Sentences with phrase «weapons tested in»

Normally, radiocarbon dates have error ranges of several centuries, but the researchers could improve the estimates because the smallest sharks measured showed the «bomb pulse» — a huge increase in global radiocarbon released from the hundreds of nuclear weapons tested in the 1950s and»60s.

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.

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.

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.

Following North Korea's third nuclear weapons test in February this year, much attention has been paid to debates within China over its troublesome neighbour, with some suggesting severing ties to the North altogether.

Last year the clock moved half a tick, from 3 minutes to 2.5 minutes before midnight; it has been in single digits since India and Pakistan staged back - to - back nuclear weapons tests in 1998.

In 1976, Bruce Conner made a 37 - minute film called Crossroads for which he culled footage of U.S. nuclear - weapons testing in the Marshall Islands.

Photographer unknown, [Nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific Ocean], ca. 1950, gelatin silver print.

The reference core top date must be approximately correct, since 3 cm below was the classic isotope «bomb spike» caused by atmospheric nuclear weapons testing in the 1950's.

«A tracer for CO2 transport from the Northern Hemisphere to the Southern Hemisphere was provided by 14C created by nuclear weapons testing in the 1950's and 1960's.

Every cubic meter of air and water and every hectare of land now have a human imprint, from hormones in the seas, to fluorocarbons in the atmosphere and radioactivity from nuclear weapons tests in the soil.

A portion of the funds raised in the ICO offering will also be used to finance health care to islanders still affected by US nuclear weapons testing in the area decades ago, Paul said.

Not exact matches

The sanctions are the latest against third - country companies and individuals in an effort to exert greater economic pressure on Kim Jong Un's regime, which has conducted regular missile and nuclear tests in defiance of United Nations resolutions and has developed weapons that may be capable of hitting the continental U.S.

The Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory was built in the 1950s as a radiation testing ground by the Air Force and weapons manufacturer Lockheed.

In addition to firing at least 23 missiles in 2017, North Korea put the progress of its nuclear weapons program on full display, testing a miniaturized hydrogen bomb in SeptembeIn addition to firing at least 23 missiles in 2017, North Korea put the progress of its nuclear weapons program on full display, testing a miniaturized hydrogen bomb in Septembein 2017, North Korea put the progress of its nuclear weapons program on full display, testing a miniaturized hydrogen bomb in Septembein September.

However, peak testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere — the most potentially dangerous type of nuclear testing, as nuclear fallout could easily be dispersed by wind currents — occurred between 1961 to 1962 almost exclusively between the US and the USSR.

And the weapons rapidly became more powerful in the decades after that first test.

Tensions in the Korean peninsula have amped up recently, with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un continuing to test nuclear weapons — thought to be capable of reaching U.S. soil — despite United Nations sanctions.

The results are in from North Korea's latest missile test, and it looks as if the country's weapons program is advancing despite the US's best efforts.

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.

An intercontinental ballistic missile test is considered particularly provocative, and indications that it flew higher than past launches suggest progress by Pyongyang in developing a weapon of mass destruction that could strike the U.S. mainland.

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..

North Korea has shown a persistent interest in computer technology since the early 1980s so it is conceivable that a country, which has launched long - range missiles and tested nuclear weapons has also developed a smartphone, said Kang Ho Jye, a research fellow at Ewha Institute of Unification Studies.

«You don't know until you test it, but I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon,» Trump told a gathering of governors at the White House.

But the Florida legislature, which has long been seen as a laboratory for gun - rights legislation that is tested elsewhere in the country, rejected a ban on assault weapons after Parkland.

It seems that half the countries on the planet are involved in guerrilla conflict, drug smuggling, nuclear weapons testing, and counterfeiting Disney DVDs.

China may implement tougher sanctions in response to North Korea's nuclear weapon development, which is testing the warming relationship between the United States and China.

Intresting, I believe in all states have regulations for what can and has been used as a dangerous weapon, altough not designed to be, the automobile We have age limits, proficiency standards (tests), regulation for safe use (speed limits, seat belts, air bags, etc.) and licences that can be revoked.

I explained they were harmless, and essentially highly compressed air slipping over a structure moving at greater than the speed of sound... or an explosive wave expansion that moves out and then rebounds in... and so, the compressed waves move into our area from the weapons test area, and shake the glass windows, and we hear the sonic «sound» (or the wave's double sound) and the vibrational aspect of the glass within the window.

Analysts believe the latest case may be another effort to engage American leadership in talks about lifting sanctions that resulted from illegal nuclear weapons tests...

Pauling has said that the situation is «alarming,» and 9,000 scientists including 36 Nobel - prize winners signed a petition in 1958 calling for a halt to weapons testing.

Now that I have this nifty secret weapon in my kitchen, cooking beans is a lot more enjoyable — I don't have to tend to the stove and watch whether the pot is boiling over or running dry or test the beans every now and then until they're done.

In November, Treasurer Scott Morrison blocked the sale of Australia's most iconic cattle company, S. Kidman & Co., to a foreign buyer because one of Kidman's biggest ranches borders a weapons - testing range.

Scan the list of abuses that beset college sports, and your football team can claim, going back to 1980, at least one entry in virtually every category: improper benefits; recruiting violations; boosters run amok; academic cheating; use of steroids and recreational drugs; suppressed or ignored positive tests for drugs; player run - ins with other students as well as with campus and off - campus police; the discharge of weapons and the degradation of women in the football dorm; credit - card fraud and telephone credit - card fraud.

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.

North Korean officials have mentioned that they may «exercise restraint in the testing of ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons if the United States and South Korea adjusted the exercises to make them less threatening».

So, in November 2016, in private discussions with American experts, including one of the authors, North Korean officials hinted they might be willing to exercise restraint in the testing of ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons if the United States and South Korea adjusted the exercises to make them less threatening.

In Nevada, however, there is bipartisan opposition to the Yucca project, and the state's congressional delegation prepared a series of amendments meant to ensure that the House would consider key safety provisions for the project, which is located about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas and adjacent to the land where the government tested nuclear weapons.

The United States Navy is planning a new round of sonar and weapons testing and training exercises in its Atlantic Training and Testing Study Area, which covers some 2.6 million nautical miles of inshore and offshore waters, extending fromtesting and training exercises in its Atlantic Training and Testing Study Area, which covers some 2.6 million nautical miles of inshore and offshore waters, extending fromTesting Study Area, which covers some 2.6 million nautical miles of inshore and offshore waters, extending from the...

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

The stolen weapon was later recovered on a suspect in a double homicide; tests confirmed the weapon was not used in the commission of that crime.»

When Mr Moon was last in government, in the early 2000s, South Korea had a «Sunshine Policy» which meant co-operation with North Korea, a policy which was abandoned as North Korea tested nuclear weapons.

«The highly unpredictable and aggressive regime in North Korea recently conducted its third nuclear test and could already have enough fissile material to produce more than a dozen nuclear weapons,» he wrote in the Telegraph.

In addition to his work to reform «no knock» search warrants, he led the charge for drug and alcohol testing of police officers that discharged their weapon in the line of dutIn addition to his work to reform «no knock» search warrants, he led the charge for drug and alcohol testing of police officers that discharged their weapon in the line of dutin the line of duty.

Violent felony cases would remain in Criminal Court but would be subject to a three - part test: whether a «deadly weapon» was used, whether the victim sustained «significant physical injury,» and whether the perpetrator engaged in criminal sexual conduct.

Given the devastating consequences inherent in the use of the UK's current nuclear weapons, we are of the view that the proportionality test is unlikely to be met except where there is a threat to the very survival of the state.

The U.S. government cracked down after both nations tested nuclear weapons in May 1998, requiring U.S. organizations to obtain a license before shipping civilian materials deemed to have a dual military use to more than 300 institutions (Science, 24 July 1998, p. 494).

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.

In asserting that the explosions on 11 and 13 May provide «enough data» to continue the country's nuclear weapons program without further testing, the two government experts hope to free up the hands of politicians who want India to join the 149 countries that have agreed to the ban.

The Polish scientists were looking to send someone to set up monitoring of radioactive contaminants in the upper atmosphere, the legacy of atomic - weapons testing by the Soviet Union, the United States, and other countries in the 1950s.