Sentences with phrase «of bomb material»

Fallout is a mess of bomb material, soil, and debris that is vaporized, made radioactive, and sprinkled as dust and ash across the landscape by prevailing winds.

It depends on the density of the bomb materials, what the ingredients are and the form they took.

Not exact matches

FBI agents discovered a bevy of potential bomb - making materials in the hotel room of Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo, who refused to deploy to Afghanistan and later went AWOL from Fort Campbell in Kentucky after being charged with possessing child pornography, said FBI spokesman Erik Vasys.

To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time - bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

Ten minutes before I swept, it looked like a bomb of paper based material exploded.

Gillibrand also asked for an extra $ 20 million in funding, which she thinks is necessary to improve detection of nuclear materials and prevent a dirty bomb from being detonated.

Materials such as the al - Qaeda manufactured manual how to «Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom» have become required reading for home - grown jihadists, while old classics such as «The Anarchist Cookbook» and the «The Poor Man's James Bond» are often discovered on hard - drives of far - right violent extremists.

«Quite frankly, we live in the information age and there's a great deal of information available if you know where to look for it on how to use chemistry to create explosive materials,» said lieutenant Mark Torres, commander of the bomb squad.

As political journalists tried to establish why Johnson had «put a bomb» under Downing Street's media strategy, one of their number also conducted an investigation into the foreign secretary's source material.

The five charges include use of weapons of mass destruction, provision of material support to the Islamic State and bombing a place of public use.

New York terror suspect Ahmad Rahami assembled much of his bomb - making material in plain view, ordering components on eBay, having them delivered to a New Jersey business where he worked, and even testing some of the material in his family's backyard, according to authorities.

In a new study, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego Professor James Day and colleagues examined the chemical composition of zinc and other volatile elements contained in the green - colored glass, called trinitite, which were radioactive materials formed under the extreme temperatures that resulted from the 1945 plutonium bomb explosion.

Now researchers from the University of Maryland have proposed a new technique to remotely detect the radioactive materials in dirty bombs or other sources.

Observers see the move as a signal that the military government is trying to conform to global norms on the management of nuclear material as well as distance itself from a controversial figure regarded as the «father of the Islamic bomb.»

The Bulletin's members at Thursday's press conference noted that leaders of nations equipped with nuclear weapons have expressed the desire to cooperate in reducing their arsenals and securing nuclear bomb - making material.

In the world of nuclear inspection, you never know who might be siphoning off nuclear material to build a bomb or sell on the black market, so it helps to suspect everyone and everything until proven otherwise.

If enough material, mostly in the form of hydrogen gas, accumulates on the surface of the white dwarf, nuclear fusion reactions can occur and intensify, culminating into a cosmic - sized hydrogen bomb blast.

At the summit, 47 countries pledged to prevent the theft of fissile material, which could be used to create a nuclear bomb, by securing all stockpiles within four years.

Instead, it directed that light onto a foil — a slice of material composed of the same elements that make up a bomb, like uranium and plutonium.

Western experts used to tell the public that terrorists would need 8 kilograms of nuclear material to make a bomb.

This past March, NBC News leaked details of a classified investigation by the Government Accountability Office that showed homemade bomb - making materials sailing through security at all 21 airports tested.

A dirty bomb — radioactive material by a conventional explosive — «is much less of a problem to detonate and if successful would render a large swath of a big city uninhabitable for years,» he says.

• NUCLEAR WEAPONS Since February 2010, Iran has enriched uranium to 20 percent and has recently tripled production rates; uranium enrichment at 90 percent would provide the core material of four nuclear bombs.

Also notable on the author list are many names from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, the descendant of one of several groups in Oak Ridge that developed materials during the Manhattan Project for the U.S. atomic bomb.

Yet, even if all cargo were screened, explosives, including PETN are difficult to detect because they have a very low vapor pressure, which means very little of the explosive material gets into the air around the bomb where it can be detected.

This material «measured in tens of tons — which could be used for making thousands, if not tens of thousands,» of nuclear bombs, he says.

In order to contaminate a large area with enough radioactive material to pose a major health hazard, the dirty bomb would have to be packed with so much cobalt 60 (on the order of a few ounces in this case) that the terrorists would die of radiation poisoning within minutes of exposure to their own weapon.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, he says, there was a huge amount of fissile material suitable for bomb - making left in Russia and its former satellites.

Both bombs contained far more explosive material than the 80 grams of PETN that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab managed to smuggle onto a Northwest Airlines flight in his underwear while en route from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas day last year.

Such mission - focused labs led to major technical and scientific strides in fields such as nuclear power, advanced materials, and supercomputing that came out of the atom bomb and space programs.

One possible solution to quickly measure a population's exposure to radiation in the event of a nuclear disaster or some other large - scale leak of radioactive material — such as a so - called «dirty bomb» attack — would be to scan the body in places where that material is most readily absorbed.

In 2010, the Obama administration abandoned a 2 - decade effort to bury much of the high level waste — spent fuel rods from commercial reactors and radioactive material from nuclear bomb manufacturing — inside Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert (although Congress has ordered parts of that process to keep moving).

Fallout is a mélange of the vaporized environment — soil and structures that were near the blast — laced with fission products (radioisotopes created when fissile materials like uranium or plutonium fission), activation products (radioisotopes formed when the blast radiation transmutes shielding and other bomb components), and residual nuclear material.

Hall's group has developed a recipe book of melt glass for any geographic location based on a «witch's brew» of the bomb's fissile material and explosive yield, its detonation point, and the local geology and construction materials.

Linking the amount of carbon - 14 found in organic material with the bomb curve has been used to date human tooth enamel and even regenerating brain cells.

A recent audit of fire prevention measures has scorched the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the facility that created the atomic bomb during World War II and is now the home of top - level national security and radioactive material research.

The goal of the United States and its negotiating partners is to slow Iran's «breakout time» — the timescale of a crash effort to porduce enough weapons - grade fissle material for one bomb — from an estimated 2 to 3 months to at least a year.

US spy satellites had identified only one small nuclear reactor in China capable of making the material for a bomb, and the report concluded that it could not produce enough until 1965.

Both bombs contained far more explosive material than the 80 grams of PETN that Abdulmutallab smuggled onto his Northwest Airlines flight.

As of December 2013, the program has been completed: 500 metric tons of bomb - grade highly enriched uranium have been recycled into more than 14,000 metric tons of low enriched uranium — permanently eliminating enough bomb - grade material for 20,000 nuclear warheads.

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They Scientists are altering our genetic code and engineering new forms of material that improve nature, from flowers that can detect bombs to bacteria that

Goodman's film, while stressing Timothy McVeigh's virtually one - man show in accumulating the needed materials for a bomb which he detonated on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, spends almost half of its ninety - eight minutes giving the backdrop — not way back to third - party structures like the anti-Catholic Know Nothing movement of 1855 but stretching to the mischief - making of two of McVeigh's forefathers.

Kroll struggled with his material for much of the night, particularly with industry digs at the likes of IFC, prompting him to improvise a number of jokes about his own bombing.

Amancio quickly dismantled some bombs he had already constructed and used the materials to create new hand grenades that he could drop in the middle of a chase to slow down pursuers.

The crafting menus loaded quickly and materials fluidly moved between one type of bomb to the next.

However good the writing, the execution is god - awful; a post-credits rimshot of an impossibly awkward understudy bombing, hard, with Silverman's material is a too - close commentary on exactly the same things that went wrong with the body of the picture.

One gameplay mechanic that differs from the source material is a levelling progression system that raises the ceiling for the number of bombs and arrows that can be carried at any given time and decrease the amount of mana spent on magical attacks.

Such a plan may be needed if the school is evacuated or closed as a result of an internal hazardous materials accident, fire, natural gas leak, flooding, earthquake, school violence, bomb threat, terrorist attack, or other local hazard or natural disaster.

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