Sentences with phrase «using nuclear blasts»

In particular, he's focused on the option of «last resort,» which may, in extreme circumstances, be our first and only resort: using nuclear blasts in outer space to push a menacing asteroid out of harm's way and onto a benign trajectory.

On the other hand, if the push is too strong, the asteroid could break apart — a worry that has often been raised in connection with using nuclear blasts in particular.

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This formerly used defense site was engineered by the U.S. government in 1960 with nine - foot - thick walls to withstand a nuclear blast.

To put the size of history's largest nuclear blasts to scale, we have used Alex Wellerstein's Nukemap, a tool for visualizing the terrifying real - world impact of a nuclear explosion.

Hillary Clinton used a conference in Beijing to blast both Trump and the Chinese over their stance toward North Korea — saying it needs to soften up soon before things get out of hand and nuclear war breaks out.

And in a chapter on the radioactive elements carried in nuclear fallout, there's Pig 311, a sow that survived a nuclear test blast only to be used as propaganda for the weapons» supposed safety.

Multiple cameras capable of recording 2,400 frames per second covered each blast, creating a highly technical record of the U.S. nuclear arsenal — and a visual deterrent against its use.

Sandia's Z machine uses magnetic fields and electrical currents to mimic the temperatures, pressures and radiation of a nuclear blast.

To set off an H - bomb, a nuclear fission blast is used as a detonator.

Post-apocalypses used to be grey cityscapes or blasted outback deserts, because apocalypses used to be nuclear annihilation.

The head of the local union, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW Local 97) Ted Skerpon blasted Entergy, saying they were «using the FitzPatrick plant as a chip» to pressure Gov. Cuomo to stop trying to shut down Indian Point, a more profitable nuclear plant near to Manhattan.