Sentences with phrase «powerful nuclear test»

North Korea has set off several powerful nuclear test blasts in recent years, but they all occurred deep inside a mountain.

The missile deal follows a year of ramped - up North Korean missile launches, some of them over Japanese territory, and its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.

U.S. government debt yields were lower on Tuesday after North Korea conducted its most powerful nuclear test and key Fed speeches.

South Korea said on Monday it was preparing fresh military drills with its ally the United States and ramping up its ballistic missile defenses in response to North Korea's sixth and most powerful nuclear test a day earlier.

Under third - generation North Korean leader Kim, the reclusive state has conducted its most powerful nuclear test, launched its first - ever intercontinental ballistic missile and threatened to send missiles into the waters near the U.S. territory of Guam.

The isolated nation conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3, and launched more than a dozen missiles in the past year.

Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea has conducted its most powerful nuclear test and launched its first - ever intercontinental ballistic missile.

Sept. 3, 2017: The rogue regime carries out its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, saying it detonated an advanced hydrogen bomb designed for a long - range missile.

Under third - generation North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the reclusive state has conducted its most powerful nuclear test, launched its first - ever intercontinental ballistic missile and threatened to send missiles into the waters near Guam.

Tensions have escalated since North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on September 3, but the rhetoric has reached a new level in recent days with leaders on both sides exchanging threats and insults.

Not exact matches

North Korea says it conducted its sixth nuclear test with a powerful hydrogen bomb — a stark move against President Donald Trump's warnings.

In other words, if estimates are correct, the North Koreans have tested a more powerful nuclear device compared to those in 2006 and 2009.

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.

For North Korea, the question is not so much whether the government is setting off nuclear tests, but how powerful and destructive those blasts might be.

The impact that produced the crater was two million times more powerful than the largest nuclear device ever tested, a 58 - megaton hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba, detonated by the Soviet Union in 1961.

North Korea's six nuclear tests over the past decade have steadily grown more powerful.

«Hamid's tale, played out against the background of Pakistan's recent testing of a nuclear device, creates a powerful image of an insecure society toying with its own dissolution.»

North Korea's last nuclear test had the energy of 10 Nagasaki bombs and was so powerful it moved a MOUNTAIN