Sentences with phrase «scientists from nuclear weapons»

In the West, scientists from nuclear weapons establishments have tended to write off red mercury as a hoax.

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She was president from 1976 of the Pugwash Conferences, in which scientists from East and West, both sides of the Iron Curtain, met to campaign against nuclear and chemical weapons, exchanging information they had gathered.

Many scientists and environmentalists warn that the government's present strategy of simply storing the plutonium could do more harm than good because it does nothing to reduce the risk of environmental disaster, and, rather than discourage other countries from developing nuclear weapons, it could provoke them to increase their efforts.

Investigative journalist William Langewiesche tracks the proliferation of nuclear weapons, focusing his story on Pakistani scientist A. Q. Khan, who stole plans and equipment from the West and peddled the technology to countries hostile to Western interests: «That same afternoon a small group of Pakistanis associated with the weapons program, including, of course, A. Q. Khan, gathered in a concrete bunker in Chagai, facing the chosen mountain seven miles away.

In their analyses of the beaches, the scientists detected not only cesium - 137, which may have come from the Dai - ichi plant or from nuclear weapons tested in the 1950s and1960s, but also cesium - 134, a radioactive form of cesium that can only come only from the 2011 Fukushima accident.

Analysts who are sifting through documents recovered from Iraq's nuclear weapons programme have concluded that scientists working on the programme «took Saddam Hussein for a ride».

By poring over images from commercial satellites and freely available seismic data, a scientist in London has pieced together a detailed picture of China's secret nuclear weapons testing site.

Kelly, a scientist who worked on bombs and is now trying to save the world from them, is drawn into what Devoe keeps referring to accusingly as the «real world,» as in «In the real world, nuclear weapons are heading toward Iran!»

1961, October: Atomic Robo stops a rogue Russian scientist from detonating a nuclear weapon powerful enough to destroy all life on Earth.

After the development of the first nuclear weapons, scientists from a variety of disciplines appealed to world leaders to «remember your humanity, and forget the rest» and end the threat of use of nuclear weapons.