Sentences with phrase «than the atom bomb»

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded 29 years ago on 26 April 1986, releasing radioactive particles into the air that were 250 times more powerful than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

In his debut 1954 film, he's a terrifying force of nature, a nigh - unstoppable behemoth unleashed by man's nuclear folly, and only defeated by a weapon even worse than an atom bomb.

Dams are life - line facilities, as is the power grid, and a dam failure can cause more loss of life and property damage than an atom bomb in some cases (Fukushima losses were mostly from water damage due to sea level rise not radiation per se).

Not exact matches

It was 1954 when Gojira first hit the big screen in Ishiro Honda's now iconic monster movie, made as a reply to the USA dropping two atom - bombs on Japan less than a decade earlier.

All this leads to President Kennedy getting Russia to remove its nuclear warheads from Cuba, the Russian atom bomb test in Nova Zemlya, in 1960 that was 1,570 times greater than Hiroshima that led to President Kennedy's call for international inspection and control of all nuclear technology and the real reason he was killed, who ordered it and how it was carried out.

... Fusion Power... Generating electricity from fusion rather than fission of atoms has been a dream ever since the first hydrogen bomb was exploded.