Sentences with phrase «weapons testing during»

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 %.

Not exact matches

During this period of testing, the USSR and the US detonated 340 megatons of nuclear weapons between the two of them.

«It's the SKUA9 design,» Goodwin says, one of a series of primaries created by Livermore during the nuclear testing program simply to test the viability of secondaries, and never produced as a weapon.

Iran's attempt to develop nuclear weapons will not be the last challenge faced in a journey that began with the world's first fission bomb test during World War II

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.

Small amounts of caesium - 134, caesium - 137, and iodine - 131 were released into the environment during nearly all nuclear weapon tests and some nuclear accidents, and are not otherwise produced in nature.

Pittsburgh may have enjoyed a little more blue sky thanks to Shippingport, but for the rest of us during that era, the sky was raining radioactivity, the fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests.

In a recent review of Ontario and British Columbia cases during the 2007 calendar year for a 2008 CLE paper we were doing on expert evidence, we found experts had testified in approximately 300 cases, and their expertise covered an astonishing array of issues - computers, chemistry, motor cycle gangs, the drug trade, mental health, weapons, alcoholism, psychiatry, orthopedic surgery, occupational therapy, appraisals, internal medicine, valuations, legal fees, negligence in relation to fires, anthropology, linguistics, demography, ecology, ethnobotany, custody and access, vocational testing, and marine surveying.»

Organized and recorded facts to prepare incident reports.Inspected squad vehicle and weapons daily and arranged for routine and special maintenance.Wrote detailed arrest and accident reports.Assisted in conducting traffic surveys to determine problem areas.Directed and controlled crowds at parades, funeral processions and sporting events.Responded to and investigated security and burglar alarms.Monitored and investigated suspicions persons and situations and unusual activities.Directed traffic during emergency and congested situations.Instructed suspects on field sobriety tests and used portable equipment to perform tests.Analyzed traffic accidents and general traffic surveys.