Sentences with phrase «nuclear weapons tests during»

Not exact matches

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

«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 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.

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.