Sentences with phrase «of hydrogen bombs»

The program was started by the nuclear weapons part of the DOE so that the performance of hydrogen bombs could be understood without further testing.

Moyer: Yes excuse me, the excess mass gets converted into energy and quite a bit of energy, as anyone who's ever seen one of those film reels of hydrogen bombs going [off can][at] test; that is just a little bit of hydrogen converted into helium, and wow!

The United States followed in January 1958 with the 31 - pound satellite Explorer I. Even as the nascent U.S. space program focused on pint - size payloads, however, a research team at an obscure division of the General Dynamics Corporation was secretly drawing up plans for a monstrous 4,000 - ton spaceship that would be powered by the sequential explosions of thousands of hydrogen bombs and would ferry hundreds of astronauts at a time across the solar system.

This «quarksplosion» would be an even more powerful subatomic analog of the individual nuclear fusion reactions that take place in the cores of hydrogen bombs.

We now live in the age of the hydrogen bomb.

Even the tools by which Man is expected to achieve his heaven - on - earth — science and education — are no longer held in quite the awe they inspired before their joint endeavors brought humanity under the shadow of the hydrogen bomb.

Albeit Pyongyang tends to overstate its accomplishments, the satellite launch and the alleged detonation of a hydrogen bomb represent, combined, a considerable leap for North Korea's military capabilities.

In 1953, after the first test of the hydrogen bomb, the doomsday clock ticked to two minutes until midnight.

In other words, he built the business end of a hydrogen bomb in his basement.

«All astronauts should be women because they weigh less and have more sense,» said Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, in testimony to Congress shortly after the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957.

But Richard Garwin, a leading expert on military technology and a critical figure in the development of the hydrogen bomb, says that would only incite a space arms race that would ultimately make our satellites more vulnerable.

He and Andrei Sakharov had been the principal designers of the hydrogen bomb in Russia.

And then in 1954 Churchill has this damascene moment when he read of the appalling, utterly appalling destructiveness of the hydrogen bomb.

They believe that the experiments, in which laser beams power a fusion reaction, could reveal secrets of the hydrogen bomb.

When he warned of its dangers — and opposed the birth of the hydrogen bomb — the Zeus - like Atomic Energy Commission rose up in 1954 to destroy him.

If there is a screen - size arms race going on, then Samsung dropped the equivalent of a hydrogen bomb at CES when it announced a 12 - inch tablet.

It is clear that the development and use of the atom bomb at the end of World War II, followed by the development of the hydrogen bomb in the early» 50's, had a decisive effect on the subject matter of both Abstract Expressionism and the Beat literature of the period.

I often tell the people this anecdote — I once asked Edward Teller [a key architect of the hydrogen bomb] how it was possible that there were all these Hungarians, you know, there was him and Eugene Wigner and Szilard, von Neumann — a real constellation.

Interestingly and essential for us to note, it was the late Edward Teller, member of the Manhattan Project and father of the Hydrogen Bomb, co-founder and director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who proposed this geo - engineering technique together with Roderick Hyde and Lowell Wood and who designed a variety of mixtures according to the specific tasks they have to perform, among which figure the deployment of «electrically - conducting sheets» or «metallic «nets» of ultra-fine mesh - spacing» in the stratosphere.

One early enthusiast was Edward Teller, an émigré Hungarian physicist known in America as the «father of the hydrogen bomb», and often cited as an inspiration for Dr Strangelove.

Not exact matches

Outside of Harvey, Mnuchin told Wallace he was drafting a sanctions package regarding North Korea amid news that the country had detonated a hydrogen bomb as part of its sixth nuclear test.

In addition to firing at least 23 missiles in 2017, North Korea put the progress of its nuclear weapons program on full display, testing a miniaturized hydrogen bomb in September.

North Korea said an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long - range missile was tested on Sunday, prompting the warning of a «massive» military response from the United States if it or its allies were threatened.

North Korea, which carries out its nuclear and missile programs in defiance of UN resolutions and sanctions, said on state television the hydrogen bomb test ordered by leader Kim Jong Un had been a «perfect success».

Extend this dilemma to problems of family life and business dealings, to the moot problems of school integration and the use of atomic and hydrogen bombs in war, and it becomes evident that there is no unanimity among Christians as to the will of God in concrete matters of ethical decision.

The importance of whether they are used destructively or creatively has been magnified a thousandfold by what Jung referred to as «that peculiar flower of human ingenuity, the hydrogen bomb.»

Military experts can discuss «first strike,» «second strike,» and «counter-strike-with bonus»; but beyond these semantic exercises, it is obvious to the careful inquirer that both the U.S. and the USSR are now equipped to eliminate each other as viable societies by exploding a few large hydrogen bombs high in the stratosphere, generating firestorms of meteorological dimensions.

«One might be a great authority on the hydrogen bomb and yet know nothing of banking.

In the resolutions adopted by the Evanston Assembly there is stated as one of the «two conditions of crucial importance which must be met, if catastrophe is to be averted»: «The prohibition of all weapons of mass destruction; including atomic and hydrogen bombs, with provision for international inspection and control, such as would safeguard the security of all nations, together with the drastic reduction of all other armaments.

With atomic and hydrogen bombs now stock - piled by both the United States and Russia in sufficient quantity and potency to destroy all human life upon the planet and with guided missiles to deliver them quickly to their targets, the annihilation not only of great cities but of entire nations in a matter of minutes has now become a staggering possibility.

Since that time also, the emergence of the atomic and hydrogen bombs has vastly increased the peril to the total world that racial conflict might fan to hideously destructive power.

Human life begins with a bang but not quite the bang of the fusing of tritium and deuterium in a hydrogen bomb.

In an age of atom and hydrogen bombs — an age when the destruction of the whole world is possible — we are finally accepting the view that the church must take a clear stand for peace.

(p. 113) This particular aspect of mentally healthy religion has taken on special significance on our shrinking planet where human animosities are now armed with hydrogen bombs and worse.

It probably also depends on the reaction of China, which is probably not very happy about NK with hydrogen bombs but also not about the prospect of a war between NK and others.

Last January, the country said it had successfully carried out a hydrogen bomb (H - bomb) test as an «act of self - defence» against the US, claiming to have gained the capability to «wipe out the whole US territory».

While the IAEA could not determine if the explosion came from a hydrogen bomb as North Korea claimed, Amano said the bigger yield of this latest test means «it is safe to assume North Korea is making significant progress.»

Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Authority, told CNN that North Korea's claim that it had tested a hydrogen bomb on Sunday represented a «new dimension of threat.»

The inventor of the Soviet hydrogen bomb became an advocate of peace and human rights.

The sun's core is literally a nonstop hydrogen - bomb explosion that keeps the solar furnace revved up to tens of millions of degrees.

It allows astronomers to measure the properties of stars, engineers to design GPS satellites, and nations to build hydrogen bombs.

The U.S. strikes that brought nuclear destruction of those two cities also thrust the world onto a new trajectory — one that led to the terrifying development of the far more powerful hydrogen bomb and the ruinous arms races of the cold war it entailed.

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.

John Wheeler, one of the designers of the American hydrogen bomb, was my Ph.D. thesis adviser, so I was personally close to the designers of both the Russian and U.S. hydrogen bombs.

Think of the word «hydrogen» paired with «energy» rather than «bomb.»

«Despite being tiny by solar standards, each packs the wallop of a 10 megaton hydrogen bomb.

Simply pouring a teaspoonful of anti-water into regular water would unleash the energy equivalent to 200,000 tons of TNT, the yield of a typical hydrogen bomb — enough to power the world's entire energy needs for about seven minutes.

For those willing to venture even farther, Willis says, there is a remarkable site just south of town, a half mile west of the government - run Sandia National Lab, where in 1957 a bomber accidentally dropped a mammoth Mark - 17 hydrogen bomb.

The control of nuclear fusion — the reaction that powers stars and hydrogen bombs — would permanently solve the world's energy problems, not to mention a few geopolitical ones.

Orion was the brainchild of Stanislaw Ulam, a Polish mathematician - turned - physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later helped create the hydrogen bomb.