Sentences with phrase «test nuclear devices»

So far, one of the biggest problems for North Korea in the weaponisation process has been delivery: although it has been able to develop and test nuclear devices, these have been too bulky and big to place on a missile.

«North Korea's action is in direct defiance of the will of the international community coming as it does just days after the United Nations presidency statement last week, which urged North Korea not to carry out its declared intention to test a nuclear device.»

Researchers had begun testing nuclear devices at the Nevada Test Site in 1951; this latest series of blasts was codenamed Operation Julin, and the final two tests of the series — dubbed Hunters Trophy and Divider — took place on 18 September and 23 September, respectively.

For example, two weeks ago, The Washington Post quoted US government sources, saying that China was preparing to test another nuclear device.

Not exact matches

«China will probably continue to press for diplomatic talks, arguing for the suspension of North Korean nuclear device and missile tests in exchange for the suspension of U.S. - South Korean military exercises,» Evans said in a note Wednesday.

Romeo was the first device to be tested on a barge over open water instead of on a reef, as the US was quickly running out of islands upon which it could test nuclear weapons.

North Korea has tested intercontinental ballistic missiles before, but researchers found them prohibitively small for delivering a heavy nuclear device halfway around the world to the continental US.

North Korea's announcement on Wednesday that it had successfully conducted a test of a hydrogen nuclear device added to a growing list of geopolitical worries for investors.

For example, building a «backpack» nuclear weapon still requires an industrial infrastructure and leaves a logistics trail; plus anyone wanting to rely on such a device would probably want to test it and there are systems in place to identify the seismic signatures of nuclear detonations.

The move followed condemnation and sanctions by the U.N. Security Council for North Korea's April 2009 launch of a suspected long - range missile and May 2009 test of a nuclear device.

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

This is a weapons - test: they think maybe they have a nuclear device with Tory Toffs.

«The United States deplores Pakistan's decision to test the nuclear explosive device.

Britain demanded «significant» and «robust» action against North Korea today, after the Communist state successfully tested what may be a miniaturised nuclear device.

«It was confirmed that the nuclear test that was carried out at a high level in a safe and perfect manner using a miniaturised and lighter nuclear device with greater explosive force than previously did not pose any negative impact on the surrounding ecological environment,» state - run KCNA news agency said.

As proof of concept, the researchers estimated the yield of the 1945 Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico — the world's first detonation of a nuclear device.

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California began testing a device in May that can quickly detect concealed nuclear materials.

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.

Detecting a test of a nuclear weapon has become so effective and reliable that no nation could expect to get away with secretly exploding a device having military significance

«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.»

Under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Energy, the Nevada Test Site (now the Nevada National Security Site)-- located just 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — saw the detonation of 928 nuclear devices between 1951 and 1992.

On September 15, 1971, the newly founded Don't Make a Wave Committee sent a chartered ship, Phyllis Cormack, renamed Greenpeace for the protest, from Vancouver to oppose United States testing of nuclear devices in Amchitka, Alaska.

In addition to discussing climate change, Ms. Pelosi said she raised a number of issues during her talks with Chinese leaders, including intellectual property rights, human rights and North Korea's test of a nuclear device on Monday.

Upon claims brough by thos atomic veterans (whether civilian or military) who participated in the British programme of testing of nuclear explosive devices between 1952 - 1958 set out in Master Particulars of Claim.

They have the lead free nuclear testing device.