Sentences with phrase «weapons tests by»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

By one estimate, this amount would have been almost enough to both fund North Korea's uranium enrichment facilities, and to design, make and test its nuclear weapons,» the report said.

Lockheed Martin Corp's new F - 35 fighter jet has completed over a third of its planned flight tests, but it is still facing problems with the helmet needed to fly the plane, software development and weapons integration, according to a report by the Pentagon's chief weapons tester.

Moon, a liberal who has been forced into a more hawkish stance by a stream of North Korean weapons tests, has repeatedly declared that there can be no U.S. attack on the North without Seoul's approval, but many here worry that Washington may act without South Korean input.

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.

Their vision is being put to the test by the present Constitution Revision Commission, which will dishonor itself if it does not act on the assault weapon crisis.

We both strongly oppose the acquisition or testing of nuclear weapons by North Korea and we both want to see a resumption of the six party talks.

The students will design a smart weapon that will then be tested by the NYPD.

But plenty of smaller earthquakes, most not even felt by humans, occur across the world every day due to detonations, such as nuclear weapons testing or mining, or rising magma linked to volcanic activity.

When North Korea conducted its recent nuclear weapon test, the blast had been detected by a global seismic sensing network operated by the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty Organization (CTBtest, the blast had been detected by a global seismic sensing network operated by the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTest - Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

The International Monitoring System (IMS), established by the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty, has a number of different ears to the ground to detect clandestine nuclear weapons testing: seismic networks that listen for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the oceans for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to sniff out radioactive particles that nuclear explosions produce.

The long - simmering tensions are now approaching a boiling point due to several events, including recent and ongoing tests of possible anti-satellite weapons by China and Russia, as well as last month's failure of tension - easing talks at the United Nations.

LLNL nuclear weapon physicist Gregg Spriggs is leading a team of film experts, code developers and interns on a mission to hunt down, scan and reanalyze what they estimate to be 10,000 films of the 210 atmospheric tests conducted by the U.S. between 1945 and 1962.

A team of researchers, led by Sangeeta Bhatia, an associate professor at HST and in M.I.T.'s department of electrical engineering and computer science, report in Advanced Materials that they have developed and tested injectable multifunctional nanoparticles — particles billionths of a meter in size — that they expect to become a new, potent weapon against cancer.

«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.

Although the Airborne Laser (ABL) was fired from a stationary plane at a target on the ground just a few metres away, the test marked a milestone for the weapon, developed by aerospace firms Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.

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.

Now that the global nuclear test ban negotiations in Geneva are getting down to serious business and a ban could be achieved by March 1995, it looks increasingly likely that Britain's nuclear weapons designers will never be able to test their weapons again.

The unlikely source of much of the recent information comes from data sent back to earth by a small satellite designed to detect clandestine nuclear weapons tests.

Ordinarily, new warhead pits are produced steadily by technicians at PF - 4 for installation in modernized weapons, to replace some of those pits withdrawn for testing, and to keep workers there trained and agile.

The little - known hiatus has forced the directors of the three principal U.S. weapons laboratories to rely on other types of reliability tests, mostly conducted at other U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, when they promised in annual reports to the President and the Congress that the country's warheads will still explode in the manner intended by their designers.

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.

Now the U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded the University of Florida a $ 4.6 million grant aimed at testing a potential new weapon in the fight against citrus greening: Zinkicide, a bactericide invented by a nanoparticle researcher at the University of Central Florida.

Storm dates were determined by matching key markers in the sediment samples with known events; rye pollen started to appear after Europeans colonized the region, for example, and exotic caesium isotopes settled in the pond following nuclear weapons tests.

(The monstrous Godzilla was produced by nuclear weapons testing; sci - fi speaks to its times.)

The recently added Shooting Test # 1 PTE is now only playable in Solo mode, with certain weapons tweaked for more balance, and players should no longer find themselves sliding off rooftops by mistake, which is definitely a good thing.

A democratic vision for the classroom will be undermined by the control taken by the state when it uses testing as a weapon.

When the undersea kingdom of Seatopia is threatened by Japan's atomic testing, the Seatopians fear for the survival of their civilization; they send their secret weapon, Megalon, to destroy Tokyo and eliminate the human race.

Upon entering each arena in a level you'll activate a Test of Faith, which act as modifiers, mixing up the gameplay by doing things like making it rain bombs, spawning monster allies near the Altar, giving you Infinite ammo, making the enemy wave tougher, turning on friendly fire and even changing player's weapons ever few seconds.

- Nintendo is including testing versions of Shifty Station in the updates - devs are currently testing new Salmon Run stages with internal names of Shakehouse and Threepoints - Grizzco brand weapons are in the works, including a Blaster, Charger, and Brella - what was known as the player's gender from the original Splatoon has now been replaced by a parameter called PlayerType - another parameter called PlayerType shares the same values as another parameter, ModelType - the possible values for these parameters are SquidGirl, SquidBoy, and Oct. - there's an additonal value named OctBoy - new weapon type called the Squeezer is in development

Also the idea that this Exotic weapon is GUARANTEED to you if you pass this test instead of being limply dropped by the random number generator after the same weekly Nightfall you've already run a hundred times helps to show that Bungie might finally understand what the word «earned» actually means.

-- No indication as to whether or not Ghirahim is playable yet; the description in Famitsu could be be about his boss moves or character outline as general — If Link uses Power gloves and drops off ball & chain, he can lift pillars, jars or even enemies — With the legendary baton from Wind waker, Zelda can command winds and fight by playing songs — You can blow enemies away with wind or the sound can turn into lightning bolts — You can also summon tornados to snatch enemies away — After you select a character for a stage you select the weapon — You can't change weapons in battle — Weapons differ a lot from each other and it is part of the fun to test which one suits you

As a result of this mission and others, all atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons by the United States was stopped.

The program was started by the nuclear weapons part of the DOE so that the performance of hydrogen bombs could be understood without further testing.

Fossil fuel combustion has dispersed fly ash particles worldwide, pretty well coincident with the peak distribution of the «bomb spike» of radionuclides generated by atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons, Dr Waters says.

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.

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 %.

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.

To use my knowledge of electronics engineering technology by seeking a radar repair technician position with a defense contractor where I can handle systems used for the development and testing of weapons.

Ensured all weapons were in battle ready condition by performing firing tests.