Sentences with phrase «powerful nuclear explosions»

North Korea may be planning one of the most powerful nuclear explosions in history, if the nation's foreign minister is to be believed.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — Even when they're underground, nuclear tests can be detected in the skies — and as a result, global satellite networks could become a powerful new tool in the arsenal of weapons to help detect clandestine underground nuclear explosions, a team of scientists reported here today at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

Aliens would have to simultaneously deploy nuclear weapons a billion times more powerful than Earth's entire stockpile for us to see the gamma - ray burst from the explosion, and even then it is so brief that we're unlikely to be looking at the right time.

One of STEREO's most important tasks will be tracking solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which pack the force of a billion - megaton nuclear bomb and are the most powerful explosions in the solar system.

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The project, which is being done under the auspices of gathering information for the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, involves towing powerful air cannons off the Central Coast, shooting deafening underwater explosions (upwards of 250 decibels) every 13 seconds for 17 straight days.