as the Soviet Union's main nuclear weapons test site from 1955 to 1990.
A portion of the funds raised in the ICO offering will also be used to finance health care to islanders still affected by US nuclear weapons testing in the area decades ago, Paul said.
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.
Normally, radiocarbon dates have error ranges of several centuries, but the researchers could improve the estimates because the smallest sharks measured showed the «bomb pulse» — a huge increase in global radiocarbon released from the hundreds of nuclear weapons tested in the 1950s and»60s.
Polygon XXVIII, 2015 medium format black and white photograph, double exposure through thermonuclear strata, on Photo Rag Baryta, Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan 48 3/8 x 56 1/4 inches (122.8 x 142.8 cm) edition of 3 with 1 AP © Julian Charrière / VG Bild - Kunst, Bonn, Courtesy: DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin and Sean Kelly, New York
The unlikely source of much of the recent information comes from data sent back to earth by a small satellite designed to detect clandestine nuclear weapons tests.
Nuclear weapons testing during the middle of the 20th century temporarily elevated radiocarbon in the atmosphere, and consequently, carbon stored in terrestrial ecosystems on timescales of decades has elevated levels of radiocarbon compared to the radiocarbon levels in the present - day atmosphere.
8 Aside from Curie, one other person has nabbed a Nobel in two separate categories: Linus Pauling, who won the 1954 chemistry award and the 1962 peace prize for his fight against nuclear weapons testing.
(The monstrous Godzilla was produced by nuclear weapons testing; sci - fi speaks to its times.)
That's similar to background levels in the ocean from nuclear weapons testing, suggesting the Fukushima plume has not reached the U.S. coastline yet, he said.
Polygon XXVIII, 2015 medium format black and white photograph, double exposure through thermonuclear strata, on Photo Rag Baryta, Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan 48 3/8 x 56 1/4 inches (122.8 x 142.8 cm) edition of 3 with 1 AP JCh - 146
She also removed 228 pages of classified documents about underground nuclear weapons tests in the 1970s, and took the material home.
Trump added that the leader of the North has been «very open and very straightforward so far» and referenced Kim's promise to forgo ballistic missile and nuclear weapon testing.
Since 2011, Kim has fired more than 85 missiles and four nuclear weapons tests, which is more than what his father, Kim Jong Il, and grandfather, Kim Il Sung, launched over a period of 27 years.
It seems that half the countries on the planet are involved in guerrilla conflict, drug smuggling, nuclear weapons testing, and counterfeiting Disney DVDs.
North Korea has recently undertaken a series of nuclear weapons tests that have been condemned by the United States and other countries around the world.
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