Sentences with phrase «weapons test site»

Lying far above the Arctic Circle, the Russian archipelago of Novaya Zemlya is one of the most remote places on Earth, which is precisely why these mountainous, wind - swept islands were used as the Soviet Union's main nuclear weapons test site from 1955 to 1990.

Medium format black and white photograph, double exposure through Thermonuclear strata, on Photo Rag Baryta, Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons Test Site in Kazakhstan.

In other projects, he's conquered themes from nuclear testing to the extinction of plant species, and has traveled from the salt flats of Bolivia to a former Soviet nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan.

Polygon XXVIII, 2015 medium format black and white photograph, double exposure through thermonuclear strata, on Photo Rag Baryta, Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan 48 3/8 x 56 1/4 inches (122.8 x 142.8 cm) edition of 3 with 1 AP JCh - 146

Polygon XXVIII, 2015 medium format black and white photograph, double exposure through thermonuclear strata, on Photo Rag Baryta, Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan 48 3/8 x 56 1/4 inches (122.8 x 142.8 cm) edition of 3 with 1 AP © Julian Charrière / VG Bild - Kunst, Bonn, Courtesy: DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin and Sean Kelly, New York

Julian Charrière Polygon XXVIII, 2015 medium format black and white photograph, double exposure through thermonuclear strata, on Photo Rag Baryta, Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan 48 3/8 x 56 1/4 inches (122.8 x 142.8 cm) edition of 3 with 1 AP JCh - 146

Polygon - Чаrа ́н, 2015 medium format black and white photograph, double exposure through thermonuclear strata, on Photo Rag Baryta, Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan 48 3/8 x 56 1/4 inches (122.8 x 142.9 cm) each 48 3/8 x 172 5/8 inches (122.8 x 438.4 cm) overall edition of 3 with 1 AP JCh - 137

But the ground shaking had originated at North Korea's nuclear weapons test site.

Global warming is altering — and threatening to erase — much more of the Marshall Islands than the shorelines of this independent Micronesian nation that once served as a Pacific Ocean nuclear weapons test site for the U.S..

By poring over images from commercial satellites and freely available seismic data, a scientist in London has pieced together a detailed picture of China's secret nuclear weapons testing site.

The U.S. military uses the islands as training grounds, weapons test sites, and as a strategic defensive location.

Not exact matches

Washington described its targets as a centre near Damascus for the research, development, production and testing of chemical and biological weapons, a chemical weapons storage site near the city of Homs, and another site near Homs that stored chemical weapons equipment and housed a command post.

Although Pyongyang said it would abolish its nuclear test site, there is no indication it is planning to get rid of its existing weapons.

Instead, a vast weapons complex grew in the United States in great secrecy, a world of laboratories, testing sites, and production facilities that produced more than 100 tons of plutonium.

The ore taken from Nevada's Comstock load financed the means by which we preserved the Union during the Civil War, and Nevada has hosted aboveground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site, the result being a weapon of such mass destruction that it swiftly brought the end to the World War II conflict.

Consortium run nuclear sites also oversee the production of plutonium pits, monitor the aging of nuclear weapons, manage the production of critical nuclear components like Tritium — which helps boost the yield in all nuclear weapons and initiate the fission stage in hydrogen bombs — and operate test reactors.

Buried histories, from military bunkers to weapons - testing sites, have long obsessed film - makers Jane and Louise Wilson.

Enlisted to the pursuits of science and war, the sites were used for the covert testing of atomic and long distance weapons.

Atomic Afterimage: Cold War Imagery in Contemporary Art at the Boston University Art Gallery focuses on recent artistic re-interpretations of pictures from the era of aboveground nuclear testing (1945 - 1962) and new interpretations of weapons - test sites.

A small island nation with less than 60,000 inhabitants best known internationally as a former test site for nuclear weapons is joining the hottest new trend...