Sentences with phrase «weapon testing»

We are dedicated to ensuring nuclear weapons testing never again threatens our public health.

The biggest increase in background radiation levels world wide was during the peak of atmospheric weapons testing during the 1960s raising the level by about 5 %.

Fixed an issue preventing weapon test targets in certain locations from taking damage from an Ink Storm.

This comes after the country has carried out a series of provocative weapons tests.

But in the 1950s and 60s, nuclear weapons testing caused a sharp increase.

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.

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Tensions have soared between the United States and North Korea following a series of weapons tests by Pyongyang and a string of increasingly bellicose exchanges between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

China's ties with South Korea have been strained ever since the latter's deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system following a ramp up in North Korean weapons tests over the past year.

While the moves mostly affirm the status quo — North Korea hasn't conducted a major weapons test in almost five months — Kim's remarks to a domestic audience could signal flexibility in upcoming talks with the U.S. and South Korea.

Contamination from atomic weapons tests may sound scary, but they contribute less than 1 millirem.

One of Bruce Conner's most iconic works is the thirty - six - minute film CROSSROADS (1976) created from archival footage of the first nuclear weapons tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in the summer of 1946.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for more weapons tests targeting the Pacific Ocean, Pyongyang announced — a day after his nation for the first time flew a ballistic missile designed to carry a nuclear payload over Japan.

It's hard to understand a culture that encourages violence against women, violence against their neighbours, violence and hatred against other nations, suicide bombings, stoning people to death, so called «honor killings», chemical and biological weapons testing on prisoners, and a long list of other «not so nice» practices.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in an extraordinary and direct rebuke, called President Donald Trump «deranged» and said he will «pay dearly» for his threats, a possible indication of more powerful weapons tests on the horizon.

The Trump administration threatened new sanctions on North Korea after the reclusive government shattered 21/2 months of relative quiet with its most powerful weapon test yet, an intercontinental ballistic missile that some observers believe could reach Washington and the entire U.S. Eastern Seaboard.

Beginning in the 1980s, Gowin's interests expanded into landscape and aerial photography, with a focus on the environmental effects of modern agriculture, industry, and military weapons testing.

But, Tóth said, «we must put the genie of nuclear weapons tests back in the bottle, and we must seal the bottle.»

Recalculated yield estimates of Soviet weapon tests indicate that U.S.S.R. compliance with treaty limits has restrained its development of strategic nuclear warheads

North Korea has already effectively halted weapons tests since firing a missile in late November believed to be capable of reaching any city in the U.S..

Meanwhile, the North was firing off regular weapons tests in a dogged march towards its goal of developing a viable nuclear arsenal that can threaten the US mainland.

Jorgensen, a radiation biologist, explores our uncomfortable history with the energy, from life - saving cancer treatments to the deplorable deaths of unsuspecting innocents contaminated by early weapons testing.

Offensive space weapons tested The prospect of war in space is not new.

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation, which watches out for nuclear weapons tests worldwide, looked at its data for the last few days to see if its infrasound — below the range of human hearing — recordings, normally used to seek out the muffled crump of underground tests, contained any signature of an aircraft explosion.

North Korea officially acknowledged the failure of its latest rocket launch Friday (April 13) in a rare admission from the reclusive nation, which defied international warnings not to launch what the United States and other countries saw as a missile weapons test.

But after faithfully sending back data on millions of lightning bolts, how many weapons tests has FORTE detected?

Perhaps the most distinctive change of all, however, may be the unmistakable signature of thermonuclear weapons testing, which began in 1952, and leaves a clear geological record of plutonium 239 that, the paper said, «will be identifiable in sediments and ice for the next 100,000 years.»

The film marks the space saga's first live - action anthology film and stars Jones as Jyn Erso, a budding criminal who's recruited to uncover details about a major upcoming Empire weapons test.

Or it could have been part of a DARPA weapon test.

Because the game only has a limited number of spots to deploy weapons, the later levels become very puzzle like — making your task a game of anticipating possible enemy types, something the game's weapon testing room is particularly created for.

Each of the areas has been given their own unique identity rather than just endless caves, including the robot factory area near the beginning, a research center, and a cylindrical weapons testing facility called The Tower.

A slide projection holds still an image of a tarnished terrain, while a video loops the action of sweeping away the residue of a chemical weapons test.

16 July, 1945: Did the first nuclear weapon test herald the dawn of the Anthropocene epoch?

Earthjustice attorney, on the need for more responsible Navy weapons testing and training plans.

(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...

While weapons tests are now done via computer simulations, the US performed 210 of these open air nuclear explosions from 1945 to 1962.

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In 1981 he chaired a panel reviewing President Ronald Reagan's planned deployment of MX missiles, and he actively advocated controls on nuclear weapons, including a test ban treaty to regulate underground weapons testing.

The exchange of U.S. - led military exercises and North Korean weapon tests has become a time - honored tradition.

A major weapons test is imminent.

Personally, I like the Las Vegas Atoms given the area's history of atomic weapons testing but that's not listed as an option.

And I said, «You know, when Mr. Bush was elected the first thing he did was he said no to the nuclear weapons test ban.

When it comes to radiation, the nuclear weapons testing conducted from the 1940s to the 1980s contributed orders of magnitude more radioactivity to the oceans than Fukushima (even when combined with Chernobyl, a much larger nuclear catastrophe).

Radioactive fall - out from the world's nuclear weapons tests during the Cold War has killed 11,000 Americans with cancer, according to a new report by US scientists.

Ramos referenced protests during the 90's which called into question the environmental impact of weapons testing by the U.S. Navy on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, After high - profile protesting by activists and eventual backing from politicians, the Navy withdrew from Vieques.