Sentences with phrase «test explosion»

The problem with nuclear test explosions is that they create radioactive fallout.

The CTBT would prohibit the U.S. and every other signatory from conducting test explosions, no matter how small, of nuclear weapons underground, in space or anywhere else.

After that test, some analysts said the country was likely to need only a couple more test explosions before acquiring a miniaturised warhead that could be mounted on a long - range missile.

North Korea has said it has carried out a «higher level» nuclear warhead test explosion which will allow it to finally build «at will» an array of stronger, smaller and lighter nuclear weapons.

Using the University of Sheffield's unique Explosives Arena, Dr Clarke and his team carried out around 250 test explosions using different soil samples and made 17 different pressure measurements during each test.

It included questions on subjects like Florida's decision to dramatically lower the passing score on its writing exam due to embarrassing scoring glitches, New York's 8th grade test and its absurdly confusing reading comprehension questions, and who pays for and who profits from our national testing explosion.

I knew from his retrospective that Crossroads, by Bruce Conner, will break the surreal quiet for an atomic test explosion.

(1) Every person is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to a term of imprisonment for life who (a) carries out a nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion for the purpose of developing qualitative improvements in nuclear weapons or developing new types of nuclear weapons...

It also called for all states to refrain from conducting nuclear test explosions and to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty in order to bring it into force as soon as possible.

If this is not a matter of imprecise wording, such a blast would exceed the US» strongest - ever nuclear test explosion.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009 Science historian Michael D. Gordin recounts the events leading up to August 29, 1949, when the Soviets detonated an atomic bomb in the deserts of Kazakhstan — a test explosion that brought the U.S. monopoly on nuclear weapons to a close.

So if somebody had real - time access to our data, they could say to the media: «I have found that Burkina Faso has carried out a nuclear test explosion.»

In some ways this is the most honest approach because it doesn't pretend that the creative minds at Aldermaston will, in the long term, be satisfied with looking after Britain's old nuclear arsenal and designing warheads on the computer with little chance of ever building them and with no chance of being able to prove their design skills by carrying out a nuclear test explosion.

Seismology's Key Role in Nuclear Text Monitoring,» will share how seismologists analyze data collected from around the globe to determine the yield, location and other details about nuclear test explosions.

Fallout From the Testing Explosion: How 100 Million Standardized Exams Undermine Equity and Excellence in America's Public Schools by Noe Medina and Monty Neill, 3rd ed.

So almost 70 percent say that the testing explosion has had a negative or negligible effect, and only 22 percent say that it has «done more good than harm.»

So, almost 70 percent say the testing explosion has had a negative or negligible effect.