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.
A former particle accelerator reconfigured to its present guise in 1996, the Z machine is a platform for studying the physics and
effects of nuclear explosions.
Several artists find declassified
photographs of nuclear explosions (examples of which the gallery will display in printed and digital formats) and incorporate this imagery into their paintings, drawings, photographs, and designs of everyday objects.
These
types of nuclear explosions «suck up dirt, or water, contaminates it with debris from the bomb, and then lofts it into the atmosphere,» Schwartz said.
To put the size of history's largest nuclear blasts to scale, we have used Alex Wellerstein's Nukemap, a tool for visualizing the terrifying real - world
impact of a nuclear explosion.
These warnings may be one reason why some people — from Tokyo to Australia to the US — are showing an interest in purchasing bunkers designed to preserve life in the
event of a nuclear explosion.
Forster Rothbart has traced the
legacy of the nuclear explosion at Chernobyl in 1986, living for a time in a village just outside of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Seismic measurements and an eye - witness report of a blue flash above the reactor a few seconds after the first explosion also support the new
hypothesis of a nuclear explosion followed by a steam explosion.
They hypothesize that the first explosive event was a jet of debris ejected to very high altitudes by a
series of nuclear explosions within the reactor.
«They show a remarkable amount of technical effort that went into representing the very difficult to capture — because it is so extreme —
phenomenon of a nuclear explosion.»
Three decades after the end of the cold war, however, the larger danger of a nuclear holocaust involving
thousands of nuclear explosions and tens to hundreds of millions of immediate deaths still persists in the U.S. — Russia nuclear confrontation.
The soft - porny writhings of Nicola, whose terminal birthday has been reduced here to her 30th, are intercut with
footage of nuclear explosions, cancerous cell division and the Hajj.