Sentences with phrase «of nuclear fallout»

Cold War era studies of nuclear fallout demonstrated that civilians actually behave altruistically and cooperatively in light of disasters and calamities.

I would recommend taking a large dose iodine supplement in the event of some type of nuclear fallout.

A mathematical model of nuclear fallout suggests that sheltering in place (the first option above) is not always the best survival strategy.

The chemical is administered after nuclear exposure because it helps protect the thyroid from radioactive iodine, one of the most dangerous elements of nuclear fallout.

Unless you are just coming out of a nuclear fallout shelter that you sealed by mistake, you know Cards Against Humanity.

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Granite walls provide protection from the outdoors — and, of course, from nuclear fallout.

The next danger to avoid is radioactive fallout, a mixture of fission products (or radioisotopes) that a nuclear explosion creates by splitting atoms.

Signs on building throughout New York City are all that's left of a widespread government effort to shelter millions of people from the fallout of a nuclear attack.

However, peak testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere — the most potentially dangerous type of nuclear testing, as nuclear fallout could easily be dispersed by wind currents — occurred between 1961 to 1962 almost exclusively between the US and the USSR.

If you're lucky enough to survive the searing flash of light, crushing shockwaves, and incendiary fireball that is a nuclear explosion, your next item of concern is fallout.

The protection factor that various buildings, and locations within them, offer from the radioactive fallout of a nuclear blast.

Shortly after Trump posted the statement, which received about 700,000 interactions, store managers across the country noticed a spike in sales of potassium iodide (or KI) pills, which are often advertised as able to block radiation from nuclear fallout.

Instead, the US government says fallout is a greater concern in the event of a terrorist's nuclear detonation, which would be close to the ground.

There, a nuclear explosion can suck up dirt, debris, water, and other materials, creating many tons of radioactive fallout — and this material rises high into the atmosphere, where it drifts for hundreds of miles.

The fallout from the failure of a high - profile international meeting over Iran's nuclear ambitions could be most felt in the cost of oil.

But in this Gilead, Atwood has imagined a time when our nightmares about the perils of toxic waste, radioactive fallout, chemical and biological warfare, nuclear sabotage and the building

A quick recap of Trump's first year in office: an airstrike on a Syrian airbase, FBI Director James Comey's firing, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's appointment to investigate possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, the GOP healthcare fiasco, U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, North Korea's ongoing threats of nuclear annihilation, «Crazy Mika «tweets, the Mooch, Charlottesville, #MeToo, Democratic gubernatorial wins in Virginia and New Jersey, Roy Moore's Alabama Senate run, Paul Manafort's indictment, Mike Flynn's plea deal, an ongoing battle over the Consumer Financial Bureau, the annihilation of ISIS, a resurgence of al - Qaeda terrorist networks, the repeal of net neutrality, the move of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Republican tax reform, Steve Bannon's fall from grace, «shithole» countries and continuing Fire and Fury fallout.

A plume of radioactive fallout (yellow) stretches east across Washington, D.C., a few hours after a nuclear bomb goes off near the White House in this snapshot of an agent - based model.

A study of birds around Chernobyl suggests that nuclear fallout, rather than stress and deteriorating living conditions, may be responsible for human birth defects in the region.

Hafnium bombs: In an episode reminiscent of the Cold Fusion debacle, DARPA forked out $ 7 million in the 1990s for research into a bomb predicted to release huge gamma - ray bursts without creating any nuclear fallout.

Concerns about nuclear fallout and the signing of the Partial Test Ban Treaty ended the project in the early 1960s.

Public concerns about nuclear power have traditionally centered on two issues: the risk of widespread radioactive fallout from an accident and the hazards of nuclear waste.

It also triggered the meltdowns at Fukushima and the evacuation of 150,000 people from within 20 kilometers of the nuclear plant as well as from areas beyond that were hard hit by fallout.

The subsequent fallout and nuclear winter would turn the planet's atmosphere hazy, which we could detect, but some planets are very cloudy anyway so this wouldn't be a definitive sign of alien apocalypse.

THE fallout from cold war nuclear tests may prove the undoing of drug barons.

The scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

In fact, a popular activity at the Trinity open house is searching for Trinitite, emerald - colored glassy rocks formed from sand caught up in the firestorm of the nuclear blast — in essence, shards of fallout.

It also resulted in the largest nuclear contamination accident in U.S. history, as shifting winds carried radioactive fallout across the inhabited atolls of Rongelap, Ailinginae and Utirik as well as Rongerik — where U.S. servicemen were stationed — in the central Pacific's Marshall Islands.

Until a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded on April 26, 1986, spreading the equivalent of 400 Hiroshima bombs of fallout across the entire Northern Hemisphere, scientists knew next to nothing about the effects of radiation on vegetation and wild animals.

The group has found that a broad range of potential physical, chemical and biological markers characterise the Anthropocene, the clearest global markers being radionuclide fallout signals from nuclear testing and changes in carbon chemistry through fossil fuel burning — these in particular show marked changes starting in the early to mid-1950s.

Amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) to, among other things, include certain New Mexico counties in the areas exposed to fallout from nuclear weapons testing, expand the universe of compensable diseases for uranium workers, and extend eligibility for compensation to workers who worked after 1971.

Human industrial activity may also prove to be visible in the geological record in the form of long - lived synthetic molecules from plastics and other products, or radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons.

Radiation damage has been shown to happen in cancer patients who receive radiation therapy as a form of treatment, though it may also happen if the person is exposed to nuclear power, nuclear fallout from nuclear weapons, and x-ray imaging.

tryin'to remove more omega 6 from my sweet pots... peel»em deeply... cut»em thin... soak in distilled (thirsty... negatively charged water)... it bonds with inorganic positively charged minerals and almost all toxins are positively charged... fukushima daiichi fallout (plus the over 2000 nuclear weapons which have been tested and all the power plant leaks and meltdowns etc.)... anyway... i soak the super thin sweet potato pieces dump the hopefully filled up with toxins soak water... then boil my thin sweets in new distilled water... hope this is removing a bunch of the omega 6... not sure however... anyway... no regular potatoes for me... just sayin.

I just ordered some of the Nascent supplement in part to protect myself should nuclear fallout from Japan hit the U.S.

Added to this list of potential body toxins, petrochemicals, industrial waste, medical and street drugs, radiation (X-rays, nuclear fallout etc.) and tons of pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides, the result is an incredible chemical avalanche to have befallen the human race in a relatively short period of evolutionary history.

fallout 3 is your game with guns instead of swords and a nuclear waste land instead of a medevil setting.

WHAT: After a nuclear war wipes out most of humanity, a young woman named Ann (Margot Robbie) endures on her own, miraculously isolated from the fallout.

Ken Watanabe (Inception) and Sally Hawkins play researchers who believe Godzilla can help prevent nuclear fallout, but like the rest of the cast, there's not a big incentive to care about them despite screenwriter Max Borenstein devoting the majority of the film on the humans.

FOX, a top - secret arm of the CIA, dispatches Naked Snake to infiltrate a Russian military base in order to save the aforementioned scientist, foiling a global nuclear fallout in the process.

Set in a near - future United States ravaged by nuclear fallout, widespread plagues, and chemical contamination, Armageddon's Children follows a handful of unlikely heroes as they struggle to survive in a poisoned world infested by demons, insane «once - men,» and other mutant creatures too horrific to describe.

As the world could pass through nuclear fallout and fans still wouldn't be able to agree on the best anime of all, the e-book instead gathers various thoughts and opinions on contributors» personal favorite.

Even if it means spending the rest of his days locked in Civilis, a tower prison for society's unwanted — «half - humans» gifted by the fallout of nuclear holocaust centuries past.

You and your squad of Desert Rangers must traverse the remains of a land laid to waste by nuclear war. The Wasteland's hellish landscape is waiting for you, so arm your team to the teeth with the most devastating weaponry this side of the fallout zone.

The game takes place after the fallout from a nuclear war has zombified much of the planet's population.

In this extremely sponsored episode, we talk about the benefits of sleeping on Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, nuclear fallout, the...

The multimedia artist Lisi Raskin uses large - scale drawings, collages, and installations to tackle themes that emerged during the Cold War, from nuclear panic and fallout shelters to the military command centers that brought mankind to the brink of annihilation.

She makes video installations that poetically grapple with threats to the natural world, from the extinction of species to long - lasting environmental disasters such as the nuclear fallout of Chernobyl.

For instance, «Freeze, Memory,» Charrière's first outing at Sean Kelly last year, featured double - exposed photographs of a former Soviet Union nuclear testing site in Kazakhstan speckled with fragments of fallout.

Charrière's first outing at Sean Kelly last year, featured double - exposed photographs of a former Soviet Union nuclear testing site in Kazakhstan speckled with fragments of fallout.